In the mood to meditate?

The debut album from OPERATION42, Mood 1: Music For Yoga and Meditation, is out now and available through bandcamp and all your favorite streaming services.

All the tracks on Mood 1 follow a theme of being very ambient and chill and would all be quite good for yoga, meditation or deep thought. The tracks are all mostly improvised and were recorded back in June this year (with the exception of movement 6, recorded on 28th October).

OPERATION42 will be working on putting together a second Mood album from other semi-improvised works and hopes to put that out next year sometime.

On a side note there is now a Marionette’s Manifesto Instagram setup that can be visited here.

2nd February 2021: “Carbon”, New Cover Song.

New release from Nebulae Music

Joseph Bagwell has re-released an old “lost” album from 2014 titled “Carbon”. The album sees it’s re-release through the Nebulae Music catalog. It was recorded between April and June 2014 and released circa July 2014, later on in the year Joseph had felt he disliked the work and removed it from stores. After a recent re listen he realized he had been too harsh on the work and felt it was a decent set of music, hence the re-release. You can purchase “Carbon” by Nebulae Music (cat. MM008) from bandcamp here.

New cover by Joseph Bagwell – “Nutshell” by Alice In Chains

Joseph Bagwell has also released a new solo acoustic cover on YouTube, as seen below.

You can also download the mixed audio as WAV or MP3 from the Free Downloads page.

That is all from us for now, make sure to stay tuned to the website and our Facebook page for upcoming news!

New Year Nigh! (Wine and Winter)

As 2017 draws to a close i finish an EP of ambient music i have been working on last half of December.

Winter Also EP

Winter Also is a return to my early ambient improvisation style but includes some more abstract sound sources as appose to just vst instruments with lots of reverb on. The EP is my 6th in the Nebulae Music/HAMG Electronic series of releases, back tracking to my first album “Summit” as being the “First” HAMGEL release (obviously i made it before HAMGEL, but it fits with the catalogue).

a notable sound source used on the EP is on “December Sleet” where i decided to use wineglasses to get sustained drones, more on that in a later post.

I got the idea for the EP last day of semester when i recorded some improvised synth pad at the college. I began with the Nord Lead then added some Juno 106 along with a VST organ. Afterwards extra vst layers, guitar and the wine glasses were recorded at home.

Hope to work on another EP and album over next year, more of the rock stuff to come along with hopefully some gigs aswell 😉

See you all in the new year!

Recluse’s Handbook out Now !!!

My new album “Recluse’s Handbook” is now available for free on Soundcloud and Youtube, and is purchasable for £1 on my Bandcamp.

It’s taken a while to actually get this project finished and i am hoping that you all enjoy the music. Subsequently the album will be available on Spotify, Apple Music and various other online stores from 7th November, and CD copies of the album will eventually be available soon aswell from upcoming gigs.

My debut venture into the world of Rock music. This album is a good introduction to my musical style, drawn from influences including Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues and Jethro Tull to name a few.

So start the record, sit back and enjoy the ride that is “Recluses Handbook”

credits

released October 31, 2017

Composed, Performed and Produced by Joseph Bagwell with

James Bracey – Drums (2,3,5,8-10), co-Production
Charlie Moss – Bass Guitar (2,3,5,8), Backing Vocals (2,10)
Christelle Lamb – Backing Vocals (2,10)
Molly Bernardin – Backing Vocals (2)
Callum Connah – Keyboards (8), co-Production (8)

With Thanks to Seth Markes, Grant Laurenson and Adam Midderigh

Back Photo by Leanne Cushnie
Artwork by Phoebe Ann Lewis

Recorded and Produced at Northbrook MET and my house.

But Maybe i’m Ready for a new Single?

Second single from my upcoming album is here along with it’s B-Side “Lapse”, another piece from my Nebulae Music project.

The album will hopefully be up in a few months on Spotify, iTunes and all the rest…

Volume III is here!!!

Nebulae Music Volume iii is finally here folks!!!

It’s Taken me a while to complete this album, had tracks added, tracks removed and ultimately i am happy with what i have produced. Artwork this time around has been designed by Leanne Cushnie Photography.

The album will see it’s Zenapolae release by early May.

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Nebulae Music Volume iii release dates!!!

Nebulae music Volume iii is finally on its way with the Bandcamp release being on Tuesday 21st March. The album is set to be released through net label Zenapolae in late April/early May.

Volumes 1 and 2 were also released via Zenapolae.

You can preview on the tracks here called “April Snow”

I plan to possibly do a small CD run for this release to be sold at solo gigs alongside solo material that i plan to release onto CD as well for a small run.

Finally i am also going to be incorporating styles from techno, trance, dub and house music into future releases which i hope interests you reading this post. One example that will be re-recorded and re-released is “Electronirock”.

This version released on Soundcloud earlier this year is a demo created as part of a degree assignment.

(P.S. i plan to possibly release a second track on sound cloud soon alongside the albums release so stay tuned)

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and now the continuation of Nebulae Music…

NOTE: PLEASE VISIT THE RELEASE PAGE FOR UP TO DATE INFO/LINKS

i have just finished and released a new EP as part of the drone ambient series “Nebulae Music”. This is my 3rd release as part of the series with 2015 seeing “Nebulae Music Vol.1” and this year “Nebulae Music Vol.2: Background Radiation” both released through the ambient electronic net label Zenapolae.

I now introduce to you “mind EP” including two outtakes from vol.2 and a new track “I Am Eye” which i literally recorded and produced last night.

you can purchase the new EP on bandcamp along with the entire back catalog with 50% off!!!

Now for the weather…

got a couple more gigs coming up at Bar 42 thanks to a new partnership i have entered with Mark Knowles the owner so expect many 42 gigs. The next coming gig is on 20th July and will headline New Tropics supported by Dialysis (TBC) , Etcetera and Hot Air Music’s Luke Amor. you can check out the facebook event page here.