Celestial - 2009

released: November 25th 2009 on One Eyed Magician (OEMGT-200901)

While recording Bionique I sustained an injury to my left hand which hindered my playing and stoppped me from recording the hard rock styles for the Bionique album, however I decided to use the time exercising my texture and processing skills by making an ambient album...

So I made Celestial, a piece of ambient drone music based on a dream I had during the summer of 2009. A futuristic gothic dark soundscape is what I had in mind, essentialy each track is about different dead spaceships that have been reduced to space garbage and are now drifting lifeless through space but surrounded by the stars they paint an interesting image and the burst transmissions, alien gargles and clicks suggest life beyond the void.

The album was mainly made by recording raw sound from various objects around the house and processing them to make textures, one sound in particular was generated by plugging in my guitar to an amp and plugging the amp into the socket but leaving it off, I found when holding the guitar in certain areas I could get some rich drones and the harsher sounds were made with distorted guitars and slow attack envelopes.

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Tracklisting

1. Celestial Part One
2. Infinitum
3. Drift
4. Spectral Deck
5. Void Part I
6. Celestial Part Two
7. Void Part II
8. Spiral

11.44
4.54
3.30
10.44
5.02
5.22
7.02
5.58

More info on the album:

album duration: (54:16)
cover: NASA image processed by George Tunnah (OEM)
Instruments on this album include acoustic guitars, electric guitars, bass guitars, a mandolin and many synths. All drum programming by George Tunnah
Mixed and mastered by George Tunnah in November 2009, this recording is released under the creative commons license and is owned under copyright by George Tunnah / One Eyed Magician© 2009

This CD is available as an on-demand CD-R: This CD comes in a standard jewl case and is playable on most if not all CD players and alike. There is a small fee to cover postage and packaging cost but should not be higher than £4:00. To order this recording go to the mail order page and select "Celestial (OEMGT-200901)"