tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15107841228419357502024-03-05T10:56:31.119+01:00The Peculiar Sounds of Peter ScionPeter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-6124513290130918322025-01-21T23:30:00.000+01:002012-01-21T23:32:22.165+01:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7AowLmvgu_FS2pJ67cu-RS4-C_T1ZRiiqd2kkj_Wdt-8I9DToyt9OzU-1BGv43DyzZ3vpoE9HCI20ZMfdRquqffDPPoYaEoQLkmzUSX94vjD8QxrY0PWgo9Nq8zvNop8f1rWIAOxMga8/s1600/Unwanted.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 287px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7AowLmvgu_FS2pJ67cu-RS4-C_T1ZRiiqd2kkj_Wdt-8I9DToyt9OzU-1BGv43DyzZ3vpoE9HCI20ZMfdRquqffDPPoYaEoQLkmzUSX94vjD8QxrY0PWgo9Nq8zvNop8f1rWIAOxMga8/s400/Unwanted.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700216455525660114" border="0" /></a>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-1360391437682862102020-12-12T03:04:00.045+01:002009-05-15T01:49:55.220+02:00DEAR FELLOW TRAVELLERS!<span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >You are about to enter the curious universe of Peter Scion, and I bid you welcome!</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">WHY A PETER SCION BLOG?</span><br /><br /></span></div><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >While trodding the outbacks of internet, I've found there's a lingering interest in the music I </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >made about ten years ago. Every now and then, I bump into places where you can download my</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > albums, and I think it's great! I eagerly advocate such activities by anyone who finds it worth to </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >sustain the interest in the songs I once wrote. However, I see that some people ask for more of</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > my music, since my albums are virtually impossible to find. They had a limited distribution</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > already upon their release, and as all of them were CD-R:s, I suspect they have a limited</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > second hand appeal.</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Therefore I have decided to upload my entire back catalogue for anyone who is interested in it.</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > It's all for free, it's all legal - you may download as much as you like. If you want to leave a</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >comment, it is much appreciated but I'm not one of these people who beg for response. It is all</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > up to you what you prefer to do, and it's all fine by me. However, if you have any problems with the downloads, I encourage you to drop me a line so that I can fix it.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">WHY GIVE AWAY THE MUSIC FOR FREE?<br /><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">First of all, I want to make my music easily available to anyone who cares about it. I've never had any illusions making big bucks from it anyway. I also fully grasp the importance of free music: I am, or at least I was, a more or less invisible artist on the fringes of the music world, and if I want to keep my music alive and want it to reach potential new listeners, this is the only sensible way to go.<br /><br />And so, there's also a slightly political side to it: With the current international inquisition against filesharing, I want to take a stand against the furious hunt for music fans all over the world. Therefore, it is free for anyone to download my albums, and in turn publish them on blogs or share them through other filesharing channels. THIS MUSIC WAS BORN A FREE SPIRIT AND IT WANTS TO REMAIN THAT WAY! However, if you plan to use my music for commercial or profitable purposes, I eagerly advise you to get in touch with me first. I consider that a fair deal.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ></span><div style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WHAT'S HERE?<br /><br /></span></span></div><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Aside from all the regular albums, you will find lots of albums that are previously </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >unreleased. Back in the day when I was a compulsive recording artist, I filled tapes and tapes </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >and tapes of music, and quite a lot of it has remained unreleased until now, or released to a </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >handful of people only. I know there are more songs tucked away in some boxes somewhere,</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >and if I'm in a particularly archaeological mood some day, I will dig through it all and have it</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > digitalized. Until then, I hope these offers will keep you going for a while.</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Although you can find many outtakes and rejected recordings on this blog already, I will add a</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > previously unreleased (or hens' teeth rare) song each month. These "hens' teeth" will be posted <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/hens-teeth.html">here</a>.</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Some of the albums here have been, well remastered is too strong a word, but I have at least</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > tried to polish away the most ear-wrenching noises from the recordings which I thought needed</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > it. I'm not a technical wiz by any stretch, and the equipment used for cleaning up the sound is</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > certainly rudimentary to the serious hi-fi freak. But then again, my music was never aimed at the sound</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > buffs; it was all recorded under the pressures of insufficient technology. That was a challenge I</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > eagerly accepted; when recording, I made no difference between limitations and possibilities.</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > With only four channels (rarely more than that) I often had to come up with unorthodox</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > solutions to creative problems.</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >The albums appear on the blog grouped by artist (solo albums first) in the order they were recorded. The "hens' teeth" will be published last</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >, as said above</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >. For easy navigation, use the "Blog archive" section to the right.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div face="verdana" style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_-UF7e88595tDQYFLtXZ6e7-Iu8WYRstJ7eKNFM1xtDnsmg_gy7QUvfYpKup_lHI5sQbJGz9gZS8NrotGEFVg89pJVyjaqc0XPT_57mdHxllWm49mtWMHDEUTC7XB1iFNCpw-6LtOU8/s1600-h/to+the+right.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 164px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw_-UF7e88595tDQYFLtXZ6e7-Iu8WYRstJ7eKNFM1xtDnsmg_gy7QUvfYpKup_lHI5sQbJGz9gZS8NrotGEFVg89pJVyjaqc0XPT_57mdHxllWm49mtWMHDEUTC7XB1iFNCpw-6LtOU8/s320/to+the+right.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334211912305749970" border="0" /></a></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ></span><div style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">HOW TO DOWNLOAD<br /><br /></span></span></div><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Downloading is easy. You just click on the download links following the comments to each album. You have two options; either you choose the MP3 alternative for 320 kbit/s mp3's, or you choose the high quality WAV version. The MP3's are stored at Mediafire, providing quick and parallell downloads with no passwords needed. WAV:s are downloaded from Megaupload. All files come as regular rar files and are easy to decompress.<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Unfortunately, for the time being, there are no CD covers included with the downloads. I hope to provide them at a later stage. There are however info documents to go along with each album.</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WHERE TO START?<br /><br /></span></span></div><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >There's a pretty voluminous amount of albums found in this blog, and perhaps you don't know where to begin? If you want a quick career overview, I have created a special newcomer's introduction named after this blog, and you can find it below, before the original albums.<br /><br />Listening to all the music I made in the past forced me to re-evaluate a lot of it. Instead of</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > hearing the pain and anguish which often inspired me to lay down a song, I hear a fair bit of </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >creativity. It's been great fun going through all this weirdness a decade after it was made. This</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > Peter Scion guy was some crazy guy, but he had one or two bright moments after all. :-)</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >FINALLY, A CLARIFICATION</span></span></span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >There's a faulty piece of information floating around on the internet. There's a cover of the Pink Floyd song "Julia Dream" included in the huge Syd Barrett bootleg compilation "Have You Got It Yet". The track is attributed to Drekka, Ring, The Iditarod and me. I did tour with these nice lads and lassies, but I never played on "Julia Dream". This false piece of information of course brings my name up in plenty of places, and I assume it's good for spreading the name. But, I did not play on it!