Northcape album news April 2012

I had a setback today when the power supply on my PC blew up, but I hope this can be fixed within the next week or so ... Otherwise work on the new album was going well... I hope to have a track up on soundcloud soon (http://soundcloud.com/northcape). It hasn't been an easy process getting to this point (see my previous blog), but I'm hoping that I have made a breakthrough in the overall sound and coherence of the album. The album was originally inspired by a classic account of the exploration and discovery of the first route to the Nanda Devi Sanctuary in the Himalaya. This may or may not seem like a promising subject, but it gave a structure to the album, although it has obviously taken it's own route from there. Apart from anything else I have had a clear sequence of images in my head while composing some of the tracks and although I have never been to the Himalaya I have nevertheless drawn from my own experience when writing the tracks. The album also has a slightly different overall sound from Captured From Static, with more use of distortion. It feels like a logical progression as the sound draws from the Alluvial EP (free!- http://archive.org/details/elpa70) as well as Captured From Static. Currently there are 11 tracks, although it's possible this may increase. I'm still some way off a release date, but I'll let you know when there is more news!

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New Northcape remake 'Sundowner' now out

The Northcape remake of Mike Allen's track 'Sundowner' is now available for free d/l. You can pick this up plus the other two remakes from the Bandcamp release page here: http://sunseasky.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-from-home-revisited . This track was a challenge as it's not a remix, I wasn't allowed to use any of the original sounds from the track so it had to be remade from scratch, based on the original. The original is part of quite an intense and dark album in a different style to the music I normally listen to, which made it even more of a challenge, but it was a good experience to work on this and I think the final result does capture something of the feel of the original while still being recognisably 'Northcape'. I did this a while ago, so it's not really a clue to the sound of the tracks on the in-progress album (more on that later) but I'm glad it has finally been released. I also recommend the Boc Scadet remake.

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