End of Days Pt 2

3 weeks ago by @danxduran

Liner Notes

So, this year I'm trying to write two albums - one of my bread-and-butter guitar/new wave/grunge/alt-pop stuff, and a second one that's more experimental and tells a story about a woman whose consciousness becomes unstuck in time, a passing alien probe which astronomers mistake for an interstellar comet, virtual reality, the fear of death... and Stonehenge. Yeah, I'm going all Rick Wakeman, got a problem with that?

This tune (for want of a better word) is part of that second album. It's an instrumental - school goes back on Monday, so I'll get to recording proper songs with vocals then!

It's a pretty strange way for me to start FAWM - with a funereal dirge - and absolutely not indicative of what's likely to come... except for perhaps Pt 1.

For those interested... this track uses Native Instruments' Cloud Supply and Analog Dreams libraries, plus a timpani from their factory collections, and some random drum loop from a collection I probably downloaded 15 years ago; there's also a tape echo in there. Processing includes Waves' Curves Equator, Retro-Fi, Abbey Road TG12345 console, UAD's LA-2A, Studer tape, Ampex tape, IK Bus Compressor, One and Stealth Limiter.

#ambient #conceptalbum #electronic #dirge #synth

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