Another week, or one and a half weeks to be precise, has passed. Soon it's time to *gasp* go to school again... Okay, not soon, but 30% of my holiday is gone, regardless. The great news is that I have remained extremely productive. Let's break it down, shall we?
The two songs that I've been working on the most writing-wise, Polarity and Grain, are both pretty much finished now in structure. Grain barely has any lyrics I'm satisfied with and some transitions definitely need work, but the ending harmony turned out great and all in all the song is among the ones I'm most proud of having done right beside Allergy/Anemia and The Black. As it is very Opeth- and Pelican-influenced, is there really any reason to claim otherwise? :P Polarity is an interesting blend of three more or less contrasting sections, mixing hope and solace with distress and extreme darkness. In a way its dark and light are the deepest and shiniest found on the material for the album so far. With this there also lies a problem I have yet to solve - are the sections too different from each other? Other notable and fresh compositions include Graze, which is basically just a build-up for the time being, built around a riff that's, believe it or not, extremely danceable. It's got groove totally new to Wicked Breath, and I'm excited over that. Recording-wise I've made progress by finishing the guitars for Johannesburg, the guitars and bass for Tear of the Afternoon, the bass and guitar solo for Letters from Rats as well as the bass for the Theban Cycle song Midnight Sun, which will be entirely written by me, by the way. I've also mixed Tear of the Afternoon for the parts that are done and tweaked the Letters from Rats guitar solo. Tonight I plan to mix some of the bass tracks if I have the motivation. For the rest of the week my goal is to move on with guitars for Cyan Lie and Clutch, and perhaps record the bass for yet another Theban Cycle track, Dividing By Zero. The reason why I'm rushing with Clutch is that I have finally found my singer and I do not want to make her wait too long to hear how I, and our project, is to sound instrumentally.
The short story (which is still untitled, unfortunately) has made decent progress and is now at around 3400 words written. Since I have a good picture of where the plot will go from here on and where it will end, I'm estimating about 5000 words in total and am hoping to finish next week, after which I will start the translation work. It's been a lot of fun to write as an author opposed to writing as a poet for a change, and doing the original version in Finnish has ensured that the text flows quite well and comes out as naturally as ever. I can't wait to get it out to the few who want to read it.
Obviously I have also written some lyrics recently - what would my life be without them? Here's a sample of some of the lyrics I've done for Grain, yet am not fully if at all happy with.
(Absurd the abstract has come)
Absurd the abstract has come
re-arranged my rapid eye movement
(of blind) caress that I used to breathe with (onto)
before healing unsynthetized me
Thanks to the cadmium grain that paved me a way
from the midst of sands so grey
clouds lay upon the fire so truth
can retort the salty sixth of wounds
HURT AND BEAT ME DOWN [x2]
Until I am beyond the pain,
beyond the forest fire place
Watching my hands sends shivers like creeping down my back
tattooed on my lips is betrayal, dishonesty
sealing my comfort zone I fear the storm waking inside
fear the hurricane of non-pretending
wreaked lights corresponding to me
and my wish of lust and greed
missunderstatement is the shadow
I'm forced to pour my heart due
Finally a word from my sponsors. No, wait... :P I've been getting new music in a very rapid pace during the last few weeks, as you could probably tell by my last blogpost. Since then I have been focusing more on my own music perhaps but still, there are plenty of albums that have found them their way into my hard drive. I actually have a project now to collect and listen to all albums by Opeth before their new one, Heritage, comes out in September, and I've started by adding Deliverance, Damnation and Still Life to my library that only include Blackwater Park prior to this. I also have two new Nostromo albums besides the one I had before, Ecce Lex. Those two are Argue and Hysteron - Proteron, the latter being a fully acoustic album with renewed and somewhat mindblowing versions of six of their previously released songs. Though their most extreme material is a little too extreme for me to be listening to it for too long at a time, it's a shame the band quit a number of years ago. On the evening of my previous post's date I checked out some Rammstein, and was pleasantly surprised by the solid riffing and industrial elements creating a unique atmosphere on their album Sehnsucht. Finally, there's Limp Bizkit's new album Gold Cobra I got just yesterday and have rolled in my player for a decent 73 scrobbles worth according to Last.fm. It's been another pleasant surprise since I don't consider myself a fan anymore.
