Glitch Patrol - On The Whole (vol.1) --- the visual album

On August 9th, 2023 I released 'On the Whole (vol.1)' as Glitch Patrol. At the time, it seemed more like a random collection of bits and pieces I had recorded than an actual concept album. But it actually follows the story line of Glitch Patrol, a group of enlightened beings patrolling the multiverse identifying, locating and balancing out various glitches in the program.

Glitch Patrol aims to strengthen the balance using light & sound to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning provoking a higher understanding using what we call
light & sound koans.

Over the years Gltich Patrol has been:
J. Knight with K. Knight, Eduard Juliana, Violet Lee, Brad Yohe, Korbo and Ollie (our best furry friend)
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Glitch Patrol - On The Whole (vol.1)
--the final visual album--

On Patrol (0:00 - 2:28)
the only video on the album that was aided by AI

untitled (2:29 - 2:48)

Birded Scag (2:49 - 5:21)
Answering the call from Coil vs. Eskaton's track 'Caged Birds'

untitled (5:22 - 5:57)

The Oneness Of Things (5:58 - 10:24)
Zen piece tailored around Sosan Zenji's "Hsin Hsin Ming" (Verses on the Faith-Mind), a classic teaching of Zen's Golden Age in China

lyrics:
If the eye never sleeps,
all dreams will naturally cease

Walk freely
in the oneness of things

Vanish
in the oneness of things

Disappear
in the oneness of things

untitled (10:25 - 10:54)

Spiral Bending (for Eduard) - (10:55 - 18:30)
contains a synth line from 'De Dag Begon' by Mind Phase

video credit goes to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for their video,
'Cosmic Cycles: Echoes of the Big Bang'
   • Cosmic Cycles: Echoes of the Big Bang  

untitled - (18:31 - 19:18)

This Glitch Can't Think (19:19 - 20:38)
Glitch Patrol - Piano and piano glitches
Original Composition - Nurse With Wound

Coarse Grind (20:39 - 25:44)
All sounds were made using an electric grinder

Time Piece (25:45 - 27:44)

E (27:45 - 28:27)

Bourrée In E Minor (28:28 - 30:14)
Glitch Patrol: Piano, Synth, Glitch and Rhythm Programming
Original Composition: J.S. Bach

Selenophilia (30:15 - 33:33)
for the love of the moon

Premutation (33:34 - 37:31)

Mutations Of Nature (37:32 - 42:46)
Original composition by Mind Phase (2021)
Remixed with additional material - Glitch Patrol (2023)

Cheekbone (42:47 - 46:52)
All sounds made by Ollie chewing on a bone

Some Dragons Dream Of Water (46:53 - 51:08)
The original recording is a folk song called 'Dragons Dream' written by A. Kallen/J. Knight and recorded as Noise Dragon in 2023.
Here we have Glitch Patrol with their version and a nod to the great Naga serpents of the Mekong whose fireballs can be seen in late October every year as they emerge from the water

On The Whole (51:09 - 1:00:37)
Glitch Patrol: Synth, voice and metal
Mind Phase: Antique pump organ, piano, percussion, astral voice and electronics
Korbo: Artwork ('Dark Elf')
J.Knight: Animation

bonus track:
V.S. - Mutations of Nature (v2.0) (1:00:38 - 1:05:44)

lyrics:
Dimensional shifting
Vibrational stutter
Beyond the experience
Emerge to uncover

Obscured variations
Of this cosmic conundrum
With heuristic intentions
To balance the sum of us

Eduard Juliana: 1st voice
J. Knight: Keyboards, percussion, electronics, 2nd voice
Original composition by Mind Phase (2021)

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