<br /><br />And now the ceremony is about to begin...</span>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-64130630428498713882011-01-23T02:21:00.003+01:002011-01-23T02:35:39.835+01:00SIGNS OF LIFE<span style="font-family: arial;">This blog has been asleep for so long I can't come up with any other excuse than that time just flew by and other things happened. Business as usual, then.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I've noticed that some links are dead, which indeed demands correction. I plan to deal with this in the coming weeks, but then again, I've made promises before without being able to keep them, so don't expect too much... </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">There are some new "bootlegs" in the making, similar in concept to the <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/time-vaults-pangolin-1998-1999.html">"Time Vaults"</a> set by Pangolin. In other words, more rehearsals and live tapes found in the closet some six months ago. Sound quality varies but there are a few tapes I think are worth hearing just the same.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">On a completely different note, I was shocked to hear about Captain Beefheart's passing not long ago. He's a true hero of mine, and although it was obvious he'd never return to music making, his death brought me down. So many great talents are gone now.<br /><br />Anyway, I'm still here and hopefully you are too.<br /><br />Take care,<br />Peter<br /></span>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-62253337256341507402010-07-07T18:41:00.002+02:002010-07-07T18:46:23.129+02:00"LOST ALBUM" NOW AVAILABLE<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">"Sombre Trust" is finally available for download! It's an album of 15 songs found in the closet and forgotten about. Recorded some time in 1999 and 2000 (some parts of it might have been recorded even earlier), it should have been the follow-up to "Through My Ghost". A decade later you can find it <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/sombre-trust-peter-scion-1999-2000.html">here</a>.</span>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-45175510118506694412010-07-07T06:14:00.003+02:002010-07-07T06:31:43.459+02:00HERE WE GO AGAIN!<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Things are moving here again! First of all I have updated the Hens' Teeth section - five previously unreleased song. As usual, they can be found </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/hens-teeth.html">here</a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> (scroll down to the end of the post). There are now fifteen Hens' Teeth available for download, and I'm beginning to think it's getting a bit unwieldy</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >. </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I sometimes think that perhaps I should collect all tracks posted up to now as one single download, but that might give someone the feeling it's a proper album which it isn't. It is just a bunch of wildly disparate songs. Anyway.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The second new installment here is a compilation of Pangolin rehearsal. It's called "Time Vaults" - spot the reference! Those who fancy primitive recordings to outcrude any old garage band have to check that one out. Grab it </span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/time-vaults-pangolin-1998-1999.html">here</a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> and read all about it. For the first time, I have included a cover in the rar file. I'm not sure it will work properly when you print it - I don't have much experience of pixels & centimeters</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">, so please let me know if it could be done better. The cover is, as you'll see, a shameless tribute to bootlegs of the olden days.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">That's all for now. It's 6.30 in the morning and I have a strange feeling I should go to bed.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="visibility: visible;" id="main"><span style="visibility: visible;" id="search"><em></em></span></span>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-69922393710567375082010-03-02T02:11:00.002+01:002010-03-02T02:14:54.839+01:00MYSPACE SPACED OUT<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">MySpace keeps giving me a hard time. I just can't get it to work, it just behaves so strange. I wish I could reply to comments but it doesn't seem to work. Must be a cosmic bug. So, if anyone comes from there to here, apologies if it seems I don't care about comments because I do. </span>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-85501691958894309322010-01-17T18:16:00.003+01:002010-01-17T18:30:30.615+01:00RAIDING THE ARCHIVES!<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The heavy, creaking iron door moaned, and with a wave of my hand, I removed the dangling cobwebs sticking to my face. At the end of the long corridor, I found a sealed, heavy box. I wiped the moist off it, broke the lock and opened the box. There, inside, were rows of tapes, stored safely from intruders, forgotten by time. Hours and hours of unreleased Peter Scion recordings right before my eyes.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwu_8SuJjDkCyGixpI32uhVbZZBjDbGSU2W3QviernVUv3ts7CJXZEH4nDC2ZyPymbwcx7fvI2dCQKXhqEgmV8aKDRkQfmUd2fnx8ctXaNAAypUTpKrLDyp0aF_W1glLRyUMAWOK5Vbc/s1600-h/Closet+Tapes.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwu_8SuJjDkCyGixpI32uhVbZZBjDbGSU2W3QviernVUv3ts7CJXZEH4nDC2ZyPymbwcx7fvI2dCQKXhqEgmV8aKDRkQfmUd2fnx8ctXaNAAypUTpKrLDyp0aF_W1glLRyUMAWOK5Vbc/s400/Closet+Tapes.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427762293890378530" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Well, actually, I opened the closet door and with some effort, I took down a cardboard box which indeed contained several hours of unreleased material. I had forgotten what a lot of it actually was; there were 4 track masters, rehearsal tapes, live recordings and outtakes, all in one jumbled up hodge-podge of tiny plastic boxes from the days before mp3's. The most striking find must be an entire, previously unreleased album recorded around 2000. I had a faint notion of some of the songs, but I was far from sure there were so many that they make up a whole album. I am already in the process of digitalizing the tapes, and this album will be made available in the near future here on the blog.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The rest of the material, spread over an amount of circa 70 tapes will also be released, at least in parts. Some of it has less than acceptable sound quality, but some of it sounds OK. I'm quite excited about these discoveries, and it will be a pleasure to share the best of them with you!</span>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-74358555794175784292010-01-01T14:22:00.001+01:002010-01-01T14:24:55.905+01:00"GENTLY JOHNNY" ON YOUTUBEThanks to "strange137", my recording of "Gently Johnny" (as found on "Devachan") is up on Youtube. I had no idea someone had posted it until my fiance told me about it. Appreciation goes out to strange137 for spreading my music!<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CoRB8LwaOPE&hl=sv_SE&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CoRB8LwaOPE&hl=sv_SE&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-26326617661544034242009-07-06T05:02:00.003+02:002009-07-06T05:14:40.156+02:00TREE MUSIC WEBSIDE DEAD...?<span style="font-family:arial;">It seems that the original Peter Scion website, Tree Music, has gone down. I wasn't the web master, and I have no idea what happened, perhaps Yahoo pulled it for some reason. Anyway, as it seems, this blog will be the main source for information on my past (but not very likely present) doings. At least until I figure out what happened.<br /><br />It's a bit sad if it actually is defunct, because all my lyrics were kept there, plus plenty of other written work, and due to a number of reasons, I have no other copies of it... (And before you point it out to me: I know, it's stupid of me not to keep a better backup of my own work.)<br /></span>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-77591734727251734152009-05-12T18:49:00.008+02:002009-05-12T21:59:46.301+02:00THE PECULIAR SOUNDS OF PETER SCION: A NEWCOMER'S INTRODUCTION (1989-2005)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv78pJGWXkAFAQsjk_70VJmI4dmmeGebS9NtpCwRcQZqfJmAykD4mLWlcXJDlNXazsIrmm4rHuxEljLl3vtRJnTFiBoCUmSEzklX8odN1pyQZICyqDkDDNKcdNC7h7RNwmm0t5T4AvP9w/s1600-h/peculiarsounds.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv78pJGWXkAFAQsjk_70VJmI4dmmeGebS9NtpCwRcQZqfJmAykD4mLWlcXJDlNXazsIrmm4rHuxEljLl3vtRJnTFiBoCUmSEzklX8odN1pyQZICyqDkDDNKcdNC7h7RNwmm0t5T4AvP9w/s400/peculiarsounds.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335025483716188962" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />With so many albums of mine available here, you might find it hard to decide what to download unless you're already familiar with my music. Therefore I have compiled an album of 2CD's length covering every album I've made, including group efforts from Modryn, Continental Soul Searchers, and Pangolin.