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Under the Sycamore
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Sing a Song for Cider Vinegar

from Under the Sycamore

October 30th, 2024
9 tracks
22:33
Under the Sycamore
Under the Sycamore
Sing a Song for Cider Vinegar
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Sing a Song for Cider Vinegar
Waldonian Sounds
“Fireglow, fireglow, amber bottle’s blessing. Fireglow and fiddlebow while we see to the dressing. In the pan the butter goes, and get thee to a-stirring. Heed the call, remember all, of what to do unerring. The spirit of the cider is the spirit of the feast. The harbinger of seasons from the west and to the east. For Casterbrock and Casterbree and lands which we call home, let none forget this song wherever we will roam. Come thee to the table and on mushrooms we now dine, with butter, cider, and estragon none are made so fine. Then when the dish is empty to your pipes and books and beds. Let none stray to the out-of-doors where soon arise the dead. Fireglow, fireglow, here’s to another year. Embers, embers, let them fade and have no fear.” -Traditional halfing song for Autumnfest, translated from the original Danduthric
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For this year's October dungeon shamble, I have composed nine tracks harvested from the gnarliest logs and filtered from the swampiest bogs. Fuzzy overdrive pervades and reverb soaks through these spore-filled grooves and basidiomycelial beats. Come for the dungeon fuzz, stay for the fungal funk, and watch you don't catch the dancing plague...

Prompt Constraints:
Total tracks: 8-11
Total runtime: 15-23 minutes
Style: Halloween/spooky/pumpkin synth
Special: Add at least a little bit of distortion/fuzz/overdrive to each instrument
Theme: A witch needs subjects to test and document the effects of different fungi as alchemical ingredients.

Side Infest
1. In her Hut Beneath the Old Sycamore, Goodie Grizzlecap Grinds her Grain (Can You Believe this Smut?!)
2. Ergot Your Tongue?
3. A Puff of Pink Mold
4. Made From the Finest of Nodules (In the Gall of it All)
5. Bloop!

Side Ingest
6.Culinary Side Effects (How Green is Your Herb Garden?)
7. Morel Miracle
8. Waiting for Estragon
9. Sing a Song for Cider Vinegar

Credits

All music collected from the County Casterbreeland, in the vicinity of Goodie Grizzlecap's hut past the edge of town.

Cover art by the Bard of Fenmoss with help from several gracious Pixabay contributors.
Many thanks to the fine folks of /r/dungeon synth for organizing and participating in the Shamble.

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