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|  2010 - Soul Scenery (Condensed version)  |
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This is the condensed version of the original debut Whirltwine album Soul Scenery from 2010.
I wasn't very satisfied with it already after the release of the second album Pearly Beams,
which I consider to be my first truly good album I am proud of still today.

For this reason I completely reworked and rerecorded two tracks Sea Shell and Soul Scenery for my third
album Oneness. I really liked both of those tracks and felt their potential, but the original
Soul Scenery versions are very flat and badly recorded. One of the reasons is that these
tracks really required to be recorded on acoustic guitar that they were composed on as well,
but at the time of recording I didn't have any good microphone and I was recording only
my electric guitar directly from computer with line-in input. On the Oneness album I also
finished these two tracks to a more colorful multi layer form.

Now the original recordings were only taking up space on the original album and I almost never listened
to them anymore except when I very rarely listened to the full album. There are also two more tracks
The Glazy Skies and Thoughtful, that I usually don't listen to or skip when I revisit the original
Soul Scenery album. Both are not bad, but they are very average and don't have anything special enough
that would draw me to listen to them again. Unlike all the other songs from the original Soul Scenery
that despite their very low production quality have something beatifully raw, dirty and experimental
in them which I still like a lot to this day.

So in 2020 for the 10th anniversary of Soul Scenery album I decided to create the "Condensed version"
with omission of these four tracks and also with one more heavily changed track Ragged Stripes.
Ragged Stripes has very nice finale, but the majority of the track is badly recorded and falls
to the similar category like The Glazy Skies and Thoughtful for me. So I cut the finale out
of the track and put it at the end of unused Soul Scenery track Song #4 which I always liked a lot,
but I somehow never finished it. Song #4 was originally also longer. I omitted about minute
and half from the beginning. The transition between these two cut out parts, to my great surprise,
flows perfectly. The track is no longer too long for what it represents like the original
Ragged Stripes was, so the final combined track is something I finally really like as a whole
and it definitely deserves its place on the condensed version of Soul Scenery. I changed the title
to Ragged Stripes (Finale) as the finale is what inspired this whole idea.

The final adjustment is clearing out the tracks from some not very pleasing audible cracks
here and there. For example when the Glassy Grass starts out fully after the quiet intro,
but there were many more and now they are mostly cleared on this version.

The nine track half hour condensed version of Soul Scenery is finally an album I enjoy and have
desire to listen to from start to finish once again. I am happy that it reached this form that
stands much better next to the other albums following it like Pearly Beams and Oneness in terms of
the flow, no filler and unique character of each song that has its proper meaningful place
and home on the given album.



Track#:  Name:                        Notes:                                            Length:
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  1     The Meatus Of Sound        Working title: "Song #6"                               3:08

  2     Rough Ball                 Working title: "Song #3"                               2:09

  3     Floating                   Working title: "World Of Magic II: On Game"            2:41
 
  4     Ragged Stripes (Finale)    Combined unreleased track "Song #4"                    3:38
                                   with the finale of original Ragged Stripes
                                   from full version of Soul Scenery.
                                   Working title of original Ragged Stripes: "Kvinty"
 
  5     Mea Reflection             Working title: "Experiment #2"                         2:22
 
  6     Trembling                  Working title: "Song #8"                               4:04
 
  7     Glassy Grass               Working title: "Song #9"                               4:34
 
  8     Bamboo                     Working title: "Experiment #1"                         3:13
 
  9     By Empty Room              Working title: "Song #7"                               4:31
  
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All music was written and recorded by Miroslav Šimek
