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Machine World
1. Welcome to the Machine
2. Be More Than Just a Number
3. Two Souls, One Mind
4. Tale of the Cave
5. Temple of Rust
6. Rule the World
7. Wonder
8. Invisible
9. When the Machine Stops
This is a slight change to the tracklist I published earlier (it's never final until they're actually out) - for obvious reasons, I really wanted "Wonder" to be the seventh song on Machine World, but I eventually decided to swap it with this one so that a sadder song was bordered by two more positive ones (and also to avoid putting two ten-minuters together).
In communities like this one that are so based on visual arts and interaction between fictional characters, not being able to draw and not having a form of your own can feel like being invisible. As an invented character, you can interact with others and become in some way part of a world that can never be real, by being (in more ways than one) drawn into each other's worlds, but your real form is always going to be trapped on the outside looking in.
Moving away a bit from the happier sound throughout the recent songs, there are a couple of very slow sections here where I've tried to create a more atmospheric sound. Despite the fast tempo of most of the song, I think that this has quite a quiet mood throughout. The lyrics also have a different tone to them, in perhaps a similar way to Reflections from years ago - it's up to you to decide whether they work!
[Lyrics]
It is your life's eternal dream
To run and enter the machine
A second life that's hidden from the world
You take the power that it gives
To realize how you want to live
And build the world as it needs to be
You will know her holy name
She'll fulfil your frozen dream
As she draws you in
Beautiful child of this perfect world
An icon of heavenly sin
The moments of your life for sale
They see the image of themselves
It gives them all a chance to live as you do
You draw them in to your own world
And in return you come to theirs
You build a planet from your hearts and hands
They can see, they can hear
They can join you in your world
I can watch but I can't become
Here I will stand, but without a form
I'll be forever unknown
Perfect beauty, perfect in your mind
I create the same as you, still I am the loneliest king alive
And in this universe I only want one thing
To become a legend everywhere I go
Fly across the world
I see the earth below
No purpose or direction
Though everything I know
And wherever the wind takes me
I see your form appear
But you can never see me
Or know that I am here
I will watch your world
With no form to call my own
Will you hear my whispered voice
And tell me I am not alone
I can never have a heart or life
In this world that we've made
To you I'll be forever
Invisible
For those who use more than their eyes
Give me your hands, fly by my side
You cannot see me, I am void and formless
And if you build me my own heart
And give me one of a thousand lives
I have no heart to give you in return
I know you've touched so many lives
And by your hands, you'll never die
I can see but I cannot feel
I'll be here but can never be real
Perfect beauty, perfect in your mind
I create the same as you, still I am the loneliest king alive
And in this universe I could exist myself
If I could be the hero who could never cry
Fly across the world
I see the earth below
No purpose or direction
Though everything I know
And wherever the wind takes me
I see your form appear
But you can never see me
Or know that I am here
I will watch your world
With no form to call my own
Will you hear my whispered voice
And tell me I am not alone
I can never have a heart or life
In this world that we've made
To you I'll be forever
Invisible
I can see all the world
And the lives that you have made
But I am lost and all alone in a dream
On the outside looking in
And I'll never have a heart or life
In this world that we've made
Invisible forever
I will watch your world
With no form to call my own
Will you hear my whispered voice
And tell me I am not alone
I can never have a heart or life
In this world that we've made
To you, to the world
To the ones I'll never know
To you all I'll be forever
Invisible
Invisible
1. Welcome to the Machine
2. Be More Than Just a Number
3. Two Souls, One Mind
4. Tale of the Cave
5. Temple of Rust
6. Rule the World
7. Wonder
8. Invisible
9. When the Machine Stops
This is a slight change to the tracklist I published earlier (it's never final until they're actually out) - for obvious reasons, I really wanted "Wonder" to be the seventh song on Machine World, but I eventually decided to swap it with this one so that a sadder song was bordered by two more positive ones (and also to avoid putting two ten-minuters together).
In communities like this one that are so based on visual arts and interaction between fictional characters, not being able to draw and not having a form of your own can feel like being invisible. As an invented character, you can interact with others and become in some way part of a world that can never be real, by being (in more ways than one) drawn into each other's worlds, but your real form is always going to be trapped on the outside looking in.
