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!)

Please take a walk with me, let me know, am I to blame? Submit

May22012

fucking Riverside!

orangefiltersky:

stenmeister:

Some bands are just that little bit better than all the rest!

What a way to spend an evening.

I need to devote an evening to Riverside one of these days soon.

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riverside men of talent of gigantic proportions Mariusz Duda polish deity

April62012

Ahahaha, they’re so silly. Also, Mariusz totally is sitting exactly how Steven Wilson sits in his interviews.

Riverside interview Mariusz Duda Michał Łapaj Piotr Grudziński Poland album 5

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April42012

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Riverside - Hybrid Times

From “Anno Domini High Definition”

I forgot how good this is for a little while. This is probably my least favorite Riverside album, but fuck it’s still so good at moments.

I think I might be going on another Riverside kick soon.

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Riverside Mariusz Duda poland prog Anno Domini High Definition

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March242012

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mariusz duda riverside the same river out of myself reality dream

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March102012

If Steven Wilson and Mariusz Duda ever do a collaborative project, I think the world might implode. But it would be brilliant.

(Source: orangefiltersky)

Steven Wilson Mariusz Duda

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March62012

tiredmomentsintopleasure:

Lunatic Soul - Lunatic Soul

Timelessness,
Ineffability
I glimpse the spirits of my relatives
I see the others
The being of light
Shifting through a tunnel, long and dark

This song has been on my blog a lot. And for good reason. It’s fantastic.

(via ihavenotimeforyourmistakes)

Lunatic Soul Mariusz Duda

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March22012

Riverside starts working on the fifth album!

last-chance-to-evacuate:

After last year’s releases Memories In My Head and Reality Dream Trilogy and successful tours related to the band’s 10th birthday, Riverside starts working on another album.

I think that it’s high time for some new sounds, says Mariusz Duda, and I really mean new. Last year’s EP didn’t explore any new musical paths, it was a sort of a link to our beginnings. We have enclosed that period with this frame. And it’s high time we went on a different path which would neither be the musical continuation of the above mentioned EP, nor even of ADHD. What will come out of this—we shall see. For now, what we compose is really open, there are a lot of great melodies, the acoustic guitar is back, and the metal riffs evolved into more rock riffs. If we don’t screw it up on the way, it’s going to be a really powerful and mature album, one of the best we’ve recorded, if not the best.

This year the band is going to focus on recording the new album which should be released at the end of 2012, or the beginnig of 2013. It means we will have to wait some more for the final effect. But we have good news for the impatient fans: all the news about the studio work will be published on a special blog at www.riversideband.pl.

The band’s last full-lenght album was Anno Domini High Definition released in 2009. The new one, whose title we should know soon, will be released around the world by Century Media/Inside Out, and by Mystic Production in Poland. The band has renewed their contracts with those labels for the next two releases.

Source : http://www.riversideband.pl/en/news/545-riverside-starts-working-on-the-fifth-album