Another song for the RPM 2009 Challenge. This is sort of an interlude that reminds me of Penguin Cafe Orchestra but with a sort of industrial edge. Vocoder is featured.

A model of the Solar System which whirls and turns all the planets in their correct orbits at the correct relative speeds

Read the Stanislaw Lem novel

A ritual.

A classically-inspired track that totally does not fit in with the rest of the album. Incidentally, Ctesiphon was a capital of the Parthian Empire.

I believe the recording in the background is from a spy station. The other is a Spanish sonnet.

I could not turn off certain synthesizers while I was programing this one, so I kept it as it was. Desperate sounding, I thought.

Minor 7ths and synthesizer saxophones.

Tartessos (possibly the "Tarshish" of the Bible) was a fabulous city in Southern Spain that the Greeks and Phoenecians often visited. I wanted to evoke a sense of adventure.

The first track begun, the last one finished. My attempto write a techno-middle eastern fugue!

Aural and astral travel to fabled lands and back.

this songs was written after robbie was left at a bar after a fight with his girlfriend and sounds like it too

about a ex girlfriend pretending to be someone shes not

From America: the theme from "Bubble Bobble"

A dark ambient/ritual track. From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"

Goth/folk...Vocals and lyrics by Laura Aalto This is a companion piece to "Vision in Gold" From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"

Instrumental goth/industrial From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"

A dark ambient/ritual track. From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"

Instrumental goth/industrial From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"

Instrumental goth/industrial From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"

A dark ambient/ritual track. From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"

Goth/folk...Vocals and lyrics by Laura Aalto This is a companion piece to "Vision in Silver" From the 2009 Alchemist Corpse Rite entry in the RPM Challenge: "A True and Faithful Relation"

If David Bowie played lots of Legend of Zelda as a kid...

i have replaced the old file with this as it is more compatible num

Written and performed quickly (approx 2 hours) during a "dark day". This is not a political song but rather a song about the "helpless feeling" during the current strange economic times. When I used to get down I'd put on an old song I loved…

Dreamy instrumental with piano, middle eastern percussion, and deep bass. Inspired by William Orbit.

Bluegrass banjo, southern rock drums, goofy synths, vocoded chorus, and DnB rhythms. Technically has a NSFW word in the lyrics, but probably not discernable.

My re-imagining of a piece by kjwise as a Harold Budd/Brian Eno-ish collaboration.