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Themes for Guitar and Voice – Vol. 2

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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 PlayHeatstroke 6:26
2 PlayMeditate/Medicate 8:44
3 PlayPull 10:44
4 PlayNepenthes18:44
5 PlayThe Fountain 8:29
6 PlayLullaby 3:51
7 PlaySmother 5:10
8 PlayUrbex 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.

4th Caustic Reverie album released

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Just in time for Halloween, Caustic Reverie would like to unveil its fourth album. Drawing from elements of dark ambient, noise, and drone, Word Salad Surgery is by no means an Emerson, Lake & Palmers styled keyboard etude, but rather a nightmarish attack of Apophenia.

1. Prelude (3:08)
2. Word Salad Surgery (18:55)
3. Intermède (3:06)
4. Pareidolia (28:59)
5. Postlude (6:16)

Mute reviewed

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Jamendo user Ivan1984 had some nice words to say about the Caustic Reverie album Mute. Here’s a snippet:

Mute is deafening, roaring silence and this is the closest I think you could get to that kind of transcendentalism, its’ allocative form is thus. What it represents is open to interpretation with infinite variables. For me, it feels very religious but that might be more to do with my subjectivity and not the intention or thought behind this massive track. At 41 minutes, something substantial happens, something is changing. Is this the link pin, that tenuous thread of ethereal substance? God spoke.

Read the full thing here, and while you’re at it, you can download the album in VBR mp3 or ogg.

Stochastic Resonance

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  1. Stochastic Resonance 1 (11:55)
  2. In Vacuo (17:12)
  3. Stochastic Resonance 2 (7:31)
  4. Compline (13:19)
  5. Stochastic Resonance 3 (9:20)

Stochastic Resonance is the third Caustic Reverie album and it has been released on last.fm. The songs were fractally composed with the help of FMusic and then stretched, chopped, spliced, and mangled into the shape they are now. Enjoy!

New album details

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The third Caustic Reverie album will be called Stochastic Resonance and will contain five tracks. There’s a companion piece to Vespers called Compline, though I’m not sure if I want to do the whole Canonical Hours cycle at this point. I’m still working on the artwork and final mixes, but I should have it released early next week to last.fm.

New music project: Caustic Reverie

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I’ve been messing around with some dark ambient and drone stuff and have started a new project called Caustic Reverie. I’ve released an album-length piece called Absent that is available to listen via streaming on last.fm. It takes a while to build, so I recommend putting it on in the background when you go read some Thomas Ligotti.

Music update

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I’m nearly finished with another TheForgotton song called Ganymede that’s based on a 12-tone matrix. There’s just a touch of spit and polish left as well as some sort of artwork I’d like to have before I release it. The possibility of a cohesive album has crossed my mind but there is still a lot more songwriting needed to be done.

I ended up staying up late last night working on a drone that ended up coming close to an album’s worth in one track! This song has lead me in a whole other direction than I’m used to, mainly that of dark ambient. I’m considering releasing some of this new stuff under the name Caustic Reverie. I also need to keep an eye out for a site that will host a 70 + minute song.