Hello folks.

I've just been listening to Gong's Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy of albums.

Truely remarkable stuff. Still sounds amazing today, and insanely experimental without being hard to listen to. Nothing like has been made before or since.

Large sections of the albums drift off into lovely spaced out soundscapes, that artists like me are really interested in. The art of creating a really interesting soundscape is one to be admired. Non-musicians have absolutely no idea what goes in to creating a soundscape, but it's so often missed by bands today.

Radiohead are one band who subtly work soundscapes into their songs, but never let them take over completely. It's clever, and most people don't even notice. If you want to hear some more dominating soundscapes in modern stuff then Medeski Martin and Wood's album The End of The World Party (Just In Case) is a great spacey jazz effort - one of my favourite albums.

As for Sweet Cacophony: Since the relative success (people liked it) of The Soothsayer, I've been doing some recording. A new track is online called The Old Grandfather Clock, and uses some nice percussion and guitars. I've done some other stuff which is not online, which varies in quality.

I've found that after a 'break-through' track like The Soothsayer, it take me time to catch up with myself. That track is so far ahead of anything I'd done before that I'm avoiding trying to simply do it again. So it's back to basics for a while, and see what happens.

Love and peace in space

Sweet Cacophony

Hello, and welcome to the world of Sweet Cacophony.



I'm not sure what kind of world it's going to be. I've been writing music for a
long time now under my own name (Michael Sadler), and have recently been moving
toward a more extreme taste in music. Therefore I decided to start this
project.



Music is something which fascinates me. At school I had a horribly narrow taste
in music, even though I studied it, but since then I have started to develop more interesting tastes. The
core is probably progressive rock, but from there I stray into
Jazz, Metal, Electronica, Orchestral etc. I find it very difficult to define
my taste or my music. Sweet Cacophony is only in Rock/Pop because it doesn't
really fit anywhere else.



I tend to take bits from each genre, rather than become addicted to a
particular scene like so many people. So my favourite bands are Pink Floyd, Led
Zeppelin, Radiohead, Magma, Enablers, The Mars Volta, The Jam, The Ozric
Tentacles. Music which changes frequently, whether it be a large dynamic range,
or compositionally complex (Magma are the most ridiculous), or driving riffs
and bass lines which grow into a cacophony of delight! Even bands which try to do something a little different with each song, like Gomez.



Too much music is bland. Songs which may have potential, but the music has been
over produced until all that is left is a empty meaningless one-dimensional
nothing (at little over the top maybe). Every genre follows this pattern, and
this is why I don't like being in one genre alone. Heavy Metal started out as a
incredible new sound, but now there are a million and one bands out there that
all follow a set pattern of what a Metal band should be - the guitar sound, the
loud bass drum, and the screaming vocals. Inde is the same: how many Oasis
wanabes have you had the misfortune of suffering. Frankly there is nothing
worse in the world of music than wanting to be Liam Gallagher! Even Prog Rock
ended up becoming a bland predictable mass of musicians that went on the become
the back-bone of the 80s. Look at Genesis and Yes.



What I'm striving for is a sound which is definable, but has a level of
experimentation. I don't want to guarantee that you will like everything you
will hear, and I can tell you now that it won't all be brilliant. But for me,
music is about something happening which nobody involved had envisioned,
but comes together to produce a moment when you just think 'that's it!'.