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Album makes extensive use of the free VST “Pretty Good Sampler” and its default samples. Also there’s a lot of use of 3 other VSTs I made and give away: Microtone 5000, FreakBone 9000, and Simple Microtonal Sampler.
Run Time: 106 Minutes
Street Date: April 22, 2025.
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Cover astro photo by Michael W. Dean. It’s the Cone Nebula and Fox Fur Nebula. It’s overlaid with an MPC I used to make the album. Overall, it’s a nod to the cheesy first Boston album with the guitar flying through space.
TRACK LIST:
1. While My Telomeres Gently Shorten
2. Coyote Howl Magnitude
3. Progly Forward Into the Past
4. The Dance of the Feet of the Salish Sea
5. Coddington’s Nebula is a Galaxy, Ironically
6. Waschbär auf meiner Veranda
7. The Privy Councillor’s Garden Party
8. Tune in to MIDI Channel Ten
9. Waiting in the Ejection Rack
10. Ode to the Sunflower Galaxy
11. Tiger Ocean Pearl Rabbit Shadow Valley Whisper Zebra Cloud Dawn Eagle Frost
12. The Teeth The Teeth Rattling Tones of Blaze Echo Falcon Ink Lunar Moss Raven Silk Tower Umbrella Vivid Zone
MICROTONAL SONGS:
“Waschbär auf meiner Veranda” uses Mustear Pentachord 17-Limit (Mustear pentachord 42:48:51:56:63), plus a touch of 12 TET.
“Tiger Ocean Pearl Rabbit Shadow Valley Whisper Zebra Cloud Dawn Eagle Frost” uses Kurzweil Arab tuning.
“The Teeth Rattling Tones of Blaze Echo Falcon Ink Lunar Moss Raven Silk Tower Umbrella Vivid Zone” uses
Kurdi Pentachord 17-Limit (Kurdi pentachord 102:108:120:136:153)
and
Kurdi Tetrachord 17-Limit (Kurdi tetrachord 51:54:60:68), and 12 TET for the bass and the hip hop Moog sine whine.
Same are used in “Ode to the Sunflower Galaxy”, but it has more 12 TET than the other two.
CREDITS
All instruments and production by Michael W. Dean, except in “While My Telomeres Gently Shorten” – Debra Jean Dean played the ELP tone solo in the middle of the bell synth solo, I was just showing her my M-Vave SMC pad, it sounded good, I left it. I also used an AKAI MPD218 pad.
No AI was used in the making of this music.
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