Cymophane is imminent!

Long time no post... so nothing new there then. I've been working hard on music for the past year now and it's almost ready to drop! This post is a heads-up, letting those interested know what sounds are coming from my direction in the next couple of months.

Firstly, and most excitingly, is that the first wave of Cymophane is almost ready to be unleashed. Cymophane is a project Ian "SDZH" and myself have been working on for about 18 months now. We have an album about 75% complete, so to start getting the sounds we've been creating out into the real world we will be putting out a "Cymo-mix" in the next week or so. I can openly, hand-on-heart state that this is the best music I have ever been involved with; I am chuffed to pieces with all aspects of this project and it has been an absolute joy and pleasure in working with Ian to create it. We're talking Future Sound of London, Coil, Dub, Techno, huge atmospheric ambience and serious John Carpenter soundtrack worship here, swaying between evil, gritty darkness and gushing, emotional beauty. The mix will serve as a teaser, a taster and promotional tool to start getting this project known about with a full album hopefully completed by the new year.

Once the Cymophane mix is out I'll be working with the extremely talented Daniel Mackenzie, aka Ekca Liena, in reworking, remixing and remastering his stunning début album, Slow Music For Rapid Eye Movement for re-release on Dead Pilot Records. This re-release will also include a bonus CD of artist's contributed remixes, including an exclusive Pupilar remix of a track from the album. This is going to be a really wonderful release and I'm extremely excited to be involved.

Finally, I'm in the process and updating and improving the Bardo Thodol dotnet/Pupilar/Cymophane web presence. For you linking and sharing pleasure we now have the Bardo Thodol dotnet Facebook page, which hopefully will get updated a little more often than here, the Cymophane Bandcamp page (coming soon) and the Bardo Thodol dotnet Soundcloud page (coming soon, once I've figured out what it does). This will leave the Pupilar/Cymophane Myspace pages redundant so they will be getting deleted next week. No one uses that hideous site any more (other than spammers) so I don't expect these will be missed.

OK, less talking and more action. The Cymophane mix will be coming in about a week, I'm really looking forward to letting you all hear what I've been keeping so close for so long.

2 of 2 new Pupilar remixes online!

... and here's the second remix, completed only yesterday!

This is a remix of the track, Kleine Dada-Hymne, by Infinitus Ensemble (www.myspace.com/infinitusensemble). This will be released by IE at some point in the near future, but until then, here it is for you all to hear right now! It's pretty far removed from the original IE track, but that's the way I like to do remixes: by taking the original track components and re-imagine something really really different. I'm very pleased with how this track turned out, it's a real ugly monster of a tune! It's also good to release it at the same time as the Immune remix as they contrast each other well; the Immune track being very spacious and ambient and the IE track being really dense and heavy - see, I have a "range" and everything! As with the Immune track, stream/download/share this track in whatever format you so desire via Bandcamp. I hope you enjoy them and I look forward to following this more Beats 'n' Bass direction for Pupilar in 2010.

Speaking of following a direction in 2010, now that these tracks are completed and released, my absolute focus for at least the next 6 months will be working more on Ian SDZH and my Cymophane project. Currently, we have 3 completed tracks, 2 more in progress and the intention of at least another 1 to complete a full album. I'm REALLY excited about these tracks, we have taken our time to evolve our separate styles into a beautiful new sound and we become increasingly excited the more we work on it. I'm hoping to have a 4th track completed over the holiday break, then soon after, put out a promo of edits of these finished tracks, to start getting our sounds heard in anticipation of the albums completion. So, keep an eye on things here as I hope that should start lurching forth into the world pretty soon.

Right, back to making more music.

Peace.

1 of 2 new Pupilar remixes online!

This is the first post on the new Bardo Thodol dotnet Blogger page. I'll be redesigning all my web stuff around using this for news updates and Bandcamp for hosting/streaming my music from now on. This should make things far easier to share and Bandcamp's music streaming/downloading options are far better than anything I could do on my basic html site.

This is also the first bit of Pupilar news in a while, but, to make up for the quietness, I'll be posting two new Pupilar tracks for you to hear in one week! So, here's the first:

This is a remix of the track, Selling Screen, by the band, Immune (www.myspace.com/immunemusic). Immune's version is on their myspace player if you are interested in hearing what their original sounds like. My version was completed in 2008 with the intention it would be included on a planned Immune EP. Unfortunately, this EP never came to be, so here, instead, is the track for you all to enjoy. I've given it a 2009 spit and shine to make it sound better than ever, so if you're one of the few who've heard it before, still give it a listen. I'm still really pleased with this track, it showcases a far more conventionally "structured" form and utilises rhythm and beats more prominently, which is the direction Pupilar seems to heading in right now. I hope you enjoy it. You can stream this direct via this Bandcamp player or download the track for free in all sorts of formats, including lossless FLAC (Bandcamp is ace!).

Within the week I should have the second Pupilar remix I've recently completed also online and I'll  divulge some information on how the Cymophane project is going too!

Peace.