Moving away a bit from the happier sound throughout the recent songs, there are a couple of very slow sections here where I've tried to create a more atmospheric sound. Despite the fast tempo of most of the song, I think that this has quite a quiet mood throughout. The lyrics also have a different tone to them, in perhaps a similar way to Reflections from years ago - it's up to you to decide whether they work!
[Lyrics]
It is your life's eternal dream
To run and enter the machine
A second life that's hidden from the world
You take the power that it gives
To realize how you want to live
And build the world as it needs to be
You will know her holy name
She'll fulfil your frozen dream
As she draws you in
Beautiful child of this perfect world
An icon of heavenly sin
The moments of your life for sale
They see the image of themselves
It gives them all a chance to live as you do
You draw them in to your own world
And in return you come to theirs
You build a planet from your hearts and hands
They can see, they can hear
They can join you in your world
I can watch but I can't become
Here I will stand, but without a form
I'll be forever unknown
Perfect beauty, perfect in your mind
I create the same as you, still I am the loneliest king alive
And in this universe I only want one thing
To become a legend everywhere I go
Fly across the world
I see the earth below
No purpose or direction
Though everything I know
And wherever the wind takes me
I see your form appear
But you can never see me
Or know that I am here
I will watch your world
With no form to call my own
Will you hear my whispered voice
And tell me I am not alone
I can never have a heart or life
In this world that we've made
To you I'll be forever
Invisible
For those who use more than their eyes
Give me your hands, fly by my side
You cannot see me, I am void and formless
And if you build me my own heart
And give me one of a thousand lives
I have no heart to give you in return
I know you've touched so many lives
And by your hands, you'll never die
I can see but I cannot feel
I'll be here but can never be real
Perfect beauty, perfect in your mind
I create the same as you, still I am the loneliest king alive
And in this universe I could exist myself
If I could be the hero who could never cry
Fly across the world
I see the earth below
No purpose or direction
Though everything I know
And wherever the wind takes me
I see your form appear
But you can never see me
Or know that I am here
I will watch your world
With no form to call my own
Will you hear my whispered voice
And tell me I am not alone
I can never have a heart or life
In this world that we've made
To you I'll be forever
Invisible
I can see all the world
And the lives that you have made
But I am lost and all alone in a dream
On the outside looking in
And I'll never have a heart or life
In this world that we've made
Invisible forever
I will watch your world
With no form to call my own
Will you hear my whispered voice
And tell me I am not alone
I can never have a heart or life
In this world that we've made
To you, to the world
To the ones I'll never know
To you all I'll be forever
Invisible
Invisible
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File Size 9.13 MB
I think you certainly accomplished what you set out to do with this one. It's slower, but still just as heavy and epic, which somehow makes it seem...deeper?
I kind of like how even though you described this as a sadder song, and the lyrics back up that claim, and the song itself is slower, the actual melody (and especially the flute/vocal substitution instrument) still have a kind of uplifting feel.
Before, I really liked your work but viewed it from a strict outsider perspective--"I personally have no affiliation whatsoever with music creation, but wow, this guy is really good at it and I like his stuff." Now that I have a keyboard and I'm trying to learn it, though, (I can sort of do extremely basic scale progression when the tempo isn't too fast, whoo!) I can now be jealous.
I kind of like how even though you described this as a sadder song, and the lyrics back up that claim, and the song itself is slower, the actual melody (and especially the flute/vocal substitution instrument) still have a kind of uplifting feel.
Before, I really liked your work but viewed it from a strict outsider perspective--"I personally have no affiliation whatsoever with music creation, but wow, this guy is really good at it and I like his stuff." Now that I have a keyboard and I'm trying to learn it, though, (I can sort of do extremely basic scale progression when the tempo isn't too fast, whoo!) I can now be jealous.
Also, I kind of feel dense for missing out on this until now, but I just noticed how much overlap there is between the concepts for Machine World and for My Kingdom. This is one of a small handful of Machine World songs that have enough of an escapism focus that they could have easily fit on either album.
I'd been meaning to ask how the keyboard was going for you, actually - I've found that with the guitar I saw a huge amount of progress for about two weeks then hit a point where I really had to practice to get any further (although having a one-week holiday in the middle didn't help). I've also been realizing just how difficult my own music is to play!
