Come on, who is into Trance and has not watched “Dune” many time s over, except for the young-lings, lol?
Mentat Piter De Vries holding the flask up and citing the Mantra:
” It is by will alone i set my mind in motion,
it is by the juice of sapho that thoughts require speed,
the lips require stains,
the stains become a warning!
It is by will alone i set my mind in motion.”
Download the track here…
Robert Fripp’s New Standard Tuning
The reason why this link comes first is of course the fact that i wrote ‘Q’ in the “new” standard tuning, which in all likely hood is not gonna be a standard, guitarists are lazy, lol. And if you click on John de Lancie’s picture it takes you to his biography, because he is a highly under-rated actor!
So i wrote this composition for the GitBox Rebellion years ago in this new tuning, that Robert Fripp invented in a sauna… The GitBox performed ‘Q’ up and down the country to standing ovations, but we had a disagreement, so i recorded it myself and it got released on Rattle’s compilation of “Different Tracks” as the opening piece.
The composition is complex and moves in multiple time signs and keys, some of them uneven, like 5/8, 7/8, 9/8 and so forth, in fact it opens in 5/8 and progresses from there. That being so because a ‘Q’ is an omnipotent being that freely roams the universes and probably (so i theorised then) has a taste for abstract and off the wall kinda shit.
The cool thing about it is though, that it always flows and glides and stays melodic and has a humour about it, even when it gets rocky and hard, and the ending is wow….
Phaeder
“Guild Navigators no longer were the only ones who could threa”Guild Navigators no longer were the only ones who could thread a ship through the folds of space -
in this galaxy one instant, in a faraway galaxy the very next heartbeat.”
(Heretics of Dune, 76)
Folding Space is one of my new tracks on Lotus Beat 2. It’s Electro at 148 Bpm with avery spacey trance like aural mist surounding the actual drum and bass engine. i used a vocoder to trnasform my voice and make it more machine like with a human atenuation. There are three converging bass-lines and even more morphing drum tracks with lots of cross rhythms, syncopations and drive. It really travels this piece; and of course ends with a bang, like a good space folding journey should!
Lotus Beat two is mostly dark psy trance, with breaks, techno, drum and bass configurations and an often times surreal presentation of the thematics, a bit like Dali or Escher on acid, if they had electric toys like we have now. A befriended DJ got me to slow some of this shit down so it is more danceable, and then i made it sound very haus-techno, with claps and hard kicks; But mostly you can feel the Bardo, all pieces have a distinct drive and vibe, travelling with panoramas to match their velocity. I played this stuff to a producer and he said that some of lotus beat II sounds ”harsh, impatient, driven, relentless and machine like”, and i replied: “You got it man!”
The Bardo beings perception is seven times more powerful then a human’s, imagine your senses that sharp! A lot of the samples come from a trancer friend, who biffed playing and gave me whole collection, awesome dude! Just going through the third pass of editing and fleshing out the drum texture smore, had a few funny accidents with PS 3 drum synth and guitar midi, which made for some interesting loops. i have chanted on a couple of tracks and there is a really cool loop of Tibetan monks i recored at Sera Je during my last meditation retreat, plus and that is going to be a big chnage; i sing in German again, mostly becasue the language allows for some expressiions that English is too contextual for and becasue that is the way the lyrics cmae out of the vortex.
Just being able to freely compose again after years of self imposed restriciton is very refreshing. So there is a definate avant-garde element in lotus beat II, which makes the music surprising and unpredicatble, just like a good power switch.
i am thinking i should start uploading and make it all available, but am too wooried still about the mastering quality.
Can be played with
Phaeder
| ja ja, i know it’s corny, but i admit i did think about changing the Phaeder site theme to incorporate some faders, ha ha ha. After all that is what the name implies. What i found out though in a karmic deep sense of mental continuum propulsion (your head spins, yes?), is, that there was a Phaeder (not that weak marvel character) but the dude who translated Asop’s Phaebles into PHaeder’s native lingo - German! Now what/, Ah, so here is the fader pics i thought i use, corny i know, but the weekend is coming, maybe you won’t recognise my site on Monday mornign? Be very afraid. Phaeder Phaedes |
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