Glasslung

Great White Walls - new full length.

2011-03-13T10:22:00.000-07:00

I did it again. I wonder sometimes why this thing exists. These musics have been made in such a drawn out period I wonder if they have any coherence. But I'm sure they're winter's child; they're the products of a lack of warmth, the inspiration of walls of clouds and faroff winds and tornado sirens. And so on. It's a style I've always wanted to carry out to its farthest point, its frightening, logical conclusion. And I guess this is it. Some songs (Sensory, Convey, Kein Denkmal) are really massive, rupturing with feedback, lose notes, fragmented chords. Some songs (Last Years, Senseless) have a subtleness to them that I like in their poignancy. They're like little kids, after a fire. They don't have a lot to say. But that doesn't change anything.

But as to its coherence, that's for you to judge. It's music, in one sense of the word.

DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.mediafire.com/?zzbaxi3ccd51t9x

Tracklist:

1. Sensory

2. Drown Slow

3. Last Years

4. At the Lighthouse

5. Convey

6. Kein Denkmal

7. Leaving Today

8. Senseless

Kein Denkmal by briansopher

Toothless Glow - New Full Length

2010-09-30T18:44:00.001-07:00

Well, this is it. This is the product of a better part of a year. This is ten songs I made slowly and lovingly. It's got a lot of sounds, and I wanted to make a point of putting a lot of sounds in there. I don't know. A lot of the songs are recycled and chopped from bits of recordings and failed demos I have done over the past year or two; resurrected and rebirthed and realigned from naivite into something a little more...I dunno, listenable. And some are painstakingly arranged tracks that I spent months worrying about.

But that's beyond the point. The point is I made some songs, right? And I'm supposed to tell you about them. They're soft songs, loud songs, vast songs, short songs, and voices, bristling synths, soundscapes of notes dragged out and stretched and simmering. They're fall sounds, autumn sounds. I guess you would call it electronic, but I wouldn't want to dance to it. I wouldn't think to it, either. I like do the opposite to it. I hope you might too.

download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?5brrb7n87rz4tz5

tracklisting:

1. I Tried to be Buried

2. Utterly Massive

3. Beehive

4. Mount Victory

5. Last Train to Beslan

6. Cycle of Losses

7. Columns of Wires

8. Breathes In

9. Grain Silos

10. Blood Eagle

Grain Silos by briansopher

Blood Eagle by briansopher

Glasslung - Causeway (New EP)

2010-09-25T11:20:00.000-07:00

This is how I spent most of my summer, when I wasn't working for the man. When I could get the time to sit down and put on some headphones and record sounds, then spent hours tweaking them, turning knobs, adding filters, splicing layers. And all around just staring at a computer screen. It's music that emulates the process, to my mind; it's music that I lose myself in listening to as much as I do in making it. If that makes any sense. I hope you find yourself lost somewhere in these 22 minutes of ambient noise, four-note guitar drones, fuzzed-out bass drizzles, what have you. Those are just words. These are sounds:

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?sgn4wqf7l23mrvl

Tracklisting:
1. Soft Worry (9:44)
2. River Takes the Leaf Away (5:20)
3. As Weapons (7:45)

p.s., new full-length coming on October. Keep your eyes on the prize

-b

Soft Worry by briansopher

rough versions of new songs

2010-06-14T17:56:00.000-07:00

Columns of Wires by briansopher

I Tried To Be Buried (demo) by briansopher

it kind of all started with this

2010-05-06T18:50:00.000-07:00

Factories (New EP, free download)

2010-04-04T20:58:00.001-07:00

Factories is a little bit. It's four long songs that sound really bleak, industrial, dry, sad, I don't know. I just threw them together. I kind of had in mind that I wanted to expand on the suburban/industrial/highway sounding theme of Perish, but like times a million. It's inspired by a lot of late night drives home from friends' houses, a lot of quiet nights with cars passing by and birds waking up and sirens and alarms and dogs braying. It was all made from cell phone interference, ambient noise from machines, an utterly ancient yamaha keyboard, recycled bits from songs I was workin on when I was barely 15. Not a lot to it, I think. It's music.

Download link: http://www.mediafire.com/?j2meujdjdno

Tracklisting:
1. Breathes In
2. Factories
3. Runoffs
4. Highways

Canicule Garden / Moth Traces (two new eps)

2010-03-15T18:14:00.001-07:00

These two latest releases were a bit of a continuation of a creative tradition of mine. After I put out a full length, I like to quickly throw together some songs and throw them out there. This took it a little further. This time I knew I wanted to make an ep of sunny, lush, twinkling summer songs, along with a dark, noisy, gritty ep. And that's all there is to Canicule Garden and Moth Traces.

