I dropped a few items off that Bandcamp wishlist, but then added more. It’s up to 19 new ones just from the last couple of weeks. Not all neofolk and related though, there’s some very electronic stuff (e.g. Grischa Lichtenberger, Oren Ambarchi, and others). It’s going to be difficult picking a subset of the 37 total albums on that list for the next Bandcamp Friday.
I had a plan. I was going to wait for the Landscape Ferrous to arrive and see how it worked with various instruments and objects, and maybe feature it in every track on the next album. But I got too inspired, and last night I recorded a “solo” on the Elmyra 2 as well as a very nice evolving drone that’ll be the basis of another track. Nice problem to have I guess 🙂
I never mentioned how the third pair of glasses (Zenni “square” frames with 1.61 purple eyeQLenz) turned out. The answer: mostly great. They eliminate the problems I had with the rimless ones (distracting posts in my FOV that my eyes kept trying to focus on, earpieces pinching my head, possible weirdness with the focal zones). From my eyes, the color tint is only noticeable in light reflected from behind, which is a little odd at first but not too distracting. I had no trouble adapting to them very quickly. They also do a great job cutting the sun’s glare without a darkening effect, noticeable color distortion or loss of contrast — maybe that’s the anti-IR? Anyway, in a lot of ways these may be my favorite glasses ever.
From outside, they can look a bit odd. Reddish-purple to pinkish, or blue, blue-gray or blue-green depending on relative angles of reflected/refracted light and your line of sight. I think there’s a bug in the pixel shader’s lighting algorithm 😉