I wrote the bulk of this on December 22nd, which was the Winter Solstice this year. This one has a bunch of stuff on it, like my 12-String Semi Hollow electric guitar, midi banjo, midi mandolin, two electric pianos, my 5-string OLP Stingray bass, a hyped up fake electric 6-string through a hyped up fake array of amps, distortion pedals, phasers, and wah-wahs. Drums are the Hit Factory kit in Superior Drummer.

I've got a subsonic generator triggering off the kick to give it more balls, and a subtle amount of white noise triggering off of the snare to give it that Mutt Lange "burst-of-air" pop.

It's titled "Winter Solstice":

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=11317373

Lots of energy there and cool sounds.  The timing in the beginning gave me pause for awhile, but it seemed to settle down (or I seemed to get it) before long. 

Sounds like your winter solstice was a lot more exciting than mine...

Lots of energy there and cool sounds. The timing in the beginning gave me pause
for awhile, but it seemed to settle down (or I seemed to get it) before long.

Sounds like your winter solstice was a lot more exciting than mine...


Thanks Janet!

There's weird 10/8 phrases in the front half that I tried to disguise as toe tappable music. The second half gets into straight ahead 4/4 and was supposed to be the change to longer and longer days coming. :-)

So there WAS a change...at least I'm not just going totally crazy. :) 

So there WAS a change...at least I'm not just going totally crazy. :)


Yep, ever since the 22nd daylight has been expanding! ;)

Not fast enough, IMO...but yes, it IS expanding I'm sure.  :) 

Not fast enough, IMO...but yes, it IS expanding I'm sure. :)



It's happening as fast as the forum software fix that's going to make it so I don't have to go back and edit every single post I make, to add HTML commands to try to format the messages correctly with Firefox. ;)

I only use Chrome now with the forum.  Firefox just annoys me.  

A great piece of music with lots of drama, energy and zest. "Winter Solstice"? Time of darkest night, triumph of Dark over Light followed by rebirth of light as the Mabon (Celtic Child of Light - weak, tiny but destined to grow and defeat Dark). You have the first part perfect (triumph of Dark - which is the main part of the Winter Solstice) - just add a quiet passage, as the 'promise' of the Light returning to vanquish Dark and you have a world class piece of music. And then of course you have seven more Celtic festivals to cover!

I only use Chrome now with the forum. Firefox just annoys me.


I refuse to use yet another "work around" just because someone is too lazy to update the forum software.