Album #5: Martian Winter
On 30-Dec-2008, my fifth album, Martian Winter, was published on Jamendo.
The story of this album’s creation, and the long journey to complete it, was the subject of a series of articles on this blog. As these articles were completed, I indexed them here.
If you’re only going to read one article about this album, probably the most important is this one:
Martian Winter and H.G. Wells
Note: the article series was put on hold, briefly, by FAWM 2009. After that, I was hit by a series of unexpected interruptions, including the biggest one, having to move again. I gave a lot of information on the composition process, but never completed adding the details for each song. One day I’ll have to come back and finish this series.
Cover Art
- Preview
- Links to higher resolution images of the front and back cover.
Creative Commons License
- Why I changed to by-sa. (In other words, why my works are now free for commercial use.)
Themes and Composition
- The Composition of Martian Winter.
- The Prototypes (“Periodic Table of the Groove”)
- Rhythms in Five.
- Rhythms in Seven.
- Relation of Martian Winter to H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds.
Song #1: “Whirlpool of Memory”
- Instruments and general structure.
- Section B — composed before the other two.
- Section A.
- Section C.
Song #2: “The Morning the Stars Began to Fall”
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