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">It's always hard to make compilations of your own work, and my opinion is that the artists themselves rarely are the best persons to decide what material is appropriate to include. Had someone else put together a Peter Scion "best of" or "introduction" styled album, it might have looked very different. I have however tried to shed light on as many different styles I thought necessary, why this introduction swings wildly from dark folk to country music to heavy rock to... Well, you get the point. However, this isn't meant to be a cohesive album, just the introduction the title suggests.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">For quick download, it's available only in slightly lesser quality mp3's. If you have an irresistable urge to get this music in better quality after messing up your mind with these selections, I humbly advise you to choose the regular albums.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jzgtyne4zzd">DOWNLOAD DISC 1</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?i3l122fmgik">DOWNLOAD DISC 2</a><br /></span>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-80078772078718348392009-05-07T23:59:00.016+02:002009-05-13T00:54:29.844+02:00DEVACHAN (Peter Scion 1997)<div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyFRpnrBBiuglD9gwKPw_TtwBEw33VgjHroeELM_5lo09GmCF4dZmZAggax14XD-WGeIPj5bgP-d5pCNy6CepxHZcehXUiWZDjxDySdRW4HI64ZQVqeYnYdc8FtJuuYIucUl29644H-ds/s1600-h/devachan.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyFRpnrBBiuglD9gwKPw_TtwBEw33VgjHroeELM_5lo09GmCF4dZmZAggax14XD-WGeIPj5bgP-d5pCNy6CepxHZcehXUiWZDjxDySdRW4HI64ZQVqeYnYdc8FtJuuYIucUl29644H-ds/s400/devachan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332916302296499762" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br />After a few musical miscarriages, "Devachan" came to me as my firstborn album. As my debut, it will always have a special place in my heart. It also seems to me that this is the record of mine that people like the most.<br /><br />I have to thank my dear friend Christer Bäckhage for setting this weird thing into motion. After hearing some of my earlier recordings, he suggested that I should go all the way and try to make something more psychedelic. That pulled the plug. Or rather, that broke the levee. As soon as I started recording, I couldn't tape enough songs. It took only a week to finish the entire album, but more songs were coming which eventually made up the two albums that followed it.<br /><br />Whether "Devachan" is psychedelic or not is up to other people to decide, but it was definitely a trip into my own mind at the time. Listening to it is listening to someone slightly lost in and baffled by his own creativity, somewhere between a slightly uncomfortable past and an unknown future. And so "Devachan" is the perfect title for the album. The word is Sanskrit for the place where the soul dwells after death but before rebirth. That's where you found me as an artist in early 1997.<br /><br />The name "Scion" came from a headline in a British music magazine (and not from the Ian Matthews song that some have believed). I liked the meaning of it although I was a bit uncomfortable with its sound to begin with. But the name stuck, and soon I was as much the Scion persona as I was the ordinary, everyday me. Actually, when I became Peter Scion I became more of my real self, because Peter Scion could say things I couldn't.<br /><br />Before my friend Lars Holmquist founded the "kitchen table label" Domestica (simply because he thought the album was so good that he wanted it out in some way, even if he had to do it himself), I sent out a tape with a three track selection to various record labels in Europe. I got only one reply, a year or so later. I can't remember now who from, but he had suddenly found the tape behind a shelf, forgetting he had recieved it in the first place. Now he had listened to it, and was interested in releasing "Devachan" on his label. "Sure," I wrote to him. I never heard from him again.<br /><br />MP3:<br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?xztmzeue2of">DOWNLOAD PART 1</a><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zumddmtrydi"><br />DOWNLOAD PART 2</a><br /><br />WAV:<br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EK9X4SA5">DOWNLOAD<br /></a></div></div>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-81071882238107742532009-05-07T23:58:00.012+02:002009-05-13T03:22:06.050+02:00TREE MUSIC (Peter Scion 1997)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixGWkOaulKc7SYUbpGq_XShf5s_CGD4iqjdKPgdxYu6v00WSzg3h9ZVP981arEGGSzuRC2sSM-d81e2GocWJh_fzaGgQBRl-s9VxScL73pTlOQLMXyQki7s3GaiB-o5Jy1cih-D-99csE/s1600-h/Tree+Music.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixGWkOaulKc7SYUbpGq_XShf5s_CGD4iqjdKPgdxYu6v00WSzg3h9ZVP981arEGGSzuRC2sSM-d81e2GocWJh_fzaGgQBRl-s9VxScL73pTlOQLMXyQki7s3GaiB-o5Jy1cih-D-99csE/s400/Tree+Music.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332916594732978306" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I can't remember really how "Tree Music" came about. From what I recall now, it just seemed to happen. After <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/devachan-1997.html">"Devachan"</a>, I kept recording, and I suddenly had enough material to fill a 90 minute tape. About half of that material was structured as <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/amethyst-dream-1997.html">"The Amethyst Dream"</a>. At one point, Lars at Domestica and I talked about releasing "The Amethyst Dream" together with "Devachan" as a box set of sorts including "Tree Music". The idea was scrapped, but suddenly we had another album ready for release. "Tree Music" and "The Amethyst Dream" were released simultaneously.<br /><br />The odd thing about "Tree Music" is that it seems to have a theme of its own. All the songs deal, in one way or another, with nature. The unintentional concept album! It is also by far the strangest album of mine, with "Willow Moon" being the off-beat centrepiece. (And off tune too for that matter...) There's also a new version of "These Darkened Trees" which is the perfect example of how not to make a record. I had just bought myself a cheap sitar, and with fearlessness bordering on sheer stupidity, I decided to play a very long solo on said sitar. I also turned it up pretty loud in the mix, so that no-one would miss it... Those were the days! Anyway, this arrangement (bar the sitar!) became the foundation for subsequent takes on the song, including the one with <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/beneath-these-darkened-trees-1999_06.html">Pangolin</a>.<br /><br />This is indeed one freak of an album, and perhaps that's an appeal of its own. At least one person I know has cited "Tree Music" as his favourite Peter Scion album... Another friend of mine had a good laugh when he heard "The Flower of My Secret Garden" for the first time. "What a freaky song!" he said, probably with equal parts of joy and fear... "Tree Music" seems to generate odd reactions.<br /><br />The album cover was a shameless tribute to the <a href="http://espdisk.com/official/">ESP Disk'</a> aesthetics. I love the homemade feel of their covers; that simple, stark black and white look that seemed to signal an urge to express oneself. I could easily relate to that, and although I no longer make music myself, I still can.<br /><br />MP3:<br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?z2johzmw5dm">DOWNLOAD</a><br /><br />WAV:<br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y11IZGAD">DOWNLOAD</a><br /></span></div></div>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-87733838801215545022009-05-06T23:57:00.014+02:002009-05-13T03:24:58.201+02:00THE AMETHYST DREAM (Peter Scion 1997)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHT_rv_AOnQWXk_pTvxCT8TMCUpXsbuufjWhD-hNLpGqoGaHeHIGU8HMvqItYJLfVvd2SIxmWf3FkVDWIIk0OkAq1RKiA0eUhtJgliklkZgqyH7l_wz_ZwQg0pu2t3tx2cpLVkUKtrV0E/s1600-h/The+Amethyst+Dream.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHT_rv_AOnQWXk_pTvxCT8TMCUpXsbuufjWhD-hNLpGqoGaHeHIGU8HMvqItYJLfVvd2SIxmWf3FkVDWIIk0OkAq1RKiA0eUhtJgliklkZgqyH7l_wz_ZwQg0pu2t3tx2cpLVkUKtrV0E/s400/The+Amethyst+Dream.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332916977051751858" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">My third album was my personal favourite for a while, and I still like how it works cyclical, like an eternity sign. The last track "The Garden" (featuring Carita Forslund on flute) spiritually connects with the opening track, the likewise instrumental "Spring Fair Tune". The title track, also instrumental, is placed in the middle: the point where everything meets. When choosing the songs for "The Amethyst Dream", I tried to make it an album that you could listen to at a low volume, almost like an ambient album. However, tracks such as "Death Comes From The Sky" is a far cry from your typical ambient styled music!<br /><br />The cover shot was taken by my inspirational mentor and close friend Christer Bäckhage. There was a small deserted garden not far from where I lived, and I decided it would be a perfect place for some posing. Luckily, I'm not seen clearly on the cover, more like a shadow emerging from the dark. I actually hate pictures of myself, and it would take a good while until I decided to have a proper portrait of myself on an album cover.<br /><br />They have now ruined the deserted garden by building an ugly house there. (Sometimes, reality is very harsh.) They left the small stone steps (on which I sit) leading up to the garden though, but the magic of the place is gone.