Amberwolf's Variety Mix

[Amberwolf]

Let me help you along a journey through your mind into places you have yet to explore, with soundscapes to fill you with otherworldly scenes, from movies that have never yet been made.

 

 

(I was making this list for someone else, and thought perhaps posting it here as well would be ok?  I left out some parts of the post that aren't relevant here.)

 

It is *all* experimental.  There is a spoken-word song "The Beaten Dog"

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/the-beaten-dog
 though most don't have lyrics they may have vocals or vocalizations.  The "hardest" song there with vocals (English) is probably "Back To The World". 
 
https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/back-to-the-world

  A couple have Elven vocals,
Behind You Lie Many Unseen

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/behind-you-lie-many-unseen
Gareki II (Alternate Version, Cinematic Feel)
 
https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/gareki-ii-alternate-version-cinematic-feel

 and one has Indian chants:
 Less Like A Whisper
 
https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/less-like-a-whisper

and one has wolves rather than humans doing the "singing"
Ookami no Kari no Yume (Wolf's Dream of the Hunt)
 
https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/ookami-no-kari-no-yume-wolfs-dream-of-the-hunt

A Peek Over The Wall is "set" in Guri

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/a-peek-over-the-wall 

And this older one features Lauscho on the lead guitar:
Convocation of Lies (feat. Lauscho Remix)

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/convocation-of-lies-feat-lauscho-remix

 The most recent ones at the top of the https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com page are generally more cinematic, and the older ones at the bottom generally more electronic.   There's a variety of styles / types on there, so if you don't like one try another, and more than a few change styles within the track itself over time, so you can just wait for it to change too.... 

 

Edited June 29 by Amberwolf

[Amberwolf]

(This post is broken, reposted in next post)

Edited July 25 by Amberwolf

[Amberwolf]

More variety:

 

The most recent completed one, The Last Flight

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/the-last-flight

Just before that one was No Bigger Than The Space Of Time

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/no-bigger-than-the-space-of-time

And a pair, Aftermath of Sunlight and Pre-Cast-Shadows

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/aftermath-of-sunlight

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/pre-cast-shadows-aftermath-of-sunlight-pt-2

 

 

An ancient one I resurrected from an archived harddisk; made this back in the 1990s, IIRC

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/dinosaur-hunter

 

The most recent one still in progress, just a sketch:

https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=15064964

Edited July 27 by Amberwolf

[Amberwolf]

EDIT:  Gave this one it's own thread

 

Depeche Mode meets...Amberwolf?  

The last track above (still untitled) has now undergone  extensive editing, recomoposition, mix, added vocal tracks, accents, environmental fx and transitions added, reworked percussion, mix, etc.   and is definitely ready for public listening and feedback is desired.  Now  over on bancamp as 073425 000001 100096q 

edit:  072725: 072425 000001 100107r -- Reworked intro, assorted minor edits throughout

You'll like the evolving beat and interplay with lead and the tension building vocals.   

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-072425-000001

Orignal version still over at: https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=15064964

 

My trusty "AI" image creation tools failed me completely on this one, so I resorted to the ancient paintshop pro 6 to first make very dark one of the oldest of the orignal AI images I had made sometime last year, that didn't make the cut for anything else because it was totally wrong for whate I was doing then, especially since the "wolves" it made for the stage performers were weird versions of humans with sort of screwed up wolf like heads and extra limbs and whatnot.

It's still wrong now, but darkened more than 90%, then erasing all the stuff in the top third, and the sides, leaving just bare outlines so you can't see all the wierdness then I used lots of dodging, burning, selections, hue-to-target, etc, to eventually get the image you see above. So this one has at least a couple of hours of actual art creation in it. If I'd had time I would have done a much better job, but it will be seen at the size above for most viewers looking at the bandcamp page, or even smaller, so the detail didn't really matter. The fullsize version can be seen by clickign on the alburm art whiel on the bandcamp page for the song itself.

When I figure out what to call the present track, :oops: I'll add a title in a similar style at the bottom across the audience, but instead of glowing fire it will be shadow just back-edge-lit by the blue stage lights and fiery Amberwolf sign over the stage. .

