Happy First Year Anniversary to the Release of My First EP, Flags & Arrowways!

 

Yesterday, June 19th, was the first anniversary of the release of my first EP, Flags & Arrowways. A huge step in my musical journey, and I'm still really proud and happy with each of those songs (cover of Underworld's Yeah Plan only available on Youtube/Odysee):

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Odysee

In honor, I've just released two new versions of the songs Arrow on the Narrow and Stereo Compass (new version Stereo Quadrant). New riff variations, different tuning (AEGDF), and new cover art based on the MST3K short Assignment: Venezuela!

Arrow on the Narrow (Bag-O-in-Car-O Mix):

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Stereo Quadrant:

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What's your favorite song from the original EP, what's your favorite of the new recordings?

Scandi-Merica #9 - Coily

 

In Old Norse culture, the years were split between Summer and Winter, but a certain cartoon sprite doesn't like that.

Like Scandi-Merica #7, this is another comic where you'll probably need to be a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000 to get the main joke, as Coily the Spring Sprite is a reference to the short A Case of Spring Fever. The idea came to me as a good pairing joke with the seasons in viking age-Scandinavia being just separated into Summer and Winter. Svartalfheim is the land of the dark elves in the Eddas.

I was facing some indecision regarding the coloring of this comic, and you can see some of it through the dark/light purple color on Jarpr's shirt. For the most part I've kept a consistent color palette for each character, but I felt like mixing it up a bit. I initially visualized the royal blue for Ætta's dress, but in the first frame had went with a teal before trying the blue in the last frame and loving how it looked and went back to what I initially visualized. With Jarpr's shirt, I was going back and forth between the dark and light purple. I really like both, but ended up going with the light purple, but kept the darker purple as it could work as a shadow effect from the sun and I honestly love having both colors there.

All art, writing, inking, and coloring by me. 

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New single, Song to Frigg!

New single, Song to Frigg! Listen on Youtube/Newgrounds

This is a song I've been working on since Mothers Day last year, and continued work the last couple months for this year's Mothers Day. The melody for this song came to me last year, which the 2024 version will come soon (as well as a song for Fathers Day). This new version from this year retains a similar progression, but different tuning and variation. This song is dedicated to my mom, the divine feminine, and the divine mother (be it Frigg/Freyja, Shakti/Parvati, Mary, Earth/Jorð or whatever goddess resonates) 

Frigg is the wife of the god Oðinn and mother of the god Baldr, and she's associated with motherhood, family, and homemaking. The key is a sacred symbol of her, as during the viking age, the wife was the keeper of all keys in a household. While its been long debated, I personally believe Frigg and the more well known Freyja to be two forms of the same goddess, similar to Parvati/Durga in Hinduism, with Freyja being the Durga to Frigg's Parvati. In the Eddas, both Frigg and Freyja are said to have a necklace that allows them to take form of a hawk/falcon. Freyja is married to the god Oð, who I believe to be another name for Oðinn (he has several names listed in the Eddas), as well as claiming half of Valhalla while Oðinn claims the other. 

The cover art is my drawing of Frigg on her throne, with a falcon/hawk on her shoulder, key necklace, cats by her feet (Freyja has two cats that pull her chariot), and holding the Odal (ᛟ) rune, which is both the letter "o" in the Elder Futhark alphabet (pre-viking age) and it means ancestral home.