<br /><br />"The Amethyst Dream" is the final part of what works like a trilogy, preceeded by <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/tree-music-1997.html">"Tree Music"</a> and <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/devachan-1997.html">"Devachan"</a>. The intention was never to create a cycle of albums, but "The Amethyst Dream" somehow seems to finish what "Devachan" started.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />MP3:<br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?myqzcmzgmmq"><span>DOWNLOAD PART 1</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zhhmohjvamj">DOWNLOAD PART 2</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">WAV:</span><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HLAD0MHG"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOAD</span></a><br /></div></div>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-71446071083374706912009-05-06T23:56:00.011+02:002009-05-14T13:46:29.257+02:00SWEET SORROW MAN (Peter Scion 1997)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv_cbv_8OQ5BoFegy5K3MnbuAiWS2R-MIw1WtuPwtH8VRNODdxxkNp0vfpOIzU6prKbfy-dEbY5t_mXXNPAvEJe5959c_SLeFZctZkreNCcq-PeP7GUBZg4KRUIzWMCaimVDthyphenhyphentfK3og/s1600-h/Sweet+Sorrow+Man.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv_cbv_8OQ5BoFegy5K3MnbuAiWS2R-MIw1WtuPwtH8VRNODdxxkNp0vfpOIzU6prKbfy-dEbY5t_mXXNPAvEJe5959c_SLeFZctZkreNCcq-PeP7GUBZg4KRUIzWMCaimVDthyphenhyphentfK3og/s400/Sweet+Sorrow+Man.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332917189761937826" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">"Sweet Sorrow Man" seemed to surprise many of my listeners. After three albums of folk psych, I suddenly turned to country music! However, it's not a fullblown country album, but the influence is definitely there. Mick Capewell, who interviewed me for UK mag Ptolemaic Terrascope, dubbed it "Country & Northern", and that is quite possibly the best description I've heard of it.<br /><br />To me, however, the change wasn't that sudden at all. I had listened a fair bit to country music and traditional American songs for some while before I recorded "Sweet Sorrow Man". After all, American traditional music isn't that far removed from the folk songs of the British Isles, which only a slightly closer history examination reveals. And as I, as an artist, worked by the principle "what goes in must come out", it was simply impossible not to react creatively to what I was listening to. "Broken" was even a song that I had wanted to write for a long time, and I was very happy to eventually find myself in the right mind to do it. </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Oh, and I'm very proud of my rendition of "Kathleen", which I still think is among my Top 3 recordings.<br /><br />The re-working of "Is It Raining In Seattle?" (originally on <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/devachan-1997.html">"Devachan"</a>) was great fun to do. I don't know what really instigated another version of it; perhaps did I sense some country feel in it that would slip in nicely with the rest of the album. It was all first takes to keep the "devil may care" attitude intact in the finished version, as if there were four people getting together for the first time busking a song they roughly knew from a long time ago.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Although there are a couple of tongue-in-cheek moments on "Sweet Sorrow Man", I never meant to poke fun at a musical style I still like very much. It was all very lovingly done, and when listening to the album today, I realize it's my emotionally most diverse album up to that date. Good times rub shoulders with utter desperation, and in that respect, "Sweet Sorrow Man" is a very human album.<br /><br />As I wrote in my liner notes for the album, "Sweet Sorrow Man" was originally percieved as an EP. But I was still riding high on the creative wave, so soon I had an album's worth of material that seemed to go together pretty well.<br /><br />Lars Holmquist did the cover for the album without much of my participation. One day when I went to see him, he showed the finished artwork. I immediately accepted it, saying "I'd love to buy an album looking like that!".<br /><br />I still like this album very much.<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?znw0w0nmyyc"><br /></a><br />MP3:<br /></span><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ybnezwfjdgq"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOAD</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">WAV:</span><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DSVOB410"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOAD</span></a><br /></div></div>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-37922520376928710002009-05-06T23:55:00.019+02:002010-07-07T18:39:31.717+02:00SHROUD SONG (Peter Scion 1998)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRcHvU2xgQfhe4q0fgL8htsJCPRp_Gd-KkJ89WOejpsaPRPQ-LMNWZZH46M5qMPguPcDN5U2ELQ52GS6m3aeIzTdTshpy3NrGEthlQP0COTKm0LbnwC0meIs13KXWGsoWJvi6tSJXXELg/s1600-h/Shroud+Song.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 389px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRcHvU2xgQfhe4q0fgL8htsJCPRp_Gd-KkJ89WOejpsaPRPQ-LMNWZZH46M5qMPguPcDN5U2ELQ52GS6m3aeIzTdTshpy3NrGEthlQP0COTKm0LbnwC0meIs13KXWGsoWJvi6tSJXXELg/s400/Shroud+Song.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332906651036071538" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED (sort of)<br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This is a curiousity in every way.<br /><br />First of all, it was recorded during a week of fasting - voluntary food depravation. The opinions on fasting differ vastly depending on who you ask, and I won't go into the pros and cons of it. I will say though that all your senses sharpen while fasting, and I assume it's a way for the body to say "hey, if I sharpen your hearing and better your sight, will you go out to hunt down some food for me, you lazy bugger!". Listening to music while fasting has often been a fascinating experince to me, but it wasn't until "Shroud Song" that I actually <span style="font-style: italic;">recorded</span> music under the influence of the practice.<br /><br />The result was "Shroud Song", which is an altogether completely different thing to anything I had ever done before. There are no songs on it; the entire album is instrumental (which should come as a relief to those of you who can't stand my vocals!) and owes a fair bit to the "kosmische musik" seeping from the German kraut rock scene in the 70's.<br /><br />That might be a reason why I didn't pay much attention to it right after I finished it. It was all done in a couple of days, two, perhaps three. It was all improvised. Compared to my previous albums, even at their spaciest, it's an outsider. When finished, I put the tape among other tapes and didn't think of it a lot until I pulled it out and made a copy for Lars at Domestica. Lars loves German kraut rock, and "Shroud Song" had him firing on all cylinders. We were discussing a potential release, but in the end we dropped it. I can't remember why.<br /><br />Around this time, a Peter Scion website was set up. The website is basically dead now, with no updates being made after I withdrew from playing. Anyway, through the website, two albums were released in the short-lived "Archive Series". One of them comprised outtakes and rehearsals, whereas the second volume was "Shroud Song". "The Archive Series" was made in an extremely limited edition of 30 copies and given away free to website visitors and members of various music forums on the internet.<br /><br />The history of "Shroud Song" is indeed obscure, but I'm delighted to present it to you here.<br /><br />MP3:<br /></span><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?w2dyimzym3m"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOAD</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">WAV:</span><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SQGRU4DE"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOAD</span></a><br /></div></div>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-45358572539221526342009-05-06T23:55:00.018+02:002009-05-14T13:47:39.048+02:00STRANGE INCONVENIENCES (Peter Scion 1998)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA5ZCoy4wDn1qKzsabF2yvtx0TixpAvlUBMC86WnEkBm9kDF1FsPafZU-2yIbgeXckcmFhzWmreNYlTbWFuIzMWjtG-QO5PErP4EagS_C_dBQyqqOBJuyCBI6CaWszavFc34fygFU3ai8/s1600-h/Strange+Inconveniences.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA5ZCoy4wDn1qKzsabF2yvtx0TixpAvlUBMC86WnEkBm9kDF1FsPafZU-2yIbgeXckcmFhzWmreNYlTbWFuIzMWjtG-QO5PErP4EagS_C_dBQyqqOBJuyCBI6CaWszavFc34fygFU3ai8/s400/Strange+Inconveniences.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332906244054516626" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />I suppose any artist with a back catalogue exceeding the number of three albums have some "Great Lost Album" lying around somewhere in the rubble. I guess this one would be mine, although it might be rather "lost" than "great"! But seriously, I do have a fondness for "Strange Inconveniences". I like the songs, I play around with the arrangements (using banjo for instance), and it's good to hear my long time friend Carita Forslund sing for the first time on one of my albums. Carita has, as far as I know, given up music just like me, but she used to be a very, very talented songwriter in her own right, although her recordings remain unreleased to this day. A great pity, but a good thing that she wanted to work with me as a flautist (on <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/tree-music-1997.html">"Tree Music"</a> and <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/devachan-1997.html">"Devachan"</a>) as well as a singer (on the track "Cold Ground" from this very album).