I really like bands that create out-of-the-box track! I really like bands that create from a spot of honesty! I really like HAAL’s new EP Again to Shilmarine as it appears like not anything else out. I really like what this band is doing as a result of their track places a grin on my face whilst making my brainwaves dance on the similar time. The band blessed us with a track-by-track breakdown of Again to Shilmarine.
Vinculum
The lyrics are a tale written through our longtime good friend and artist Nathan Richards. The track began off as a jam that we then sought after any individual to relate, with the track coming first. Nathan gave the impression the primary port of name, for the reason that we are living in combination, and he’s a author, in addition to an illustrator (Scrungo Integrated).
As he doesn’t play any tools however is more than likely extra of a track fan than me, I sought after to peer if he’d be prepared to lend a tale of his to our songs, which then saved in the neighborhood led side of constructing this EP and it being a community-based challenge.
He in reality had already written the tale when he lent it to me, however the thematics in particular resonated with the topics of my different lyrics (transhumanism in particular), so it gave the impression an excellent are compatible.
Ethan, our synth participant, plays the narration of the lyrics, as I couldn’t when jamming it. On the other hand, this ended up being a cheerful coincidence and fits the track a lot more I feel, given his ridiculously deep voice.
When recording, our manufacturer Alfie Tyson-Brown (Katy J Pearson, Scaler, Lice) got here up with the speculation to re-sample Ethan’s narration. He recorded it in one-two takes, then reduce up positive strains and re-recorded them into the tune – this made Ethan sound in particular liminal and unreal, nearly like a robotic.
Given the tale issues a medieval boy discovering a ‘mathematic advent’ that then turns him into one thing different while converting the remainder of the sector immeasurably, this manufacturing method are compatible the topics of transhumanism completely.
The longer the track is going on, the extra twisted and corrupted and robot Ethan’s voice sounds, mirroring the topic within the tale. May Ethan be the boy from the tale telling his personal tale and so on?!
The track may be very a lot our maximum jam like and really a lot our maximum ‘stripped again’ to an extent, in spite of the glitch results on my guitar and vocals.
Nathan’s phrases:
Taking a look again, I feel Vinculum got here from a spot that I’d meandered in for a long time. A sense of being lesser than many of the human race, a deep wish to be indistinguishable from somebody else, in addition to an apprehension of what that will do to me. However on the finish, the entirety dies. That’s what helps to keep the boy, the outdated guy, the rats, and the kings the similar.
HAAL have finished a stellar activity bringing my phrases to existence via their track, and Ethan has been an unbelievable narrator.
A Squared
An instrumental tune relationship again to the very starting of our band. This one utilised a radio that our bass participant Joe Collins created himself.
He in reality makes all of mine and his pedals, bar a couple of, as he’s a real engineering genius. This track could be very a lot devoted to him, as the entire track is administered via pedals he created.
The sparse and obscure vocalisation you listen are from an Fm radio he created with a sapphire crystal (?!) and a frequency we tapped into unintentionally when recording. We knew we needed vocal samples, however couldn’t decide on what in particular, so we let destiny actually make a decision and used the primary one with talking that he finishing up tuning into.
The outro then turned into a great means of experimental manufacturing with Alfie Tyson Brown, striking positive synthesisers via Joe’s different pedals, to create sounds which can be totally distinct from their supply tools.
Platform 1, 18:19
Some of the private tune at the EP, with the lyrics written at a desperately risky time. I wrote down numerous invading ideas while looking ahead to a educate, consciously hoping to verbally bottle the ones emotions you’ll enjoy while you’re at your lowest. Its aim was once to not be in a track, however to really function a meditation for a long run self to replicate on once they weren’t in that low place.
It then materialised right into a poem of types, which I perhaps attempted to make use of as a cathartic unencumber of the ones emotions, but it surely ended up simply collecting mud in my notes app.
Once I then wrote the track, my guitar was once in an strange tuning of shedding the low e string to a low A and the lyrics discovered a house on this darkish tuning.
It nearly shouldn’t have labored cos it’s so low and will simply pass out of song, however the principle riff I discovered was once too thrilling to not use.
It additionally accommodates samples which can be totally abstracted from their supply – for example, the drone that starts the track is taken from a video of me and my buddies beating Bop It and going psychological after finishing it!
