The third video blog of the recordings

III THE PYR∆MID SCHEME

Hello again! The updating pace is speeding up as the vocal recordings will start in a week and lyrics has to be done beforehand obviously. Lead guitars are already recorded and bass recordings are in two weeks. After that the main "instruments" are recorded and then it`s time for the extra "stuff", we`ll see later what that is going to be.

Now it is time to present the third (and second last) song of the EP, some kind of bottom of the "drama" wave. Or the peak, depends on the perspective. Like the first half of the EP has implied something massive begins to take shape.

THE PYR∆MID SCHEME

As people are nowadays becoming more and more aware of the actual, problematic nature of money it should be easy to perceive the big picture more clearly. So, as we know, money is not really anything valuable, it is not connected to gold or anything else, money is debt. So whenever bank makes a loan simultaneously the same amount of money is created. When the loan is paid back the same amount of money disappears but the interest remains. That`s how banks make their profit, obviously. Due to the fact that almost all the money is debt (and have to be paid back to the bankers eventually) in order to avoid "removing" too much money from economy (and decrease economic growth) have to take more debt. This creates the infinite necessity of economic growth because at the moment of making a loan the interest is not included. Thus in order to avoid removing too much money from economy by paying back the debt (and especially the interest) the economy has to grow nonstop. Perfect system! And perfect scheme.

Basically this is all about systematical money transfer to the bankers from the rest of the people. The system is very complex and it is difficult to question something that is not understood. And again the people who benefits of it are the ones who could change it, but not the ones who suffer. The politicians who could have an affect on it are bribed by the big corporations (and banks), looking after their own interests (also literally). That`s an interesting vision about democracy. Seems more like plutocracy.

Luckily the last song still remains so there might be some change…

- JK

The second video blog of the recordings

432 Hz

Greetings! At the very moment guitar recordings are going on and therefore it`s reasonable to take the tuning into consideration. In a normal case there wouldn`t be much of worth to write about but this time a little changes take place.

So as usual for us, the tuning starting from the lowest string is A-D-A-D-G-H-E. This is normal dropped-D tuning with seventh string being A. The tuning remains the same as earlier but one thing is different now: the reference frequency of A-note, instead of pitch standard 440 Hz, is now 432 Hz. Around A4, regarding the next higher or lower note this 8 Hz difference is not even half way, in fact it is approximately 1/6 of a pitch change on that high. So we are talking about slightly noticeable difference in the pitch.

This 440 Hz vs. 432 Hz confrontation is very controversial, more opinion-like than widely scientifically proven phenomena. The wildest conspiracies (theories?) claims that 440 Hz has been used for torturing people during wars and it has some kind of irritating effect on brains which helps to control people and therefore all that we hear from TV and radio would be tuned in 440 Hz. Even though it has been standardized already in 1953 by International Standards Organization it is still a standard reference tuning frequency nowadays and very commonly used especially in popular music.

It`s been studied that 432 Hz resonates with water and therefore it sounds more natural than 440 Hz. Its benefits has been widely discovered especially among the people of natural healing due to its relaxing effect. There is a lot of stuff about it on the internet, just searchengine it. Anyway, by no means neither 432 or 440 is only reference frequency used in the world. There has been a lot of different frequencies during the whole music history depending on the time period, music and most importantly the instrument as each instrument resonates in its own characteristic way. But 440 Hz just seems to linger especially in mainstream music. And really, I can`t deny it as a player, it is handy as all the music is in the same "tune".

So why to choose "a tuning" that has been noticed to have a relaxing effect for music that is not usually associated with relaxedness and furthermore with all kinds of conspiracies (theories?) surrounding it? And the answer is: because it fits to the theme, to try something new, to see if anyone notice the difference, to see if it affects on the music, to draw attention and just to annoy. But most importantly, it sounds and feels different, mystical I might say. And as listened for a quite long time now, regardless the possible placebo effect, it just sounds better.

- JK

The first video blog of the recordings

II M∆INSTRE∆M

Good whatever time of day! It`s been a while again but not as long as last time. The writing pace of this blog will speed up a bit from now on as we have started the actual recordings of the EP. So, we started the recordings by drums and it should be finished in a week from now, hopefully in the schedule! There is also a video blog coming soon regarding the recording itself, by the way. As the EP is progressing in terms of recording, it is convenient that lyrics are progressing too. This blog writing is a good sign of that progression. Let`s say a few words about the second song of the EP.

M∆INSTRE∆M

Nowadays nearly everything is mainstream: music, movies, languages etc. Unfortunately we have also so called mainstream media. In general, people have outsourced their thinking and brains because of mainstream media. In a sense people are floating in a stream which carries us in a way that we don`t need, or should I say we don`t realize to do anything. If something is published in the mainstream media it has to be true: almost everyone will see the same because and no one is questioning it, obviously, since there isn`t many other sources to question it either. Mostly the initial source is some huge news agency like Reuters or CNN but let`s consider following: what if the owner of every big news agency would be the same? Would it give the power of propaganda and disinformation to some non-governmental policymaker exclusively? Yep, it would.

The worst part is that we can`t know that for sure. People are easy to control and distract by something irrelevant with right timing and suitable subject, for example about celebrities, fears and so on... Yellow press is an decent example of this phenomena. The fundamental problem of it (like in many other cases) is our ignorance. In an organization a level is always accountable only for the higher one and eventually no one seems to know what is happening on the top of this freaky pyramid.

When the order is given we obey but where does the order come from? Let`s find out...

- JK

I DE∆DLINE

Greetings! After a few months break it is good to get back on the subject. As said in the first writing the musical part of the EP is ready but lyrics are still under work. Fortunately the phrases and words, rhymes and verses accumulate slowly by themselves and in the end somehow they seem to have some kind of thematical connection (or most likely the text makes sense only in the writers mind, we will see).

Eventhough not all of the lyrics are ready there has been some progress. Also the perspective has changed a few times, once very fundamentally because the file of the lyrics was deleted due to broken hard drive. Great! Recalling all of the lyrics hopefully saves all of the important parts and only the meaningless content was lost. Hmm...

In addition to the lyrics the graphical theme has perceived more clearly. Every song of the EP is going to have its own graphics with regard to the content of the song not to mention the thematical graphics of the whole EP. The graphics together will comprise a continuum with beginning and ending for the EP.

DE∆DLINE

So, let`s say something about the first song of the EP. In a head freak enough, a word deadline may create different visions. The first one is probably deadline regarding working, how always have to have a deadline due something has to be finished. The word is also combination of words ”dead” and ”line” (oh, really?). However, these two visions together reflects the current work-orienteed attitude. There is only a thin line between living and dying and that line seems to be money. A job is all that we need, without it we can not get money for living, to pay our rent or mortgage, our car, our clothes etc. Sometime we may notice that most of our earnings are spend to cover the costs arising from something related to working, for example a car. Without that job far away we wouldn`t even need a car necessarily. Suddenly we have a huge debt to pay back just because we needed that car to go to work to earn the money to cover the costs of that same car. And we have a rat race. The same apply to a house and mortgage. We live in a house which is vacant most of the time due to working just to pay back the mortgage of that same house. Dozens of years. The stress is guaranteed. Depression and other deseases arising from working flourish. Nothing is humane or natural.

As we are trapped in the system, where is all this money going? That is an interesting question... Maybe we will find out. Maybe.

-JK