Palokrai I - Comentario Palokrai I - Comentario

Album released 23/12/2010.
1 mil palabras en 14 entradas.

Palokrai I Escucha en: Bandcamp

Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: (Bandcamp about blurb)

This album is the first in a most likely large amount of albums.

At first, I didn't think that I was capable of doing any music. But after so much time spent on Homestuck (hereby termed H/S) and hearing their own highly lucrative music (still unable to buy them despite having the money :[) {1} I thought, for the first time, that music may be something I can do.

And in six months this happened.

Palokrai, like a lot of things I do, will be in two. This is the first. Its serial number, No. 3.{01 ~ 13}.01, indicates its content, songs one to thirteen.

Palokrai II will have 13 songs as well, and should be available next June.

I'll like to thank H/S in general and its constituent musicians for getting me to do this in the first place. I would have never gone this far to do so.

{1} As funny as this looks, this isn't a semi-open interval. It's a square mouth followed by a parenthesis.

Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: (Bandcamp credits blurb)

Inspired by H/S
Made possible by MuseScore and my unending bathroom composing sessions
Creation secured by the Pseudoans and their Invention Double Reacharound.

Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor) 1/10/2025

There's a nice bit of commentary on Palokrai that iso shared when we asked about Maibasojen, as featured on the very first Land of Fans and Music - the track was a total mystery to us before, and to various other avid fanmusic nerds, too. Go give that a read for some extra introduction, written in retrospect, if you'd like!

All MuseScore project files were also shared with the wiki by the artist, on an as-is basis. These are from many years back, made in MuseScore 0.9, and might be a little finnicky opened in more recent versions. We opened all of them in MuseScore 2.1.0 apparently without issue. We've also exported PDFs of the sheet music, also using MuseScore 2. The .mscz files are all the originals. There are lots of alternate and earlier versions of tracks - they're a real delight to explore.

Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor) 16/9/2025

This album is dated on Bandcamp with a custom release date of 12/23/2010. As best we can figure from the internal data which Bandcamp makes available in any JavaScript console (TralbumData.current.publish_date), the album was actually first published twenty days earlier: 12/03/2010.

Tracks across this album have custom release dates, which are visible on the track pages on Bandcamp, and reflected here, too. There are some asterisks: see Istojabeȝo, Cforenso II, Cforenso III. Also, the final track, Vejisto, has a notable publish_date, 12/23/2010 - the same as the album's custom release date. (The track is also custom release dated 12/23/2010, and its written lyrics are expressly set on that particular date.)

All together, this suggests that the album initially had only twelve of its thirteen (main) tracks, and Cforenso II and Cforenso III were at the end of the album, the same as bonus tracks typically are. But the tracks still don't self-describe as "bonus tracks", so we're still describing them as just "hidden tracks" here. It's also possible that the album really was published on 12/23/2010 and Bandcamp's internal wires work some way we're not aware, hypothetically e.g. publish_date always recording the earliest publish date, even though an album was un- and later re-published. (That's speculation. We have no record to tell either way, for this album.)

Akdoyvonren Escucha en: Bandcamp

Track released 6/6/2010.

Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: (Bandcamp about blurb)

The first and foremost piece has two versions; this is the second of them.

UCN/Index: No. 3.01.04.

Istojabeȝo Escucha en: Bandcamp

Track released 4/7/2010.

Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor) 16/9/2025

Most of Palokrai's tracks have custom release dates on Bandcamp, which we represent here, despite the tracks within the albums themselves actually being released all or almost all at once. This track is missing a custom release date! However, its lime label fits the numbering system used across Palokrai: 3.03.02 places it after 3.02.02 (the previous track) and before 3.04.02 (the next track).

Unfortunately, since the custom track dates on Bandcamp are the only source for these track dates (the numbering system does not represent specific dates, and the album was prepared on Bandcamp mostly after its tracks were created), the date used for this track is arbitrary. ~~So... this track has no date at all. Eep!~~

Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor) 18/9/2025

We emailed the artist and received file-modification details for all the tracks from Palokrai I. Since there are multiple files for each track (including MP3, MuseScore, and occasionally alternate versions), there are also multiple dates. The clearest standouts are for Istojabeȝo.mscz (7/4/2025) and for Istojabeȝo-2.mscz (7/7/2025). Both of these place this track between the two adjacent ones, as expected. For the wiki we're using the first.

Zerehanda Escucha en: Bandcamp

Track released 26/8/2010.

Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: (Bandcamp about blurb)

The very first using the pentatonic scale. I guess that should be poignant because I'm Chinese be begin with!

Quensindara Escucha en: Bandcamp

Track released 4/10/2010.

Isoraķatheð Zorethan F.: (Bandcamp about blurb)

This is a three-in-one medley consisting of Quistrodose, Quenzeyodu and Quelesósta.

Cforenso II

Track released 2/12/2010.

Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor) 16/9/2025

Since these two tracks are hidden on Bandcamp and only available as part of the album download, they don't have custom on-site track release dates. However, the artwork for Cforenso indicates multiple parts to Cforenso itself, ~~so we're going out on a limb and reusing the date for that track, here.~~

Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor) 18/9/2025

We emailed the artist and received file-modification details for all the tracks from Palokrai I. The Cforenso tracks together have a handful of dates and files, sorted earliest to latest here:

11/21/2020, 00:04:49 CforensoP1.mp3

11/27/2010, 21:45:37 CforensoP2.mp3

11/30/2010, 17:45:39 Cforenso.mscz

11/30/2010, 19:07:24 Cforenso.mp3

12/02/2010, 23:12:02 Cforenso II.mscz

12/02/2010, 23:12:16 Cforenso III.mscz

12/02/2010, 23:19:21 Cforenso II.mp3

12/02/2010, 23:20:16 Cforenso III.mp3

12/18/2010, 18:33:38 Cforenso No Echo.mp3

It looks like these tracks were in continuous production for a week or two, and were finalized or exported more or less at the same time. That date is the same as Cforenso is custom given on Bandcamp, so this affirms these tracks sharing the same date.