The very cool lable Weisskalt Records is going to be putting out 3 BipTunia songs on various compilations, and asked me for a summary of the songs. I don’t usually do rock journalism, but did my best. Here it is:
“Glistening Spores on Distant Shores” from BipTunia’s 110th album Chime Wave Variations, is a mid-tempo instrumental journey through a few pleasant, fantastical places.
Pulsing analog synths and strong, simple modal melodies evoke a strange, yet familiar, feel. It’s as if Deja vu got lysergic for 15 minutes. It’s that bit of the dream you can only remember for a moment right after you wake up, and if you don’t write it down, it’s gone. Well, BipTunia wrote it down.
While it sounds more reminiscent of Tangerine Dream, the drumming is more influenced by Flipper – keep that solid simple, unwavering same-speed beat underneath to hold it together.
“Bell-Shaped Void in the Neon Abyss” is also from BipTunia’s Chime Wave Variations album. Tribal drumming underpins a clangorous yet melodic symphony of bell samples and FM synthesizers.
Sparse melodies weaving in and out for a minimalist counterpoint.
The bells and string sounds in this are from a free VST made by BipTunia Synths, called “Pretty Good Sampler.” The plugin and the presets used here are made by Michael W. Dean of BipTunia.
The clangy bell sample used throughout that is followed by crickets sometimes is a metal plate Michael uses as a dinner bell to call the stray cats and barn cats he feeds every night. When he recorded the sample, it was dusk, and as the bell sound fades out, you can hear crickets. When the note is allowed to play out without playing another note, you hear crickets.
“She Recoiled Diesel Chore Chiseled Roe” is an instrumental cover / interpolation of “Lactating Purple” by Helios Creed, done with Helios’ permission.
The title is an anagram for “Helios Creed, Helios Creed, Helios Creed.” The instrumentation is drums, bass, guitar, synth, organ, piano, and mellotron. It doesn’t sound like the original, but keeps the twisted and celebratory acid-space-hard rock spirit of mid-80s Helios.