And yes, we have reached the end of the road for now! I will have some dinner in just a bit. Hence I'm walking away... ;)
The two songs that I've been working on the most writing-wise, Polarity and Grain, are both pretty much finished now in structure. Grain barely has any lyrics I'm satisfied with and some transitions definitely need work, but the ending harmony turned out great and all in all the song is among the ones I'm most proud of having done right beside Allergy/Anemia and The Black. As it is very Opeth- and Pelican-influenced, is there really any reason to claim otherwise? :P Polarity is an interesting blend of three more or less contrasting sections, mixing hope and solace with distress and extreme darkness. In a way its dark and light are the deepest and shiniest found on the material for the album so far. With this there also lies a problem I have yet to solve - are the sections too different from each other? Other notable and fresh compositions include Graze, which is basically just a build-up for the time being, built around a riff that's, believe it or not, extremely danceable. It's got groove totally new to Wicked Breath, and I'm excited over that. Recording-wise I've made progress by finishing the guitars for Johannesburg, the guitars and bass for Tear of the Afternoon, the bass and guitar solo for Letters from Rats as well as the bass for the Theban Cycle song Midnight Sun, which will be entirely written by me, by the way. I've also mixed Tear of the Afternoon for the parts that are done and tweaked the Letters from Rats guitar solo. Tonight I plan to mix some of the bass tracks if I have the motivation. For the rest of the week my goal is to move on with guitars for Cyan Lie and Clutch, and perhaps record the bass for yet another Theban Cycle track, Dividing By Zero. The reason why I'm rushing with Clutch is that I have finally found my singer and I do not want to make her wait too long to hear how I, and our project, is to sound instrumentally.
The short story (which is still untitled, unfortunately) has made decent progress and is now at around 3400 words written. Since I have a good picture of where the plot will go from here on and where it will end, I'm estimating about 5000 words in total and am hoping to finish next week, after which I will start the translation work. It's been a lot of fun to write as an author opposed to writing as a poet for a change, and doing the original version in Finnish has ensured that the text flows quite well and comes out as naturally as ever. I can't wait to get it out to the few who want to read it.
Obviously I have also written some lyrics recently - what would my life be without them? Here's a sample of some of the lyrics I've done for Grain, yet am not fully if at all happy with.
(Absurd the abstract has come)
Absurd the abstract has come
re-arranged my rapid eye movement
(of blind) caress that I used to breathe with (onto)
before healing unsynthetized me
Thanks to the cadmium grain that paved me a way
from the midst of sands so grey
clouds lay upon the fire so truth
can retort the salty sixth of wounds
HURT AND BEAT ME DOWN [x2]
Until I am beyond the pain,
beyond the forest fire place
Watching my hands sends shivers like creeping down my back
tattooed on my lips is betrayal, dishonesty
sealing my comfort zone I fear the storm waking inside
fear the hurricane of non-pretending
wreaked lights corresponding to me
and my wish of lust and greed
missunderstatement is the shadow
I'm forced to pour my heart due
Finally a word from my sponsors. No, wait... :P I've been getting new music in a very rapid pace during the last few weeks, as you could probably tell by my last blogpost. Since then I have been focusing more on my own music perhaps but still, there are plenty of albums that have found them their way into my hard drive. I actually have a project now to collect and listen to all albums by Opeth before their new one, Heritage, comes out in September, and I've started by adding Deliverance, Damnation and Still Life to my library that only include Blackwater Park prior to this. I also have two new Nostromo albums besides the one I had before, Ecce Lex. Those two are Argue and Hysteron - Proteron, the latter being a fully acoustic album with renewed and somewhat mindblowing versions of six of their previously released songs. Though their most extreme material is a little too extreme for me to be listening to it for too long at a time, it's a shame the band quit a number of years ago. On the evening of my previous post's date I checked out some Rammstein, and was pleasantly surprised by the solid riffing and industrial elements creating a unique atmosphere on their album Sehnsucht. Finally, there's Limp Bizkit's new album Gold Cobra I got just yesterday and have rolled in my player for a decent 73 scrobbles worth according to Last.fm. It's been another pleasant surprise since I don't consider myself a fan anymore.
And yes, we have reached the end of the road for now! I will have some dinner in just a bit. Hence I'm walking away... ;)
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