Showing posts with label trinity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trinity. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 June 2024

New single from A Cornucopia

AND: Mind Palace is now a stand alone single as well as being track six on the first disc of the A Cornucopia trinity of albums.

With a video premiere on Vive Le Rock Magazine's website too. (Click the single sleeve image to go to the premiere.)
As they say: 
Mancunian psych explorers THE SPEED OF SOUND are back with another new single and video.Taken from their new triple album A Cornucopia,'Mind Palace'is described by the band as a "homage to individual identity, memory and self-awareness. Not the rose-tint re-run memory of nostalgia, rather the interactive memory that makes up the essence of a person; their very being. Sparked by a visit to Sintra Palace in Portugal and recalling a Sherlock Holmes memory-file technique, 'Mind Palace' ponders the loss of self with fading memory while the twelve-string Rickenbacker chimes and canters."
And they are correct we are explorers, it is what we have always done with music.
Find the whole full physical trinity of albums here: https://bigstirrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-cornucopia-minerva  


Saturday, 25 May 2024

Its here - A Cornucopia: Minerva

We do. We like albums. Especially when they are structured as a whole, becoming far more than a bunch of songs. The ability albums have of developing a dynamic trajectory and then resolve the overall sonic shapeshifting adventure over the course of 40+minutes is fascinating. So much so, that we did it three times in this release. A Cornucopia is physically a set of three related but separate albums, however digitally (including streaming) it is having a staggered release with only Minerva hitting the streaming platforms now, meaning there are two additional exclusively physical albums. The three - Minerva, Victory and Bounty - function independently, but despite the variation within them were written to feel unified. Minerva and Victory are gapless, final chords and first chords complement (or occasionally contrast) each other. As with a well designed live set the tempo and key variations are sculpted to create an experience. Its not background music, music should be more than an accompaniment to doing something else. Music itself is the main event. So, yes: We like albums. We made these for people that like albums.

So; for streaming look wherever you would normally look and you'll find it. For the CD or LP click the image. Or if you don't like paying postage you can order the CD from any record shop.