Hi Freebase!
Yes, soon after I first visited MB last month and started looking at the content of people's posts, I saw that your posts about drums/recording etc. were very knowledgeable and thorough, and so I checked your contact information in case there was a link to your music, and there was!
I do hope you'll put more songs up, soon. As I understand it from reading your prologue/"epilogue" post, MySpace was having some technical difficulties, which perhaps dissuaded you from uploading more?
When I first visited your MySpace and listened, I thought several (many) things, including these:
(1) I love the name: truthful fiction.
(2) The B/W picture is fascinating. At first I didn't see the whole image (head, ear, second arm, etc.). It is like an ink(blood)blot picture and very thought-provoking. The picture repeats the concept of the name, which connects opposites (truth/fiction; black/white).
(3) The music: WOW! Technically perfect, but, beyond that, the song is hypnotic, with an eerie sweetness, plaintive quality, and rasping intensity that affects me a lot.
The classical sound of the acoustic guitar (I'm assuming that's you playing rather than using the synthesizer) begins the piece--beautiful, love the edgy sound of note-sliding. I enjoy that this acoustic beginning does not reveal where the song is going. It is like the paper on a gift that is being opened. It hints at what is underneath, but does not reveal it fully.
Then the electric-guitar-sounding synth (I'm assuming) begins to swell with a haunting quality, and soon the funky percussion starts, going in stereo from ear to ear. I like the fact that in the percussion the silences, like a held breath, are as meaningful as the actual hits.
The vocals are emotional and powerful...and I don't even know what all of the words are
!...with perfect harmonization. I *would* like to learn the lyrics, even though for me the song works perfectly even without knowing the full meaning. The song *feels* like yearning and abandonment, despair and hope combined.
I've listened to the song oh, shall we say, several times now (!), and each time pick out new intricacies that keep my attention: for example, the whale-song like synthesizer, which haunts the background, and the percussion rhythm, which seems to change slightly each repetition (I'm still trying to figure out how many variations there are).
Still, none of those details are, for me, overshadowed by the feeling of the piece. It reminds me of classical music in several ways: it has a theme with variations; it evolves; and it has the same effect on me (or greater) than what are some of the most exhilarating parts of classical music...those moments when the music makes the hairs on your arm stand on end...not out of fear but because of the strong emotional content. Just like I said earlier, I find the piece to be mesmerizing.
--Erica