tag:pisceancreed.com,2005:/blogs/screeds-from-the-creedScreeds from the Creed2021-05-01T10:00:00-07:00The Piscean Creedfalsetag:pisceancreed.com,2005:Post/69844282021-05-01T10:00:00-07:002023-10-16T07:51:20-07:00My Robot Kills Update<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/250566/3a00d3c7c09b05b7439493534101081e96c353c2/original/mrk-cover.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>My collaboration with My Robot Kills has ended, but in a very short amount of time, we produced eight great tracks. In addition to the three that were produced before my involvement, I'm very happy to say that there is an LP release on the horizon!</p>
<p>This project forced me to write some of the heaviest riffs I've ever conceived. Trying to play exactly what Josh's kick drums were doing was a Herculean feat, to say the least! No...I'm not djent...nor will I ever be. But this is as close as it comes.</p>
<p>Please check out all the released tracks from MRK here: <a contents="https://myrobotkills.bandcamp.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://myrobotkills.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">https://myrobotkills.bandcamp.com</a>/</p>
<p> </p>The Piscean Creedtag:pisceancreed.com,2005:Post/64800892020-11-17T18:42:28-08:002020-11-17T18:42:28-08:00COLLABORATION: The Piscean Creed and My Robot Kills<p>As of Friday, November 13th, I am a fully fledged member of MY ROBOT KILLS! </p>The Piscean Creedtag:pisceancreed.com,2005:Post/64672292020-10-30T22:56:01-07:002020-10-30T22:56:01-07:00COLLABORATION: The Piscean Creed and Brian Coelho<p>Check out our brand new cover of "Burn" by the Cure...just in time for Devil's Night! Guest vocals by Brian Coelho of Band of Ninjas!</p>
<p>FIRE IT UP!</p>
<p>FIRE IT UP!</p>
<p>FIRE IT UP!</p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://pisceancreed.bandcamp.com/track/burn" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/250566/3f90eed2e9a2740210f2c4cf0981b8ffca3b6fe6/original/crow-1.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>6:11The Piscean Creedtag:pisceancreed.com,2005:Post/64660622020-10-29T13:54:33-07:002020-10-29T13:55:29-07:00Brand New Single: "This is Halloween (Instrumental)"<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/250566/3cd0b4f44ad7bddd4bd40ce925dea908ca63da39/original/pc-halloweencd.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.png" class="size_s justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Remastered and re-drummed and re-released just in time for Halloween! Available directly from the top of my home page.</p>3:09The Piscean Creedtag:pisceancreed.com,2005:Post/64660732020-10-27T14:10:00-07:002020-10-29T14:10:20-07:00Current projects<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/250566/043fccc6f11edf2ee65eaec692ffe93af8e25670/original/dsc-2595.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p>
<ul> <li>Super secret rock and roll project. All remote recorded. Super rad old school 80s style rock and roll. Reminds me of The Cars, without all those pesky synthesizers.</li> <li>Spanish Guitar album - all electric, all re-arranged</li> <li>Quarantine EP - five songs, three of which are completely finished.</li> <li>The follow-up to Achilles XXI - about halfway done with this one</li>
</ul>The Piscean Creedtag:pisceancreed.com,2005:Post/64660712019-03-12T13:55:00-07:002020-10-29T14:03:07-07:00NEW ALBUM: "Achilles XXI"<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/250566/696d085b2a88cf4b3d9bcef1bceb33fb21775a2b/original/available-now.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Nine tracks of instrumetal -- some slow; some fast; some melodic; some decidedly not so.</p>
<ol> <li><span class="font_large"><strong>Achilles XXI</strong></span></li> <li><span class="font_large"><strong>Bend Sinister</strong></span></li> <li><span class="font_large"><strong>Iphigenia</strong></span></li> <li><span class="font_large"><strong>The Doppelganger</strong></span></li> <li><span class="font_large"><strong>Palms to the Victor</strong></span></li> <li><span class="font_large"><strong>A Swordmaster of the Ginaz</strong></span></li> <li><span class="font_large"><strong>Visigothic Dance Party</strong></span></li> <li><span class="font_large"><strong>Behind His Pallid Mask</strong></span></li> <li><span class="font_large"><strong>Laura Palmer's Theme</strong></span></li>
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<p><span class="font_large"><strong>Available at e-retailers everywhere! Also, available directly from this site.</strong></span></p>
<p> </p>The Piscean Creedtag:pisceancreed.com,2005:Post/56569562019-02-23T17:22:56-08:002020-09-24T11:38:03-07:00Brand New Single: "Laura Palmer's Theme"<p>The first single from my debut solo album is now available!</p>
<p><a contents="Piscean Creed Bandcamp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://pisceancreed.bandcamp.com/track/laura-palmers-theme" target="_blank">Piscean Creed Bandcamp</a></p>
<p>And <a contents="SoundCloud" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://soundcloud.com/pisceancreed/laura-palmers-theme-the-piscean-creed" target="_blank">SoundCloud</a></p>