 

Edited July 28 by Amberwolf

[Amberwolf]

 

I uploaded a couple of short edits of Behind You Lie many Unseen with just the "Elven rock" part, one with a bit of intro from teh previous section, and one without, for the listeners I've had on Bandcamp that the stats show did not listen far enough to hear that section, since it's so totally different from the rest of it.    

 

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/behind-you-lie-many-unseen-just-the-elven-rock-section

 

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/behind-you-lie-many-unseen-no-really-just-the-elven-rock-section

 

[Amberwolf]

EDIT: gave this one it's own thread now

 

Nine Thumbnails On A Dark Screen 

Seen Dexter? These are the people he hunts, doing their hunting....

, fairly grungy dark piece. 

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/nine-thumbnails-on-a-screen

The name came from something my brother was saying in an unrelated conversation about something someone else complained about online how all the little thumbnails on the screen were too hard to see, and my brain went somehwere completely different with both screen and thumbnails....you probably wont' like the cover art once I get that done becuase it'll be the other kind of thumbnails and screen.

the sound itself was an accident, i was trying to get something setup that would have been in the same vein as The Last Flight but accidentally dropped the bas line and some other bits into a track with grungy distortion fx, and when i hit play it sounded too interesting to  let go of.  so  it's still a WIP, still building the vocalizations track, gotta figure out chord changes, etc, might get longer (only a couple minutes so far), but it's still interesting. Probably a ways to go before it's "done", but feedback would be useful.

 

08-06-25: 080625 000001 000028c -- First Public Version
08-07-25: 080625 000001 100043g - vocal fixes, tempo changes, breaths, etc
08-10-25: 080625 000001 100060j - retouch backing sounds
 

Edited August 13 by Amberwolf

[Amberwolf]

Another new one:

Don't Know Why You Stay

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/dont-know-why-you-stay

just a minute of it so far so it won't take much time.  

Might have words, still working on those, read them real fast with the beat:

 I can feeeel youuu
 waiting for me
  I can heeear youu
 asking for me
  I can seeee you
 walking away
  from me.
Don't know why you stay
when you only want to leave
  I can feeeel it all
  can feeel your need
 i can feel you
 watching me
 i can hear you
 looking down at me
 Don't know why I care
when you're not really there
What is it when you call my name
what is it when i hear you say
what is it called 
what the hell do i say
when i
don't know don't care don't feel don't want
when i
cant see cant hear cant feel oh god
 I can feeeel youuu
 waiting for me
  I can heeear youu
 asking for me
  I can seeee you
 walking away
  from me.
But I 
don't know don't care don't feel don't want
when i
cant see cant hear cant feel oh god
need to
see you touch you smell you feel you
but you 
run away look back callmy name 
then you 
come back tell me what i am
and i 
feel you holding me killing me willing me
to go away stay there don't leave
oh god
  I can feeeel it all
  can feeel your need
 i can feel you
 watching me
 i can hear you
 looking down at me

Edited Tuesday at 09:21 AM by Amberwolf

[Amberwolf]

Updated, lengthened, improved and filled out Don't Know Why You Stay

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/dont-know-why-you-stay

 

 

Original version still here

https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=15091036

[treesha]

This is about Don't Know Why You Stay version updated. Thought I should let you know which one my comment is for ha.

Dramatic tense. I like the percussion. Sounds good. Moves along with a drive. Enjoyed it. Thought it might have the lyrics/words in it? 

[Amberwolf]

2 hours ago, treesha said:

Dramatic tense. I like the percussion. Sounds good. Moves along with a drive. Enjoyed it. Thought it might have the lyrics/words in it? 

Thanks!  I have to build the vocals out of existing phrases, words, etc. that I have in various sound bundles, so it is going to take quite a while to do.  It's likely that I'll end up using some from a couple of Black Octopus bundles, possibly Ghosthack, as these have enough words in them in different phrases and styles that I might be able to find enough pieces to cut up into the stuff I want.   

A bit like I did the spoken word stuff in The Beaten Dog, but much more complex because I ahve to fit the timing of the vocals to the existing music (instead of building both aroudn each other), and I have to cut up and pitch shift each syllable, etc, too.  (and can only do that a couple of semitones and keep it reasonably realistic, so...). 

 

(even if i could sing usefully, I can't do it fast enough and just speeding up my voice won't get the right result, so since i will have to do all that work anyway, I might as well do it on vocals that already sound good. :lol:   )