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Posted 12th April 2010
Well it's finally here! The new single from my debut album "Ambients" is now out for the world to hear and download.
"Ever Emptiness" is a dark brooding cello led piece that builds up slowly into an industrial Nine Inch Nails style peak and decline. It's one of my favourite tracks from the album and it's one where the sentiment strikes much stronger every time I listen.
It also includes the 10-minute epic B-Side "Silhouettes" which is my attempt at a dark wave film soundtrack, both sinister, uplifting and thrilling over the course of its several movements.
The single is available from loads of different online stores. The cheapest place to buy it is Amazon (£1.38 / $1.78) and iTunes (£1.18) which is not very much for nearly 14 minutes of music. It would really help me as an independent artist if you bought a copy of the single and left a positive review on any of the stores.
Watch the Ever Emptiness video
If you haven't seen it yet, please check out the official "Ever Emptiness" music video produced by local company 12 Ft Beast Productions. It continues on from the first two music videos and concludes the tale of "the man" against the masked chiaroscuro.
I hope you like what we've achieved here by managing to make something pretty dramatic and suitable for the track with almost no budget and a lot of help from dedicated fans and our friends.
Thank you to everyone who was involved, you can watch the video and see a full credits list on the YouTube by clicking here.
A Special Message from Synoiz
Also available on the YouTube is a special message from myself mentioning the new single, ways to buy it and a little bit more background info on both the track itself and the exclusive b-side "Silhouettes". You can watch it by clicking here to visit YouTube.
Update on "Darkling EP" for remixers
Thank you to all of the artists who have sent in or are working on remixes for the upcoming Darkling EP. The stuff that I've heard so far is amazing and it's the biggest rush to hear how someone else has changed and reinterpreted a track of yours. I've decided to postpone the deadline. Initially the deadline for submissions was going to be mid-April (around a week from now) but I've realised now that I've gotten into the project deeper and heard the quality of the mixes that are coming through to me, I want to spend a lot more time with this. The EP will be released later on this year however I'd prefer not to rush the last release from my debut album.
At the moment I'm thinking about providing a 10-13 page PDF booklet with full artwork and including short biographies and details of each artist included on the digital release. This way I can allow these people who have been so amazing to me to get just a little bit more promotion and also get to be included alongside some pretty funky artwork.
Because of this there is still time for new artists to apply to appear on the EP, if you like to work on a remix of one of my tracks, please get in contact at remixes@synoiz.net
Posted 10th March 2010
Hey everyone,
Things have been very busy for me lately so apologies for the big catch up mail out. I've had a few slight personal issues lately to work out so start on a bit of a personal note (that I wasn't sure I should mention but sod it) I'm currently suffering from the early stages of hair loss and it's driving me a bit nuts. I know it's natural and one of those things that "just happens" but I can't ignore it or just let it happen without regretting my lack of action later.
I've been visiting clinics around the UK and they're all trying to rope me into stupid loads-of-money-upfront-and-no-guarantee-of-our-treatment-working schemes. Sod that. However I can't rationally explain how much my hair means to me not just because it's part of an image, but because it's what I've grown to expect to see in the mirror every morning and I don't know if I could deal without that same "this is who I am" type moment when I get ready.
Maybe I should just grow to accept the inevitable and stuff but however childish it sounds, I don't want to. I'll probably let you all know if there's any news (oh how exciting!) but if you have any advice or stories of your own please feel free to send me an email at: synoiz@synoiz.net.
"Ever Emptiness" the new single
Appropriately with the mood I've found myself in I'm happy to announce that the third and final single from Ambients will be "Ever Emptiness". It's a darker one from the album however one of the strongest. The 2-track digital single will be available to buy from the 12th of April 2010 and comes with the exclusive 10-minute long B-Side "Silhouettes" which took bloody ages to write! More details will be given closer to release.
Special Shout Out To Endo Meso
Just a quick shout out to the wonderful Endo Meso who mentioned me and the remix of "Darkling" he's been working on (more details below) in his last mail out and got me lots of tasty new fans and subscribers.
To return the favour I'll soon be working on a remix of his track "Miser" which should be interesting indeed when it's completed!
You can visit the Endo Meso site on ReverbNation by clicking here.
Remixers wanted for "Darkling" EP
If you haven't already applied to do a remix for the upcoming "Darkling" EP, it's not too late. If you want to appear on the compilation alongside the mighty Endo Meso, Pinklogik, Anguaji and Arrow Down Hill among others, the deadline for submissions is mid-April. If you're interested in doing a remix of the track to appear on a free EP later in the year, please get in touch at remixes@synoiz.net.
Sale on previous singles!
In case you didn't get a copy of the first two Synoiz singles "Long Lost..." and "Getting Safer" from Amazon or iTunes when they first came out. I've found a new way to get the releases to you both cheaper and better through Bandcamp.
Both 3-track singles (which include two of my most favourite tracks "And Everything You Represent" and "The Esoteric Order Of Dagon" only available as B-Sides) are available for only £1.30 each including a special 2-page PDF digital booklet which is not available on the other stores (guess why that is!).
To FURTHER sweeten the deal, for a limited time you can use the discount code synlaunch to get an additional 10% off.
Click here to visit the new Synoiz store...
