Sorry for the silence..
A number of things have been going on since the last A Moment of Clarity release. I have been very busy on the music as well as personal fronts.
To start, I should mention that a few months back, Facebook contacted me and said that I was not using my "authentic" name, which I was not technically. With this, they asked me to upload a picture of a personal document to prove my name and age. For obvious reasons, I did not do this. However, what this means for A Moment of Clarity and all of my musical endeavors is that I lost admin rights to all of my music pages. This includes the Dylan Rupe, Evergreen Refuge, Cuscuta, and A Moment of Clarity Facebook pages. This would not have been a problem aside for the fact that it was so abrupt. I have not been able to figure out how to let people know. Until then, I have this blog to share information with all that may want to know what is going on. The Evergreen Refuge page has recently passed 1,000 "likes," so if anybody can redirect people here until I can figure it all out, that would be most appreciated...
In other news...
I have relatively recently released two albums, under my moniker Tunica Externa, which is my somber project that is ever changing. The two albums are of the drone and post-rock variety.
"The Black Brim of the World" is an album that I did with spoken word contributions by my good friend Nicholas Trandahl, who is a contemporary author and poet as well as the artist who did the cover for the album. Check his writings out here.
"Sorrows & Surreality" is yet another drone/post-rock album, based around three movements. It is recorded entirely using guitars and pedal effects.
Among these recordings, I have also recorded something for yet another project (I know, I have a lot of projects), called "Oneiromancer." This is a dark ambient/noise/drone project intended as a live ritual of sorts. The first recording, tiled "Oblivion" can be found here. Hopefully there will be live performances in the near future...
Oneiromancer has also collaborated with a good friend, Thrall on a really dark ambient/noise/drone recording. This project, titled Zakarion will have its debut recording very soon through Red River Family Records. More news to come...
And speaking of Thrall, I am helping release his first recording "Hell is a Body" on tape. The album can be found here. The tape will be coming very soon.
A Cuscuta album, which has been complete for some time now will eventually be released through Red River Family Records as well. This album, titled "Ruin" is a bleak and apocalyptic blackened doom metal album. No news just yet on the date of the release.
There is another album under the Cuscuta project which is pretty much complete. I am not too sure on the status of this album, if I want to release it or not. It is a very drone based doom album.. We will see. Either way, it will be quite a while from now...
AND last but certainly not least...
This summer I recorded the next Evergreen Refuge album. This album, titled "Fungal" is a mediation on the fungal beings of the earth with a hope that they can break down the remains of civilization when humanity inevitably exterminates itself. There is some exciting news on the release of this album but I cannot say anything at the moment. I am hoping for a late 2015/early 2016 release...
That's all for now...
Onward.
