Spleen Arcana

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Anaon — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:55:42 +0000

This is a new feature of spleenarcana.com : You can write your own review of Spleen Arcana’s first album

To write your review of The Field Where She Died :

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Reviews will be added here : http://www.spleenarcana.com/category/members-reviews/

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Chronique de The Field Where She Died sur Progressia

Anaon — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:03:57 +0000

Une chronique de The Field Where She Died vient d’être publiée sur Progressia, l’un des sites francophones incontournables en matière de musique progressive.

Vous pouvez lire cette chronique ici

7/10

Merci!

The Field Where She Died nominated for ProgAwards

Anaon — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:09:56 +0000

ProgAwards team just announced that “The Field Where She Died” has been nominated, for the fourth edition of ProgAwards, in the following categories :

- Best Artwork : http://www.progawards.it/Progawards/index.php?page=panoba
- Best Debut Record : http://www.progawards.it/Progawards/index.php?page=panobdr

A huge thanks to th ProgAwards jury for these nominations!!

Playlist October 2009

Anaon — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:22:06 +0000

October 2009 : Some old prog rock classic of course… Moving Waves, great album which is not just the crazy “Hocus Pocus” song, the 23 minutes long epic “Eruption” is just excellent! QE2 by Mike Oldfield became one of my favourite albums from the artist, his guitar sound and playing are fantastic. Some vintage electronic prog with Force Majeure by Tangerine Dream (one of my favourite) and Heaven and Hell by Vangelis (epic!!). There’s always some place for an Iron Maiden album and actually, it’s Dance Of Death, not my favourite one but still good (and the classic Live After Death which is great!). At last but not least : The Incident of course! Album of the year? One of the great albums of 2009 for sure!! (I have to wait for Transatlantic’s album to talk about “album of the year”, or not…). I can’t tell that it’s my fav Porcupine Tree album but again, high quality modern prog rock, I love “Kneel And Disconnect/Drawing The Line” – Perfect!

I just discovered Bat For Lashes and I can’t stop listening to Two Suns on Spotify. A multi-instrumentalist/songwriter/visual artist with a great voice, beautiful melodies and arrangements.

As usual, I’d be curious to know YOUR october playlist…

Chronique de The Field Where She Died dans Xroads

Anaon — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:35:58 +0000

Une chronique de The Field Where She Died, rédigée par Frédéric Delâge (auteur de la biographie de Genesis, “la Boîte à Musique” et de l’ouvrage “Chroniques du Rock Progressif“) vient d’être publiée dans le dernier numéro de l’excellent magazine Xroads.

Pour trouver Xroads en kiosque : http://www.trouverlapresse.com/

Chronique et interview dans Big Bang

Anaon — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:51:12 +0000

Pour les francophones, une chronique de The Field Where She Died ainsi qu’une interview ont été publiées dans le magazine progressif Big Bang de septembre (numéro 73)

Site de Big Bang : http://www.bigbangmag.com/

Merci!

Join spleenarcana.com and get a free download

Anaon — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:29:37 +0000

Profile pages have been improved on spleenarcana.com as you can see on kReEsTaL’s profile page for example.

Members of spleenarcana.com are now listed on the community page

At last but not least, joining spleenarcana.com allow you to download The Field Where She Died for FREE!

So feel free to register HERE, add your picture and tell us more about you by filling your profile page HERE

Member account on spleenarcana.com will probably evolve in the next months… Ideas and suggestions are welcome of course!

Mobile recording setup

Anaon — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:21:05 +0000

Thinking about recording Spleen Arcana’s second album lead me to the conclusion that I will need a mobile recording setup. I plan to set up a new home studio in Paris but I will have to record vocals in le Refuge as recording vocals is really too loud to be recorded here I guess.

So it’s probably time for me to buy my first laptop? I could use my new RME Multiface audio interface with an HDSP cardbus to use it on my desktop and then on my laptop. I found this Toshiba Satellite here, which seems to be quite good (Intel® Core™ 2 Duo, 4096 Mo, 250 Go sata hd…).

Today, even cheap laptops are more powerful than my actual audio PC, it’s amazing even if my audio PC is not so powerful anymore. I will need to upgrade it for my next album by the way.

Any opinions, ideas about mobile recording setups are welcome…

Now playing : Tangerine Dream “Force Majeure”

Playlist September 2009

Anaon — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:14:50 +0000

These days, I mostly listen to the last cds I bought, all the albums in the picture on the left are new in my cd collection. I received my signed preorder of Guilt Machine. I was really curious to hear this new Arjen Lucassen’s music. Well, it sounds like Ayreon with one voice (a great, versatile, voice by the way) and a different, more subtle, drums playing. It’s not so different and I like it for being not so different!

Beside Guilt Machine, I’m in a Santana’s mood. I’ve always loved his guitar playing and all those latin percussions everywhere… It sounds like nothing else! Festival is not his best one but I like it, it brings some light when needed and Moonflower is fantastic!

Still into vintage epic synths music too with Force Majeure by Tangerine Dream (strangely one of my favourite), Heaven And Hell by Vangelis and Oxygene by Jean-Michel Jarre. Epic, spacy and organic… I can’t get enough of this music!

Feel free to share your playlist!

Chronique parue dans ProgRésiste

Anaon — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:34:39 +0000

Pour les francophones, The Field Where She Died est chroniqué dans l’excellent fanzine belge ProgRésiste, numéro 57 dont voici la couverture :

Site de ProgRésiste : http://www.progresiste.com/

Chronique de The Field Where She Died :

Merci!