New Phideaux album "Number Seven" now out

I recieved my copy of Number Seven from Amazon about a week ago, and I've been listening to it ever since. It's fantastic! I've been working on a creative project of my own comprised of seven short found footage films in the style of 60's public education films, but dealing with really absurd concepts in a deadpan way. The documentary-style narration at the start of "The Search for Terrestrial Life" inspired me to come up with a similar style of narration I'll be using in one of the films. That's a great song by the way, can't get enough of it.

Exists already a "date" for the release of 7 1/2 ?

So Phideaux, any live DVDs in the plans? 

Edited by Slartibartfast - July 15 2009 at 15:38

Looking back, I can hear that. You should let her do more solo spots. She sounds great!

Phideaux wrote: Please do write some reviews.  I noticed that two of the reviewers only have ever reviewed 2 albums, each on this years docket.  Additionally, some of the raters vote seemingly every album they've ever heard as 5 stars.  As much as I'd love our new album to be rated 5 stars, I'd rather see what people really think.  Luckily, nobody that I know has rated it yet...

This post maked me a little sad.

I really love music, it's a very important part of my life.
But I never wrote any review. Why?
1. My English is very poor.
2. I don't think, it's necessary to talk about the music. Listening music i have some feelings, impossible and needless to explain with words.
So I don't write reviews and I don't rate albums. Even so, sometime it happens to be very impressed by an album (5 times in 3 years) and I decide to rate it with 5 stars (sign of my gratitude). That's what's happened also with this album.
("some of the raters vote seemingly every album they've ever heard as 5 stars"... hm. I'm not resentful, I understand your reasons.)

I think this is without any doubt (for me), the best album of the last years.
Sincerely congratulations! (And excuse me for my English.)

Six degrees, You are right to be sad.  I seem full of ingratitude by my post.  I am not.  I am humbled and overwhelmed by people giving my album 5 stars.  It really does mean a great deal to me.  I guess I let the outside voices get to me where people say I've had all my friends sign up to vote for the album. 

I am grateful for every person who buys the album and takes the time to listen to it.  I guess, like a kid with a new toy, I just want to know what people think about it -- if they like the transitions, if they notice the way certain themes recur, if they notice the bit of lyrics from Doomsday, if they like the instrument sounds we used for this album.

I wonder if people pick up on the geometric keyboard patterns in "Prequiem" that pay homage to the geometric keyboards of "Candybrain".  All these types of questions one can find out from a review or a buzz.  One spends months/years making an album and then you release it to the world and there isn't all that much feedback (unlike a live performance).  When a band is as unknown and low as we are, there isn't a lot of media attention or reviews at the beginning.  It starts to trickle down through word of mouth.

Anyway, Six Degrees, that's where I was coming from, but I should rephrase it so I don't seem an ungrateful git.

And wait a minute...you direct General Hospital (and other assorted soap operas)?  

LiquidEternity wrote: Pignose, Number Seven exists independently of the trilogy that The Great Leap and Doomsday Afternoon belong to. My advice is to go with Doomsday Afternoon. It's pure brilliance, all the way through, while The Great Leap is, as I understand it, less a prog record and more an art rock sort of venture, along the lines of (though probably plenty different from) 313. I don't think there should be anyone in this thread who does not have and play regularly Doomsday Afternoon.  Also, the CD artwork says the album is called "Number Seven." The majority of listeners on last.fm, however, have put it down as "Number 7." I'm trying to decide myself. Is 7 1/2 going to be called "Number 7 1/2"? Or is it just going to be "7 1/2"? I'm not sure entirely why I care. Okay. Anal retentive, that's the term. THAT'S why I care... Also, I don't do math very well, so I didn't catch the correlation between Candybrain and Prequiem. However, I felt that Darkness at Noon (which I think I read was an outcast Doomsday tune anyways) seemed to hearken back towards the melodies of that previous album. Especially when the line "...I was separated from you" is sung.

I was going to get Doomsday Afternoon, but I got Chupacabras at a cheaper price.    However, that's a good thing since it invites me to acquire other works by this gentleman.

Phideaux,

Number Seven is fantastic.  There will be a review coming, though I need to give it a few more listens before I can do the album justice.  I'll say this, I've loved Doomsday since I picked it up, but Number Seven may even be better.  This is great stuff Phideaux.

Thank you,

Got my disc today and... Wow, PX, this is some fantastic piece of music you and your band put together. The arrangements and the compositions are so well executed along the story it actually leaves me empty at times. I won't go as far as saying this is better than Doomsday Afternoon (it's close to impossible, being one of my all-time favourite records) but a few more listens and I may have to revise that statement.

IMO, you and your band are one of the (if not 'the') most accomplished acts in prog rock today. NEVER quit!