Single du Jour : "Who the Fuck are You"

From the "Life on a Sinking Ship" album.

Who the Fuck are You by khoral

Single du Jour : "Colour of Bone"

The complete first song off the new "Life on a Sinking Ship" EP.

"Time marches on
Night sighs and days drown
And life is the colour of bone

When the day is done
You’re left on your own
You run away while things just slide down

Time marches on
Life is the colour of bone

Years out of reach
Shipwrecked and adrift
Sorrow’s getting older

That song you sung
When you were just a girl
Now tastes like dying summer

Time marches on
Life is the colour of bone

Sigh and drown and time shuts down
Trapped in the lost and found
Station to station and dust to dust
There’s a hole in our heart
Where the hours sink down

The days never end
But memories start to fade
The hours drift, and seconds stumble

When the path is dark
I guess you can’t go back
Back to where it began

Time marches on
Life is the colour of bone

There’s a hole in our heart
Where the years die down"

Colour of Bone by khoral

New EP : "Life on a Sinking Ship"

The follow-up to "Broken Sails" is released!

This is a 7-songs, pop electro EP.

It is available today as a CDR (with iTunes and Deezer releases to follow).

Price : 6€ (shipping not included).

To place an order, email me at khoralnet[nospam]free.fr.

1 - Colour of Bone

2 - Who the Fuck are You

3 - Life on a Sinking Ship

4 - In the Clockwork City part.1

5 - Opium Spider

6 - In the Clockwork City part.2

7 - Machines are your Friends

Colour of Bone (Preview) by khoral

Who the Fuck are You (Preview) by khoral

Life on a sinking ship (Preview) by khoral

In the Clockwork City part.1 (Preview) by khoral

Opium Spider (Preview) by khoral

In the Clockwork City part.2 (Preview) by khoral

Machines are your Friends (Preview) by khoral

Polishing...

I've been somewhat busy these days, but took time to work on the upcoming "Life on a Sinking Ship" album.

I've added a little vocoder piece done with the Microkorg. This vocoder isn't the most powerful or complex, but with the lo-fi mic, it definitely has a character of its own, grungy and vintage.

I'm still aiming to release this album on July 1st, in CD-R format first, then iTunes digital download.

Inside "Life on a Sinking Ship" : Moog 2

More Moog multi-tracking from the upcoming "Life on a Sinking Ship" album...

Moog Demo 2 by khoral

Inside "Life on a Sinking Ship" : Moog 1

Excerpt from the upcoming "Life on a Sinking Ship" EP.
Moog Little Phatty multi-tracking.

Moog Demo by khoral

Inside "Life on a Sinking Ship"

The blog has been quiet these days, but I'll post some musical excerpts from the upcoming "Life on a Sinking Ship" album this week...

New Album Due July 1st

The title says it all, eh?

My next commercial release will be "Life on a Sinking Ship".

The date is July 1st 2010, on CDR and iTunes.

I'm currently polishing the mix and experimenting with short songs to segue the main tracks. I'll post some excerpts and work-in-progress demos until the release.

The tracklist so far:

1 – Colour of Bone (a very very poppy song... boy is that poppy)
2 – Who the Fuck are You (a new faster and much better recording of a song already released round these parts)
3 – Life on a Sinking Ship (a funkier, moodier trip, with a hypnotic feeling)
4 – In the Clockwork City (part.1) (not sure if this will make it through the final release, it's a vocoder tune)
5 – The Opium Spider (inspired by the instrumental off the "Chasing Ghosts" EP, a dark psychedelic cue)
6 – In the Clockwork City (part.2) (reworked from an instrumental, with some weird vocal experimentation)
7 – Machines are your Friends (a long, almost prog-electro piece about living with machines)

What's Next?

Well, more Cover Series obviously, but more important order of business is the follow-up to "Broken Sails", that is, the upcoming "Life on a Sinking Ship" EP.

It will feature 6 brand new songs.

Here's the probable tracklist:

1 - Colour of Bone (atmospheric, deep pop, part of our live répertoire)

2 - Life on a Sinking Ship (swirling, winding funky trip)

3 - Machines are your Friends (a long, almost progressive work)

4 - Opium Spider II (psychedelic electro-pop, based on the closing track to "Chasing Ghosts")

5 - Who the Fuck are You (bouncy edgy groovy tune, of which a demo has been released here some months ago, but this is a brand new recording, and the ending song of the live act)

6 - We Die in Sleep (beautiful ballad sung by Molly Sundar)

I can't give a release date yet, but it'll be a commercial one, first released as a nicely crafted CDR, then as iTunes digital download.