(2023)
This album was a mammoth solo project.
The concept behind this album is to represent a lot of myself, and personal growth.
Thematically, the tunes toward the start of the album act as a representation of petty concerns or a feeling of doom about problems with a wide scope.
The album continues through songs about understanding my self and my environment, coming to terms with my facilities and from there growing into being able to establish meaningful relationships with those around me.
But enlightenment alone 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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Hi Billy,
You’re coming across as very “Canterbury Sound” crossed with “Krautrock” which, given one of my favourite bands of all time are “Caravan” and I love Krautrock, is not a bad thing.
I don’t understand your use of this site over Bandcamp, where you could earn some money
Paul (Aleds Dad)
Hi Paul,
Fantastic to hear from you. Nice to be compared to those styles which I feel I am moving towards more in my listening and playing, coming from being more punk/metal inspired originally.
Bandcamp might provide its own search engine, but I wasn’t getting much traction there without doing any promotion anyway, and if I’m going to do that I could do it for this site. It also feels nice to own the site.
The 20% cut seems uneccessary for bandcamp as well; my Paypal is linked to the front page if people would like to support/encourage me, and it doesn’t feel right to lock any of the access to the music behind a paywall once it’s made.
Thanks for stopping by
Well, other than they didn’t have “glitch” drums back in the 70’s.