Hey Chestnut. I know you're new to the station and a lot of people don't trust you, so I just wanted to send you a little welcome message. I understand that it must be scary (let's say I've been there). A mass of hundreds of ships, connected together into a chaotic bulk, orbiting a burning sun alone in the void - it's all pretty weird, even before you come inside and walk through the labyrinthine corridors and see the dense vegetation covering the metal walls. But I think one day the Ceaseless Brilliance will feel like home.
You should meet my friend Faintly Klezmer. I mean, I know you've already met, in a way, but… you should meet my friend. They're a star in the triathlons, though they always downplay it and like to talk more about their work taking care of our ship's new child. That typical catboy humility, you know?
Their pal Sammy Lossless weirds me out a little, though. I have no problem with a little space-weed now and then, but I just feel like I wouldn't really want to eat mushrooms that sprout from a sentient mycelial computer thing. I feel like it's making him paranoid.
Anyway, now that you're here on the Brilliance, try to check out an Invicta Lux film when you get the chance. Those movies are definitely not for everyone, but I love them. Invicta comes across as a cool weirdo in interviews, but she really understands what it's like to be an ordinary person on this station. And it's pretty great to see her devoting herself to protecting ecology. Weird how her and Cormorant Crowned keep arguing in public, though.
That reminds me, you should definitely attend church services. Cormorant isn't as good of a leader as our last one, and she's not as enthusiastic about the sun as she should be, but she's trying her best. She really believes that we can work together as a community. At their best, her sermons make me believe in this place. She makes me believe that we're not really alone out here, because we have each other.
Anyway, attached to this message are some files of music that I've been listening to recently. Lately, whenever I'm not just listening to those high-pitched insects that flit around the station, or to the gentle roar of the sun, I like to listen to these tracks. Something tells me you'll like them too. Welcome.
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This is the soundtrack that we wrote for our group's tabletop role-playing games of December 2019 to February 2020, set in a world built with the system "The Ground Itself" by Everest Pipkin, and then elaborated upon using "Firebrands" by Meguey Baker & D. Vincent Baker, and "Kingdom" by Ben Robbins.
Cover art is an adaptation of "The Music of Gounod" from Thought-forms (1901) by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbetter.
credits
released May 1, 2020
All tracks by celloandbehold and carrie z.
Celloandbehold on cello and electric bass,
Carrie on drum machine, taishōgoto, and accordion,
both of us on synths.
Includes a sample from the sun sonification by Alexander G. Kosovichev (soi.stanford.edu/results/sounds.html), released by NASA for free derivative use.
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Jack is a master of the sublte. Epic in scale and delicate in delivery, often turning emotions on a short sequence of notes. I wish they would embrace singing more as well because The Balad of Sister Rust and Tell Me are both incredible examples of their talent and ability. hazelforgotten
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i finished listening to hieron while i was at work and was not told until i was leaving a few hours afterward that i was visibly, noticeably weeping. you've done it again jacko logan666
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My brain is, at any given moment, replaying Austin Walker saying "So, there's this train..." and this music increases that probability by at least 70%. vincentavatar