jami lynne

hello everybody! long time no see for the Patreon; things are really coming to a head with my and my wife's immigration case, to have her able to permanently live here with me! as you may expect, it's been an arduous process that has taken me out creatively in all sorts of different ways. but, the good news is, coming up after April 11th we should finally be through the bulk of The Process, hopefully freeing me up to catch back up with my creativity that's been begging for air.

but until then, i wanted to share some stuff that i haven't yet!

i've just posted a couple of tracks that i made as part of the composition team for Coquette Dragoon - a visual novel by Ivy May about hurt gay people fighting a mecha war in space. there's a demo of volume 1 out now that you can play, and also Ivy has a Patreon of her own where you can stay up to date with current developments and previews as they're being made!

i've shared two tracks this month: one called promenade, a gentle mood piece for the Duchy faction, and S/M, the disco house theme song for in-universe greek chorus tv show called Millefeuille.

Coquette is a project I'm really passionate about and excited to be working on, so please give it a look and your support if you can!

for compost 2

any genre, any time length, any format. solo projects, projects with bands, one-off mp3s, anything!

as musicians, ideally we want to make music that we enjoy, and if others also do, that's awesome. i'm sure most of you have at least one standout track you've worked on that you're really proud of and want people to listen to!

i'll start with what is my absolute favorite off my latest Noctoran release, "Reflection of the Pale Moon's Eye" from the Thy Curses We Bear Eternal demo in April of 2023:

as the closer of this black metal demo, i really feel like i nailed the feel and the production that i wanted in this song. the riffs don't particularly diverge much from their structure, but i think it really works for the sort of raw-but-atmospheric vibe i was going for with this material.

i'm also really happy with the drum arrangements; there's a sense of flow that i wanted to nail between the start and looping into the main riff with the super aggressive blast beats. it's also the only song on the demo that has a slower, more doomy sort of dirge feeling to it a little after the middle. i am also really happy with how the vocals turned out, going between the shrill highs, deep lows, and the moments where i just scream my lungs out.

overall i've been really happy with this track, and it also feels really good to play live. i think you've accomplished making a truly great track when it gets stuck in your own head.

i don't play out much anymore, but i'm a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, so i'm putting out a little list of different modes i played in that i thought i did well

DRUMS: i come in at 2:06 in this Cutting Room Floor track and play until 3:48. coming in at 3:19 felt like flying to me; i'm proud of the concept which makes that moment stick, and i'm proud of my technical execution overall.

i like this one

i still havent gotten to record a full band version of this track but this one means a lot to me. hearing it with my band with the wall-of-sound shoegaze guitar behind it rly makes it feel complete where I wasn't able to make it feel just from ableton plugins. its a shame no recordings exist of that version of the song, and thats on me.

it's this one, followed by ill moonlight (also band version), followed by this thing ((no homo voice) no omo)