Podél Směrů is now on Bandcamp and Funkwhale for all the universe to absorb. #music #PodélSměrů

Miniature #2 'Ptáci' is done. Oddly muted, it is! It seems like I didn't eq the highs correctly. That's fine. Time to move on. I'll remaster all of them at the end. #music #BronzePomegranate

Today was the first intense practise (guitar) I've had since Covid struck me down Sobota. Amusingly, I worked on CAGED hovno and their relation to actual scales, though interspersed were speed studies and I need to get the muscles of my extremeties back in shape. #music #guitar

A bit more of 'ptáci' emerge from the niggulum this evening. The end is a meandering fiiiis that is feed back upon itself and recursively modulated (Baklengs) until HIDEOUS. Space sounds cascade over its burbling form. #music #BronzePomegranate

I began the second miniature 'Ptáci'. It has overlapping descending guitar lines that will harmonize somewhat and I hope also clash. I haven't planned them too elaborately. #music #BronzePomegranate

The final mastering tweak to Feudal Fetish (and Podél Směrů, overall) was to sidechain compress the main track to the KO separately, as well as automate the EQ on the KO to get rid of the high swishing during the recurring 'drum'. Now just to listen through it all one more time! #music #PodélSměrů

Perhaps I should wait to hear the whole album on my new closed back headphones, contrasting them to the Bayerdynamics (open back). Knowing Sweetwater, however, it may take seven millennia for them to arrive. Bastards. #music #audio #monitoring #PodélSměrů

Yesterday evening, I sent an email to Zenapolae to ask were they interested in publishing Podél Směrů. I included links to John Newman's Severed Head Still Speaks and Wondering if the Bellows Will Blow. I'll write up the credits to the album in a bit (perhaps after this toot) and, as Chris finished the cover, get everything ready for release. #music #PodélSměrů

I did a ditty called Palaeontology which may be the beginning of a semi-daily funkwhale agenda. In contrast to the drones of last month, these will be miniatures. #music #BronzePomegranate

I'm the one Flying is 'finished', meaning I cobbled together all the guitar parts. If there is general approval by Renata, I'll do a definitive version. #music #renata

I redid the chord melody of vlci AGAIN, plus increased the width of the stereo image on several of the tracks. #music #PodélSměrů

I'm reworking the second melody recursive strategy on John Newman's Severed Head Still Speaks. I make an initial master yesterday of the whole album and am moderately happy with it. A few tweaks are in order. #music #PodélSměrů

I integrated Kris's bass into Vlci and redid the arpeggio guitar part. Also, some questionable comping occurs in the midsection. #music #Podél Směrů

This time the white noise is on purpose! #drone #music

Drone 9 was plagued with the aforementioned and dreaded HISS, or high NOISE FLOOR. Where it is coming from exactly, I still don't know, but I suspect the compressor and Wampler. Putting the Tumnus before the compressor may have been a bad idea. I shall MODIFY it. In any case, I EQed much of it out to the point that it's really only noticeable during the beginning, very quiet part. #drone #music

Wondering if the Bellows Will Blow seems at a finished state. I added a few sparse guitar tinkles here and there - nothing distracting - and swells and chords to accompany the flow. The real issue was getting rid of CLICKS and POPS. I couldn't eq them all out without fucking up part of the overall high end, but I futzed with it for quite a while. #music #Podél Směrů

Chris's four part harmony is now integrated into John's Severed Head Still Speaks. It's brilliant. #music #PodélSměrů

Oops. I just ordered a Mu-Tron Biphase II. #music #pedals

Initially, I feel the eighth drone (Hup Jaum Hoziz) is uninspired. Do I have an excuse? Nah - fuck um. It's certainly different than what came before, although many Flavigula elements remain, which is the way it should be. The ever-present Argon8 noise backdrop can be an irritant. #drone #music