music and tales
Recently the word “Steamfunk” came to my attention. It’s a wonderful word with connotations that extend from the awesome musical vistas i can picture such a musical genre sounding like (you cannot tell it from theSteampunk Opera, but i am a big […]
Yes folks, it is done. I have nothing else of consequence to say at this time. I’m exhausted and fleeing to Belgrade for a few days and not listening to it so i can come back and make sure it’s […]
First of all: the mixing and mastering is done. I’m basically finished and it’ll be ready soon. (I need to send the album to a couple extra sets of ears to make sure i’m not missing anything.) In the meantime […]
The Sultan’s Elephant is a show, specifically a piece of marionette street theater featuring a giant mechanical elephant. It was created in 2004 by the French theater company Royal de Luxe to commemorate the centenary of Jules Verne’s death and commissioned by […]
After WWII Stalin hesitated on commencing building of the great Palace of the Soviets. Included in his thinking was the idea that having won the war, the Soviet Union was now a superpower and must appear as one. It not […]
I’ve been debating which song to sneak a peak of next, and since i featuring Jason Broderick last time, this time i thought i’d feature Kayleigh McKnight. While Kayleigh recorded numerous tracks, i’m presenting this one because it shows another […]
In the 1930s Stalin wished to boldly stamp a vision of the future, one where the great Worker’s Paradise would be a beacon to the entire world, leading the way to a new era. It would be grand and mighty, […]
To recap: in the beginning there was steampunk, a fantastical, futuristic reimaging of the victorian era. It was only logical that the period afterwards, the 20s to WWII, would have its sci fi devotees, and it has become Dieselpunk. 1945 […]
You know, i really wasn’t going to post any new tracks. I mean… i’ve posted so much already, at this point you’re either interested in the finished album or you’re not. It isn’t like a few more tracks are going […]
Today we feature one of my favorite artists, Paul Laffoley. His work exists in the genre of Visionary Art. There is nothing else like it and no one else i know of who does what he does. He takes an […]