StaticNomad

Tune stuck in your head, eh? Sounds a bit like a pop song, something I'm unlikely ever to make.

Glad I managed to get it to stick in your head. I'm guessing it was the main (delayed) bassline, maybe some of the prog-like lead synth sounds too (that's from my Z1 synth whose internal sounds I haven't used in years. Maybe I should start again).

Yes, this is a rare piece of music (made about 3 years ago) that I worked so hard on. Result is I think it's almost perfect. Listen closely to that lead, slide resonator guitar and you'll find you can pretty much sing along to everything it does, not that I played it all in one go like that. You can indeed get lost in headphones to this one and I think you never know where it's going because there's no obvious structure or purpose to it - it just keeps moving but never getting boring or too repetitive.

I love the ethereal beds of sounds and the warm, anchoring bass. One and only one synth bass instrument on this track, which is rare for me - I usually use a good few and quite often switch between keyboard bass and (played) bass guitar.

As regards making this available to you or anyone else - that's a tough question I'm mulling over but no plans to just yet. I should probably make up a few albums of the material I have from the last ten years but I'm busy starting new stuff, continuing old stuff so need to find the time.

This track comes from a much larger project, from which I've produced a good few tracks so far (more to come too). They share lots of the same instruments and probably even identical guitar parts. Examples you will find on http://soundcloud.com/endlessrotary/sets are: Deaf To The Metaphor (needs just a little more work, guitar a bit loud and screechy at times) and A Shackle For The Free (major recycling of older parts, some odd bass parts made by 1 octave detune of resonator guitar playing. Also has killer, 3-piece grunge band ending).

Hello again. Thanks for the skills appreciation ( I made this one nearly ten years ago). I won't be sending you or anyone else and tracks yet as I'm still working out what to do with them all (a ggod few albums' worth) such as putting out physical CDs (maybe not) or maybe something else. Can't you and your mates just sit around the computer blasting this out?

Check out more of my stuff here (2 hours including much longer epics). Dunno if it'll be your sort of thing as I play and use lots of guitar, but often in an unusual way. http://soundcloud.com/endlessrotary/sets

Thanks very much John - I do appreciate it. Congratulations on being the second reviewer of my tracks. I'm new to the site so how did you come across it? Was it the title that attracted you (comes from Carl Sagan)? I might make this stuff available for download but should really get together some proper albums, mastered and with artwork etc. I have enough music currently to make about 4 - 5 or 6 if I worked harder and completed lots of unfinished work. If I get enough positive reviews of my stuff, that might encourage me to bother to officially release stuff as I'm not altogether sure if there are enough people sufficiently interested to actually sit down and listen to my stuff. Please listen to and review others and I'll check out what you've done too. Thanks again!