<br /><br />"Strange Inconveniences" was shelved because not long after the sessions, I formed rock band <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/search/label/Pangolin">Pangolin</a>, and since they immediately became my main focus, I didn't want any solo album to interfere with the band activities. I do think that the album was good enough to release though, why it is a relief of sorts to finally have it out, if "only" as a download.<br /><br />I projected several versions of "Strange Inconveniences", changing a song here, adding another there. The version here drops an early, and not very thoroughly realized acoustic take of the Pangolin number "Poisoned River To Her Heart", in favour of "Sounds of the Space Age". I'd say that this is the most definitive version of the album.<br /><br />"Sounds of the Space Age" was recorded at the end of the sessions, and was an all electronic experiment combining the sounds of an old, wonderfully cheesy organ with a built-in rhythm machine, with phrases primitively sampled from a National Geographic flexi disc celebrating the first steps on the moon. I had no idea whatsoever how the samples would work together with the backing track - I couldn't hear what I was doing due to the technical limitations of the 4 track machine I was using. So I had to trust luck and chance, and I must unashamedly say they were both on my side this time. I love this recording so much, and I don't care if no-one agrees with me! You might say it's totally off compared to the rest of the album, but I say it isn't. It reflects the playfulness that defined my approach to the whole recording session.<br /><br />MP3:<br /></span><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ez0nytmynau"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOAD</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">WAV:</span><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H159W27I"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOAD</span></a><br /></div></div>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-47083675694040716222009-05-06T23:54:00.014+02:002010-07-07T18:46:08.397+02:00SOMBRE TRUST (Peter Scion 1999-2000)<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgugCXevCsH58oDeMyeN8Y3m1UpA2gRvIJwKWl9kjIKfxLatsFag5hKVALc2due42_QxNM6aNIgT0A55Ddz5dX98DGPn09VTLvxJ8Cp2yJnVY-QQ_0f81YqteCrrGeq3_OLlKzs5opW_Eo/s1600/Sombre+Trust+front.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 338px; height: 340px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgugCXevCsH58oDeMyeN8Y3m1UpA2gRvIJwKWl9kjIKfxLatsFag5hKVALc2due42_QxNM6aNIgT0A55Ddz5dX98DGPn09VTLvxJ8Cp2yJnVY-QQ_0f81YqteCrrGeq3_OLlKzs5opW_Eo/s400/Sombre+Trust+front.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491168374679108098" border="0" /></a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">When I searched through my closet, I found a box full of tapes with hours and hours of unreleased material. Among those tapes I found an entire unreleased album that I had more or less forgotten about. Truth is, it was just a pile of songs that I recorded some time in-between <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/through-my-ghost-2000_06.html">"Through My Ghost"</a> and <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/sister-songs-2002.html">"Sister Songs"</a>. Chronologically, it makes perfect sense. My lyrics changed to the observer's, and I moved further away from the blatantly folk inspired. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">A few of these songs were used as contributions to 'various artists' compilations, but the versions included herein are all different in one way or another. "Cynthia", for example, does not feature Carita Forslunds flute and voice, just me. A couple of tracks are in earlier and, as far as I go, better mixes. I wonder why I chose inferior versions? All songs have their proper place in this setting however, and most of the songs are previously unreleased in any form.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Despite a few crunchier tracks, this is a emotionally calmer album than what you might have come to expect from me. Perhaps so because I switched focus from the inside to the outside? In any case, I'm rather pleased with many of these songs, and they have moments I can listen to with satisfaction. Usually, I tend to hear the flaws rather than the advantages, but in the case of "Sombre Trust", I actually concentrate on the good things. For instance, the guitar solo in "She Must Be Very Lonely" which I remember growing in the soil of Roger McGuinn's solo in "She Don't Care About Time". But of course, McGuinn's solo is a bit more sophisticated than mine! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Speaking of solos, I must have been under some SRC and "Black Sheep" influence while recording "Paperbird"...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Another track I am especially pleased to see released is the reworking of "The Dole of the King's Daughter". That song had been with me since the days of the Continental Soul Searchers; Modryn used to do it and we even rehearsed with Pangolin although we soon dropped it. This reflects my unability to find the right approach to it. I think I found it here!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">As with "Through My Ghost", this is a solo effort without any contributions from others. It seems natural since the songs were recorded over a longer period of time than I usually spent on making a record.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">As you can tell, I have many a soft spot for the songs that make up "Sombre Trust". It's a pity I never got around to actually structure them as an album way back when. But as they say, better late than never!<br /><br />MP3: <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?kmtjtlmzdnm">DOWNLOAD</a><br />WAV: <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mgyuny1dynm">DOWNLOAD Pt 1</a> / <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gxdmetnjrim">DOWNLOAD Pt 2</a> (Both parts needed!)<br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Artwork <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=jujjyjydjjt&thumb=4">here</a> (let me know if it doesn't work).</span>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-8957297040921728182009-05-06T23:54:00.013+02:002010-07-07T18:38:48.342+02:00THROUGH MY GHOST (Peter Scion 2000)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyiVvaiXUa_onR8Ss1JrQNvddI0UA49L7u7mzJbcOszwRBuyCpHtM0Y3KsX-Ie24JMtro1bWL6qfMuylHvyEEQFRtRZNjk7de718z1U14ccO4knxFUReL-f8O5tx0ulPfSq1pC2t-d69U/s1600-h/Through+My+Ghost.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyiVvaiXUa_onR8Ss1JrQNvddI0UA49L7u7mzJbcOszwRBuyCpHtM0Y3KsX-Ie24JMtro1bWL6qfMuylHvyEEQFRtRZNjk7de718z1U14ccO4knxFUReL-f8O5tx0ulPfSq1pC2t-d69U/s400/Through+My+Ghost.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332917655778268290" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">After slamming the door between me and <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/search/label/Pangolin">Pangolin</a>, I was an a weird state of mind. I felt disappointed and relieved, lost and on the right track, all at the same time. Sessions for Pangolin's second album had broken down to the loud noises of personality clashes and, on my part, unhappiness with the direction Pangolin was heading.<br /><br />I begun the sessions for "Through My Ghost" in the very same week I left Pangolin, using most of the songs projected for the abandoned band album. Being slightly out of touch with my muse, I decided to use some songs I had recorded or at least written earlier; in some cases dating back to 1997 and 1998. "The Farthermost Shore" for instance was originally intended for the then unreleased <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/strange-inconveniences.html">"Strange Inconveniences"</a>. In retrospect, I think this makes "Through My Ghost" my conceptually least cohesive album. Now, almost a decade later, it plays like a mess to my ears, almost like an ill-conceived compilation album. The songs are OK, but the album as a whole is not.<br /><br />Also, the album stayed in the can for way, way, way too long. Finished in 2000, it was (for reasons I'm not sure of myself) put on hold until 2002 in some kind of constipated release schedule, making it feel passé the same day it was released. Instead of using old songs, which seemed like a good idea at the time, I should have used the time re-thinking and re-structuring the album. Instead, I was recording new material for a follow-up that never happened, trying to leave "Through My Ghost" behind me. Nevertheless, when the album got out, it was met with quite positive reviews.<br /><br />The album title seems more appropriate today than ever before. I was unsure where to go musically after the traumatic last days of Pangolin. I was a bit like a ghost to myself, and the album is the sound of that ghost performing. I needed to get a grip on myself again, or as they say: get my shit back together again.<br /><br />After a while I began writing new songs; a lot more sparse songs, without a lot of arrangements. Most of them was just me and my acoustic guitar. When making "Through My Ghost", I held firm to my decision not involving any other musicians. Working within the frames of a band, I experienced a social hangover. With the new, post-Ghost songs, I couldn't even stand overdubs.