“Our goal is to always get as over the top as we can without going overboard.”Īnd it's a fine balance that Magic Sword has mastered. “I seek out the sickest riffs,” jokes The Seeker. At early shows, fans would come to the merch table seeking out the swords and Magic Sword eventually obliges so that those who come to see Magic Sword again can join in on the fun.īut it isn't just the heavy synths that make up the core sound of the band, it is also the GIT graduate-level shredding that The Seeker unleashes throughout the songs, creating those cheesy, bombastic guitar leads that you might hear on any number of '80s soundtracks and in bands where studio musicians ruled the day. At some point in the set, The Keeper will raise a glowing sword lit up with LEDs during the epic music build of the set. The simple yet impactful stage show consists of two masked, cloaked figures with a glowing line of light across where the eyes would be. That and, naturally, Daft Punk and that band's anonymous yet unmistakable stage personae. Vangelis, Giorgio Moroder, John Carpenter and Jean Michel Jarre provided a bit of musical inspiration behind Magic Sword's sound. The group wrote songs that wouldn't be out of place in films like Buckaroo Banzai, Blade Runner, Wavelength, Time Bandits and The Keep. The stars aligned and I met Shay Plummer and the rest of Magic Sword, and it felt right. It was the one constant in my life - '80s epic soundtrack music. Day seven it dawned on me that this is what I wanted to do. I didn't do it to go get clarity on my music I did it because a buddy of mine had had such great results with it. “It was ten days, and you meditate eight to ten hours a day. The group originated when The Keeper became a little lost as a musician - and perhaps in life in general - and sought an unorthodox method of regaining focus. “I went to Vipassana, a meditation retreat,” reveals The Keeper. The latter “weaves the web of the universe,” according to a bandmember known as The Keeper. This mysterious trio hails from Boise and two of the musicians perform incognito while a third member handles the projections in a way that is far from obvious. “I try to set up in a way that you can't see it, because I feel like it ruins the magic when you see hot dogs being made,” says that member, who's known as The Weaver. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Perhaps the most unusual act of this past weekend's Underground Music Showcase was Magic Sword. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.
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