Famous for his mind-meltingly elaborate progressive rock-style compositions, Staten Island’s Disasterpeace, aka Rich Vreeland, takes a different approach on Midnight Orphans, a collection of musical loose ends written between 2006 and 2010. Trading in frantic time signature changes and epic lo-fi orchestration for smoothed out downtempo electronica with nuggets of chiptune flavor, Vreeland delicately assembles melancholy moods with each precarious melody and emotive wave of ambience. The result is a diverse but somehow cohesive selection of tracks that shows a refreshingly different side of the Disasterpeace repertoire.
While everyone’s waiting for Obsidian, I thought it’d be cool to drop a collection of tunes from the past few years as a free release. Enjoy!
Where “Level” and “NEUTRALITE” march full steam ahead in chiptune bombacity, “Midnight Orphans” floats between calm and chaotic, expected and unexpected. This is a collection of loose ends written over the last few years. The album material is as early as “Until the Sun Rises” and “Quartz” from 2006, and as recent as “Time Removed”, written in 2010.
It’s available for free on Bandcamp. Keep an eye out for his upcoming full-length, Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar.