<br /><br />Maybe "Through My Ghost" should have been scrapped altogether, and instead started working all from scratch, but it was necessary to exorcise the demons of Pangolin, to get these songs out of my system. Otherwise, this ghost would have haunted me forever.<br /><br />MP3:<br /></span><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qwyuznmqntn"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOAD</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">WAV:</span><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T5G7LVYI"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOAD</span></a><br /></div></div>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-24963134053718477462009-05-06T23:52:00.012+02:002009-05-14T14:08:26.887+02:00SISTER SONGS (Peter Scion 2002)<div style="text-align: center; font-family: verdana;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8nzbhgngDQv1XWlg1v-M0kMJU4k4R1O67FkVaxDtac1-V-ufJpwNWZ3u3a03J2-I4tCQm3G-n1Ec1NSR0qDCVSSsMGU5lC0rk1EUvrT64e5OFVnMRBiOUKWembXjbliQxa2Mh4T1wGFs/s1600-h/Sister+Songs.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 390px; height: 371px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8nzbhgngDQv1XWlg1v-M0kMJU4k4R1O67FkVaxDtac1-V-ufJpwNWZ3u3a03J2-I4tCQm3G-n1Ec1NSR0qDCVSSsMGU5lC0rk1EUvrT64e5OFVnMRBiOUKWembXjbliQxa2Mh4T1wGFs/s400/Sister+Songs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333069825930201858" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />So there I was, looking for... I don't know what. A new voice? A new approach to music? A new way of writing songs? Well, one thing was for sure: I had gotten very tired of hearing my own worn-out chords. I felt like I had become my own cliché. Creativity was getting the best of me; it demanded me, it was draining me. I felt low, and tired. What once was a liberation was now becoming a prison. I had <span style="font-style: italic;">become</span> Peter Scion, and I had somehow lost myself again.<br /><br />Something neeeded to be done. I met someone who changed my life in a way I still can't quite explain, and it wasn't even a love relationship although the songs on "Sister Songs" might lead people to believe that. It was so much greater, it was friendship of a kind one rarely experience in life. I suddenly had a sense of belonging, so it was obvious that the first track on "Sister Songs" should be entitled that: "Sense of Belonging".<br /><br />However, I had still problems working on my music. Halfway through the album sessions, I gave up on it. The 13 minute opening track left me punch drunk from trying to get it together. I knew it was a song well worth finishing, but I just couldn't get it right. At one point I partially erased a channel by mistake and had to record the whole thing all over again.<br /><br />I spoke to a friend of mine, a New Zealand musician, about this. He told me to give it up; to just drop music making altogether. That was the best advice I could get. Knowing that "Sister Songs" would be the last Peter Scion album reinforced me with energy to finish it. The album had a story to tell, and all I had to do was getting the missing pieces done. Suddenly I knew what the album needed, and wrote and recorded the last songs for the album. Knowing that this would be my swan song, I had to make it <span style="font-style: italic;">good</span>. Even with the hiatus in the middle of the sessions excluded, "Sister Songs" demanded more time in the making than any previous album. At one point I described myself as "the Roger Corman of folk"; Corman was the film maker responsible for movies such as the original "Little Shop of Horrors" and the psychedelic visual anthem "The Trip", and he never spent more than a couple of weeks making a movie. "Sister Songs" on the other hand was like a high budget project without a budget at all.<br /><br />Musically, I wanted "Sister Songs" to be like an overview of my entire career, albeit with entirely new songs. I think I succeeded. There are hints all the way back to <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/devachan-1997.html">"Devachan"</a> and, with the last track "Changes Must Be", even further back in time, to my teenage years. I had rarely had a better time recording a song than "Changes Must Be" - I screamed and shouted and oddly enough, the sounds that leaped out of my mouth sounded pretty much like I did when I was the lead singer of a teenage garage band founded amidst the 80's garage revival.<br /><br />Each track is different to the one preceeding it. Each track was mixed entirely from the standpoint of the song itself. I spent an incredible amount of time mixing the album, and when done I knew I had not only produced the best Peter Scion album of all, but the best album I was capable of making whatsoever.<br /><br />Of course, "Sister Songs" sank more or less without a trace. It got like two reviews; the leading underground psych/folk/prog magazine obviously refused to write about it after the editor and I went on a full speed crash course in a newsgroup discussion. The original Peter Scion website went dead after I announced I was quitting music. The webmaster went out of touch and has remained so ever since.<br /><br />And there I was with my magnum opus on my hands with no one to care. Crazy how things go, isn't it?<br /><br />I'm still hands down, no excuses, say what you will very proud of "Sister Songs". It is the definitive Peter Scion album. It has several of my best songs ever. It has the best sound. It has sensitively worked-out overdubs from musical friends, from New Zealand to the U.S. It is the essence of Peter Scion, and even if the rest of the world tells me the album sucks, and calls me arrogant, I know it doesn't. So there.<br /><br />With "Sister Songs", I knew I could retire from the music scene, knowing I had said what I wanted to say.<br /><br />MP3:<br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?t3nzntnwiez"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOAD</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">WAV:</span><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0CJV7X63"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOAD</span></a><br /></div>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-37656157402482739562009-05-06T23:51:00.015+02:002009-05-14T13:51:37.123+02:00CROSSING THE BLACK CAT'S PATH (P. Scion & The Poor Minstrels of Song 2000-2002)<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKj5x9nukdz_m194BR-MK7bAw_Xw2tK_HG3PHaJXUWhaFOTfcBHRx878IjwbZFK0o44fJ0WsLPy81NutwDY0vppY_PtcNRvhbpEmZr9ArR6Kk8t2OZgmwAJzLz-9p3UHfZkq2GIP2FA9A/s1600-h/crossing2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKj5x9nukdz_m194BR-MK7bAw_Xw2tK_HG3PHaJXUWhaFOTfcBHRx878IjwbZFK0o44fJ0WsLPy81NutwDY0vppY_PtcNRvhbpEmZr9ArR6Kk8t2OZgmwAJzLz-9p3UHfZkq2GIP2FA9A/s400/crossing2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333081448441163746" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<br />(well, officially at least...)<br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Playing live has never been a favourite pastime of mine as I suffer from a pretty severe stage fright. Nevertheless, when I was asked to join two US acts and one from Norway for a tour in Northern Europe 2002, I had to say yes. It was after all a childhood dream coming true. Along with the Iditarod, Drekka, and Ring I squeezed myself into a tiny van going from from Oslo to Denmark, from Denmark to Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. And I realized it was so much easier performing in front of total strangers, than playing to a crowd of people consisting mostly of your friends. I know some tour participants can testify to some tour habits of mine, such as having beer before lunch and eating too much of the free food served at the venues, but oh well so it goes. (It was during this tour the appropriate expression "Feed the Swede" was coined.)<br /><br />The Poor Minstrels tour provided me with the chance to realize a long-standing desire to perform with a string section. Thanks to the Iditarod's cello and viola player, my bare-bones solo sound was enhanced with a much richer sound palette. Unfortunately, there hardly seems to be any good recordings documenting the tour, even though almost every night was taped. The songs on this album, originally distributed as some kind of bootleg, were recorded in session for the Dutch radio. Included are a selection from the then not yet released <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/sister-songs-2002.html">"Sister Songs"</a>, a heavily reworked version "In The Forest" plus other songs rarely played live. All in all, this is by far the best live documentation of a Peter Scion live set.<br /><br />Completing the album are two songs from a live performance in Gothenburg 2000, plus a stray recording from a friend's rehearsal space made in 2001.<br /><br />MP3:<br /></span><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yqmmtmmz4wn"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOAD PART 1</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ytrnjmzflzw"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOAD PART 2</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">WAV:</span><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BAQEKKQ9"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOAD</span></a><br /></div></div>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-66231341969940104552009-05-06T23:50:00.017+02:002009-05-14T16:25:28.888+02:00TRAUMAS, MISHAPS & OTHER PLEASURES (Peter Scion 1997-2002)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCq9HdcxuojD1V8L659qQa1fLJxICfF-Xnvp85O9WOgvv_xAs2nAtyXo_e6MAzoYIl5CMoQWRNn2fdd5hRPT9Q8WRnSDV7rVXctxCpnJhrBp2MJ5ZbXutSSD3piyDJqiaaIUNR7gJCZpU/s1600-h/Mishaps.