I at all times love discovering sounds locked away in totally and apparently juxtaposing puts – an excessively foolish and a laugh video from my youth gave start to the very eerie bedrock that guides all the track. I additionally sought after to head as heavy as lets on the finish, as I at all times felt we performed it a little bit protected in our recorded track, so this displays us dressed in our influences on our sleeve.
To Be A System
This was once the latest track at the EP, and we simplest made up our minds to do it at the day of the recording, but it’s more than likely my favorite track of ours. I believe it very best represents the band and all our influences, while no longer being too by-product of the ones.
It began off with the bass line and I then constructed the remainder of the track throughout that, short of to utilise the entirety that excites me about track. I sought after a heavy phase, I sought after a melodic phase, I sought after sampling, I sought after synthesisers, I sought after screaming, I sought after making a song, I sought after lyrics that excited me, I sought after everybody’s portions to polish in their very own proper, but in addition serve the track and I feel we discovered that with this.
I believe its darkish and brooding nature that repeatedly progresses in point of fact encapsulates with what we got down to do and what I mentioned originally; and that was once to create track that sits in itself as a track, but additionally utilises setting.
In particular, I believe the tip phase is my fave factor we’ve ever finished. It additionally has visitor vocals from Esther Pollock of the Bristol founded band Foot Foot, who’s an unbelievable singer and has a in particular alluring voice. I sought after any individual who may be offering one thing other (and higher!) to my voice to return in and harmonise with, particularly for the reason that she’s a lady too and will achieve positive notes and sounds that will pass so neatly as a cohesion. She’s additionally a just right good friend too, so it’s nice to have collaboration once more from the Bristol network, however this time at the track itself.
The lyrics worry my position within the universe and what it method to be human, through utilising phrases and quotes of others. Whether or not that’s authors, philosophers, television display characters, video games or my very own phrases however as a substitute to create one thing new as an entire – everyone is moulded through their stories and this track is an immediate mirrored image of that.
Even the name is taken from a ebook I really like (The Town & The Stars through Arthur C. Clarke) however am nearly cosmically petrified of, on account of what it represents and what that supposed to me, although it won’t were supposed to have that that means. Regardless that the ebook issues exact transhumanism and importing of awareness, I take advantage of the name to replicate how i’m made up of folks’s portions to create an entire.
It additionally makes use of the name of the EP as the primary line of lyrics, some other homage to ‘The Town and The Stars’ that I stopped up remembering incorrectly – relatively than alternate it to replicate the truth of what was once written within the ebook, I selected to stay my misremembering as a nod to the topics of the lyrics. Sounds wanky however true lol!
Clean Sleep
This track is more than likely our darkest and my favorite to play reside. For this one I sought after to in point of fact utilise setting, with out it simply being lowered to an ambient soundscape.
It’s downtempo and repetitive in a virtually mantra sort manner, particularly with the drums and the bassline, in particular with the bass enjoying precisely the similar factor till the damage with the rain pattern.
The lyrics sadly worry my existentialist excited about demise and the universe and my processing of my position in it. They have been written this time for the track in particular and what I used to be meditating on on the time, while the track was once fully written in a solitary manner relatively than with the band, with simplest myself at my laptop with a guitar. It was once necessarily written first, then we had to determine the way to play it after.
I’m in particular interested in the outro and its metering, as despite the fact that it may be a little bit bizarre to listen to to in your first pass, I nonetheless suppose it’s simple sufficient for a listener experience. I’ve referred to it as ‘tasteful fuckery’ prior to, the place there’s a tricky phase that demanding situations us as musicians on having the ability to be told and play, however isn’t essentially arduous to hear, whether or not you’re a musician your self or only a punter and nor does it remove from the track as an entire. There’s quite a few track the place it’s necessarily other people being unbelievable musicians and borderline simply showcasing that ability, however then no longer serving the track, which is what I didn’t wish to do with this. I sought after a track first after which sought after to paintings in some fuckery after.
Once I introduced the drum phase to our drummer Joe, it in reality broke him for a little bit, which I’ve at all times been secretly pleased with as he’s an unbelievable drummer and blows my thoughts along with his chops.
I additionally love the death embers of the arpeggiated synth sounding just like the calling out of a person proper on the very finish of the track, it closes off the EP as an entire relatively neatly.
