BLOOD - Original Score // OUT TODAY (Patreon)

Happy Friday! This week's Wild Light Decade post will be along shortly. It's a big one this week.

Speaking of ten year old records, I have just broken into the 65LABS PR Wing and am briefly hijacking their comms terminal to tell you that I (Paul from 65days) just released my original score to BLOOD, a solo dance piece that was choreographed and performed by Jean Abreu back in 2013.

I wrote the score ten years ago, around the time we were also making Wild Light. The show debuted at the Royal Opera House and then toured around the UK and Europe.

Then for reasons I cannot explain even to myself, I waited a full decade before getting around to releasing the soundtrack. But it is finally available on my Bandcamp RIGHT NOW.

Please do check it out if you can, buy it if you like, it's only a fiver. And if you're reading this today (3rd November) then it is Bandcamp Friday which means if you grab it in the next 12hrs or so, then Bandcamp don't take a cut. Which is handy cos they recently fired all of the Bandcamp United union organisers and seem poised to compete with Spotify to see who can treat musicians the worst. It was good while it lasted, huh...

I was also working on a little generative app based on material for this record that I was gonna put out today too, but I didn't make the deadline. It'll be coming soon though (probably). If you enjoyed the Wreckage Systems dev-talk and want more of that kind of thing, then if you like you can follow me on Insta/Mastodon/Cohost where I'll try to write a bit more about it as I get it finished up.

I can hear the 65LABS security team trying to take the door off its hinges so I'll wrap up now. Check out the score! It's a very different flavour to my recent Telex From MIDI City album. Less bangers. Slower and sadder, with more pianos and strings and tape hiss.

Enjoy the Wild Light drop in a bit.

- Paul