Tag: music

I Stand Corrected

I genuinely, but in respect mistakenly, thought THE LONG AND LONESOME SKYWAY was my musical magnum opus. I could not have been more wrong. And you probably thought that the last thing the world needed was an authentic 80’s New Wave cover of the old folksong GOD’S GONNA CUT YOU DOWN, but you, too, could not have been more wrong.

I think I can guarantee anyone who likes 80’s music is going to absolutely love GOD’S GONNA CUT YOU DOWN (Dancing on Your Grave mix).

If you’re interested in the technical details, they’re explained at AI Central, but let’s just say this started with a cassette tape from 1989 that we all thought was lost long ago.

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Seas of Blood (Hold the Line)

The Hold the Line mix is a significantly updated remix of one of the first songs I wrote after Suno was released. I think you’ll agree it was well worth revisiting and bringing the audio quality up to date.

The battle raged til nightfall
Forty thousand died that day
The Venetians were avenged
And the blood-debt was repaid

The heroes praised the Virgin
For their victory at sea
200 strong remembered
As long as Christendom is free!

And the seas flowed red
Amidst the countless drowning dead
The sailors bled
The seas flowed red
Seas of blood!
Seas of blood!

The new Midnight Rider mix of GOD’S GONNA CUT YOU DOWN is also up on UATV for subscribers.

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Book of Ephesians

I suppose you might consider it a modern psalm of sorts given how many of them are devoted to God crushing His enemies. Anyhow, I had the impression there might be a Christian or two in our community who could use the reminder and the encouragement in these times of ceaseless Clown World retardery and incessant satanic inversion.

There is also the Cradle to Cavalry version of THE WORD DESCENDED.

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The Long and Lonesome Skyway

On the long and lonesome skyway
Where the broken vessels go
Black hole martyrs lead the way
To worlds we’ll never know
In the seashell, in the circuit
Every fragment holds the whole
On the long and lonesome skyway
Lost between machine and soul

UPDATE: I didn’t like the guitar solo and coda of the initial version, which felt like it was tacked on because it quite literally was, so I remade it from that point. It’s now considerably more epic, with not one, but two guitar solos.

I’m not going to lie. It feels like I finally wrote my Orpheus, which is something I’ve wanted to do for more than 30 years. That may not mean anything to anyone else, but if you know, you know.

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Cruel Dominions

I found this old mix of THE WORD DESCENDED that I’d forgotten I did back in December, and was frankly kind of blown away by it. I think it’s going to have to go on the Soulsigma CD. Anyhow, it’s up on UATV for the subscribers. If you’re feeling down at all over the Espstein coverup, I think this will prove a salutary reminder that it doesn’t matter what they do, because they will never win.

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Sacris Solemnis

“Sacris solemniis” is one of the five beautiful hymns St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) composed in honor of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament at specific request of Pope Urban IV (1261-1264) when the Pope first established the Feast of Corpus Christi in 1264. Today Sacris Solemniis is used as a hymn for the Office of the Readings for Corpus Christi, as well as during the procession of that day.

Being a massive and inveterate fan of Enigma, I’ve tried repeatedly to do something in that vein even before the appearance of AI-generated music and repeatedly failed. However, yesterday, thanks to the philosopher and Suno 4.5, I was finally able to create something that I found to be worthwhile. In the process, I also learned a valuable lesson in always using a DAW rather than a sound editor to make track edits. You can listen to Sacris Solemnis and even download it from Unauthorized if you’re a subscriber.

Sacris solemniis
iuncta sint gaudia,
et ex praecordiis
sonent praeconia;
recedant vetera,
nova sint omnia,
corda, voces, et opera.

Those interested in AI music beyond just listening to it should definitely visit AI CENTRAL today, as it features an article by the brilliant sound engineer, who has analog-mastered all of the Soulsigma tracks, concerning his thoughts on Suno’s new feature that provides multi-stem downloads.

I also completed a second song utilizing the second half of the six-stanza prayer in a different style and with a more conventional song structure, entitled Accipite Bibite that can also be heard on UATV.

Accipite, accipite
quod trado vasculum;
omnes ex eo bibite.

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No, He Whispered

The airwaves are extended gutters and the gutters are full of dirty water and when the baths finally overflow, all the tubcuddlers will drown. The accumulated filth of all their alleged misdeeds will foam up over their heads and all the VP readers and UATV subscribers will look up and shout “for the love of all that is good and holy, will you PLEASE show us some fragment of mercy and stop releasing tracks about the Tubcuddler?”

… and I’ll look down and whisper “No.“

The Transgressions mix just might be my favorite. It doesn’t have the amazing guitars of The Corinthian mix, the funk of the Coraline’s Eyes mix, or the effervescent contempt of the Hot Water mix, but it has a dark and grinding vibe that could almost be a Soulsigma song. And that now marks 50 songs in the Voxophonik catalog on UATV, a number almost certainly destined to grow rapidly now that Suno has added a feature that allows the remixing of organic tracks, which has already produced mindblowing results.

You won’t get clean again no matter how you scrub and scrub.

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The Fatal Kiss

I’ve been working a bit on the next Soulsigma album, which is going to be entitled BYRONICS and will consist entirely of songs based on the poetry of George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron. And while I’m not playing any of the album songs publicly or putting them up on UATV now, I have been playing a few of the experiments that didn’t make the cut on the Darkstream.

THE FATAL KISS is a song based on EUTHANASIA, which is one of Byron’s less-known, but more intense poems. It is mordant, obviously, but for some reason, it reminds me of Plato and The Death of Socrates, in which the philosopher wonders why anyone should fear something akin to the best night of sleep one has ever known.

Then lonely be my latest hour,
Without regret, without a groan;
For thousands Death hath ceased to lower,
And pain been transient or unknown.
“Aye but to die, and go,” alas!
Where all have gone, and all must go!
To be the nothing that I was
Ere born to life and living woe!
Count o’er the joys thine hours have seen,
Count o’er thy days from anguish free,
And know, whatever thou hast been,
‘Tis something better not to be.

Now that is a wordsmith! In any event, a UATV subscriber requested this one be added to what is now a 46-song music library available for listening and downloading to subscribers.

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