Instrumental Guitar Rock (2018)
A very determined effort to play the guitar.
The original impetus to put out a record like this was that I wanted to move away from my previous pursuit as a progamer (lol), and to consolidate the skills I had in the other thing I did that took heaps of playing – guitar. Also a bit of music composition with that.
Lavender did the mixing on this album and left their mark on it significantly, pushing a clean sound across the album that I could not have envisioned myself. It really brings out the players on their instrumentation.
Even though drummer Ned Cain and I have never been in the same room, Lavender’s recording and mixing of his playing gives this album a fantastic live feel and I am really forever grateful to Ned for playing on this! He plays on every track except the two “Masters of the Phantasm” tracks and Unauthorized Shift in Trajectory/Position.
I also recorded guitar tracks from start to finish for each voice to get the album as organic as possible, and also as a disciplinal effort. I was living in the countryside at the time though so it was actually quite easy to put in the time to practice enough to do this.
This album was gruelling for myself and Lavender, and it also happened to be a stressful time in both our lives that left us burnt out as the ass end of this project dragged on.
Sadly, the original upload of this album to bandcamp was marred by this burn out as there were issues with the masters that I did not notice or fix before uploading.
Well, I have remastered this album and removed some long silences, so that is no longer a problem here.
Along with this comes my decision to go for a sharper sound across the album, so the main difference are some removed silences as well as a different EQ compared to the Bandcamp upload.
I am immensely proud of this album and everyone who worked on it remains in my heart.
Mixing – Lavender
Drums – Ned Cain
Additional Mixing on “Trajectory” and “Position” – Roben Gee-Cutting (Devant)
Original Mastering – Christopher Vernon
Keyboards on “Unauthorized Shift in Trajectory” – Hayden Dunn
Artwork – Suno6k
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