CICwutUdo - Spivkurl

Don't know if I have resolved all issues of life, but I'm working on it. Thank you for listening, and leaving a positive comment! Much appreciated!

Thank you so much for listening and leaving a positive comment! Much appreciated!

Happy that it grabbed you! Thank you for listening and leaving a positive comment!

For some reason I did not get a notification about your comment, but noticed it all the same! I hope to come through with new works too, but still need to piece my studio together after several moves. It's been an adventure, let me tell you! At least I have some ideas and works in progress to show for it. Nice to hear from you!

Thank you for the welcome back! I'm doing okay considering the adventures of the last couple of years. Too much to go into really, but thank you for asking!

Thank you so much for listening!

Thank you for your comment! Sorry for the late response!

Thank you for the valuable comment! It is most appreciated! Sorry for the late reply!

Thank you for listening and leaving a nice comment! Sorry for the late reply, as I have been absent.

Thanks for taking a listen Sorry for the late reply!

Thank you for listening! I'm sure I've waited to long to respond to get involved in your work... sorry about that. It's been a long few years. I really appreciate your comment!

Thank you very much for listening, and leaving a comment! Very sorry for this long overdue reply!

Hello my friend Alex! I have been thinking of you lately, and wondering what you have been up too. I assumed that you have been very busy in your admirable career!

I can't say that creating this album was easy for me. It was probably the most difficult one I have made, due to technical issues, distractions, and the difficulty of life. One reason was the constant turnover of FL Studio versions... I finally cleaned up the installations seven different versions, which were each causing their own problems with the newer versions. There were the distractions of dealing with legal issues, activism, addiction, pollution, and noise in the neighborhood. I want so badly not to be in this situation, but there is not much I can do to escape at this point.

I want so much to claim a little bit of land and maybe a ruined building in the Carpathians of Romania, and just live in harmony with the earth.

Hearing this song as a "manifesto" is interesting to me. I'm listening to it again, to take that impression in. It is a difficult concept... In all honesty, the song formed as an attempt to communicate with the spirits whose blood and bone makes up the soil which supports the growth in our area. I think that the photo cover art represens this pretty well. There is the shadow of my hands holding the camera, the bleached bones, the dark soil that smells of blood, the deep green leaves, and finally the bright white orb which I accept as a spirit manifestation (though it could be debunked as an insect). I had the camera take three photos in succession at this point, and the white orb only appeared in one of them.

Suffice it to say, in recent months, I have expanded my range to find places where I can have new experiences within walking distance. I've had some intense experiences, and met some great animals. I even had the fortune to meet a fox up close, which is an animal I had never seen in Minnesota before. I also found some amazing mushrooms, including a few varieties of gymnopilus, which I had been searching for since around 1997. One of the forests where I found them definitely has some sort of dark past, where it makes one feel sick, or I hear the trees screaming.

Your mention of TV in relation to CIC is not something I can fully understand. Is "CIC" some sort of program?

All in all, the album turned out worse than I was hoping for, but I simply needed to put it in the past. I am proud of the amount of realism in many songs and recordings. I am frustrated with many of the technical issues imprinted on some songs from reliance upon computers. It's a lesson to be learned.

I am very happy to hear from you, and I hope to continue our conversations soon. Thank you for listening to this one!

Thank you for your support and the kind words! I appreciate you listening to my songs!

I sincerely hope that you have been enjoying the new album! I am so thankful for your support, it really does mean a lot!

I wish that I could fully believe your words within myself, but it is extremely helpful to hear that from someone else. I don't really know where I live, in relation to the present moment... but I do mostly believe that I am alive sometime, somewhere!

Thank you again! I apologise for not replying sooner, but the security thing locked me out of the site again last night... oh well. I will return the favor as soon as possible, though for the moment I am tired.

Orlando, I must thank you very much for what you've said here! To have even just one person in the world react with "love it immensely" makes me very happy, and it makes artistry worthwhile.

To be honest, this life in a US city is starting to drag me down deeply, and creativity keeps becoming more of a battle every week. There are days where I think I would do almost anything to escape this situation, and avoid what is being done to us. Comments such as yours help me feel better about things, and give me more reasons to keep working at what I love.

I just replaced another part on my old '91 Epiphone studio les paul, and you've helped encourage me to get in the studio with it... you know, stretch the strings. It's interesting handling it now, knowing what it was like when I got it. Smashed, and covered in enamel paint (not just the body, but the knobs, tuning pegs, bridge, fretboard ... everything). It's been refinished a couple of times since. Installed a pickup from a smashed yamaha to replace the one that was destroyed, roller bridge, nut, potentiometers and knobs, switch, jack... and now I find the broken off headstock of a epiphone special, so I replaced the tuning pegs with those. Parts from all over the place on that axe!

Well, thanks for listening to my rave there. I appreciate you stopping by to listen!

Ha ha, yeah, it's fairly often that I get called crazy or genius, though maybe more often it is a combination of the two. I take either one or both as a compliment, especially when it comes to music!

I suppose that I never want to be known as conventional, unless I become a definition of a new conventionality. At this point, about the most conventional things in my life are having a pet and drinking on a regular basis... beyond that I feel like somewhat of a freak in this culture!

I did spend quite a bit of time shaping the sounds used in here. It was the first time I tried the new classical guitar strings in a song, just to make some loops... they're nice strings so far, and were definitely the most I've spent on guitar strings (not bass strings of course!).

I see that I may have had a limit on track plays on bandcamp, though I don't know if that is for the individual songs or the entire album... so either way, that is removed just in case it was keeping people from being able to hear the entire album. Pretty much no one pays for music anyway!

No matter what it is, I like the feeling of doing something myself. I make all of our own bread products, soy/seed/nut milks, and stuff. I've gotten pretty proficient at household electrician work and wiring lately, and repaired our refrigerator recently as well. About ready to refurbish the 100+ year old hardwood floors in another room, since the first room turned out good. Learning how to grow edible mushrooms, and have nine logs innocculated this year. I've even been working on becoming self sufficient in potting soil for indoor plants, after learning how to sterilize our compost (the plants love it)! I hate the feeling of paying someone to do work that I can do better myself, and I also hate fixing people's mistakes (too much ego, I know). I even try to keep my wife out of the kitchen sometimes, ha ha.

I appreciate your kind words, and your taking the time to hear my music! Have a great day!