1. Fissure (64:22)
Album eight from Caustic Reverie is a companion-piece to Bower called Fissure. It was originally released 01-11-09, remastered and reissued 8-24-18.
Fissure
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It’s megatime!
I’ve finally gotten my secret weapon in the mail: a custom Megatar Dragon.
They don’t call it a Megatar for nothing! Just for comparison’s sake, here’s it next to my old bass axe.
This thing is bigger than my torso.
I’ve messed around with it a little bit last night and I think I’ve figured out how to play most of Elephant Talk. I was going from a tab arranged for 4-string bass and had to try and reverse engineer how it would work on a 12-string tapper.
My masterplan for getting the X3 pod met a snag when I noticed that input 2 was an XLR jack instead of the 1/4″ that I was expecting. I’ve ordered an adapter and when it gets here, I’ll record some things to show it off.
Eleventh Hour Playlist for 01-11-09
Head Control System – “
Skin Flick”
Genesis – “Los Endos”
Sieges Even – “Tidal”
Parallel or 90 Degrees – “Embalmed in Acid”
Agalloch – “Fire Above, Ice Below”
Peter Hammill – “She Wraps It Up”
Steven Wilson – “No Twilight Within The Courts Of The Sun”
Fish – “The Company”
Port Mahadia – “Requiem Of The Mind”
Neuraxis – “Memento”
Dream Theater – “Solitary Shell”
Kansas – “The Wall (live with London Symphony Orchestra)”
Bower
1. Bower (56:37)
Released 01-06-09, Bower is Caustic Reverie’s seventh album and first release for 2009. The album features a single 56 minute track with elements of drone, dark ambient and noise. Its companion piece is Fissure.
New toy on the way
I’ve just gotten word that my newest music making device has shipped. Hopefully I should have it a few days from now.
I’ve finished a new longform called Bower and I’m putting the finishing touches on another with a working title of Fissure.
Themes for Guitar and Voice – Vol. 2
I’m pleased to announce the unveiling of my sixth Caustic Reverie album, Themes for Guitar and Voice – Volume 2. This installment is a diverse collection ranging from ethereal drones to crushing walls of feedback.
1 Heatstroke 6:26
2 Meditate/Medicate 8:44
3 Pull 10:44
4 Nepenthes18:44
5 The Fountain 8:29
6 Lullaby 3:51
7 Smother 5:10
8 Urbex 5:52
I had actually finished this before the end of the year but I’ve been waiting on Jamendo to finish getting it uploaded. It’s been over a week and still no album so I’ll just post this with the last.fm links for now.
The Eleventh Hour Radio Best of 2008 show
Simon Says – “Tardigrade”
Daylight Dies – “Woke Up Lost”
The Tangent – “Bat out of Basildon”
Steven Wilson – “Significant Other”
Magenta – “Blind Faith”
Canvas Solaris – “Patterns Spiral into Swarm”
Pineapple Thief – “Shoot First”
Ephrat – “Blocked”
Tiles – “Sacred & Mundane”
Demians – “Naïve”
Opeth – “Porcelain Heart”
Moonbound – “Nina”
Ayreon – “Ride the Comet”
Lunatic Soul – “The New Beginning”
Daylight Dies – “Woke Up Lost”
The Tangent – “Bat out of Basildon”
Steven Wilson – “Significant Other”
Magenta – “Blind Faith”
Canvas Solaris – “Patterns Spiral into Swarm”
Pineapple Thief – “Shoot First”
Ephrat – “Blocked”
Tiles – “Sacred & Mundane”
Demians – “Naïve”
Opeth – “Porcelain Heart”
Moonbound – “Nina”
Ayreon – “Ride the Comet”
Lunatic Soul – “The New Beginning”
And now for my top tens for 08:
2008 Metal Albums
Daylight Dies – Lost to the Living
Opeth – Watershed
Enslaved – Vertebrae
Amaseffer – Exodus: Slaves For Life
Ayreon – 01011001
Canvas Solaris – The Atomized Dream
Ihsahn – angL
Suspyre – When Time Fades
Pyramaze – Immortal
Andromeda – The Immunity Zone
2008 Prog Albums
Demians – Building an Empire
Steven Wilson – Insurgentes
Magenta – Metamorphosis
Simon Says – Tardigrade
The Tangent – Not As Good As The Book
Ephrat – No One’s Words
Lunatic Soul – Lunatic Soul
Pineapple Thief – Tightly Unwound
Marillion – Happiness is the Road, Volume 2: The Hard Shoulder
Moongarden – Songs from the Lighthouse
Eleventh Hour Playlist for 12-21-08
King Crimson – “Three of a Perfect Pair (Live)”
Gallery – “Sarin and Airplanes”
Retrospective – “Enemy World Vision”
Greg Lake – “I Believe In Father Christmas”
Brainstorm – “Surrounding Walls”
Genesis – “The Fountain of Salmacis”
Orphaned Land – “Norra el Norra (Entering the Ark)”
Sylvan – “Questions (Live)”
Skyclad – “Fainting by Numbers”
Agua de Annique – “Trail of Grief”
Guitar themes update
I’m just putting the finishing touches on the last couple of tracks from Themes for Guitar and Voice – Volume 2. I should have the tracks finalized and uploaded sometime tomorrow or Wednesday.
In other news, I’ve just acquired a Line 6 X3 Pod the other night. It’s quite a change playing through either a Peavy practice amp or recording direct from the guitar, as I’ve never really been in a place where I could crank the volume high enough to get some of the extreme distortion and saturation from some of these models. It can record 24 bit/96k digital right to my soundcard, which is infinitely more high-tech than some of the methods I’ve been using to record for Guitar Themes. Speaking of which, I need to stop playing with the new toy and get this album finished.
I’m not sure if I’ll have it before the end of the year, but I do have a new instrument coming. It has twelve strings and will probably turn out to be bigger than my car.
Eleventh Hour playlist for 12-14-08
Frost* – “Falling Down”
Anubis Gate – “Andromeda Unchained”
Camel – “Flight of the Snow Goose (single edit)”
Deluge Grander – “Inaugural Bash (excerpt)”
The Third Ending – “Eleven”
Control Denied – “Cut Down”
The Watch – “The Border”
Jack Foster III – “Outbreak Monkey”
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – “The Curse of Baba Yaga/The Hut of Baba Yaga”
Tool – “h.”
3 – “My Divided Falling”