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCq9HdcxuojD1V8L659qQa1fLJxICfF-Xnvp85O9WOgvv_xAs2nAtyXo_e6MAzoYIl5CMoQWRNn2fdd5hRPT9Q8WRnSDV7rVXctxCpnJhrBp2MJ5ZbXutSSD3piyDJqiaaIUNR7gJCZpU/s400/Mishaps.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332909983513880690" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">There are many more songs that never found their way onto any of the regular albums. Every album I made spawned several outtakes (except for <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/sister-songs-2002.html">"Sister Songs"</a> which produced only one). Some of them were pure crap, while others were rejected simply because they didn't fit in with the rest of a certain album. A couple of songs were also released on various artists compilation, and many tracks were recorded for no particular reason at all.<br /><br />I've had a compilation gathering such songs in one place in mind for a long, long time. Domestica mainman Lars and I discussed the tentatively named "Sciontology" every now and then, and we even got as far as to officially promise one. But the compilation never happened. The closest I got was the first volume of the website release "Archive Series" which was a haphazard dig into the archives.<br /><br />A straight reissue of "The Archive Series" seemed pointless when I now have a proper chance to collect unreleased material in one, better place. "Traumas, Mishaps & Other Pleasures" is a double album sized compilation spanning my solo career, from <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/devachan-1997.html">"Devachan"</a> up to the days of "Sister Songs". (Archival recordings by <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/search/label/Pangolin">Pangolin</a>, <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/in-forest-19891993.html">Continental Soul Searchers</a> and <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/search/label/Modryn">Modryn</a> are sampled elsewhere.)<br /><br />This compilation is a blend of previously unreleased songs and alternate versions, as well as songs provided for the abovementioned various artists comps. All in all, "Traumas" is </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">an alternate way to tell the Peter Scion story; </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">a meal made from the juiciest bits from the garbage can.<br /><br />MP3:<br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nad2yg1nzof">DOWNLOAD Disc 1 PART 1</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?uz0um2omy2n">DOWNLOAD Disc 1 PART 2</a><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?rzkzcjlntzj">DOWNLOAD Disc 2 PART 1</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ygymzw3muz2">DOWNLOAD Disc 2 PART 2</a><br /><br />WAV:<br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PE8L7WS7">DOWNLOAD Disc 1</a><br /><a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E5XOY6WQ">DOWNLOAD Disc 2</a><br /></span></div></div>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-73195997608500456622009-05-06T23:49:00.012+02:002009-05-14T13:53:47.808+02:00BENEATH THESE DARKENED TREES (Pangolin 1999)<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh65DaZyCN0ZPBeRx8fY5cN8ghBrErflrCkfajpGkBNJrtXYf0z9WUb3w37UCbYnNpASmjubzyYuxkVumGkzBMz0S51cfmwxtjy7HFX7Muqagn45He4rcEH_uFX-49xqV3cc6iM0zmUoB0/s1600-h/Beneath+These+Darkened+Trees.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh65DaZyCN0ZPBeRx8fY5cN8ghBrErflrCkfajpGkBNJrtXYf0z9WUb3w37UCbYnNpASmjubzyYuxkVumGkzBMz0S51cfmwxtjy7HFX7Muqagn45He4rcEH_uFX-49xqV3cc6iM0zmUoB0/s400/Beneath+These+Darkened+Trees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332917995333109922" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Suddenly I had a band. After years of recording basically all alone, I was a member of a loud outfit, bashing out electric versions of new songs or selections from my previous solo albums. At first, "Beneath These Darkened Trees" was intended mereley as a documentation of the set we had at the time, but we were so pleased with the recordings that we agreed to release them through Domestica. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Some who had come to appreciate my original recordings were skeptic to me going rock, but "Beneath These Darkened Trees" soon became the most popular of my releases. And I was personally more than happy to share the musical responsibilities with four other guys; to begin with, Pangolin was a rare example of a democratically run band. Each member took responsibility for their own part, which made the band an organic unit with potential to eject the songs further than I could possibly do on my own. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I think the weakest part on the album is my vocals. In retrospect, I think some of them should have been redone right away, but I guess that's something I have to live with. On the other hand, I really like the interplay between me and Mikael Ljung, the other guitarist of the group. The inclusion of Anna Glans's organ was a perfect idea. Her role in the band can't be estimated highly enough; the eerie Farfisa sound (not entirely unlike that of Country Joe & The Fish) wrapped the songs in a distinct yet elusive atmosphere that was a pure joy to be part of when we played. But again, no matter how much I still love each participants specific efforts, it was Pangolin as an integrated band that was our strength.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I hadn't played electric guitar in many years when we founded Pangolin. The earliest days of the band were a period of learning to me. Learning and re-discovering an instrument that despite its similarities with the acoustic guitar is an altogether very different one which demands an entirely different approach. All of a sudden, I had to learn the relation between sound, volume and technique all over again. It didn't take long before that youthful devil from my adolescence woke up again teaching the lesson: LOUD is better! If anyone in the band got tinnitus during our rehearsals, I'm afraid I'm the one to take the blame... I, for one, worsened my tinnitus, that's for sure.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">"Beneath These Darkened Trees" was met with a fair share of worldwide acclaim in the underground world of contemporary psychedelic music. I'm however particularly proud of counting psych legend Bob Smith (whose 1970 album "The Visit" is a masterpiece) among our fans. We also earned the attention of Ptolemaic Terrascope editor Phil McMullen, who some time later included Pangolin on one of the CD's that came free with the magazine.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Playing with Pangolin around this time was a sheer joy, and I learned a lot from it. It certainly influenced my later solo work, daring me to leave the all acoustic sound behind. I had some great laughs and I cherish many memories from these days. One incident that always amuses me is when our drummer Sara Pang once dropped her drum stick while we were rehearsing the song "These Darkened Trees", looking up from behind the drums saying, "Sorry, I got so excited...". You simply have to love a drummer with that kind of dedication. A dedication that I believe we all shared in those days.<br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />MP3:<br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?hm0yumtkyyj"><span>DOWNLOAD</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span><br />WAV:<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DWW2ZJYV"><br />DOWNLOAD</a><br /></span></span>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-69452593733267033912009-05-06T23:48:00.030+02:002009-05-14T13:54:52.442+02:00THE DRUNKENSTEIN SESSIONS (Pangolin EP 2000)<div style="text-align: center; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLYPJSzseKGnOcxELHN80CNBT7tDoZPlteQ3vsmnnhXSaknJkV5L-Q6ivznckTAnc65beuO7nBIT1Uds6Kid40DKREkcq657qAb2Qa_4vofSqoUHzdDeML2IjFI4fKO46y2HnMcdxQDGc/s1600-h/Drunkenstein.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLYPJSzseKGnOcxELHN80CNBT7tDoZPlteQ3vsmnnhXSaknJkV5L-Q6ivznckTAnc65beuO7nBIT1Uds6Kid40DKREkcq657qAb2Qa_4vofSqoUHzdDeML2IjFI4fKO46y2HnMcdxQDGc/s400/Drunkenstein.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332911247178354882" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);font-size:130%;" >PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED (in this form)</span><br /></div><br />After the Pangolin album was released and we had played a couple of rare gigs, our drummer Sara Pang decided to leave the band. I won't deny I felt it was a huge loss of ours. She was as important to the Pangolin sound as any of us was, and with her quitting the band, I knew (and I think we all did) that the band wouldn't be quite the same without her.<br /><br />We soon found a replacement for Sara, and with a new drummer who wanted to be known as M. Aaropavlo we soon set up dates for new recordings. This time we abandoned the DIY approach by hiring producer Jesper Jarold who we knew from fellow Gothenburg band Grovjobb. It was a good idea to bring him in because he did such a great job bringing out the rougher side of Pangolin. After all, <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/beneath-these-darkened-trees-1999_06.html">"Beneath These Darkened Trees"</a> is far slicker sounding than the band actually was.<br /><br />The reason for the second Pangolin session was clearly defined: We were to record two tracks for a vinyl single released by the shortlived Chanterelle label, and a third one for the Ptolemaic Terrascope CD "This Is Pot". For the single, we settled on one original and, for the B side, a cover of the Hank Willams penned "Alone & Forsaken".