Foxy Digitalis has published the first GODHEADSCOPE interview! We talked about the new CD, the genesis of the project, my long relationship with Dead Raven Choir, and the art of composition. Check it out:
A CITY OUT OF SIGHT is this week’s featured release at the Crucual Blast webstore!! They write, “An amazing first release from this new project that has landed firmly on our top albums list for the year, and highly recommended.” Read the full review here:
A CITY OUT OF SIGHT is now available through fantastic distributor The End Records (USA). Here’s what they have to say about the new CD:
Some of the darkest and haunting, yet most reflective and beautiful ambient you’ll ever hear. Headed by longtime Dead Raven Choir contributor Matt Rosin (here working as M. Kolophonium), Godheadscope sits comfortably alongside artists like Arvo Part, Lycia, Robert Rich and Vidna Obmana.
A CITY OUT OF SIGHT continues to make its way into the world. The new GODHEADSCOPE CD is currently a Featured Title at the always-excellent Dark Symphonies online distro.
Stylus Magazine just published Cosmo Lee’s joint review of GODHEADSCOPE’s “A CITY OUT OF SIGHT” and Caina’s “Mourner.” It’s very good news, and it’s an honor to be paired with Caina, whom I respect tremendously.
Check it out:
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/caina-godheadscope/mourner-a-city-out-of-sight.htm
The review even mentions the new track “MEDUSA IN THE CISTERN” (planned for the split with Stroszek and currently streaming on MySpace), calling it “the best thing Michael Nyman never wrote.”
Today is a good day, friends!
GODHEADSCOPE will follow up its first CD, A CITY OUT OF SIGHT (just released by God is Myth Records), with a split album with Italian dark acoustic project STROSZEK. STROSZEK is led by Claudio Alcara, also of black metallers FROSTMOON ECLIPSE and dark ambient group AERE AETERNUS.
GODHEADSCOPE’s material for the split is finished, save for a few electric guitar contributions by Alcara. GODHEADSCOPE’s contributions include: PATIENCE, SOLIDARITY, MEDUSA IN THE CISTERN and THE SCREAMING MOUND. (PATIENCE and MEDUSA IN THE CISTERN are currently streaming on GODHEADSCOPE’s MySpace page).
More info to follow regarding release/label details.
Embrace, relish and cultivate surprise. Never presume you know at the outset what a work in progress “should” sound like. You will always be wrong — or else the composition will be crap.
Never release crap.
So long as you are loyal to surprise, learn from it, and follow it wherever it leads faithfully and without flinching, quality control takes care of itself.
I recently performed vocal percussion on a new song by truly gifted experimental composer Vincent Bergeron. The song, entitled “Je m’imaginais,” is now released on Vincent’s new CD, Philosophie Fantasmagorique. Check out a few sound samples from the album on Vincent’s Myspace page. Do yourself a favor and delve into his amazing work.
