I’ve just found a review of Mithradatium on the site Recent Music Heroes, but I’m a little rusty in my Estonian. The google translation misses a few phrases but overall it seems to be a favorable review.
Cheers!
Two tracks from Caustic Reverie were featured on the Temple of Despair radio show Unknown Pleasures last week. The program is available to stream or download from here.
Last.fm’s servers took a shit during the weekend I spent uploading my tracks and it took their customer service about a week to get through the backlog and get back to me. I’ve reuploaded the songs and I’m hoping they’ll stick this time. Watch this spot.
I’ve been toying with the idea of a CR album in surround and I did a quick 5.1 mix of Vigils as a proof of concept. I’ll share the link once I get a chance to hear the mix on a decent setup and make sure I didn’t blow the LFE channel all the way to hell.
First up is a short art film called Lonesome / Sám that features music from Rust Shore.
Turt by Hermitwalker uses a section of Fissure in its soundtrack.
I’ve set up a Bandcamp account for Caustic Reverie with three songs worth of albums. If there’s a good reaction, I’ll upload the rest of my material. Songs are available for free download in various formats, and there’s even a “buy” link if you’re feeling particularly altruistic.
http://causticreverie.bandcamp.com/
Having messed with my fretless Intrepid for a few weeks now, I can see some of the instrument’s strengths and weaknesses. I love the feel of a neck without frets and the wiggle-room it provides if I’m not exactly playing the note that I intended. Intonation is the big tradeoff. For playing power chords and leads, this thing is awesome, but trying to get chords in tune when my fingers don’t easily fit in the same “fret” is quite the hassle.
I’m working on some new stuff with the fretless and one of the tracks is the heaviest thing I’ve ever committed to tape. Aesthetically this might be closer to Shufflebrain but the writing and production methods are pure Caustic Reverie, so I think that’s how I will release it. The working title is Interference Patterns.
I’ve spent the holiday weekend working on a new Caustic Reverie album with a fair amount of throwing candy at children yesterday morning. It’s staggering how many great presets came with the synth vsts in the Komplete 5 package, but I though it would be more fun to try and build the sounds for this album from the ground up, starting from a single oscilator whenever possible. It probably would have helped to look at a manual, as Absynth and FM8 are some of the least inuitive plugins I’ve used in a while. The new album has a working title of Rented Spouses, though I do like the ring to Rudeness Poets.