There's definitely a lot of overlap between the two songs - this album was meant to focus more on the side of taking on another personality rather than thinking about an imaginary world, but really the two subjects are very similar things - and if the fragments of songs that I have lying around at the moment are any indication, I'll have to call the next lot "Even More Thinly Disguised Furry Music" or something - even a large amount of music before these two sets has been about the same idea. I haven't written anything in a while, though - I'm going through something of a block at the moment.
Thanks, as ever, for your commentary.
There's definitely a lot of overlap between the two songs - this album was meant to focus more on the side of taking on another personality rather than thinking about an imaginary world, but really the two subjects are very similar things - and if the fragments of songs that I have lying around at the moment are any indication, I'll have to call the next lot "Even More Thinly Disguised Furry Music" or something - even a large amount of music before these two sets has been about the same idea. I haven't written anything in a while, though - I'm going through something of a block at the moment.
Thanks, as ever, for your commentary.
As of when I write this....
I know some basic stuff (I can find where "C" is in any octave, I know what sharps and flats are) and I'm trying to work on the dexterity to do the basic exercises. Take Hanon exercise #1, for example:
http://www.danmansmusic.com/samples/new/27o.gif
I can sort of interpret sheet music now (a little, anyway,) but in summation, you take a basic up and down progression, with a one-note gap between the first and second notes going up in each set (1 3 4 5 6) but without it on the way back down, so it ends on the missing note (6 5 4 3 2). Then that missing note becomes the first note in the next set, which is how the whole thing slowly moves upwards (1 3 4 5 6 5 4 3/2 4 5 6 7 6 5 4/3 5 6 7 8 7 6 5/4 ...) I can sort of do that, though not without messing up frequently at faster tempos. Then it essentially goes backwards and counts back down once you get high enough, but I haven't gotten that far yet.
On the intellectual aspect, I'm really struggling to learn chords. I know what they -are- in extreme rough summation, but every discussion I've ever seen that involves them is quick to get into the heavy vocabulary to describe them all (major third? Perfect fifth? Dimished...what?) I think C-E-G is one (because it was used as an example in my lesson book, and it sounds pretty when I try it on my own keyboard,) but that's about all I know.
...This may take a while.
Anyway, nothing wrong with having a strong underlying theme, I suppose. Heck, I'm actually unable to think of a single band in the power/progressive metal genres who hasn't made a concept album. Well, Sonata Arctcia, maybe, but even they have three songs scattered about their various albums that form a sort of story. (In chronological order for the story, "Caleb" from Unia, then "The End of This Chapter" from Silence, then "Don't Say a Word" from Reckoning Night.) And I don't think Rhapsody (of FIRE!) has ever made anything that wasn't a concept album. In fact, I believe their first six hundred or so albums were all part of the Emerald Sword saga, then when that finally concluded, they started a new saga with The Dark Secret and Triumph or Agony (so far.)
I know some basic stuff (I can find where "C" is in any octave, I know what sharps and flats are) and I'm trying to work on the dexterity to do the basic exercises. Take Hanon exercise #1, for example:
http://www.danmansmusic.com/samples/new/27o.gif
I can sort of interpret sheet music now (a little, anyway,) but in summation, you take a basic up and down progression, with a one-note gap between the first and second notes going up in each set (1 3 4 5 6) but without it on the way back down, so it ends on the missing note (6 5 4 3 2). Then that missing note becomes the first note in the next set, which is how the whole thing slowly moves upwards (1 3 4 5 6 5 4 3/2 4 5 6 7 6 5 4/3 5 6 7 8 7 6 5/4 ...) I can sort of do that, though not without messing up frequently at faster tempos. Then it essentially goes backwards and counts back down once you get high enough, but I haven't gotten that far yet.
On the intellectual aspect, I'm really struggling to learn chords. I know what they -are- in extreme rough summation, but every discussion I've ever seen that involves them is quick to get into the heavy vocabulary to describe them all (major third? Perfect fifth? Dimished...what?) I think C-E-G is one (because it was used as an example in my lesson book, and it sounds pretty when I try it on my own keyboard,) but that's about all I know.
...This may take a while.
Anyway, nothing wrong with having a strong underlying theme, I suppose. Heck, I'm actually unable to think of a single band in the power/progressive metal genres who hasn't made a concept album. Well, Sonata Arctcia, maybe, but even they have three songs scattered about their various albums that form a sort of story. (In chronological order for the story, "Caleb" from Unia, then "The End of This Chapter" from Silence, then "Don't Say a Word" from Reckoning Night.) And I don't think Rhapsody (of FIRE!) has ever made anything that wasn't a concept album. In fact, I believe their first six hundred or so albums were all part of the Emerald Sword saga, then when that finally concluded, they started a new saga with The Dark Secret and Triumph or Agony (so far.)
