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Lost Immortality - release

Yesterday I started uploading the album to streaming services and it will take some time for it to appear on these sites. But for those who don't want to wait - bandcamp, youtube, rutracker and VK are at your service.

By tradition, the album can be used completely free of charge, but those who wish to make a material reward can, for example, buy an album on Bandcamp by simply entering any amount other than zero in the price field.

Listen & download:

- Bandcamp - Youtube (personal) - Youtube (distributor) - Rutracker (mp3) - Rutracker (flac) - Streaming This album is about memories of childhood and youth. Each of the songs reflects the stages of growing up of a child, which gradually lead to the loss of the unique sense of joy, carelessness and safety.

Tracklist:

1. Together (5:18) 2. Sunpuddle (6:21) 3. Arcade (7:12) 4. Touches (7:41) 5. Walkabout (8:24) 6. Playground (7:14) 7. Scratches (8:18) 8. Escape (7:45) 9. Alone (5:24)

Total length: 01:03:37

Special thanks for all my friends, who helped me in this project!

Music: Modern Crusader Concept elements: Blaze Additional visual: Fellirium Artwork: Augusto Peixoto

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Alone

The final track of the album is essentially the wrong side of what it all started with. With the help of several instruments, I try to voice the different voices of family and loved ones. Basically, these are tired lonely children who are not really heard or understood by their parents.

Nevertheless, despite the shattered hopes and dreams, Alone is a humility, peace, the right to solitude, attempts to live on with the realization that apart will be better for everyone. In addition, this is an opportunity to keep in memory all the good things that happened before, when everyone was together.

We have lost that immortality, but we still exist.

1. Together - 5:18 2. Sunpuddle - 6:21 3. Arcade - 7:12 4. Touches - 7:41 5. Walkabout - 8.24 6. Playground - 7.14 7. Scratches - 8.18 8. Escape - 7.45 9. Alone - 5.24

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Escape

Thoughts of escape, both in a narrow and in a broad sense, periodically visit, probably, the head of every child. The reason for this is the inevitable control on the part of parents and the older generation as a whole, the system of preschool and school education. If, according to the child's feelings, this control becomes too much, then from thoughts he can move on to real attempts to escape.

This is a memory of how one autumn rainy morning, the child began his escape from the exhausting control and "everything bad." These are attempts to find solitude and peace, some new hobbies, some safe places and good people. This is a time of great inspiration and new hopes.

A little later, this path will lead to growing up, independence and other life tests. But that is another story…

1. Together - 5:18 2. Sunpuddle - 6:21 3. Arcade - 7:12 4. Touches - 7:41 5. Walkabout - 8.24 6. Playground - 7.14 7. Scratches - 8.18 8. Escape - 7.45

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Scratches

It's time for the saddest, most disturbing, painful chapter of childhood. Scratches are a collective image for "everything bad." During this period, too many wrong doors were opened, which led, in fact, to the loss of that very childhood immortality. This is the time of maximum danger and strong confidence that there is nowhere to wait for help.

Memories of bad people, places and events. About inappropriate words, undermined trust and destructive inaction. About the mistakes made, which then led to large losses.

This is a movement through a gloomy city into an impenetrable night, where danger can lurk at every corner, and in the finale only the laughing faces of madmen will be waiting for you. This is the time in which I would not, under any circumstances, want to be again.

1. Together - 5:18 2. Sunpuddle - 6:21 3. Arcade - 7:12 4. Touches - 7:41 5. Walkabout - 8.24 6. Playground - 7.14 7. Scratches - 8.18

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Playground

This is one of the long conceived and rather strange songs. It's complex concept can be considered one of the impetus for writing this album at all.

A children's playground is the brightest symbol of childhood, which will remind you of this childhood going farther and farther away. I began to feel this as a teenager, when I suddenly realized that I no longer had a place on those playgrounds where I spent a lot of time with the guys earlier. And now, looking through time, remembering those days, I understand that I was left with this piercing loss all alone.

Playground is «the last day of summer». This is the point after which everything will only be sadder. Also, this is my little anti-war manifesto. Thinking about the loss and looking at the abandoned play areas of my childhood, with broken and rusty equipment, I can't help thinking that I'm seeing the aftermath of the fighting. For some, childhood ends too early in this world.

