Album released 1/1/2012.
453 words across 6 entries.

Ithaca Listen on: Bandcamp, YouTube (playlist), Spotify, Apple Music

sometime 6/12/2016 – 7/14/2016captured 7/14/2016 Michael Guy Bowman ✑ Bandcamp about blurb

After spending years making music exclusively for Homestuck, I branched out with 2012's Ithaca, my first independently released album. Following up on my album-within-a-web-comic Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido, I moved away from my palette of digital synths to focus on a classic rock style. Out come the guitars, the bass, the little toy harp. Shades of Eno, Bowie, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, even a swing tune. It's a freaky affair.

The ideas came from everywhere. There's a song based on something I heard in a dream when I was eight years old, ("Old Buggy Now"). There's one about an engineer who falls in love with an experimental aircraft ("Tacit Blue"). There's a carriage ride through a Manila's Chinatown district ("Kalesa In Binondo"). The title track "Ithaca" recalls Odysseus, a bowman himself. All of it is peppered with guest contributions from Internet friends.

Twelve songs to listen to. Ithaca is calling.

sometime 8/14/2016 – 5/23/2017captured 5/23/2017 Michael Guy Bowman ✑ Bandcamp about blurb

After spending years making music exclusively for Homestuck, I branched out with 2012's Ithaca, my first independently released album. Following up on my album-within-a-web-comic Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido, I moved away from my palette of digital synths to focus on a classic rock style. Out come the guitars, the bass, the little toy harp. Shades of Eno, Bowie, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, even a swing tune.

Ithaca is calling.

Old Buggy Now Listen on: Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music

8/26/2017with respect to this album —
about 5 years, 8 months later Michael Guy Bowman ✑ Bowmantown Discord

this song i heard the chorus of in a dream when i was probably like 7 or 8
so i wrote around it

8/26/2017with respect to this album —
about 5 years, 8 months later Ucklin ✑ Bowmantown Discord

wow, that's really neat!
Was it just the words in the dream, or a melody with it?

8/26/2017with respect to this album —
about 5 years, 8 months later Michael Guy Bowman ✑ Bowmantown Discord

melody and words i remember, and the idea that it was like a big synthpop song. i think maybe i'd just seen "a goofy movie" so powerline is swimming around in my psyche at that age. in this dream i'm watching this guy sing this song, and then i'm literally being lifted in the air by the singer (being a small kid) and the song is being delivered to me. in the morning he's exhausted from singing his heart out and sleeping in the garage. before we get a chance to talk to him he sneaks away in a golf cart. i interpret this as being a meeting between myself as a child and myself as an adult. like a self-fulfilling thing

Noun Listen on: Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music

9/1/2017with respect to this album —
about 5 years, 8 months later Michael Guy Bowman ✑ Bowmantown Discord

i'm surprised riki saw the potential for a club track in noun but he has always been very sensitive to the remix as a format. i think that's how i relate to him best, he understands the intrigue of how a concept can be developed in alternative directions. you're sort of remixing the work already as you write it anyway, going through revisions. that's why it takes me a while