I learned to read sheet music when learning the piano at a very young age, but my sight-reading was never up to much - and by now, thanks to keeping up the violin for a much longer time, I've almost completely forgotten how to read the bass clef. You're having to learn a huge amount at the same time as it's your first instrument, and I know that studies like the repetitive increasing scales are mind-numbing, but they help a lot in playing and reading in the end, so it's good to know that you're keeping at it =) I also have to remember to keep practicing scales instead of fumbling my way through the intro of Tale of the Cave...
I only ever learned about major and minor chords, never having got very far in music theory, so I'm having to increase my chord vocabulary at the same time - and the disadvantage of learning them on the guitar is that the shape of your hand bears very little resemblance to the sound that you get. On the keyboard you have one linear row of notes, but the guitar fretboard works in two dimensions! And the number of unique notes per string doesn't quite stay constant across the board in standard tuning, either.
I'm going to have to get at least a couple of Rhapsody albums, because from what I've heard on Youtube I think I'd really enjoy them even though they're so blatantly ridiculous. Having a continuing storyline was something that I found fascinating about Iron Savior when I first discovered them, and I have to admit, in all seriousness, that Condition Red had a plot revelation that genuinely surprised me. Mr. Sielck has let the plot take a back seat recently because he wanted to write more varied lyrics (the second to last album had no storyline expansion in the booklet but he explained where he thought he wanted it to go on the forums, and I don't think that the new album has a storyline at all). It's understandable if a little disappointing. I didn't know that those three Sonata Arctica songs were part of a storyline - I'll have to look at them again. I was aware of the continuing werewolf theme, but that was about it.
I'm not sure how I got into writing 'concept' albums... it seems that I write about many different angles to the same idea a lot of the time, with some songs outside of that that I can sort of crowbar into the theme (or just admit that it's off topic). I'd quite like to try a storyline-based album at some point, but it'll take some dedication and planning - Dreamscape was actually meant to be one, and you can sort of see the progression of pictures starting from the third song (being most obvious from "The Edge of the World" to "Tears of an Eagle"), but as the idea of a continuing storyline was made up after the fact, I thought it best to leave them separate.
I only ever learned about major and minor chords, never having got very far in music theory, so I'm having to increase my chord vocabulary at the same time - and the disadvantage of learning them on the guitar is that the shape of your hand bears very little resemblance to the sound that you get. On the keyboard you have one linear row of notes, but the guitar fretboard works in two dimensions! And the number of unique notes per string doesn't quite stay constant across the board in standard tuning, either.
I'm going to have to get at least a couple of Rhapsody albums, because from what I've heard on Youtube I think I'd really enjoy them even though they're so blatantly ridiculous. Having a continuing storyline was something that I found fascinating about Iron Savior when I first discovered them, and I have to admit, in all seriousness, that Condition Red had a plot revelation that genuinely surprised me. Mr. Sielck has let the plot take a back seat recently because he wanted to write more varied lyrics (the second to last album had no storyline expansion in the booklet but he explained where he thought he wanted it to go on the forums, and I don't think that the new album has a storyline at all). It's understandable if a little disappointing. I didn't know that those three Sonata Arctica songs were part of a storyline - I'll have to look at them again. I was aware of the continuing werewolf theme, but that was about it.
I'm not sure how I got into writing 'concept' albums... it seems that I write about many different angles to the same idea a lot of the time, with some songs outside of that that I can sort of crowbar into the theme (or just admit that it's off topic). I'd quite like to try a storyline-based album at some point, but it'll take some dedication and planning - Dreamscape was actually meant to be one, and you can sort of see the progression of pictures starting from the third song (being most obvious from "The Edge of the World" to "Tears of an Eagle"), but as the idea of a continuing storyline was made up after the fact, I thought it best to leave them separate.
Invisible maybe, but definitely not inaudible. This one has a great, tension-laden buildup that sumulates into a very energetic release. Also, playing with dissonances can be good or bad. In this case, it is very, very good indeed. Pieces like this make me really appreciate the fact of having access to decent speakers again.
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