Electronic, Jazz, Metal (2023)

This album was a mammoth solo project.
The concept behind this album is to represent personal growth through the songs thematically.
Toward the start of the album, beginning with Primordial, is more negatively reflective material, whether it be feeling doomed to the oncomming perils of the world or negative reflections of the self or others.
The progression of tracks somewhat reflects dips and phases in this growth towards being able to take the world on. Staving off learned helplessness by remembering that getting up when you’re knocked down again works, in Heavy Hard Rain. Then caught up in disappointment about people I’ve never met immediately after in Fear Itself.
Perhaps it is in Smuggler that some momentum towards a stable approach to the world picks up.
Still with some more motivational songs in times of difficulty or darkness, before a euphoric statement of contentment is made in Under the Stars, In Front of The Fire – nonetheless still in the shadow of the mind-breaking epiphanies of All I Can see;

Reaching enlightenment and meeting ones goals does not guarantee happiness; engagement and meaning in life is something that must be maintained. You cannot rest atop a summit.

This was also a much needed project to consolidate how much further I have come in the production/audio engineering space. Some of these tracks were mostly finished a while ago, and were difficult to polish up to standard, but I knew their place was on this record.

Huge shoutout goes to Laura for giving me a bass guitar! Certainly, it was the spark that lit the fire here.

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