I've had the song in my music library for nearly 5 years, and with over 100 plays it's definitely one of my most-played tunes. And although I know it by heart, I still play it occasionally!
It's nice to see that you still think back to the project occasionally. If you ever get a chance to produce something along the same lines, I'd love to listen to it.
I was the vocalist on Burn In The Pyres—the melodic one; Zoesch (I think in Australia at the time) did the spoken-word part and our mix engineer (in Sweden) had a friend who wailed (in Kurdish).
We talked about doing more—we wanted to—but everyone's schedules sadly started to conflict: several of us moved countries, found day jobs, turned our attention to other things. I'm not ruling out the possibility of us doing something else, but frankly none of us can say when.
I only wish there was a video of the actual band as I SO want to see that drummer in action. My 18 year old son played this for me and it became in instant shared favourite - not bad considering the 31 year age gap! Thanks heaps for making it available. :-)
I'm sorry to say it's not an actual band - it's a one-time project of a bunch of audiogeeks. They each played/recorded their part, and one of them mastered the entire thing. The tekst (Hiwa azadman dekat / Ager barane) is either kurdish or kazach(-stani?) - which is probably indicative of the immense geographical distances involved ;)
I've had the song in my music library for nearly 5 years, and with over 100 plays it's definitely one of my most-played tunes. And although I know it by heart, I still play it occasionally!
It's nice to see that you still think back to the project occasionally. If you ever get a chance to produce something along the same lines, I'd love to listen to it.
ThijsvZ 6 months ago
I was the vocalist on Burn In The Pyres—the melodic one; Zoesch (I think in Australia at the time) did the spoken-word part and our mix engineer (in Sweden) had a friend who wailed (in Kurdish).
We talked about doing more—we wanted to—but everyone's schedules sadly started to conflict: several of us moved countries, found day jobs, turned our attention to other things. I'm not ruling out the possibility of us doing something else, but frankly none of us can say when.
Thanks Thijs for posting.
Fulc 7 months ago 3
I only wish there was a video of the actual band as I SO want to see that drummer in action. My 18 year old son played this for me and it became in instant shared favourite - not bad considering the 31 year age gap! Thanks heaps for making it available. :-)
MsCharlie224 1 year ago
@MsCharlie224
My pleasure!
I'm sorry to say it's not an actual band - it's a one-time project of a bunch of audiogeeks. They each played/recorded their part, and one of them mastered the entire thing. The tekst (Hiwa azadman dekat / Ager barane) is either kurdish or kazach(-stani?) - which is probably indicative of the immense geographical distances involved ;)
ThijsvZ 1 year ago
That's why I posted it :-P
I dislike the ambiguity that has arisen around it's name, since I feel it caused Zoesch and his co-musicians to lose out on a lot of recognition.
ThijsvZ 2 years ago
been lookin for the name of this song for ages...
spikex41 2 years ago
thanks for sharing =)
labtox 2 years ago
Awesome song. Been waiting for it for a long time :-)
noneedforid 3 years ago