DOWNLOAD LINK:

Canicule Garden: http://www.mediafire.com/?3ynzzyrzyni
Moth Traces: http://www.mediafire.com/?gzeodoklngn

TRACKLISTING:

Canicule Garden:

1. Summerset

2. Driftings

3. Slow Down

4. Lush Aeterna

5. Contented

Moth Traces:

1. Bleak Hole

2. Fades Away

3. Chasms

4. Autumn Leaves Revisited (Thursday cover)

5. Srebrenica

slow drift

2010-02-16T15:08:00.000-08:00

Been snowed in and off school, so I've made unusual progress:

today and last night I worked on a glitchy organic (glitchganic?) track composed of entirely guitar feedback. And another blissy song is coming along nicely. I'll probably release the EPs I was talking about below digitally in early March. So hey, make some tea, chill with the snow.

love,

b, glasslung

days to come

2010-02-14T13:52:00.000-08:00

Working on a set of two short EPs, one of bright, shimmering music and the other of dark, noisy, sad songs.
It's coming along well
Keep posted

love,
Brian, Glasslung

photo by rachel r

Chasms

2010-02-10T17:38:00.001-08:00

Chasms from Brian Sopher on Vimeo.

Perish (New Album - Free Download)

2010-01-14T09:44:00.000-08:00

This is my first full length release as Glasslung. Ten songs, 40 minutes or so. A lot of these songs have been in existence since June, some as far back as the Sun Water sessions. It's been a long time, a slow, meticulous labor of love for me. A lot of keyboards, microphones, synths. A lot of hours sitting behind a computer, editing and distorting and changing and stretching. With the exception of a few songs, the vast majority of this album has been simple, analogue instruments such as an Alesis Synth, guitars, or an old Yamaha keyboard, recorded and warped beyond their original sound. It's me. I don't know much about anything I feel, but I do know that it sounds like this. Enjoy.
DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.mediafire.com/?iy5hjjiuhym

tracklisting:

1. Locomotif (3:23)

2. Another You (6:32)

3. Money Is Worthless (4:54)

4. Grow Old Alone (5:01)

5. Perishable (3:06)

6. In A Vein (1:50)

7. Softly (5:20)

8. Quiet Us (2:48)

9. Coffee Eyes (4:59)

10. The Old You Was Warmer (6:47)

love, Brian

In A Vein

2009-12-31T13:24:00.000-08:00

A While Ago

2009-12-22T13:45:00.000-08:00

Here's a video I found on my HD, that I made a long time ago, for a very early version of Underwater Hibernation, which appeared on the album Skuldra I released as Fotled. This version is a lot lot softer and more subdued than the album version, so I figured it might be interesting to hear. This is really early Fotled, think back to right around the time I released Demos, and was still using a Yamaha keyboard run through a wah wah and distortion pedals, with very little digital editing. Shit's decent:

Fotled - Underwater Hibernation from Brian Sopher on Vimeo.

Youth Decay/Peninger er verdilös

2009-12-12T12:57:00.001-08:00

"There’s this strain of comfort that I feel is what’s really going to take us down. After centuries of crawling from the ditch, we’re fine with sitting on our couch and consuming instead of giving to the culture rather than taking. And the first step of that is through art. Don’t fucking kid yourself, because the world as is, is a piece of shit. And no one needs to hide that anymore, is the sad thing. Everyone knows the third world is exploited, everyone knows the injustices that go on even in first world societies, everyone knows the cruelties animals undergo. That’s not a secret; everyone is perfectly fine with that under the scapegoat of the status quo. They think that’s just how things are and if they’re comfortable with their safety and their color TVs and their couches, they’re afraid helping someone else will take away their petty luxuries. The first step to changing this is art, it’s the tightest of holds the powerful has over you. Instead of consuming, make something. Art has been compacted into a product, a facet of a market, instead of a pure expression of humanity. Make something new, something that can’t be sold. We can’t solve the human condition if we can’t describe what it is to be human in the first place."

-Johan Sebris-Prophe

Glasslung

2009-10-26T13:13:00.000-07:00

That'd be my new name, my new home
Anyways here are three mp3s of demo tracks I've been working on. Don't let demo turn you off, they're pretty polished, I'm just indecisive and like to sit on stuff for a while and edit a lot before release.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?z2ezoydviwy

dig it,

b, glasslung

Another New

2009-09-06T10:29:00.000-07:00

I once was a Fotled. But now it's different.

Just a little name switch in regards to my musical endeavors it what's happened. No stylistic change. I figured this one was better, and for that matter, pronounceable.

You can hear some new stuff I'm working on under this name at http://myspace.com/sleepingglass

Keep your eyes on the prize,

B, Sleeping Glass