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Solace
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about this album
Solace I’m incredibly proud of this one. I spent the better part of three years trying in vain to write it, and then over the course of two months it just appeared. Most of those three years were spent doing all sorts of godawful music nerd things that, unsurprisingly, sounded pretty bad. I still like the idea of ‘generative music’ (the Schillinger system, some of the additive/subtractive things done by Glass + Reich, etc.), but it’s hard to make the end result sound musical. The original drafts of “The sad truth, the dirty lowdown” and “Function generator” were notably different from how they ended up. The former fell apart into a little fingerpicked guitar thing, while the latter was a totally different song. My original plan was to give the album a somewhat “soft rock” feel between the noisy bits … maybe not full-on Ambrosia, but touches of electric piano and the like. It’s kind of too bad I wasn’t able to incorporate that in there. I’m pretty sure I broke some cardinal rules of recording with “Solace”. Most of the recording was done without regard for input levels, and I can’t even begin to name off all the things I had running on the master bus … some EQ, some reverb, two or three different compressors, a limiter, a couple tape simulators, and so on. It was almost comical how anemic the music sounded without all that on there. It’s not a headphone album at all, in my opinion. Maybe it’s just pure irrationality on my part, but the sound
