Hobby Dungeon

 I think dungeon synth is the best catch-all term for what I’m doing – though I think dungeon synth is becoming a broader umbrella genre for everything from ambient black metal, to medieval folk revival, to synth soundscapes with a vaguely creepy feeling. And that’s what I think I like about it the most. I’ve been a performing musician since I was about 14, playing in folk, punk, and metal bands, and later becoming an electronic music producer for a number of years. Throughout those years I had lots of little solo recordings or projects that didn’t fall neatly into a genre, and I always hesitated about releasing those under whatever band name I was using at the time. I think this project gives me more freedom to experiment with genre and form – I’m also just older, and I care less about what people think about my creative work – and now I have a place to consolidate that work together.  I am calling this project, Glass Candle. That’s a reference to the world of occult magic ...

 Ogam Oathkeeper, leading his dwarfs to a new home Times were tough for the folk in the mountains, and so the Thane Ogam Oathkeeper, who had no claims on his ancestral lands, left them and found a new land to build his family name. He settled his people at a fork on the rivers Lumen and Lenweth in a deep wooded valley. The land was full of elves and goblins and beastmen at first, but the hardy dwarfs molded the land in their image, and these creatures were forced out of the dark places, one way or another. On the banks of the river, the dwarfs erected a mighty forge, and their industry could be heard across the valley. They built stout palisade walls of tough old trees to protect their growing and prosperous holdfast, and surrounded their walls with stone towers and readied crossbows. Barak Thingaz lays in a deep wood secluded by two fast flowing mountain rivers A dwarf hold on the surface is an odd thing. By nature they are tunnel fighters and dwellers of the dark places...