I’ve gotten the XLR-1/4″ adapter and have recorded a few minutes of myself messing around. There are a couple of song riffs that I’ve been learning here and there but mostly me just trying out some chords and things. 01-22-09-megatarjam
Wolverine – “
A House of Plague”
The Nice – “Azreal Revisited”
Amorphis – “Shaman”
Frantic Bleep – “Sins of Omission”
Kurgan’s Bane – “Frankie Four Angels”
Genesis – “The Return of the Giant Hogweed”
Dark Empire – “The Forgotten Sin”
Marillion – “Goodbye To All That/Wave”
Kaipa – “Folke’s Final Decision”
Pink Floyd – “Any Colour You Like”
Dream Theater – “One Last Time”
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.
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)”
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.
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.
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.
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
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”
