Minotaur Project - Tir Tairngire - Prolude Showcase song

This song was featured on the Prolude Showcase I made earlier this year.

MINOTAUR PROJECT:
http://www.facebook.com/theMinotaurProject
http://www.youtube.com/aazgash
http://minotaurproject.bandcamp.com

Story of "Tir Tairngire":

It's an experimental song I wrote last summer (among three others, one other of them is Heaven Ice Day), while we moved to France. We lived with my grandmother, who welcomed us for two weeks, and she never saw me playing the bass before, so I created some tunes to show how I play. The concept was to compose pieces that could be played by a group containing only three musicians (keyboard-drums-bass), in a completely different genre that I really miss playing - just like what we had in our jam sessions in school. I wanted to place it under the project named "Ambush on Time".
When I was looking up older songs I could use of my music, I found this on a backup drive, and it didn't take much time to re-record.

I decided to upload these songs to show this other side of the Minotaur. I really enjoy writing heavy stuff, but that's me as well. I'm aware that they aren't the same kind of stuff, neither quality - while I consider myself a Metal-head, playing this music is also a lot of fun - and ultimately that's the only thing I care about. I hope you like it.

The song's title is came from my latest influence, the Shadowrun universe. The story of that is cool: the last time I played that RPG I was 14, and I still remember falling in love with the cyberpunk - sci-fi - futuristic world. I was always influenced by this "apocalyptic future". I started to like reading with these kind of books (and Terminator 2029 books of course - real literature came later), and I ran into Nigel Findley's novel 2XS (LX-IR in Hungary). This year somehow I ran into the book order online - I still remembered loving that book, so I ordered and reread it, and I found out that even if I was only 14, I was right: that book's simply cool. The song titles "25th Long Star", "Echo Mirage" etc came from this book.

Tir Tairngire is only mentioned in it, it's a imaginary city, where everything appears to be perfect. "Tir Tairngire" means "Land of Promise" in elvish. You can get more info at
http://denver.wikidot.com/info:tir-tairngire

Something else on the video: In this song I have 6 bass track on each other (I figured it will be a cool experiment mixing that), without effects - I played them all, even the "delays". I recorded the video and audio a couple of times, but I had a major glich in the video files later, so I had to restore an earlier version of the video. That's why sometimes you can catch some differences between the stuff I play on the video, and in the audio. Sorry. Still better than nothing :) The other videos are showing 100% the recorded audio.

Technical data:

My belowed Cort C4Z bass, standard EADG tuning, EMG active electronics and Fishman pickups.
I also used my Peavey Grind 5 bass, EMG active pickups.
Rotosound Swing60 strings, Planet Waves Pro cables.
Prolude BHV450L - recorded on the line out output straight into the soundcard.
Various settings on each record.

I have to add proudly , that I'm an endorser of
PROLUDE AMPLIFICATION
www.prolude.hu

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[rwfsmith]

Tir Tairngire? from Shadowrun?

[aazgash]

@rwfsmith Exactly :)

[EvanRensi93]

@aazgash I'm sorry, Shadowrun?

[aazgash]

@EvanRensi93 It is :) I was a big fan back then :)

[EvanRensi93]

@aazgash That sounds familiar... Can you tell me what that is?

[aazgash]

@EvanRensi93 A role-playing game, and a cyber-punk futuristic universe for me - it was very popular in the '90s (I even played it when I was in 8th grade), before the (MMO)RPG games started to appear on the PC. A lot of books and novels were written in this universe, this is why I was drawn to it.

[ainsofar]

It's so good. What else can be said.

[GBWagner1]

Very pleasent bass playing!

[rwfsmith]

@aazgash Nice. Just finished a two year campaign. We're taking a little break from pen and paper gaming, though. Co-op PC gaming now :).

[STS232323]

Awesome!