Austlune

Turning Seasons

2010-09-19T10:22:00.003-04:00

Recording...Still trekking...exhausted and stressed. Tedious times, can't wait for post-production. Meeting as often as we can only amounts to two days a week hence the slow pace, but we should have finished, unmastered cuts of those 4 tracks soon.

Met Swallow The Sun, talked about David Lynch, met Orphaned Land and talked about Turkish folk music, met Katatonia and was given a movie pitch by Anders, and the two new members are nice dudes.

Digs: Cheap Trick, Verdi's and Dvorak's Requiems, Charlie Chaplin, Vengeance Trilogy

Floodland

2010-08-01T14:00:00.003-04:00

Lots of new things:

-4 drum tracks are recorded, so it's actually underway finally and can only pick up speed
-Jeff Beck is fucking awesome in concert
-Digging: Archandroid, Portal Of Sorrow, and The Double Life Of Veronique
-Writing 3 scripts
-May turn this album into a film after it's recorded (which means lots of rewrites for the score and...storyboarding :( )

Time for nightwork bye

Precambrian

2010-06-23T18:32:00.004-04:00

Also known as the beginning of production. Not really but it sounds fancy. Coming up with different guitar tones for 12 songs takes too long, but that's what you get when you do a concept record...! Yes, it's a concept record, about what, well I don't know, do I? Of course I do but there's no lyrics yet. Not until all the music is recorded, and by then it'll be 2012 just based on how long it took to finish the first track. At least it sounds great, and that's not just me saying that so I know it's true.

ALSO HERE ARE THE RELEASE PLANS:

$5 for mp3 only download (12 songs, 55 minutes)
$8 for the full album (12 songs, 55 minutes) plus 2 rewritten covers and lots o' album art

After 3-5 months the $8 will rise to $10 just to give time for "the word" to spread or something silly like that. Also there's a chance you'll probably just get it handed right to you because you're just that special. If this is successful I'll make shirts and vinyl. Feels like one hundred years.

Pssst again

2010-04-02T16:56:00.003-04:00

On second thought, an hour is scary to some people, and you're lazy american sissies, but fuck it I'll cut it down and release an EP shortly after. I'll probably change my mind again within two minutes

Pssst

2010-04-02T12:20:00.002-04:00

14 tracks (including 6 interludes), 60 minutes on the dot, lyrics aren't even started, track order is complete, and no I'm not showing it to you

Metamorphosis

2010-03-21T22:04:00.005-04:00

Not Kafka, but that book is mesmerizing, yet the photo above is moreso. The record is coming along (extremely stressfully), motifs galore, and probably too many "grand" parts for its own good, but at least I get to use my koto. The prelude and outro are finished, about 8 full songs completely finished, a handful of little interludes, and one last massive track I'm bringing back from the dead and need to finish rewriting, then I can move on to track order to figure out the concept outline of the record, get really drunk, and write some lyrics out on the lake at midnight. This record's a doozy, but I'll be damned if it doesn't get Austlune signed...and that's coming from someone with no self esteem. Just need to figure out how to make the motifs sound like recurring themes instead of recycling...how do the classical folks do it so well?

New Night

2009-10-30T23:08:00.002-04:00

It seems that while hallow's eve is passing right through me, the spirits are not present this month and this gives time to build monetary flow for recording equipment. Once autumn truly sets in, the steam rises from the lake, and the funeral procession of winds begins, new material will almost surely become into themselves. It also helps that I reconnected with two old friends, which means Austlune now has a drummer and bassist. Blogs are so awkward...

Goddamnit

2009-09-15T17:03:00.002-04:00

No longer have a second guitarist, bassist, and probably drummer. Back to working by myself, I guess it's the way to fly if you must. Album art for the EP is taking too long...

At least I've been writing some cool stuff, reworking the EP tracks based off feedback, getting things done is always good, finding the mindset is getting harder since college started though. The new stuff is much denser though, it has more direction as a cohesive collection, thus as a whole it sparks a much darker stream of consciousness, which is exactly where I'm going with it. Maybe I'll hibernate musically until winter break, then lock myself in my room, blacken all the windows, set the house on fire, and see what I come up with.

September Update

2009-09-03T00:03:00.005-04:00

I'm pretty sure I have a bass player. Still need a pianist....And that's that.

I just finished the album art (preview above), and since I'm SO good at it, nothing really flows well but that's just fine because each picture does what I want it to do so fuck it man, I like it. I guess all that's left is to find a printing store and get these going. I'm thinking $8.00 is a decent price considering...maybe $5? Someone help me out here. Anyway I'll probably ship worldwide because it's basically necessary given the people asking for it. Uhhhhhhhhh yeah I'm done right now. No one's even reading this I bet. Whatever. Now I feel semi-organized, which reminds me I re-arranged my room. It almost lost it's lamented touch, but not quite since my mind is interesting like that. Death Sentence poster is staring at me, I love it. What else can I say right now....Starofash rules, the new Mew record is ok should be better, and Agalloch concert next week in Milwaukee. Hm. ok I'm done

Album Art Progress (and my GERBS)

2009-08-24T14:27:00.003-04:00

I found a nice woman to help me design a fairly extensive booklet for this demo. I figured I'd go all out if I'm going to sell it, so yeah it'll be a 7 page booklet probably with lots of artwork, liner notes maybe? I dunno, maybe if I get some FEEDBACK.

Also my gerbils are suicidal. They keep burying their food and wonder why they're hungry all the time. Then they bury the wheel so it won't spin, or if it does spin it slams against the wall every rotation. I wonder if this is normal behavior.

Member situation

2009-08-21T15:54:00.003-04:00

Austlune is in dire need of a permanent/temporary keyboardist and bassist for sessions/live shows, permanent members are obviously most helpful. If you live on Neptune you're preferred, but I guess Earth is ok. Contact me at austlune@yahoo.com if you're interested, like the demo (link provided below), and are most importantly open-minded and not a tool. And remember:

Demo release

2009-08-21T15:44:00.004-04:00

Austlune has finished mastering its first self-titled EP spawn. Here is the tracklisting:

1. Dead Flags
2. Hollowscope
3. Huntress Eclipsed
4. Blood On The Walls
5. Tindalos
6. In Remembrance

It is available for free download right here. Hard copies with full booklet, album artwork, and lyrics/shirts are currently in the works also, but that will be posted when the time comes. Uhhhhhh, ok bye

New Site

2009-08-21T15:14:00.002-04:00

This is the new (and temporary) site for Austlune. Updates can be found here for now

more posts to come