January 2009 Album Update: Earth Noise

I'm experimenting with brainwave entrainment and producing altered states through theta wave binaural beats and shamanistic trance-inducing drum beats (4.5 beats per second) for the final song of the new album.

Theta waves are electrical vibrations in the brain which resonate between 4-8hz. These frequencies are prominent in states of drowsiness, the first stage of sleep, and altered trance states. During a theta-induced trance, shamans are able to inflict serious injury to themselves without pain. It has been shown scientifically that the body's electromagnetic field itself is changed or disrupted during this kind of trance, specifically in the area where the self-mutilation is being done.

Those moments where you zone out, or realize you don't remember the last forty miles of your drives, are instances of theta states.

Theta waves improve learning and creativity, hence the term "sleep on it." I attribute this to the reason why I write most of my music during long periods of sleep deprivation. Much of the new album has been written from extensive recordings of late-night theta jam sessions. It wasn't until I began further research into theta waves that this began to make sense to me.

It's interesting to note that the Earth Frequency, or the Schumann resonance, is a theta wave of 7.83hz. This is the most commonly found global electromagnetic resonance, excited by lightning discharges in the cavity formed by the Earth surface and the ionosphere.

Brainwave entrainment is the process of using external stimulation (auditory or visual) to alter brainwave vibrations for meditation, healing, sleep, dreaming, attention, alterness, or general relaxation and well-being.

Certain binaural beats can create disequilibrium and other uncomfortable effects. It is rumored that a binaural beat of 20.215hz can mimic the effects of LSD.

Consider yourself warned.

Apophenia: the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.

I want to find meaning in this, I'm searching for purpose. But I'm becoming convinced there's no code in the dissonance.

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Bio 2009

Fall Out Fracture is an intricate and constantly evolving organism, striving for fascinating new ways to seamlessly weave the world's most ancient rhythms and sounds into the fabric of modern and electronic textures.

Often described with an eclectic jumble of words like visceral, sensual, and a very natural sense of insanity, Fall Out Fracture has risen from the grime of the bland musical landscape with an unmistakably new and distinctive sonic dissonance.

The debut release, the highly experimental Anxiety EP, features tabla, theremin, and thick over-driven guitars all at the same time in the six-minute doomsday epic "Surviving The End." Within the other six songs is an array of abstract layers, including a dual between tabla and drum machine, down-tempo acoustic with a hint of harmonica over tribal drum rolls, and a hypnotic urban beat, subsonic jungle rhythms, and subtle electronics pulsing beneath gritty, ethereal guitars dripping with reverb.

While the vocals are methodically restrained and passive like the neurotic calm at the center of the chaos, the lyrical themes are taboo, unnerving, sometimes even maddening. Wether delving deep into raw and bitter introspection or chanting weighty warnings about humanity's parasitic tendencies toward metaphorical cannibalism, it feels more like a conversation with a serial killer than most are comfortable with. The constant sense of instability, vulnerability, the feeling of slowly slipping off the edge, slowly burrows in and takes hold.

The main focus is the art, and art is meant to push the boundaries, stir up suppressed thoughts and feelings, bring about revolution in the self. Fall Out Fracture blurs the lines between beautiful and ugly, sacred and profane, esoteric and modern, primal and metaphysical, to discover a new truth hidden within. To let it bloom, see what it becomes. Metamorphosis or decay, each is a natural and intimate process with beauty shimmering in the macroscopic.

Fall Out Fracture is currently working on an upcoming full-length album with an unclear date of release.

The Anxiety EP is available as a free download from www.falloutfracture.com (follow the moth)

Close your eyes, open your mind, and just let go.

A Pale Ghost

If you like dark, haunting, and brutally honest acoustic music, check out A Pale Ghost, the latest addition to the Mental Shed Records family.

Miss You

If you haven't heard the new song from the upcoming album yet, listen here: myspace.com/fracture

Hindsight

For the first time since the 2005 Anxiety EP a new, complete song has been posted from the upcoming full-length release.

Listen to "Hindsight" here: myspace.com/fracture

Hindsight lyrics:

it's the fear that's keeping me here

i can smell when you're near

i can feel when you're here

and I need you

closer

and even as I swell I swear I'll wash my hands of you

now that I've got it I don't want it, don't want it

gotta kill it, kill it, kill it, kill

it it all fades so fast just try to hold on

everything dear grows so cold and so empty

colors fade, memories stray

feelings so fleeting

screaming, surrendering, consuming

this obsession drags me down

until there's nothing left of me below

hold on to me

it will all be over soon

If you do so solemly swear to spread the word, hold your friends (and/or strangers) hostage and make them listen to the song, you can download Hindsight here: purevolume.com/falloutfracture

November 2007 Album Update

It's been a year since I put up the "firefly" clip from the new album.

