The Same River

My name is Adam.
I am 21.
I live in Santa Cruz, California.
I am a musician, a composer to be more specific.
I love people, connections between them, those who are shy and have a lot of interesting things to say, musicians or artists of any kind, people who just like music a lot, people who like to do things outdoors, people who are obsessive over good writing and spelling (but who also can respect the fact that language evolves and changes, and don't attack others over it), people who care about how our culture impacts the environment and want to change it/tear it down/do something meaningful, people who like video game music and aren't ashamed of it, people who are passionate about life and who live it vicariously, people who are good at self love and self care (in a non-arrogant way!), and most of all, nice people. Whatever that means. :p
Needless to say, I also like run-on sentences.

Things/people/places I blog about semi-regularly:
Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson
Riverside/Mariusz Duda
Hans York
Prog ressive Rock
Stuff from Poland
Obscure music no one has heard of (often from Poland)
Music in general
Mortal Engines
Video games (mostly SNES era ones)/game music
My own music
My life
Environmentalism
Anarchism/indigenism, occasionally, though I feel kind of shy about that side of myself
Political things
Sweet's Mill (the wonderful music camp I frequent every summer)

Links of interest:
Facebook
Last.fm
Soundcloud
Bandcamp
(my game music album is downloadable from bandcamp. Go check it out!)

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March312012

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Adam Mussell - The Solar Dance (final battle)

From “A Tale of Xandopheii OST (outtakes)”

This was something I was working on before I released my album, with the intention of including it. However, I didn’t end up finishing this until now. Honestly I think I mixed it a bit too loud… but I don’t feel like messing with it any more at this point.

So here, have an epic final battle theme with lots of choir parts, thematic development everywhere, and a shit tonne of dissonance.

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Xandopheii my music Adam Mussell video game music orchestral

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February282012

So, despite what I said about my album being released on March 1st… I managed to get everything uploaded early, so as a result, it’s officially released… today!

After several years of thinking about releasing an album of my orchestral music, it’s finally done. A lot of this music is older stuff, and if you’ve paid close attention to what I’ve uploaded sporadically to facebook or tumblr, you’ve probably heard some of this. But some of this stuff hasn’t really been on the internet yet, so you should go check it out. It’s about an hour and a half worth of music, so maybe not a one-sitting affair.

Anyhow, if you are feeling poor, it’s a donation based download, and you can get it for free if you want, though since this is so much music and I have at least some pride in what I’ve created, I suppose it’s not too out there to suggest at least a $5 donation to help support future musical endeavors. This stuff is very much a labor of love for me, since I’ve been an enthusiast for game music for a very long time, and really what matters more to me about this is just that it gets heard by as many people as possible.

So spread it around!

A Tale of Xandopheii OST Adam Mussell Xandopheii my album video game music

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February172012

So I guess I just finally finished this thing. That took, what, a month? Whew, I’m glad to be done.

Xandopheii album art drawings

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January222012

This is taking foreeeeeever. But it’s gonna be so worth it when I’m done.

drawings Xandopheii work in progress my art

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January172012

Details are slowly, slowly coming together on this.

Xandopheii album art digital painting my art

November272011

Sketching out a potential album artwork idea… I guess an airship might be a bit cliche for such a thing, but it was fun to do the text artwork, at least.

Man, it’s been so long since I’ve drawn anything…

Oh, oops, I forgot to write in “Original Soundtrack”. Ah well.

Also, Ginger, it would be awesome if you still were down to do/help with album artwork!

me artwork airships Xandopheii I need to steal my scanner back from my sister

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November162011

Proof!

See that one with the shitty bitrate? That’s all I have left to finish.

Xandopheii I probably should make a flac version for any potential audiophiles out there

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10PM

One track left to finish…

Fuck.

Yeah.

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Xandopheii this is the most musically motivated I've been in a long time I'm happy about this development

November102011

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Adam Mussell - Claiming Higher Ground

From “A Tale of Xandopheii OST”

Don’t mean to spam you all with my video game music… but I finished two tracks in the span of yesterday, so I figure I should share them, just ‘cause that’s what I generally do.

This one’s a battle theme, sorta. It’s also really old, so it had a lot of reworking done on it. I’ve gotta run off to work, but lemme know what you think!

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Adam Mussell Xandopheii video game music

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6AM

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Adam Mussell - A World Divided (Main Titles)

From “A Tale of Xandopheii OST”

So, I recently re-did this one… again. I think I’m finally satisfied with it now, after like a billion revisions. Hope the feeling sticks. I don’t want to play with this one anymore. Anyhow, in case anyone missed it the first time around, this is essentially the title screen music for that rpg-that-never-was that the Xandopheii OST is for. Let me know what you think of it?

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