Salut Aurélien! This is an overwhelming album. It's not exactly my stle of music throughout. It's too weird, too avantgard for me. But there are a few pieces I like very much, Your Soul - already known partly, due to your live video posted I don't remember when, and Sabra Y Shatila. Yeah, I'm a sucker for the sax. :-)

While listening to it, I thought something like: John Petrucci's

evil brother

on some very illegal substance, consulting Stockhausen on producing a concept album. They invite the insane free-jazz sax player and let it all out.

It sounds like a colossal effort, esepcially seeing, that you can perform all of this live. I liked it especially, when there was some melody in a more conventional sense or when the screaming/growling metal influences pushed through. The production is interesting and very characteristic. To begin with I wasn't a fan on the drum production, but now I start to get it. It's certainly so distinct, that I can pick it out from a mile away. :-)

And it really does work. Partly the same ghoes for the electric guitars. It doesn't sound like the obvious solution and at first, I had the impression, tat it sounded muddy. But having listened to a few pieces now, it starts to grow on me.

One question, of personal interest: how did you create the synth bass sound for Your Soul? The pumping, bubbling sound in the beginning. I was very attracted to it, already, when I heard it in the video.

Thank you for sharing this album freely as well as releasing it commercially. And then at such high quality. OK, it took me almost 7 hours to download, but now I can enjoy it to the fullest extent. :-)

Hi Aurélien! Thanks for the exhaustive answer. I'll take a look at the ams-patch file and see, if I can translate that into a patch for one of my hardware synths with the same result or a csound orc.

Warmly yours Julien ---------------------------------------- http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html

Hi Aurelien! Great to see your new album get its digital liberation! I gave it a once over on the weekend and I thought Phial Shapes was the best track but I agree with Julien in rating Sabra y Shatila as another highlight. Sorry I can't comment more right now - I need to give it another listen at least.

Secret Chiefs 3 and ApaTt are / have just been doing a euro tour but mainly France - I was very tempted to cross the channel to see them again as its been a year now since I last had the pleasure. Did SC go watch SC3?

Last month I went to watch Knifeworld, one of the current bands of latter-day Cardiacs guitarist Kavus Torabi (you like Cardiacs right?).

I got talking to him, he's a really nice guy and he introduced me to a fantastic modern English prog band who are signed to his label called thumpermonkey - check 'em out! I'm sure Q and Julien would be impressed too - in fact anyone into virtuoso electric guitar should give 'em a listen.

I wholeheartedly share your opinion on Dreamtheatre - pretty appropriate name as that stuff just sends me to sleep!

I'm recording an album with my new band currently which we expect to finish in the next month or two but its not prog.They've not yet had their Linux audio initiation yet although I have warned them its inevitable and they seem to be up for it :) Everything so far has been recorded on a Korg 16 track.

Dan On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Aurelien <tyranorl(a)free.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > A long time I didn't write here, and as a result, too much things to > tell... Let's keep (as) short (as possible) an simple. All that's is > spoken about below is Free Art and has been released using free > softwares (and often free hardwares) only. > > 1. New Album Ne[XXX]t Epilog v1.1 available for download and streaming > > 2. New Video clip Nigla[h] I > > 3. New tour > > 4. Anything New > > > > 1. *New Album* Ne[XXX]t Epilog v1.1 available for download and streaming > I don't know if I had time to speak about it already on this list, > pretty sure I posted a first sample a few monthes ago. > So, the Ne[XXX]t Epilog CD has been released by Muséa Records on 22nd of > September 2012. > And the "digital liberation" just happened that very 25th of November > 2012, the album is now available for free download and streaming on the > band website[1] or on bandcamp[2]. > > [1] http://www.sebkhachott.net/spip?The-Ne-XXX-t-Epilog > [2] > http://sebkhachott.bandcamp.com/album/ne-xxx-t-epilog-v11-the-digital-liber… > > As I might have told you already, when creating this album, we wanted to > think about the concept of "what is a net-album", and going a bit > further than just havin several tracks one after each other. That's why > we finally produced that album as an "evolving album", an album which > shapes change in time, with addition by ourselves as well as additions > by other (sources are also available, see below). The idea comes both > from Frank Zappa and the way he re-used his material several times, in > different contexts, and from Antoine Moreau (one of Free Art License > co-writers) who thinks the art as a stream, and the art pieces as > snapshots of it. > > So, the digital version, freshly released is nothing but the v1.1 of the > Ne[XXX]t Epilog, the v1.0 being the physical edition (that we won't > publish digitally, but it's free art, so...). > > It already is 10 minutes longer (90 minutes) than the previous version, > and in that way digital distribution is fun, as we don't have duration > limitation!! > > Sources for this album should be found on Spider Jessica's website[3], but > we have some problems with it, and it's actually not in a working state, > so if you want to be a bêta-tester, just ask. Sources are ardour files, > versionned using git and git-annex with the ardour-git[4] tool I told you > once. > > [3] http://spiderjessica.org > [4] https://github.com/AMMD/ardour-git > > One last word to credit the softwares that were used on this album: > Jack, ALSA, FFADO, Ardour2, Non-mixer, seq24, Alsa Modular Synth, > Tapeutape, Mididings, PureData, Ghislame, LADSPA/LV2 plugins (many, > can't list them, but including Tape Delay Simulation as a must have!!), > Ladish and associated tools. Debian GNU/Linux was the main OS, > alongside with TangoStudio for several things. > > > 2. *New Video Clip* Nigla[h] I > When releasing the album on 22nd of September 2012, we also released a > new video clip, based on the tune Nigla[h] I from the Ne[XXX]t Epilog. > You might look or get this clip from the band's website[5], or from > youtube[6]. > > [5] http://sebkhachott.net/spip/?Nigla-h-I-OFFICIAL-Wideo-Clip > [6] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cD2A6t-n4k > > (16 minutes in 720p, don't know where you live, but it might last a bit > to dl it!) > > This clip has been realised using: kdenlive, lives, frei0r plugins. > Debian GNU/Linux was used as OS. > > > 3. *New Tour* > We'll be on tour with our Totalizm show (the one including 5 Debian > stations to operate all sounds/monitors/processing and lights/VJ-ing + > synchronization) from April to June in Europe. Don't hesitate to contact > orl(a)ammd.net if you want to get us playing by you, or if you have places > to advice to us! > > > 4. Sure our website[7] is a bit weird (actually, our music is wuite > weird too, hu), but it's now fully translated in English, so don't > hesitate to visit, and discover many many files (audio, video, photos), > all free art, and so on... > > [7] http://www.sebkhachott.net > > And if you want to get informed a bit more regrlaruly, and in a bit more > funny way, just ask me to add you to Sebkha-Chott's newsletter. > > > Well, here it is!! > > Aurélien a.k.a Wladimir Ohrelianov II > > -- > Aurélien > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user >