Howdy Haunts,
It’s been quite a week maneuvering the wallows of over-exertion, mental anguish and general inner rough-and-tumbles. YET I PERSIST. I feel mostly refreshed and ready to get back into the fray. But first some updates.
THE DIVERGENT MAGICK GRIMOIRE UPDATES:
I do want to give a major thanks to SorcerersHomie and Jenny Rocky for their invaluable help with the quiet launch of the Divergent Magick Grimoire. Sorcerershomie was able to discover that Amazon goofed up the print margins with the paperback so I’m waiting for my quick changes to be reviewed and then I’ll most likely unpublish the paperback for now. The real intention was the affordable hardback – the paperback and other avenues will be explored after the hardback is in people’s hands!
I am still planning on an introductory video by the end of this month, as well as a podcast to help fortify this Grimoire’s launch. I think it was good I silently published and great folks were kind enough to let me know how theirs turned out! In summation: HARDBACK GOOD, PAPERBACK MAY NOT BE GREAT, SCREW PAPERBACK, GO HARDBACK
Also, my artist copies were pushed back another month after ordering them on Dec. 8th! So I apologize to everyone I said would get one by the end of this month. Now it looks like March!
“FEEL MY HORRORS” Automatic Songwriting
I found solace in a few things, however– working on the new Revel Rosz album has been the perfect excuse to get that Aspectre hot and wild late into these solemn nights. I spent a lot of my free time experimenting and tracking drums–mainly the ability to write from a rhythmic standpoint and have everything set up to “plug and play” as I call it. I even mic’d my drumming through a live delay and spit back out of an amp so I could manipulate the echo & resonance of my drumming while I danced with it in real time!
Above is a very quick plug and play “automatic songwriting” audiomancy exercise that is just that. Everything is played live, even the vocal loop, albeit there is just my phantom playing baritone guitar, drumming and manipulating fx or speaking in tongues live. Unfortunately, I cannot do all three at the same time at this capacity no matter how hard I t(c)ry.
In any case, I am really wanting to take the influences of my many Hauntomancy improv workings and tether it to fully orchestrated, performed and recorded facets. So there has been a ton of background work to get these drum mics honed in, get a good room and amp sound, and it’s still not close to being finished.
I thought I’d share this “Feel My Horrors” track first as it came literally OUT OF NOWHERE aside from me recording my drumming/vocal looping live. So this may never be heard outside of Patreon, or will become vastly different after some re-tracking and re-recording of parts and harmonies recorded on the spot!
I’ll post a couple more tracks from these recent sessions. A relative look under the hood at all the background work that it takes to even get to a point where I can strap on a guitar, or skin a drum, or belt my uvula for, what should ostensibly be, a song’s complete alchemy!
WILL POST MORE TEST TRACKS and UPDATES!
HAUNT ON!
RKR
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