Songs from the Empire
Experimental / Rock / Classical
Portland, OR
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About
Scott Brazieal, Portland, OR
As those who know me know: Songs from the Empire has been a labor of love--and frustration--for several years now. And in the end, the baby is finally being birthed and delivered here. My deepest appreciation goes out to those who contributed and helped me along the way (musicians listed below) as well as for those others who encouraged and "kept on me" to finish it. Again, thank you.
As those who don't know me don't know: I have played, recorded and toured with several groups - Cartoon, PFS, (Cuneiform Records) as well as 5uu's and Thinking Plague (ReR).
A recent interview about such things can be found here.
Anyway, the songs you can listen to here were conceived and composed in 2003-04; Recorded/Engineered with Tom Hood in Portland & the Chehalem Valley over the past three years, and eventually mixed and mastered in 2007-08 in Portland and Westfir, Oregon. (All of the songs heard here are unmastered)
Finally, I would be remiss if I didn't try to emphasize the fact that this album is intended to be listened to in its' entirety, as one continuous piece...it's my damn "classical" pedagogy y'know...sigh...although, not to intimate that it doesn't work within our current cultural paradigm of single-song downloading...
You can purchase this record here for about 3 Bucks, (as of 2.01.09) though the price does increase with subsequent downloads. Buy it quick and get it cheap! ;)
ok, enough already. Hey, thanks for listening! Enjoy.
Musicians
Scott Brazieal: everything except...
Tom Hood: Bowed Guitar on 6 and 9; Guitar on 7, engineering and pre-mixing
Ali Ippolito: vocals on 1, 3 and 4
Adam Hurst: cello on 4 and 6
R.D. (Dave) Hardesty: Vocal narrative on 11
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Nations and empires flourish and decay,
By turns command, and in their turns obey.
-Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
"Why, let the stricken deer go weep,
The stag ungalled play,
For some must watch while some must sleep,
So runs the world away."
-William Shakespeare Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I Have Lost Track of the World)
I am lost to the world
with which I used to waste so much time,
It has heard nothing from me for so long
that it may very well believe that I am dead!
It is of no consequence to me
Whether it thinks me dead;
I cannot deny it,
for I really am dead to the world.
I am dead to the world's tumult,
And I rest in a quiet realm!
I live alone in my heaven,
In my love and in my song!
-Friedrich Rückert (Mahler)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
-Yeats
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druc drac, Aug 19, 2008:
hello!
thank you for finding me!
your Songs from the Empire fits perfectly with this day beginning.
The Golden Sores, Aug 17, 2008:
lush, melancholy, beautiful.
Camusi, Aug 16, 2008:
ciao, grazie del contatto e delle parole, la vostra musica è profonda e intima... i like very much... have cosmic days, under this strange sky... love... stefano
TSIGOTI, Aug 7, 2008:
Hi Scott, sounds great from here too! Hope to see You next week...
Life, Thollem
Thollem, Aug 6, 2008:
Gorgeous and important music Scott, thanks so much for making contact!
I hope to meet You while I'm here in Portland, and perhaps play together someday as well...
Life, Thollem
LM Cantwell, Aug 1, 2008:
wow! stumbled on this and really loved your music.
radiospacepop, Jul 29, 2008:
hello there !! ,,,,thanks for finding me : ) ,,,,, great works , special tracks in your player ! ,,,,, many greets from romania , peace and all the best , stefan , c ya