Thanks for reading and being a supporter. Hope you're doing well and as excited about the new single as I am,
Posted 15th March 2009
Finally, another blog! And yeah I know I said I'd do one on Thursday night the day after the video shoot but I failed. I can't believe how hectic things have been this past week, I barely got any music done even though I was working on Synoiz stuff all week. Does that make sense? :D
Well basically Wednesday was the day from hell. I got up at 9am (not too bad) and had to go to town to pick up things like razor blades (to get a good shave for the video), to pay my rent and to get additional costumes from Primark for the extras. Sadly for whatever reason I have a £300 withdrawl limit on my account so had to go to the bank specifically and get them to give me money over the counter without my chequebook!
All that went quite well until I tried to drop it all off at Ian's where we were meeting later and he wouldn't get out of bed! So I had to carry 4 heavy bags literally across the city to go home get bathed and shaved and then dash through to Newcastle for hairdressing appointment.
This is where it got worst cos during the train journey all I got was txts or calls with bad news, being told that we had lost one of the cars and so I had to organise some other way to get the extras to the set on time, then being told that the lighting rig and second camera weren't actually working and that it was impossible to get new parts for them that day. I ended up getting quite angry about it all (I mean, there's been two months to just plug the stuff in and go "oh it doesn't work, I'll order some parts in before we have to do the shoot..." rather than checking it on the day of shooting).
Then I got off in Newcastle to find that my order of prop masks had not actually
come in on time and that we had to make do with the masks we had. Finally got to the hairdressers and after 40 minutes walked out with exactly the same haircut (and problems) as I walked in with albeit slightly shinier.
There's a lot more I could rant about as much more stuff went wrong but essentially I think that gives off just how stressful the day was for me.
However, when we finally got to the shoot and I met up with the extras and nattered on with them everything kinda fell away and I started enjoying myself again. Here's a video I took on the set:
Ian Lawlor (director) and Mark Liddle (co-directing) really took the reigns well and just fell into their roles and did a wonderful job (Also kudos to Mark Junkin and my mum for providing lifts at the last minute and for being wonderful).
Sadly we didn't manage to get all the extras scenes done in the one night as we'd hoped so we explained to the guy who owns the location and he has mercifully said he'll give us another few days with the location. All the extras had fun and are going to return back and hopefully we'll have it in the can.
The next bit of shooting is actually tonight, and ironically the electricity and gas have gone off in my house so I am unable to bathe or work on music or anything so am staying at a mate's house until I can get in touch with the landlord... Grrrr. In fact I'm typing this on Mr Macbook while lying on a mattress in their spare room. God it's a classy life lol. Let's hope it goes well again today and we get things sorted. Once again thank you to everyone involved, especially the extras for being so wonderful and patient!
(I have loads more to say but this blog has been long enough, I might try and d =o a VBlog in the future if these get any longer!)
See you all later! :D
Posted 11th March 2009
Hey again,
I can't sleep, went to bed at like 1:30am and have just woken up at 8 and unable to get back to sleep so thought I'd double check everything again and post a new blog to wake myself up.
Today is a big day for me as we are filming the main scenes for one of my music videos. Essentially these are the "oooh fancy" bits which we only have one shot at (you'll have to wait for the video to find out why - or join the Facebook group...) and it's been chaos to organise. I have been at work fulltime for the last month or so, so yesterday I was at work till 5, then I had a singing lesson until half 7, then I had to meet with the directors and ended up arguing with them for 2 hours cos I want it done exactly how I imagined it and they think it'll work better this other way etc, they're right I know, however the case I was making was "Well we only have one evening to do all this section, so can't we attempt to film my version of this shot as well just incase we decide to use it in editing after all?" I'd rather not walk away with "Oh yeah it would have been nice to have a shot like that..." bits when we can't shoot them again.
Okay, okay, maybe I'm not the easiest person to work with! Mark Liddle (Co-directing) stated it as "You have your artistic vision and we have our directoral vision". I think they're just happy cos when I'm on set tonight I've said I'll keep quiet and just do as they say, after all they're the directors but I just want to be sure that we're both aiming for the same video here.
Anyway it should be fun, but today is me running around all day buying last-minute props for new extras and then getting things like hair sorted and slightly dolled up, just to get mucked up again for the video, weird how these things work eh? So I start running about in 10 minutes and then finish at 11pm tonight only to go to work again tomorrow at 7, huzzah!
Just to keep you entertained though, here are some photos I forgot about from the location hunting for this, as you can see the place is horrible and looks worse than these pictures can show, but it works so well for the song and video:
New Album Update
Oh and if you're waiting for information on the new album "Soundtract" (new name that has recently been kinda decided on... by me and Anguaji) don't worry, it's coming and I'm working my little rear off on it, but there will be a website made for it so that you can actively participate in the finalising of the songs. All very exciting but that's stuff for another blog methinks.
"The Esoteric Order of Dagon" on OurStage (Again)
This has totally taken me by surprise but I thought, after hitting the top ten with my track in Experimental on OurStage, that this month it would just get thrown to the back of the charts, and that's what happened, it dropped right down to like #200-odd, but now I wake up and check and after a lot of lovely fans voting for it, it's back at #4 lol. How amazing is that? It's cheered me up a bit when all I can think of is work right now.
I'll try to post another blog tomorrow if I'm not too knacked,
Wish me luck!
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