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New Release: Methodical Variations Volume I

Get Methodical Variations Volume I Right Now!

Available now for the low price of Five Canadian Dollars, you get five new Candle tracks which were written during February Album Writing Month 2015.  These are songs that did not fit into the Moonscapes concept album & reflect different recording & compositional techniques then the usual Candle Modus Operati.

Get Methodical Variations Volume I Right Now!

Once you’ve listened to the tracks, let me know what you think of them in the comment form below.  Also, tell me what other sorts of bonus items you would love to see in future Candle releases.

See You In The Shadows…

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Review: Argentavis Exponential by Captain Vulpine!

The mad genius that is Captain Vulpine! returns to haunt your dreams & waking moments with more tales of debauchery, woe, sea shanties & even a demon being released from the Pale.  Argentavis Exponential is the third album from this maverick Portland songwriter (well, under this pseudonym anyway…).  Written as part of the 2015 edition of February Album Writing Month, Argentavis Exponential drags the listener into the Captain’s wild world.

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A Community In The Shadows…

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NEW CANDLE COMMUNITY

So you like soundscapes & musical explorations? And you want to hear more, right?

Sign up right now for the small fee of five Canadian dollars a month & get all of Candle’s studio albums as well as exclusive content (music, collectable items, etc…) available only to community members. Not to mention all the new music Candle releases sent directly to you. Also, by signing up you make it possible for Candle to produce more of the unique music you enjoy already.

I am so excited to offer this to my fans & hope that you take advantage of this opportunity to join the Candle Community.

See You In The Shadows…

p.s. We just added our fist Community Exclusive Bonus!  This is only available to Community Members, so sign up now to get all seven Candle Studio albums & this exclusive release – plus all the new music I make, streaming instantly on your mobile device via the free Bandcamp app, and also available as a high-quality download.*

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Some Good Things Coming Soon…

Yesterday was spent performing & recording a new video project inspired by the greatly misunderstood German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.  The Good Four takes its name from an aphorism presented in Nietzsche’s 1881 book entittled The Dawn.  The video is over an hour & a half long & features songs from across Candle’s repitoire as well as a number of brand new improvisations.  The performance was captured via webcam.

Post production work will commence on the video shortly.  However, here is a sneek peak at the new video.  This brand new song is called Alhambra At Dusk & is a live improvisation recorded during The Good Four sessions.

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New EP Released…

NEW EP RELEASED
Cuillères Intergalactiques
My friend, Joanne Gabriel (joannegabriel.bandcamp.com), has inspired me to experiment with creating sounds with my guitar. As such, I sat down recently & recorded a bunch of songs using regular household spoons as the main method of strumming the strings on my guitar. I played around with a bunch of effects in Jeskola Buzz & was able to create some really otherworldly & spacey tones. After recording these songs, I had this sudden brainstorm to release them as an EP of demos.

These are the demos that resulted from this process.

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released 25 April 2015

Guitar, Spoon Guitar, Bowl Guitar, Soft Synth: Darby Spicer

Artwork: Darby Spicer

track list
  1.  Spoons In Space, Part I
  2.  Orion’s Silverware
  3.  Cuillères Intergalactiques
  4.  To Where The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon
  5.  Spoons In Space, Part II