http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire 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 ================================================================================== 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 ]]> Virb 2.0 (@songsfromtheempire) en http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332286 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:59:09 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332286 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332285 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:57:55 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332285 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332284 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:56:00 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332284 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332283 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:55:09 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332283 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332281 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:53:13 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332281 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332280 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:51:15 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332280 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332272 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:47:13 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332272 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332269 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:45:41 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332269 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332267 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:43:37 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332267 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332266 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:41:50 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332266 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332265 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:39:07 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332265 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332261 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:35:43 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/332261 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/325394 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:46:18 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/325394 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/324903 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:45:00 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/324903 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/324836 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:12:13 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/324836 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/324824 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:56:36 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/324824 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/324821 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:40:03 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/324821 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/324820 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:19:30 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/324820 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/324819 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:14:49 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/324819 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/324818 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:07:19 -0700 http://virb.com/songsfromtheempire/audio/324818