Album released 1/9/2024.
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Foresight & Retrospect Escucha en: Bandcamp, YouTube, YouTube (lista de reproducción), Spotify y Apple Music

Nights: (Bandcamp about blurb / YouTube description, excerpt)

Oceanfables: Foresight & Retrospect is a solo album by Wights End, featuring 11 original tracks based on the characters and story of the webcomic Oceanfalls. The gorgeous cover illustration is also made by Wights End.

Get the musician's (Wights End) commentary on the production of this album & its tracks here.

Nights: (Bandcamp credits blurb)

Album, music and artwork by Wights End

Foresight Escucha en: Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify y Apple Music

Wights End: (booklet commentary)

When I came up with the idea for the album title (Foresight representing Kotori and Retrospect representing Nino) I figured that doing bookend tracks could be fun, especially as different explorations on the same motif, so I tried to make the song writing reflect that same sort of duality. When writing this track I really wanted to make it ambiguous as to whether the song is in major or minor.

Wights End: (YouTube premiere live chat)

NyarVAthotep: bringing it in with the wind.sfx

WightsEnd: wind preset in Synth1

L00M1NG Escucha en: Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify y Apple Music

Wights End: (booklet commentary)

This track is a dark synth remix of Metal and Meat off of Oceanfalls Volume Five. Since the original song was very light on actual melodic content, it gave me a lot of flexibility in how I built out the rest of the song; so much so that the similarities could easily be overlooked. Stylistically, I was really inspired by Carpenter Brut, and the retro, cyberpunk aesthetic that goes hand in hand with that sort of music style prompted me to reflect that in the album art as well.

Wights End, Nights y keyboard cait: (YouTube premiere live chat)

Wights End: carpender brut my beloved

nights: When I heard this while reviewing I thought "this album will definitely become my favorite"

cait: most badass ever music to be making my pancakes to rn

Beelzebubb: makes me want to draw 80s art 10/10

Wights End: yo
yeah, this song is what inspired the art aesthetic for the most part

nights: Your artstyle really fits the way your music sounds which is something I never knew could happen before

Wights End: lol
I referenced a lot of 90s anime for the art, and 80s imagery for the text

nights: It gave me action comic book vibes in the best way possible

An Unforetold Return Escucha en: Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify y Apple Music

Wights End: (booklet commentary)

This track I wrote way back in 2019 and never got around to publishing. The song is pretty shamelessly inspired by some of Joren "Tensei" De Bruin's work (but with the twist of being synth centric) which is why I've been so hesitant to release it, but at the end of the day, it wasn't doing any good burning a hole in my harddrive. I now associate this song with the Unforeseen, but coincidentally the title kind of reflects the track itself in a way.

Wights End y Nights: (YouTUbe premiere live chat)

Wights End: this one I wrote back in 2018 I think and never ended up doing anything with it

Wights End: uhh, the album has been in the works proper for a little over a year? some of these tracks started well before then

nights: I was thinking all along "what if this is theorizer music"
But Ive never ever seen wight make a theory ever

Wights End: maybe... whos to say? (me. I am to say)

Fealty Escucha en: Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify y Apple Music

Wights End: (booklet commentary)

This song was born from me smashing the motifs from Right Hand and Rainfalls together like barbie dolls and saying “now kiss.” Much to my surprise it worked way better than I expected, so I expanded it into a whole song.

Wights End y Nights: (YouTube premiere live chat)

nights: This jumpscared me
Because I was like why is it familiar

Wights End: Rainfalls over the rhythm part to Right Hand
but swung

nights: Hoooow the heck

monoGod: wait os this the same leitmotif in rainfall or am i confusing that with a different song

NyarVAthotep: ya this is rainfalls

Wights End: yep, that's rainfalls motif

nights: Wight made this to specifically do something to my mind

Wights End: lol

NyarVAthotep: *me walking outside* yeah. thats rainfalls.

Wights End: *me when rainer trips* yeah, that's rainfalls

Black Cat Escucha en: Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify y Apple Music

Wights End: (booklet commentary)

Selene already has a bunch of music, so I was thinking of ways to put a unique spin on the idea. The answer was jazz. The answer is ALWAYS jazz. Anyway, everything in the song was built off of the main bass riff that manages to hit every single note on its way down. Trying to build chords around that was a challenge, and melodies around those chords even more so. I eventually landed on something I liked, but it took a lot of trial and error.

Wights End, Nights y keyboard cait: (YouTube premiere live chat)

Wights End: anyways, not time for jazz
*now

nights: The opposite of taxes

NyarVAthotep: sensual sax
noted

Wights End: yeah, the only good sax VST I had. it's surprisingly hard to find half decent saxophone VSTs.

nights: Speaking of leitmotifs any time I suspect there is one , I usually think I'm just delusional
About oceanfalls music I mean

Wights End: there's some motifs to selene songs in here, but they're pretty loose

nights: Glad jazz is just loosely related to her and Lune lmao

NyarVAthotep: guy whos only heard homestuck music: this is just like drawing dead

cait: i come from the future. this is the famous "black cat" motif

nights: This is because lune is secretly a black cat

Wights End y Nights: (YouTube premiere live chat during Rondo of the Crimson Prince)

Freddy Vera: This album can be used in a fighting game, like skullgirls maybe

Wights End: Black Cat was really inspired by Skull Girls music actually

nights: That's hwy we need to maike the oceanfalls fighting game...