<p>The music video is also available on my <a contents="Facebook page" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/PisceanCreed/" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>!</p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/250566/72a830cd99bc3c834085efef6441c48f21927d2e/original/52692446-2627340533948876-1930802857154445312-o.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>The Piscean Creedtag:pisceancreed.com,2005:Post/54228102018-09-10T13:19:20-07:002020-09-24T11:37:37-07:00Music Editor for the Big Sur Fashion Show<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.bigsurfashionshow.org/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/250566/101d74b7b8a527be5010a0907a611766726f3b5f/original/bigsurfashionshowposter.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>I was thrilled to be a part of the 2018 Big Sur Fashion Show this year, even though I couldn't physically be there in person (which killed me!--since my wife, the fabulous Beverly Van Pelt, is this year's Creative Director!) I was tasked with "dealing with the music"--which in this case meant manipulating all the music to the following specs:</p>
<ol> <li>Cut to two minutes</li> <li>Compressed for consistent volume across all tracks (sourced YouTube, CDs, MP3s, .m4u, etc.)</li> <li>Editing multiple songs together into single tracks, per designers' requests</li> <li>Editing different parts of the same song into a different order to better fit the runway performance</li> <li>Sweetening with additional bass, additional instrumentation, additional sound effects</li> <li>EQ for consistent clarity</li>
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<p>And then best of all, since Beverly was also a designer (and model!), she requested that I create an original track of music just for her performance, which I gladly did (within 24 hours of the request!).</p>
<p>You can see many of the videos (with music) online at <a contents="https://www.facebook.com/bigsurfashionshow/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.facebook.com/bigsurfashionshow/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/bigsurfashionshow/ </a>; and additional information about the event itself can be found at: <a contents="http://www.bigsurfashionshow.org/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.bigsurfashionshow.org/" target="_blank">http://www.bigsurfashionshow.org/</a></p>
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<p> </p>The Piscean Creedtag:pisceancreed.com,2005:Post/51140382018-03-06T10:19:49-08:002020-09-24T11:35:28-07:00BOG IRON 10th Anniversary Show!<p>BOG IRON, the Celtic rock band I co-founded with John Michael back in 2008 (actually we started rehearsing in 2007) is celebrating its 10th anniversary THIS St. Patrick's Day at The Sand Bar in Capitola!</p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/250566/86c4e54326a334d253df5ecea1d6e651fb28fa79/original/1891119-10152140905027933-1140722803-n.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_right border_" /></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/250566/12d9879510e0e5bf67635d2e390eff87cf098c59/original/bogironlive2-300dpi.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p>The Piscean Creedtag:pisceancreed.com,2005:Post/50712722018-02-09T10:41:57-08:002020-09-24T11:33:41-07:00Martin for Judge 2018<p>My old high school friend Brandon Martin is running for Kern County Superior Court Judge! I worked on a song for him and his campaign, and also created a launch video to announce my endorsement of Brandon for his 2018 campaign.</p>
<p>The song is almost finished, but you can definitely hear its overall shape in this video. Enjoy!</p>
<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="HTlPjsoT7Ks" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/HTlPjsoT7Ks/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HTlPjsoT7Ks?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>The Piscean Creedtag:pisceancreed.com,2005:Post/49119062017-10-30T13:23:09-07:002020-09-24T11:38:12-07:00New Music!<p>Been a while since I posted here...but in that time I've released two albums of new music!</p>
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<p>ONE: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - this is the score that I wrote for the summer production at Paper Wing Theatre in Monterey, directed by my immensely talented wife Beverly Van Pelt. I even sing on one of these tracks -- which is rarity, to say the least.</p>
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<p>TWO: "The All Hallow's Demos" - these are three heavily guitar-focused pieces that were just fun as hell to arrange. My tributes to Dark Shadows, A Nightmare Before Christmas, and--ostensibly--Fantasia (with "In the Hall of the Mountain King.")</p>
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<p>Both of these are available now through all digital retailers, and through my SoundCloud link above.</p>
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<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/250566/93c0cd9ff225b9c895b720676e3726635df7200a/medium/amsnd-album-cover.png?1509394923" class="size_m justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/250566/3cd0b4f44ad7bddd4bd40ce925dea908ca63da39/medium/pc-halloweencd.png?1509394923" class="size_m justify_center border_" /></p>The Piscean Creedtag:pisceancreed.com,2005:Post/47038322017-05-10T13:31:06-07:002020-09-24T11:37:02-07:00Launch Day<p>Well..re-launch. I've successfully migrated my website over from SquareSpace. Oh...who am I kidding? I did no such thing. I just burned down the old one and recreated this one entirely anew. Regardless, look for brand new content--including my new EP, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," containing original music composed for <a contents="Paper Wing Theatre's" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.paperwing.com" target="_blank">Paper Wing Theatre's</a> Spring 2017 production of William Shakespeare's most popular comedy.</p>The Piscean Creed