Something I’ve forgotten: To post the Persephone: A Rock Ballet soundtrack link on this site.
A petty note about this album: I bit off more than I could chew with the whole Rock Ballet project, as many can attest. One thing that didn’t receive as much time and attention as I’d have liked is the general mixing and mastering of this album. Well, it didn’t receive ANY real mastering, as the time required to get it through a mastering house wasn’t available in my Supremely Organized Calendar Of Events.
That being said, the mix definitely has a “character” to it. In other words, it’s less universal than a professional mix. A professional mix will translate well to any sound system. Some of mine do achieve that coveted status despite being more or less amateur, some do not as much. Many things factor into this, but regardless, the reality is that Persephone definitely sounds best through certain speakers. A good choice in this case is the inexpensive and trusty Sony MDR-V150 headphones. I will not recommend specific non-headphone speakers as the room you’re in affects things a lot as well and, well, let’s not get into audiophile shit right now.
Shall we talk about poop instead? No? Ok… that’s ok…
Despite the fact that, in my perfect mind-world, all the music I’ve made would be released chronologically in the order in which it was written, and despite that, because it’s not, the listener’s ability to track my “journey as an artist” is impaired, I am still pretty damn proud of this collection of songs. I mean why wouldn’t I be? They’re some of the best ones I’ve written to date, thanks to the whole artist journey thing mentioned above.
There’s been an eight-year gap since my last official “studio” (I use the term loosely) album as solo-artist-davidjmurphy, or David J Murphy or whatever the fuck my name is. Eight years! You don’t see it anywhere but in that time I’ve written A LOTTA MUSIC. At least a few albums’ worth of completed songs, in fact, plus a bunch of odds and ends. Most of the time I would record a prototype/working version of a song and post it on MySpace before MySpace went the way of a condemned, haunted, inner city asylum. These albums of songs of which I speak WILL be recorded and released, rest assured (I know you were really fucking worried about that).
None of the songs I wrote in that eight year gap appear on the Persephone soundtrack. All of those are fresh and new (well with the exception of the beat in The Dance of the Lost Souls whose riff was one of those ‘odds and ends’ until this show came along, aaaaand the instrumental Alone which not-so-secretly steals a theme from {guess which other soundtrack}). Anyway you’ll get the older stinkier davidjmurphy stuff soon, all spit-shined and buffed to a brand-new, still-stinky, little-too-personal, indie-produced sheen!
In the meantime, back to work on the Vindication of Ronald Clay soundtrack!
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