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Land of Quartz and Melody Land of Quartz and Melody

Land of Quartz and Melody Land of Quartz and Melody

Artwork by catastrophicGenesis Dance of the Wayward Vagabond Previous cover art by this artist Jack and Black Queen Next cover art by this artist

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Released 7/30/2011.
Duration: 4:04.

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Thomas Ferkol: (booklet commentary)

This piece was inspired by the land with the same name, mainly because I thought the scenery was interesting and would fit my style of composition. Generally in music, crystalline landscapes are given reverb laden atmospheres with bells and other instruments with a resonant sound. In this piece, I used the instrumentation of handbells, a piano, some synth string and choir background, and drum kit, the two prominent instrmuments being the piano and bells. The bells worked to set the atmosphere while piano handled melody. Then everything got doused in reverb. So much reverb. Maybe the reverb has reverb. But voila. This is one of my favorites from before I was on the music team.

catastrophicGenesis: (booklet commentary)

So many layers, so much transparency, but I think it worked out quite well. I have to admit though, it's been a while since I saw a real music box comb and cylinder, so that was less successful. Sorry for that.

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