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This record was recorded live with a lo fi mic. No midi, no masters. So this was an attempt to combine the sound I worked out on the last album Cyprian's Gnome with some of the more technical aspects that I had messed with on another record Umber Hulk Song. For the title track I was attempting to fuse this kind of alien dungeon noise with influences from Demilich, Frank Zappa, and Sun Ra. So this involved some really weird and unstable noise generator settings, but I'm all about imperfections. The track Smokeless Fire is of course influenced by Hindustani music, but if you know anything about Indian music you'll know this is not a raga. So I was also influenced by Scottish Piobaireachd bagpipe music here. When I first started listening to it my thought was something like, what if someone mixed this with Indian music in some way shape or form. That might not make a lot sense, and mixing it further with noise oriented dungeon synth might make even less sense. But here we are. -Ranseur
