Richard Blaine
Heartscore can always be counted on to cross multiple boundaries with excellent musicianship. You'll love it!
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Cassette + Digital Album
Professionally made Cassette, all B&W with Inlay. The accompanying book and press release notes are included in the downlaod. If you want the real book as professionally printed hardcover you should consider to buy the Super Package Cassette.
Includes unlimited streaming of Black Riders Part I
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Cassette + Digital Album
Get the Cassette and a beautiful Hardcover-book, professionally printed on high quality paper, which contains all twenty poems of Stephen Crane, more than twenty illustrations by the artist Alexander Stanton known as Wou Wou and the wormling and liner notes about Heartscore and Stephen Crane.
Includes unlimited streaming of Black Riders Part I
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
High Quality CD-R, produced by a professional company (www.deine.cd/de/) Digifile 4 pages B&W with tracklist and credits. The Download includes a PDF-version of the accompanying book. If you want to have the beautiful physical book you should consider to order the "Super CD Package".
Includes unlimited streaming of Black Riders Part I
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 3 days
edition of 50
Purchasable with gift card
€8EURor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Get the CD and a beautiful Hardcover-book, professionally printed on high quality paper, which contains all twenty poems of Stephen Crane, more than twenty illustrations by the artist Alexander Stanton known as Wou Wou and the wormling and liner notes about Heartscore and Stephen Crane.
Includes unlimited streaming of Black Riders Part I
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 3 days
Purchasable with gift card
€18EURor more
Streaming + Download
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
This is the first track of heartsore. which features an analogue synthesizer. I love the technoid method to work with meandering sequences, which create polyphonic structures. When I composed this track I started with a simple C major figure of steady sixteens. But I repeat it after 31 notes, so it shifts continuously over the 4/4 measures. Additionally I set the notes to different octave-ranges. The resulting figure is the basis for the whole song and is repeated until the end. To bring the sequence to life I recorded it with my new analogue synthesizer, a make noise 0-coast. I ran the sequence in my DAW and controlled the 0-coast via Midi. While the sequence was running I turned the knobs of the special overtone-filter of the 0-coast. Above this basic sequence you hear a kind of Funk with traditional Blues phrases often extended to the diminished scale. While the basic sequence is in C-major, the song itself is in E major creating a bitonal feeling throughout. The verse is based on typical Jazz-chords. The Jazz-progression is prolonged during the last verse to create consistency.
The poem of Stephen Crane is very dark, also regarding the meaning. Somebody returned from a very strange and frightening place and is so affected, that he even shrinks, „sick with it“.
Then he asks somebody else „What is this?“ And the answer has the quality of a dark riddle:
„Spirit, this is a world; This was your home“ The last words could be interpreted as a sentence: The main character has asked, though he was not allowed to ask. „This was your home“ could mean, that he has now to leave that strange world. We also register, that the main character is not a normal human being, because he is titled as „Spirit“. So maybe he is already dead? The dark place could be the hell. So now, when he will leave, will he leave for something better? These are the obvious questions.
Instruments used:
Guitars: BC Rich Stealth „Chuck Schuldiner“ through Kemper Peavey 5150 profile
Synthesizers: Makenoise 0-coast for the sequence, U-He Zebra for the bassline
Drums: Custom ESX Instrument with samples of Teenage Engineering PO-12, Roland TR 707 and real Cymbals
lyrics
Behold, from the land of the farther suns
I returned.
And I was in a reptile-swarming place,
Peopled, otherwise, with grimaces,
Shrouded above in black impenetrableness.
I shrank, loathing,
Sick with it.
And I said to him,
"What is this?"
He made answer slowly,
"Spirit, this is a world;
This was your home."
Do you like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden or Manowar?
Heartscore, a German-italian studio-project (no live-shows planned) bring back the power of classic Heavy Metal paired with some Prog- and Thrash-Metal influences.
supported by 4 fans who also own “Behold from the land of the farther suns”
Far out is an excellent descriptor for GOATS latest release. While saying that, if feels personal and nostalgic at times too. Never a dull moment as they say. It’s just really cool. Take a listen to it.. Acef Stripe
supported by 4 fans who also own “Behold from the land of the farther suns”
I'm not even going to choose a favorite track,
Thanks to Paul Dews for sharing your music .
"Into The Light" is amazing though.
I hope to get well acquainted to your music johntomjoe
