It's been awhile since I released anything. Over half a year, in fact.
During that half a year, most of the songs I've written have been instrumental, and I find it incredibly difficult to come up with names for instrumental songs. During 50/90, I started titling instrumental songs just by picking a word that started with the same note letter as the song did. Because "Figments" started with an F note, I called it "Figments," and so on. I kept writing songs like that until I'd made my way through the musical alphabet (excluding accidentals), and those are the seven songs on Omegaps.
The title itself is a nod to that alphabetisation. Where alphabet combines alpha and beta, Omegaps combines omega and psi.
I recorded Omegaps over the course of the past three months, taking February off to work on FAWM. So while many of these songs were written back in July or September, I've changed the structure or instrumentation to make them better. Because it's still a do-it-yourself effort, it's a bit rough, but it's certainly better than my last release - Newcastle City Gaol.
You can stream the whole thing for free on Bandcamp, and you can even buy it if you are so inclined.
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"Figments"
I unconsciously based part of this mandolin part off of a guitar part from Argent's "Celebration" from Ring of Hands.
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"Glasse"
The only thing I really remember about this is that I wrote it while watching an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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"Apparition"
I think I came up with part of the guitar part for this at the same time that I came up with the guitar part for "Figments." It just took me about a month longer to finish writing this one.
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"Belvedere"
I'd been playing around with the guitar part for this for about a year and a half before I finally came up with something else to put with it. This is sort of the outlier of the album because it uses a minor chord for the titular note, and all of the other song use major chords.
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"Corona"
I had come up with this melody and recorded it, thinking that I may use it again, but then I came up with the same melody again over a year later, so I figured I should use it for something.
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"Denizen"
This is an-other outlier, both because it doesn't involve guitar at all and because it actually starts on an A.
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"Ebullience"
This is the only one that I didn't re-record, but that's because I wrote it at the same time I started re-recording the older songs. This chord progression is an-other one I'd been playing around with for over a year.
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