Glass
Glass
Featuring a mad conductor chucking various glass objects at the musicians and audience.
Release dates
Long dead corners of the internet: Early January, 2008
Bandcamp: April 7, 2016
Substack / LABELabel: June 13, 2023
Introduction
Glass is a pretty great album, probably recorded over the first week of January 2008. It’s hard to know for sure because all of the places I originally posted this album have gone away. It was initially released as Zen Junk, Volume 4, but I eventually went back and gave the albums proper titles sometime after the release of volume 5.
Glass starts off with “Melting #2”, which is obviously a sequel to “Melting #1” from Brain Silo, and features the same “riffs in the round” approach.
“Geia’s Cyborg Circus” is probably named for the homemade AI / generative music program I developed to help create my compositions. It basically randomly generated a bunch of composition parameters and a melodic cell, which it then harmonized before outputting a midi file that I could import directly into my DAW. I can tell from listening back to the track that I didn’t actually use Geia for this one, so the track might have actually been named after my guitar, which I also called Geia.
“Silk Noose” is a fun orchestral piece that features a mad conductor chucking various glass objects at the musicians and audience. “Exit Memo” starts off disguised as a drum and bass piece before taking a wild left turn down a dirt road into a retro-modernized spaghetti western. “Face Time” actually does feature a Geia-generated spiral progression, which you may be getting the feel for if you’ve been following along. The title track brings the album to a close with a durational wocka-wocka guitar solo over a drone-y dance beat.
Tiny original artwork:
Thanks as always for listening.
Liner Notes
The 4th Echo Root album, originally released in 2008.
Remastered on my iPad mini 3 using AudioShare and the AUFX:Suite.
About LABELabel
LABELabel is an interesting Substack-powered subversion of the traditional label idea. It is a label for artists that release some portion of their content on Substack. Here’s the original post that started it all, with more info and directions for joining:
