About the Album:
There was no break between my previous music project and this one – In fact, Som·Nam·Bu·List was literally built around B:Sides. When I distributed this album, I did so with the twelve tracks from B:Sides as tracks 2 through 13. I felt this project, while ultimately significantly better, was still conceived of the same spirit of feeling around in the dark until something worked.
Continuing in this fashion, Som·Nam·Bu·List featured more advanced piano-roll style sequencing, multi-layered post effects processing, better mastering, improved instrument and vocal recording, and introduced MIDI as a backbone for more original compositions.
Equipment remained largely unchanged from before, though introduced the use of Image-Line’s Fruity Loops 5 (now known as FL Studio), as well as a a new BC Rich Bronze Warlock electric guitar, a Fender Princeton Chorus amplifier, an MXL 990 condenser microphone, and an M-Audio KeyStation 49e MIDI keyboard.
Cover Art:
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Somnambulist cover art
The Music:
Following this paragraph are the fourteen tracks exclusive to Som·Nam·Bu·List. This page makes use of HTML5′s multimedia embedding capabilities, and as such, each track should show its own player native to your browser, a Flash-based player, or a textual download link.
01. Obligatory Intro Track
14. Convergence
15. No Need for a Title
16. Acirema
17. Jackal (8-Bit Rave)
18. Euro-Austro-Chino-Techno (rEACT rEMIX)
19. Narcolepsy (Electronic Version)
20. Leaving
21. Messages
22. Slite Lee Darc
23. The Matallicon
24. Dyscomplexia
25. Phantom
26. The Last Rave
Additional Credits:
All tracks except 17 and 25 were sequenced with Sony Pictures Digital’s ACID Pro 4.0, using the stock loops. All tracks except 18 used Image Line’s Fruity Loops 5 to produce synthesized vocals, implement VSTi synth instruments, sample, loop, mix, compose, and sequence. Tracks 14, 16, and 19 used Scott Evans’s Bucket O’ Tab, for exporting MIDI files from guitar tablature. Tracks 01 and 20 used Sony Pictures Digital’s Sound Forge 7, for recording vocals. Tracks 15 and 21 used Callwave, Inc.’s Callwave (Home Edition), to sample incoming voice-messages. Track 16 is an interpretation of “To Anacreon in Heaven,” better known as The (USA) National Anthem. Track 17 is an interpretation of the title theme from Konami’s 1988 game for Nintendo’s NES game system, Jackal, composed by Fujio and Sakamoto, as well as public-domain sound effects. Track 21 contains an interpretation of the traditional English ballad, “House of the Rising Sun.” Track 22 contains several dialogue samples from Warner Brothers Entertainment’s 1982 film, Bladerunner. Track 23 is a mash-up of two Metallica songs; “Blackened” and “To Live is to Die,” both from 1988′s “…And Justice For All,” on Elektra/Atlantic Records. Track 25 is an interpretation of the title theme from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1986 “The Phantom of the Opera.”