The new album is nearing completion. It should be out available online within the next month or so. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

I am not sure yet how it will be released. I am thinking of making it available on iTunes and Emusic rather than for free on Jamendo. Only time will tell!!!




The track listing is:

shoreline
the red sea
how do we get there from here
a cycle of days
action stations
lso
cigarettes and paris
ghosts and the distance between us
without strings (june '44)

I have already posted 'shoreline' and 'action stations' to MySpace. These are not the final versions, but...at least you can get an idea of how the album is shaping up.

New album on the way...

I have been hard at work on a new album and it is getting near completion. All of the songs have been written and I am in the fine tuning phase, to make sure each song is perfect and as interesting as possible.

While making this album I was concerned with 'feel'. Whatever length the songs ended up being while recording the bed tracks is essentially how long they will remain. If a song ended up being 7 minutes it will remain that length, but I endevoured to work with the song to make it live and breath and to feel exciting and natural...if that makes any sense. Unlike 'magnetic II', I made a conscious decision to not edit length to challenge myself to be more creative with instrumentation and melody.

So, because of this, the album will feature only 8 tracks and will be about 45 minutes in length.

Here is a listing of the tracks I anticipate being on the final release:

shoreline
the red sea
a cycle of days
action stations
lso
circumstances
ghosts and locusts
without strings (june '44)

I hope to start mixing and mastering soon. I will update here as things begin to happen.

I am back...

Well, I am back from my trip around the world. It is great to be back home. While traveling, I had hoped to come up with enough material to fill several albums. However, that was not the case. There were a lot of ideas, but not much more.

I do have four songs toward the next album though. Of course, it remains to be seen if they make the final cut or not. I think that they will.

So, I guess that is it for now.

Ciao

Some reviews from Jamendo...

Reveiws

For ‘The Desolation Coast’

From francois35420 on Jamendo
“Bon album electro 4/5

“Un très bon album électro ,avec de belles musiques d'ambiences, des sons propres, assez originaux, cales et doux.
très bon travail.”

Translation: A very good electro album, with beautiful music of ambiences, sounds clean, rather original, holds and soft very good work.

For [the magnetic north]

From francois35420 on Jamendo
“Bon album electro 3.5/5

Un bon album électro, avec des musiques douces, calmes, reposantes...
C'est très intéressant à écouter.

Bonne continuation”

Translation: A good electro album, with soft music, calm, resting... It is very interesting to listen. Good continuation

For ‘Magnetic II’

From francois35420 on Jamendo
Super album !!!! 5/5

“Un très bon album, d'un niveau nettement supérieur aux deux premiers qui étaient déjà bons. Les promesses que j'avais placés en vous sont devenues des certitudes : vous avez un potentiel énorme !
Ici encore, c'est un très bon album électronique satiné de pop et de rock, ce qui donne quelque chose de très bon, vraiment très agréable à écouter.
L'instrumentation est bonne, vous avez trouvé le bon dosage entre l'instrumentation électronqiue et l'instrumentation dite classique.
Les mélodies sont vraiment toutes très belles et sont bien rythmées.

Magnétic ; c'est comme du vin, ça se bonifie avec le temps...

Un très bon alubm, vraiment : bravo”

Translation: A very good album, of a level definitely higher than the two first which were already good. The promises which I had placed in you became certainty: you have an enormous potential! Here still, it is a very good electronic coffee-table book glossed of pop and rock'n'roll, which gives something very good, really very pleasant to listen. The instrumentation is good, you found good proportioning between the instrumentation électronqiue and the instrumentation known as traditional. The melodies all are really very beautiful and are well rythmées. Magnétic; it is like wine, that improves with time... A very good album, really: cheer


From loucour on Jamendo
En deux mots 4/5

“tres interessant a ecouter”

Translation: In two words very interesting listen…

There was also a review from david aubrun on Jamendo, which was not as good. My translator is not all that great and didn't translate well...So, I will paraphrase it (at least as far as I can understand)...'He didn't really like it...not his musical taste...there is work to be done...it is somewhat lacking in feeling...but it is a good continuation"

I think that sums it up pretty well.

So...if you listen to any of the albums, PLEASE....send me a reveiw. Let me know what you think !!!!

Magnetic II has finally been released

Magnetic II is officially out today!

It will be available on Jamendo for free download very soon. However, if you need it sooner, please contact me!

Both albums are up on Jamendo now!!!

The Desolation Coast and [the magnetic north] are up on Jamendo and ready for download!

Please download it and review it!

Download [the magnetic north]

Download 'The Desolation Coast'

The Desolation Coast posted to Jamendo!

The Desolation Coast, my first release as Magnetic, has been uploaded to Jamendo. It should be available for download soon!

[the magnetic north] up on Jamendo soon!

[the magnetic north] has been uploaded to Jamendo. It should be available soon!

What's up with Magnetic...

Well, we have a lot on the go. Firstly, I am going to publish our first two albums to a really cool new site called JAMENDO. You can go here to get a lot of really cool new music and stuff. All the music is free and falls under the creative commons license for distribution. So, that means, you can download the tunes, burn 'em to a disc, and give em to all your friends!!! Music shouldn't be about commerce, thats how I feel. Once I have my profile completed, I will pass on the link.

I plan to begin remastering the first album and putting together new artwork for both. The first one up on the site should be 'The Desolation Coast', which is a 9 song release. It features the tracks:

enter
the desolation coast
the angle between us (pt. one)
neurotica
stillness (for ew)
the angle between us (pt. two)
impulse response
from the magnetic shore
exit

This album was recorded between December 2003 and August 2004. It is also far more ambient than the second album.

Also being posted is [the magnetic north] album. This is the second cd that I have officially released. It contains the following tracks:

your only truth
revision
moving claims
holes
on this astral plain
retrace
approximately sometimes
piano #3
paper dolls
hearts

This album began its life sounding even more ambient than the last, but slowly my rawk sensibilities kicked in and took hold of the songs and turned them in to more straight forward tracks.

Also, I still am working on the new album, 'magnetic II' which should be completed and available soon. It has been a long process, almost a year, but I have learned a lot and I think my sound has been defined somewhat.

This album is certainly waaaaaaay more rock than the others (i guess it is in the 'post rock' genre, perhaps?) and there is more 'structure' to the tracks. Part of the reason it has taken so long is that once I had decided on the tracklisting (16 of around 25 songs recorded) and begun mixing, I was unsatisfied with some of the sounds. So, I redid almost all the drums, some bass, and add some more stuff to fill them out. Anyway, it is now almost done...final mixing stage...then mastering...then up. 'magnetic II' will see a release by early September.

Here is the tracklisting (order subject to change):

31 pt. monitor
isolation
unsound
whitehorse
discrete
opportunities
the economist
moving claims (alternate version)
radiotelephone
golden
hearts (alternate version)
discrete II
may '73
recession proof
our revolution

So, that is it for now

Welcome

Welcome to the first post on the 'magnetic' blog! For those of you who don't know, 'magnetic' is my musical project...stay tuned for more!