1. Together - 5:18 2. Sunpuddle - 6:21 3. Arcade - 7:12 4. Touches - 7:41 5. Walkabout - 8.24 6. Playground - 7.14

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Walkabout

Walkabout is the central song of the album, which symbolizes the movement of a child to any knowledge (other than a general education school) and to acquiring any skills that will be an essential part of his personality in the future. In other words, this is a kind of tour of all our creative, sports and other clubs.

The path itself plays an equally significant role here. “Walkabout” is also a kind of dissipation of the “fog of war” in the city. In childhood, the native city is essentially limited to only one area, outside of which an unknown, perhaps even hostile territory begins for the child. And this element of exploration of unfamiliar territory is also present in the song.

A lot of ambient sounds were used here. Plus I recorded a little funny part on the saxophone.

1. Together - 5:18 2. Sunpuddle - 6:21 3. Arcade - 7:12 4. Touches - 7:41 5. Walkabout - 8.24

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Touches

This song was conceived as a collective image for “all the good things” that happened in childhood. Of course, arcade machines and promenades on the street are also, in a sense, good memories. But it was necessary to talk about the kindest, touching moments that are associated, among other things, with the maximum sense of safety.

These are memories of strong friendships, awkward falling in love, and our summer family camping trips outside the city, which we called trips to the dacha. And in general, in a broad sense, this is about any travel with the family in those years. I would like to relive a lot of my childhood, but if I had only one day, then without hesitation I would go somewhere there, to those feelings and those adventures, with those people.

Some everyday and natural sounds were used in this song. They accompanied me in some key moments of that life.

1. Together - 5:18 2. Sunpuddle - 6:21 3. Arcade - 7:12 4. Touches - 7:41

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Arcade

And this song is about our passion for arcade machines in childhood. In a broad sense, about the passion for video games in general. Before finally moving to home PC's, we spent many hours in arcades, and then in computer clubs. We never had really big and cool gambling halls that we could see in foreign films. Basically, arcade machines were in stores just as a bonus, in small quantities. But a couple of places in the city (known to us) still managed to accommodate about twenty arcade machines.

Unfortunately, one of the first arcade that I saw and was able to play (1993-94 years) was located in the now closed shopping basement of one of the shops. Now there are other shopping areas and passing by this place I can’t even see the entrance to this basement anymore. Another large game point was located in a small shopping center, which is still functioning. Of course, there are no arcade machines there for a long time, but in search of inspiration and nostalgia, I sometimes visit this place.

For the track, I recorded sounds from the local video game museum. I will not spoil, but these are very canonical and most likely recognizable sounds even for those who are not familiar with arcade machines.

1. Together - 5:18 2. Sunpuddle - 6.21 3. Arcade - 7.12

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Sunpuddle

Sunpuddle goes for a walk through the streets of my city.

This is an adventure song that illustrates our childhood walks, outdoor play and playground games. There are climbing frames, tags, hide-and-seek, football and even a trip to the Soviet store for sweets. I managed to get some rare sounds from the past, which I used with great pleasure this time.

If the title track was a kind of door to the summer, then the "Sunpuddle" is that same children's summer.

1. Together - 5:18 2. Sunpuddle - 6.21

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Together

The fifth album opens with the track «Together».

This is a story about a schoolboy's first summer day of vacation. In its concentration of childish happiness, this moment beats nothing at all. Christmas holidays, birthdays, any other holidays - everything will stand somewhat behind this day of the end of the school year and the beginning of a long rest. In addition, the sensations of the described moment are part of the overall picture of the joy and carelessness of childhood.

This is the time when we were immortal. This is the time when we were all together.

1. Together - 5:18

The original idea was to fill all the tracks with field recordings to the brim. I think in this case the album would have turned out more like a kind of radio spectacle, where the alternating sounds of the environment would be followed by ambient accompaniment. But then it became clear that such a form would not really convey the necessary mood of the concept. In the end, I decided to make a kind of cameo from the field recordings. There will not be so many of them, but in each song this window into reality will open at the most necessary moment.

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Lost Immortality, plans for 6 & 7 album

About the fifth album and plans for the future.

Yes, last time I wrote that I would like to start the production of the fifth album in the winter of last year. Unfortunately, some sad events were regularly replaced by others and greatly distracted me, so I managed to get to creativity only now. On the other hand, I'm even somewhat pleased with the circumstances, because the concept needed time to mature. Also, there was an opportunity to think about the idea of ​​music streams, which I was fired up with last year. As a result, I decided to postpone the topic with streams for the time being, simply because I still have a bad idea of ​​what exactly I would like to stream and how much effort it will cost.