<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_L3iPt4F-Kr5Vzv03tY8HyWb38pNGS-QaqMD4k3v-PHaQcdvuR9YubgaiIPVUwUGazDK_4r7YtUJDmCCAXx2lPCwWZn5hW5vDETisUc0Lq69xMylkrC0ejv4ly7H05VqKv0v8RGX2KPU/s1600-h/pangolin45.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_L3iPt4F-Kr5Vzv03tY8HyWb38pNGS-QaqMD4k3v-PHaQcdvuR9YubgaiIPVUwUGazDK_4r7YtUJDmCCAXx2lPCwWZn5hW5vDETisUc0Lq69xMylkrC0ejv4ly7H05VqKv0v8RGX2KPU/s320/pangolin45.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333869408187124578" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >The original Chanterelle 45.</span><br /><br /></div> The original composition is "Poisoned River to Her Heart", recorded for my abandoned solo album <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/strange-inconveniences.html">"Strange Inconveniences"</a>. The riff-based song proved perfect for the band setting with Mikael Ljung pounding away at his heaviest. "Alone & Forsaken" shows us from a completely different angle; low-key and lyrical, even adding a dash of accordeon courtesy of organ player Anna Glans. The instrumental coda is almost like a song in itself, with drummer M. Aaropavlo's cut off jazz fills underlining the melancholic drama of the original song. I tried my best to emulate the 60's West Coast guitar sound with my dual solo.<br /><br />However, all was not well within the band. I'm no longer certain what was actually going on, but personality clashes arose, and I wasn't feeling at all happy being in the band anymore. Problems reached a peak with "The Sea". Once a monolithic inclusion in our live set, it now turned out a monolithic catastrophe. During the Drunkenstein studio sessions, we played the song too fast which took away the tension that the song so badly needed. Besides, the arrangement is an utter mess. Nothing works the way it's supposed to do here, and knowing that this was the track that would give most people the first exposure to Pangolin flat out grieved me. God, I hated the sheer thought of it!<br /><br />(In an attempt to show what I originally wanted with the song, I have fabricated a much slowed down version, running for two more minutes, which can be downloaded <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?y3hujtyrljk">here</a>. I used the slightly better rough mix for this. Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do about the arrangement, but by merely correcting the rushed pace, it gets much more evocative in line with what my intentions were.)<br /><br />You can hear all my frustration in my vocals for "Poisoned River to Her Heart". It's the most furious vocals you will ever hear on any of my recordings. Deep inside, I might have known that this was Pangolin's last stand, and I felt so painfully betrayed by the circumstances. I loved this for chrissakes, and I didn't want it to end this way!<br /><br />Oddly enough, I consider "Poisoned River to Her Heart" the band's finest recorded moment, every bit as good as "The Sea" was bad. There's a strain of uncontrollable danger within the grooves; I think this song was given our best shot. </div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Apart from mourning the band's demise, there were other problems with a disintegrating band. We were booked for the Terrastock festival in Seattle, and we had also started working on our second album which was supposed to come out on one of the hippest underground labels at that particular time, Aussie based Camera Obscura. But pushing the band onwards just because of such prestigeous appointments just didn't work. One day, during the recordings, it just broke down. I unplugged my guitar, announced I couldn't keep doing this and that I was leaving the band for good. Mikael Ljung had a very appropriate way of putting it: "Well then, that was it".<br /><br />MP3:<br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ammzdzttmjy"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOAD</span></a><br /><br />WAV:<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5HWDAXS5"><br />DOWNLOAD</a><br /></div></div>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-2254324634854645682009-05-06T23:48:00.028+02:002009-05-12T16:53:56.499+02:00IN THE SHADOWS OF A SILVER MORN (Pangolin 1999)<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLX-mzf6eSoePB4SU4GWlGldTRShdWQlT_tyCXd00iTfk9qeBY-59eEQ8IGn9sGCG-_swIE8x_uvgWXDpV_i-j4_lvgoR2eoAMyVI25kC7SDD8fbDaFk3CRw255RaLE8tJ5X0NuxOb9NE/s1600-h/In+the+shadows.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLX-mzf6eSoePB4SU4GWlGldTRShdWQlT_tyCXd00iTfk9qeBY-59eEQ8IGn9sGCG-_swIE8x_uvgWXDpV_i-j4_lvgoR2eoAMyVI25kC7SDD8fbDaFk3CRw255RaLE8tJ5X0NuxOb9NE/s400/In+the+shadows.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333069290878764738" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" >PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I've rarely made any real rough mixes while recording. Instead I've tried to beat the songs into shape at once, not giving up until I've got it right, or at least what I thought was right at the time. With Pangolin, guitarist Mikael and I did a first mix to get an idea what the recordings sounded like. It had to be said though that this rough mix isn't very far from the finished album mix, but still, there's a difference between the two which is somewhat hard to explain in words. It's more of an emotional difference than anything else, something you sense rather than actually hear.<br /><br />Very few have actually heard this rough mix, and I'm not even sure anyone else in the band has a copy of it. Therefore I've decided to release it here, but anyone downloading should be aware that it won't reveal a lot you didn't know about the album from the <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/beneath-these-darkened-trees-1999_06.html">officially released version</a>.<br /><br />Included at the end is a bonus track, a rough mix of the song we contributed to Ptolemaic Terrascope. (More of which <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/drunkenstein-sessions-2000.html">here</a>.) I've never liked this recording in either version, but have I to choose one of two embarassing things, I'd go with this one.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?xymjwdtdt2y">DOWNLOAD PART 1</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ymxjk2kydnw">DOWNLOAD PART 2</a></span><br /></div></div>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510784122841935750.post-78243901770278333572009-05-06T23:47:00.001+02:002010-07-07T04:45:28.405+02:00TIME VAULTS (Pangolin 1998-1999)<div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVE-JWtPoCqxCSQ73gpYDx8wbWylMck9cbsxGgfWRXeuZF4npvEWbHpsh-nV1APCyx5pHYIbzS709ykYvJa24jUDBkkIQAIqqKQaoGVXHYxva2gdagvF4FmqHuMPjbINjfDsCq2y3ljKY/s1600/Time+Vaults+front.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 342px; height: 340px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVE-JWtPoCqxCSQ73gpYDx8wbWylMck9cbsxGgfWRXeuZF4npvEWbHpsh-nV1APCyx5pHYIbzS709ykYvJa24jUDBkkIQAIqqKQaoGVXHYxva2gdagvF4FmqHuMPjbINjfDsCq2y3ljKY/s400/Time+Vaults+front.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490966096176055746" border="0" /></a> <span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED</span></span> </div> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br />WARNING:</span> The sound on this album is seriously rough on your ears. It's a compilation of Walkman tapes, presenting Pangolin in rehearsal (except for two songs that are recorded in front of an audience). I really need to say that this album is basically for those who are already familiar with Pangolin's music. It's nowhere near a good entry point for the curious newcomer. </span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />That said, I think this stuff is interesting in its own way. First of all, it's musically much rougher than our "studio" recordings, and maybe this is closer to what Pangolin actually sounded like: A loud, sometimes undisciplined rock band who never really knew when to finish a song. The vocals are sometimes way off and buried beneath piles of audio rubble. We occasionally lose direction and wander off into the wilderness. And sometimes we get it together, find the flow and ride the waves.</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />Second of all, this album presents songs never properly recorded by the band. There are several rehearsals for our second album that got stuck in limbo. Songs such as "The Devilish Mother" and "Funny" later showed up on my solo album <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/through-my-ghost-2000_06.html">"Through My Ghost"</a>. Also, there's an extended full band version of "Like Winter I Am" from <a href="http://peterscion.blogspot.com/2009/05/devachan-1997.html">"Devachan"</a>, plus a couple of jams.</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />All in all, this is a gift to the die-hards, a peek through the keyhole, not intended to be some kind of "lost second album" or anything. And yes, like icing on the cake, with a sound quality to rival your favourite Velvet Underground bootleg.</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />NOTE: Due to the lousy sound, "Time Vaults" is available in 320 kbit/s mp3 format only. Somehow, wav files seemed rather pointless...</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?jftijyftmig">DOWNLOAD PART 1</a><br /><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?wnmym3dozyd"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">DOWNLOA</span>D PART 2</a></span>Peter Scionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08254771902393202048noreply@blogger.com0