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The Last Whale


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SmokeyVW

 Genre: Ambient

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album: Manic | Depressive
track 1: 3:58 True, Man
track 2: 2:11 The Last Whale
track 3: 6:32 Happenst (col w TydelWave)
track 4: 3:19 Break The Loop
track 5: 5:28 Dream of Snow
track 6: 5:56 Dig Dig, Dig
track 7: 2:34 Small Setback
track 8: 4:57 Clamshell Alliance
track 9: 2:52 despair
track 10: 4:11 Homaridae
track 11: 2:34 Waiting
track 12: 7:40 My Dancing Snowflake
track 13: 2:12 All Through The Universe
track 14: 5:06 And My Toothbrush
track 15: 5:41 Talkoot
track 16: 2:05 Peaceful Sunrise (col w RoxyLee)
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Some more thoughts from long ago, about Man killing the last Whale.

I recently travelled back to the same place where I first contemplated this thought, and it seemed even more real now than it did before. Although the method may have changed...

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I recorded/sequenced this sometime in 1995 entirely on a Roland XP-50. Here, I simply recorded the XP-50 playing it, plus a little multiband compression in GB.

I figured I better hurry before: 1. the battery in the XP-50 croaks, 2. nothing on the planet can read a diskette anymore, 3. no one knows what a svq file is
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Uploaded: Oct 01, 2006 - 09:38:44 PM
Last Updated: Sep 19, 2008 - 11:39:27 AM Last Played: Nov 14, 2009 - 01:34:42 PM
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Morning Light said 1150 days ago (October 1st, 2006)
Oh, how I hope.......
that day never comes.... this is very expressive, with the tension, of how it
would be to be the last whale........ I share your concern with life on this
planet, and species that are at the mercy of people without hearts.
Thanks for this post! The NightBird ~
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SmokeyVW said 1149 days ago (October 2nd, 2006)
hope
thanks for your comment. like you, i am concerned, yet i feel powerless to
do anything about it.

like Talking Heads' Road To Nowhere: there's no one at the
wheel, and the passengers scream, scream, scream.


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B^)
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peacepiano said 1150 days ago (October 2nd, 2006)
Ominous
Big sound Smokey. I like the dissonance in this context.

BTW what is an svq file anyway? ;)
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SmokeyVW said 1149 days ago (October 2nd, 2006)
yet another file format
i don't know what the SVQ format's structure is. a little more googling would
probably uncover that, which i might do so i can transform the file into MIDI or
something. in any case, it's some sort of Roland sequencer format i suppose...

re: the big sound. i forgot how nice the XP-50 can sound...

glad you listened - thanks!

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B^)
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Schello said 1144 days ago (October 8th, 2006)
,-)
Expresive, darkness and dragging!
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Henke said 1130 days ago (October 22nd, 2006)
Great sound
about a great animal! I really liked this piece! I'd really like some peace for
the whales! Thanks! Fav'd and DL'd.
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SmokeyVW said 1128 days ago (October 23rd, 2006)
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thanks Henke! let's hope there is never a last whale.

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B^)
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said 1035 days ago (January 24th, 2007)
Yeah!
Great soundscape. Worthy cause. As Spock said in "The Voyage Home": "It is illogical to hunt a species to extinction." Humans can really suck sometimes. Good work here man.

Be well!
SmokeyVW said 1035 days ago (January 24th, 2007)
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precisely!
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Eclectic, at best. I learned some music theory at school, and read a ton about it since. I've listened to lots of music over the years. I once played guitar in an actual garage band and actually got paid to play! Once. Although live performance is an... [see more]

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Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise.

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