I have a single and an album coming out next month from my drone/experimental ambient project Caustic Reverie. On May 5th, Collapse of Rigel will be released as the vanguard.
The full album is called Transit Signals and will have three other pieces for a total running time just over 40 minutes. This stuff is a little more minimalist, with some space music undertones. I might do some visualization vids before the release, time permitting.
In advance of our upcoming single release, here is the lyric video I animated for Heart of the Ocean.
The single will release on March 15th to streaming and digital music stores. Hyperfollow link for the details.
Due to some life issues around the time of the release, I had never gotten around to doing a proper post for my band’s previous album The Kindred Dark. Here’s a write-up with links to our videos, streaming and download sources, and the first review we’ve gotten so far.
The first single from the upcoming Sumptus Ignis EP The Kindred Dark is a song called MRK.
The new Caustic Reverie album comes out this Friday. Here’s one of the tracks, the companion piece to Charlière.
I’ve been playing electronic percussion almost as long as I’ve been drumming. I bought a set of Alesis DM10 electronic drums a few years back to replace my aging Yamaha e-drums. I was sold on the fact that Alesis had “real-feel” mylar heads that were tunable. Though the new pads had much more sensitivity and some decent sounds from the stock drum brain, I didn’t like the feel of playing them. The drumheads turned out to be louder than any rubber pads and were difficult to get stick bounce from while playing.
I recently upgraded the heads to mesh with a conversion kit from 682Drums. The upgrade was pretty quick and painless. Oh what a difference! The bounce is incredibly satisfying.
Here’s a clip of me playing along to one of the new Sumptus Ignis songs in production to test them out.
