Music News – New Album; Three Moons Later

About a year ago I made an album called Space Lemonade and my first Afrofuturism album which was mixed with African drums and synths. I liked the album but felt I could have emphasised the African space theme I had in mind so this is my second pull of my take on Afrofuturism in music. I won’t go into what is Afrofuturism in music as I probably save that for a blog post or something special in the form of a blog post or something else I still haven’t decided but in a nutshell, I think the genre is sci-fi mixed with African elements. It’s not really a big genre and has been done a few times so I thought I put my spin on the unknown genre and have some fun messing about with various sounds. As always I used you guessed it Splice.com for all the percussion loops which I loved and think makes the songs more what I want them to be African. I have my African drum one shots which I made various drum patterns with, I only used one or two loops on each track mostly at the start to get things underway but most of the drums apart from one were all that I made and I think makes the songs even more. For the synths, I used one plugin the mighty Matrix from Arturia for all those spacy and Sci-fi synthy sounds and not one I tend to use a lot in the collection but something I always pull up when making Sci-fi tracks as it was used on a lot of old Sci-fi soundtracks from films and TV so it’s the perfect tool to use for any Sci-fi or spacy tracks. The album is something a bit different and my second Afrofuturism album, it’s mixed with Afro beats with other infused genres like Reggae, House, Funk, Latin music and Hip Hop with also synthy stuff on every track. There are some synthy tracks then there are the House or Electronic Dance Music tracks which I made for a difference in the album and some of my favourites on the album and what I have made so far. I say it’s my second Afrofuturism album it’s my third as I have an unreleased album called Afro Cosmic Generation but as I said I wasn’t happy with the outcome and worked out what it needed. The albums was inspired by the film Black Panther and when I saw it in the cinema I was instantly inspired and wanted to make some music but only had a few resources at the time which is just one of the reasons why I underperformed the other reason was that my EQing and compressing wasn’t there but I could play the keyboard that I could do. The first track Homeland Mothership is a synthy number and one of the most synthy tracks on the album. It reminds me of the meeting of the mothership and has a dramatic but melodic bass to it which is more from the genre Progressive Rock which I’ve always been obsessed about and partly my love for synthesizer which started from an early age after learning how to play when I was seven but I properly started but I began at six. I had a tough time playing what is the chorus over the beat, not the one usually to have trouble but this one was hard to play and just about got the job done. I think it’s the percussion clap that sticks in the middle of the mix what does it and it’s rhythmic and melodic so it may have been harder for that reason. The next track Alien Pharoah is another synthy vibe and one of my favourites on the album as I like the way it blends a few minutes in and has this king-like feel to it which I do like. It reminds me of being on the moon but in a palace and entertaining the Pharaoh or king, it has a spacy though desert appeal to it and also reminds me of camels for some reason. The next track The Gray’s System Of Failure is another African synthy vibe and another favourite on the album. I really like the drumming which reminds me of belly dancing and dancing in general and I also like the synths on this one too which is melodic and goes well with the drums. I really can imagine a band playing this somewhere in Africa or the Middle East and I think the drumming is quite funky and danceable. The next track Arfrikan Tribesman is an Afro House track and another favourite and my overall favourite on the album. I like the pumping drums but the synths make the track which I used Matrix from Arturia and vocals from once again Splice.com. I was kind of laughing as I loved how it goes in and out with the crazy melodic sequencer and I think it is one of the best playable tracks I’ve made so far and deserve a play for sure. Moving on to the next track it’s called Brother Planet and has more synthy African vibes. This is more electronic as in space glitch without the space glitch IE technology and has this techy feel to it like robots are marching or something like that. I like the chorus and the second instrument that comes in which gives it that electronic space, robot, intergalactic space feel to it. The next track Alien Power is another Afro House, space vibe track which I like and something a bit different from the other one I made Afrikan Tribesman. I like the drums in this one and the calm synths that are played in and out and act as the chorus. I also like the ending there is something about that synth that does it I feel and makes the song more edgy, dark and mysterious. The next track Planet Suppression is an upbeat breakbeat track that is good for those steppers. I feel the whole world is suppressed and down due to the ever-changing world and the major factors like 9/11, the terrorist attacks and now COVID-19 and other diseases and threats lurking the world needs the happy gas. I didn’t think about doing a sad track to go with the title and don’t like to make songs to drink or to get down in the dumps to not that kind of drinking anyway but I thought I make an upbeat track and I got the breakbeat loop from Splice.com. The next track Space War Face is another synthy African vibe and I like the synth for the chorus and the drumming which is quite fast-paced. It reminds me of the desert again or being in space but in a space desert kind of like being on the moon. The next track Afro Gray is another Progressive Rock space track and another favourite on the album as I like the melodic bass and the synthy stuff too which I think you could stick this on and just relax or daydream. The last track Into The Black Orbis is yet another African synth vibe and more in the Synthwave G Funk region. It’s yet another favourite on the album as I like the synths and the 80s drums I used on this track only for something a bit different from the other nine tracks on this album.