KingCrimson250 wrote:
Any word on Multipurpose Trap? Any at all? I'm dying here!
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Why, I thought you'd never ask. I just wrote a blog on myspace a few days ago:
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=147345791&blogId=536926316
July 10, 2010
We are working very hard on our second album "Multipurpose Trap"....our
first album is a little hard to follow, and I had been worrying there
was nothing we could do to equal or top it, but I am starting to feel
more confident in the new material.
Yes, there will be singing,
probably on every track, but hopefully not by me, and only for a minute
or less on most of the tracks. This is to confuse people who
want to label each song "instrumental" or "vocal."
The working
titles and my best recollection for running times are:
1. The
Dumb Fish (3:30)
This one is jazzy and catchy.
2. Horse-Shaped
Cloud (formerly Underscore) (4:30)
This one goes from perky to maybe
the most intense part we've ever done back to perky. Surprisingly it
doesn't feel too disjointed. It's about flying in a hot-air balloon,
then getting blown around by a horse-shaped cloud, then landing safely.
Though there are only two lines to the lyrics, the music will help tell
the story.
3. Miracle Pigeon (2:30)
A soundtrack to a comic book
about a superhero pigeon. I was wanting to actually get someone to do
an animated cartoon to this, but there probably won't be enough time.
4.
East is Fort Orthodox (6:00)
This is a murky prequel to the next
song.
5. Secret Crevice (maybe to be renamed Stealth Cantiri) (5:00)
This
one doesn't let up at all from beginning to end. I added some
mellotron parts that really hit the spot too. This would make a great
show-opener, maybe with the preceding track.
6. Tragic Penguin (7:00)
The
entire track is built around an improvisation I did on electric piano
on November 17, 2007. It was a lot of fun to build stuff around it, and
sometimes I think this is actually a genuinely progressive way to make
music.
7. Catapult (10:00)
Requisite offspring of "Birds Flying
Into Buildings" or "Battalion"
8. Aviator Prosco (10:00)
Yes,
that's Prosco as in "progressive disco" and to make matters worse for closed-minded
prog fans, this one starts out with a very breezy jazz feel very unlike
everything we've done before, but the kind of thing that Brian and
Malcolm are great at playing. The evolution from jazz to disco is fun,
and the chord sequence for this song is very Tony Banksian, even though
Brian wrote almost half the song and has never really heard Genesis
before.
9. Abonimable Pelican (14:00)
This is built around a very
simple theme that Malcolm improvised against, and then I built some
completely different stuff around what Malcolm recorded. It's still in
the early stages, but it's probably going to be a good way to end the
album, even though the diversions into hardcore funk aren't exactly what
we're known for.
And yes, there is indeed an animal theme to
this one, at least in the song titles. I'm working on the artwork, and
that's taking almost as long as the music. It will be quite a package
once it's finished.
If you want to hear an early version of
Miracle Pigeon, go to CD Baby and look for the Emkog sampler CD. I
already pitched it in the previous blog, so I won't provide the link
again.
<end myspace blog quote>
Well, the Progarchives Dan WILL provide that CDbaby link :
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/emkog
"Miracle Pigeon" is the sixth track there, and several other snippets are in the "A Big Blob of Demos and Early Versions of Forthcoming Music" track.
Estimated release date for Multipurpose Trap is January 2011.