So, the album. More specifically, albums. While I was thinking about how to write the fifth, thoughts about both the sixth and the seventh appeared. But there are still enough white spots, so, about them later.

What used to be the working title «Lost & Found» became «Lost Immortality». This is still an album of childhood memories, although its nature and form have undergone some changes. I decided to abandon some deep ambient in favor of the familiar scheme that I used earlier. However, the use of field records is still in the plans. In addition, I dragged the idea with ambient to the sixth album, which should be a direct sequel to «Lost Immortality». It is also worth noting that so far there are 9 planned tracks, which, apparently, will scrape together about 60 minutes of music.

Just the other day I finished the title track and will post a report on it very soon, everything is as before.

It's hard for me to guess of the release date of the album itself, but if everything in life, and in the world as well, goes according to a good scenario, then maybe before the end of the year I'll be in time.

Thanks to everyone who listens to me and is waiting for new music.

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Kris Sword

I would like to open a new creative chapter immediately with a fresh song, which is a joint product of your obedient servant and streamer musician Vsevolod Mikulski

Vsevolod performs applied background music on Twitch and other streaming sites. The heart of all his arrangements is the bass guitar. In addition to such live performances, the musician also has a discography of recorded material. Initially, "Kris Sword" was one of his improvisations for the stream. Well, my restless mind decided that these amazing bass riffs needed to be given another life in a different form.

Tracklist:

1. Modern Crusader with Mikulski - Kris Sword (6:13)

The track is currently available for listening/downloading on the following platforms:

Bandcamp

Soundcloud

Youtube

Whether "Kris Sword" will become part of some big story in the future, time will tell. In the meantime, take this episode, with a taste of western and retrofuturism!

I highly recommend also looking at Mikulski's streams. There you will find cool vibes that are suitable both for thoughtful listening and as a background for your study, work and other routine.

You can find all the the musician coordinates at the link in Linktree.

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Division - cassette (Raw Russian)

A few days ago, another label released Division on cassette.

In this case, the cover is made in their specific style.

If the limited edition cassettes sell well, the next step will be vinyl release. I am looking forward to it!

https://rawrussian.bandcamp.com/album/modern-crusader-division

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Division - cassette (Trash Can Dance)

In 2019 our local label Trash Can Dance released Division on cassette.

Modern Crusader - Division Trash Can Dance 2019 TCD 204 kassett

A:

1. Grounded 04:13 2. 384440 08:41 3. Intention 07:33 4. Insomnia 08:49

B:

5. Deception 10:21 6. Division 08:54 7. Tomorrow 04:00

Quantity: 40 pcs Price: 5 euros

Trash Can Dance - original post

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Septem - cassette (Trash Can Dance)

I completely forgot to post information about the release of other cassettes. I am filling this gap.

In 2019 our local label Trash Can Dance released Septem on cassette.

Modern Crusader - Septem Trash Can Dance 2019 TCD 201 kassett

A:

1. Vita 06:58 2. Superbia 08:32 3. Avaritia 07:04 4. Gula 06:14 5. Invidia 06:50

B:

1. Luxuria 08:01 2. Acedia 06:02 3. Ira 08:17 4. Mors 04:24

Quantity: 30 pcs Price: 5 euros

Trash Can Dance - original post

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Fellirium with Modern Crusader - Cenotaph (2020)

While I was slightly at a loss about MC creative plans, a colleague from Fellirium returned to the stage and offered to join him on his new musical adventure.

Cenotaph is decadence, isolation, a planet after humans. We only used acoustic wind instruments.

Enjoy listening.

Listen & download:

- Bandcamp - Archive.org

Tracklist:

1.Last Day Of Summer 07:13 2.Forest Fire 05:35 3.Past Mistakes 07:10 4.Before The Storm 08:03 5.Memories Of Flood 07:18 6.First Day Of Winter 07:46 7.Night Of Humanity 08:26

Total length: 51:33

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Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon, Deezer and etc.

Recently, I published all my albums in various music services. The complete list of stores includes more than a hundred items, most of which are generally little known.

Well, I leave links to all albums through which you can go to any service convenient for you (from most popular). Share with those who are also used to using Spotify, Deezer, etc.

Thanks.

Division Long Way Home I Long Way Home II Septem