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So I received a spam comment today for “lawyer Phoenix”.

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Yeah, you all know what I’m thinking.

A piece of music that I’ve impressed myself with coming up, folks. It won’t be on the album for a couple of reasons (One being it’s almost ten minutes long), so as soon as I get the extra guitar part from The Rumored End it’ll be on the blog.

Exciting!

So. Farewell then, Pandora. Due to new internet radio licensing restrictions, the best recommendation station out there has had to end its service to anyone outside the US, even Canadians. This equates to a kind of ridiculous greediness on the part of the licensers, who have made it difficult for Pandora since the day it was opened. For the same reason you will note the BKWR page missing from my site now. I can’t afford licenses like that. Most people can’t.

I just thought I’d let you guys know a couple of things that I use to make my music, and the places that I get them from.

(Spiritual Awakening, FAWM 2007)

All of the orchestral sounds on this are part of the Squidfont Orchestral soundfont, available here. Also available on that site are some soundfonts from the nigh-legendary Nando Florestan.

Catherine, TBA 2007

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On this track I use the free Mellotron VST called TapeWorm from the frankly wonderful TweakBench. He has a wide range of VST instruments and effects all for free, and a kicking Nintendo naming scheme for some of them.

While this may not seem like a very exhaustive list, these are two very powerful tools and two very useful websites with far more to offer than I’m sure I use them for. Check them out!

Ahoy there. Just to let you know how things are coming along with the new album, there are three songs complete, two written but not completely recorded, and one in the works with Mr Tim Wille - and only ONE of those is an instrumental. Featured on one of the finished tracks and one of the mostly-finished tracks is The Rumored End (MySpace link) (FAWM link). I’m also hoping to get Isaac Quatorze on at least one track - I contributed to one of his FAWM tracks this year. Another collaborator I’m hoping to work with is a very busy man indeed, so I won’t link him just yet in case it doesn’t come to fruition.

The moral, kids? Do FAWM next year. You’ll drop into the most useful and talented music community you could possibly hope to.

Here, have a teaser.

Man, have I ever managed a coup in the artists I’ve got collaborating with me. This new album’s going to be something special, guys.