The album is nowhere near done yet. It is very personal to me, and I need to get it right. In the process I've written and recorded at least one more complete album. Still trying to decide if I should just finish that up first for the sake of getting something new out there.

What do you think - are you ready for some new Fall Out Fracture, already?

Thank you all for your undying support! Keep it evil.

Special new Anxiety EP release

Check it out:


Anxiety EP

Track listing:

1. Pissing In The Gene Pool
2. Suicide In Spring
3. Burn Layer
4. Papercut Shotgun
5. Surviving The End
6. Ghosts In The Cornfield
7. Bakolo

This is more or less the complete Anxiety EP, the way it was meant to be.

Get it here.

FALL OUT FRACTURE
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September 2007 Album Update

Just in time to enjoy the beautiful Fall season, I find myself once again pleasantly unemployed and working diligently on the new album. If every song that has been written for this album was a brick, I would have already built my own tower of Babel.

But the songs that are supposed to be on this album are very important, very close to me. They exist somewhere in that space between a moment, and the memory of that moment, where the fabric of consciousness begins to fade. What's left are the feelings, the senses. A touch, a taste, a smell.

The translation between those visceral things tingling on the tips of the nervous system and the physical, audible energy of sound needs to be just right. You have to get down, lay your soul out in the water, drop in a toaster, and hope for the best. Try to touch the intangible in those thin moments of weakness and pain. Fingers tearing through soft tissues to get at the meat somewhere beneath.

Soon.

Also, falloutfracture.com and mentalshedrecords.com will be back soon. It's difficult paying hosting bills without access to the internet.

FALL OUT FRACTURE
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Downloads

The Anxiety EP is now free to download right here!

Also:

- Ghosts in the Cornfield

- Bakolo

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There are more on the way, so keep checking back.

Also, be check out the FALL OUT CULT album for the beautiful and/or strange new fan art right here.

Thank you all for your undying support and relentless work to bring this infection to the masses!

FALL OUT FRACTURE
www.falloutfracture.com

July 2007 Album Update: Las Vegas Death Trip

You don't sleep in Vegas. As a result, much of my memory of the trip is just a vague blur of sin in the hot glow of a billion blinking lights. They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

There is a good reason for that.

The trip was part business, part pleasure. I needed to clear my head, get away from the album for a while, get away from every excuse I use to keep myself from working on it, from getting it all wrong. But most importantly, Fall Out Fracture has infected the city of sin, and it's only the beginning.

I spent a lot of time on the strip, in the highest temperatures Vegas has had since 1985. It was fucking hot. But at night, when the streets came alive, it made it all worth while.

I stayed in room 1221 at the Circus Circus hotel/casino, with it's contortionists, magicians, and other acts every half hour in the center of the midway, and the rotating carousel Horse-Around bar. There were mirrors, tarnished gold, and circus murals everywhere. The longer you've been awake, the stranger it becomes.

Beside Circus Circus the classic Stardust was just a huge empty lot and a pile of dirt. Down the strip it was the Frontier's last few weeks before it comes crashing down. The Luxor is an interesting place. Criss Angel's custom Viper sits just outside the entryway.

Also, there was a shooting at the New York, New York. A man stood out on a balcony and opened fire. Many of the hotel's customers flooded the building without looking back.

No one I spoke to who was employed in some way or another on the strip was actually a Vegas native. They had all just recently moved there because they fell in love with it. Despite my every effort to resist the temptation, even I began to consider it. There is plenty of work, especially in the city's seedy underbelly.

Maybe next time.

There are places in the desert where can park your car, put it in neutral, and it will roll uphill. These places became sacred religious spots where people made pilgrimages to experience the mysterious hand of God at work.

It was in one of the areas, just the dead, uninhabited expanse of desert on a long stretch of empty highway in the middle of the night, where the radio, cellphones, and GPS went dead. Creepy solitude, in a place completely broken off from the rest of the world. I call it Roam, a place where the mind can function free and clear of radio and television signals, electromagnetic interference. And there was a dead rattlesnake on the road.

Since returning, another new song is nearing completion, I've been working on something that sounds like spooky industrial blues folk something-or-other for no apparent reason, I wrote a short story about a fat guy who masturbates to a massive coronary to set his town free, and there is much more in the works.

Also, I'll be working on a new falloutfracture.com, as well as several projects, events, and releases in store for Mental Shed Records.

The new album takes priority, though, so these other things might come along a little slower than I would prefer.

Rather than spend excessive amount of time sorting through the thousands of photos and videos (come not postable on myspace) here are a few shitty ones:


Circus Circus - the biggest, brightest sign I've ever seen


The balancing/contortionist lady at Circus Circus


The Luxor


Criss Angel's custom Viper at the Luxor


Reserved parking space at some bar on the north end of the strip


Lights...so pretty...


Apocalypse in the parking lot


Fear and loathing at the Mirage

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