Decembering by Chris Harris
This is an album of mellow instrumentals reflecting what it's like here around the winter solstice. This time around, you get an hour and fifty-seven seconds of music with absolutely no singing from me at all.
This is the second album in a series that I'm gathering together under the name "The Learning Project." In each of these albums, I pick one or two items from the collection of virtual instruments I've acquired over the years and focus on really getting to know what they do and figure out the settings in which I can make them shine. The two software instruments getting the spotlight this time around are "Ethereal Earth" and "Hybrid Keys" from Native Instruments's Play series of Kontakt libraries, but there are plenty of physical instruments being played here as well from Chapman Stick and nine-string guitar to old-school analogue synths.
As with the first album in this series, work on these tracks has featured regularly on my Twitch live streams. If you like what you hear, please follow me at www.twitch.tv/headfirstonly
Tracklist
| 1. | Hibernaculum | 3:45 |
| 2. | Disequilibrium | 4:45 |
| 3. | Torpid | 5:55 |
| 4. | Capricorn | 4:49 |
| 5. | Decembering | 3:53 |
| 6. | Solstice | 4:55 |
| 7. | Windchill | 3:39 |
| 8. | Brumation | 6:16 |
| 9. | Bombogenesis | 5:40 |
| 10. | Thundersnow | 5:35 |
| 11. | Saturnalia | 4:53 |
| 12. | Glacial | 6:52 |
Credits
License
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I'm still trying to get the music I record to sound like the version I can hear in my head. To do this I've ended up playing every instrument I can get my hands on. These days, I'm closer to "That Sound" than I used to be, but the journey continues.