Pushing Papers Escucha en: Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify y Apple Music

Wights End: (booklet commentary)

Inspired by the mental image of Solis doing his taxes, I really wanted to capture the droll vibe of his former position as a paralegal as well as the less exciting moments of his current vocation. This was one of the easiest times I’ve had writing a song in an odd time signature with the track being in 7/4 (which conveniently lent itself to the inclusion of a topical reference to Money by Pink Floyd.)

Wights End, Nights y keyboard cait: (YouTube premiere live chat)

Wights End: now time for taxes

nights: TAXES

NyarVAthotep: soliscore

Wights End: Taxes being the WIP title for this track

nights: I love the fricking contrast between the last and this lol

inversintro: This isn’t ska

Wights End: nope
the last song had trumpets though
as close as we're gonna get

cait: you can tell solis is a serious man by the way he presses down these piano keys

nights: I want a point and click adventure about Solis' miserably life with this in the background

cait: he is not playing around

Boyo: Wight, been pushing too man pencils? 💪

Wights End: check the time signature brother

NyarVAthotep: MONEY?

Wights End: Pink Floyd reference on the samples lol

Intermission Escucha en: Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify y Apple Music

Wights End: (booklet commentary)

Written after the following track on the album, I thought it would be fun to adapt a part of it into a somber, solo piano piece.

Aeris Manus Escucha en: Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify y Apple Music

Wights End: (booklet commentary)

I wrote the main bass riff of this song to play on my actual bass guitar with the intention of playing all the parts of the song on real instruments. After fighting with it for a bit, I opted to swap all the instruments to Megaman X samples which gave me a lot more flexibility with the writing process and also it felt thematically relevant for a Reed track.

Wights End y Nights: (YouTube premiere live chat)

nights: I'm really curious if you had specific things or scenes from the comic as inspiration for making some of these

Wights End: When writing music I sometimes do, but I don't think I did with anything on this album. I mean, aside from Solis doing taxes I guess lol.

Like, I had ideas of how the tracks could be used I suppose, but nothing super specific

nights: That checks out. You doing your own thing works very well

Wights End: That said, I am often thinking about characters when I do tracks. This one is very much a reed track which inspired the bass groove and megaman samples

nights: I WAS thinking Reed this whole time
He's just monpolized that sort of thing lol?

Face the Fictitious Escucha en: Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify y Apple Music

Wights End: (booklet commentary)

I love my slow–buildup song intros, but I figured it's good to change things up once in a while so I opted to start off this track as punchy as I could manage. The synth solo in the back half was heavily inspired by the solos in songs like Tornado of Souls, Cowboys From Hell and Aqualung as they all have great dynamic shifts. In terms of subject matter, this piece was designed to score a fight against spirits.

Wights End, Nights y keyboard cait: (YouTube premiere live chat)

nights: Also. Incoming peak

Wights End: THIS track is written for a specific moment in the comic though actually

Rockies Canada: When the boss's second health bar appears

nights: When the boss is You

Wights End: chord progression robbed from a silent hill 2 song iirc

NyarVAthotep: oh. yeah. this is just promise (reprise)
but hard synth

cait: silent hill 2 remains goated

nights: So torn between this as my favorite of the album or one other track

Rockies Canada: Actually this is Crypt of the Necrodancer music

Wights End: lmao

Wights End: The synth solo here was heavily inspired by the solos in songs like Tornado of Souls, Cowboys From Hell and Aqualung as they all have great dynamic shifts.

which are so stylistically far removed from what this actually is lol

Rondo of the Crimson Prince Escucha en: Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify y Apple Music

Wights End: (booklet commentary)

Why does most symphonic metal sound so happy? I want my orchestra to sound evil! This track was originally titled “In the Court of the Crimson Prince” as a reference to King Crimson, but after building the song around a rondo structure, I felt like missing out on such a Castlevania-esque name would be a missed opportunity. I didn’t mean for the song to get so long, It just sort of happened.

Wights End, Nights y keyboard cait: (YouTube premiere live chat)

Wights End: alright gamers
buckle up since this one is long

nights: ACTUAL boss fight music. Maybe.

cait: im sure its a really nice song since the crimson prince is a really nice guy

nights: I love suvillan music so much

Wights End: original the title was In The Court of the Crimson Prince since I wanted to reference King Crimson, but since the track IS infact a rondo, I decided to use the castlevania ass title

Wights End: I really love big, grandiose orchestral stuff that's really dark.

Nevermind3476: what even is a rondo anyay

Wights End: a musical form that is ABCBDB
basically, you keep returning to a common theme or section with new sections in between

nights: (3:06) Wait what am I hearing
Was there a leitmotif of something in there
My brain is just like "I recognize this" but I don't know what or why?

Wights End: This is Sovereign Domain
the motif I mean

nights: Ohh
I vow to use as many songs in the comic as I can

Wights End: 🙏

Wights End: (6:13) this part has a very similar chord progression to rainfalls actually, though it's a lot less obvious in that song

nights: Cool music to lose to

Retrospect Escucha en: Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify y Apple Music

Wights End: (booklet commentary)

The bookend was originally meant to be an expansion on the original piano piece with a bunch of additional acoustic instruments, but due to the major/minor ambiguity I was going for, I found it really difficult to effectively build on the track. Instead I opted for a simpler approach that reflects the visual presentation of the album and brings us back to where we started.

Wights End y Nights: (YouTube premiere live chat)

Wights End: and now back to the motif from the start of the album
outro track

NyarVAthotep: nice results screen theme

Wights End: yeah lol

nights: Awesome
Thank you for the cool jams wight

Wights End: Glad you enjoyed them!

NyarVAthotep: this might be my fav ocf album so far

Wights End: :suviBlush: