So I know I’ve harked on about this endlessly and y’all probably have already listened and know this all, therefore feel free to just move on from this post or mute it altogether; but now that the final piece of the three-year project has come to a close, I thought I might say a few things about this project.
I don’t think many of you know that our album, Trinity, was initially planned to be an IF piece that looked at all the lives of different characters from the prologue of the Infocom game, which was set in Kensington Gardens. It was called Moorbead, and followed a character who could time travel (but only within the titular town) and used his ability to escape a mob of people tracking him, but in the process ends up involved in something much bigger. The game had an array of NPCs who all were interconnected, including the old lady from the prologue of Trinity.
Ultimately, the game never wemt anywhere as the scope was far too big and unwieldy to be made anytime soon. Around this point me and my band were prompted by our music teacher to record the songs we had written for live performamces, so we began with a song that ended up being Furia, Pt. 1 - Phobos. The song is exactly as it was originally written, except for the lyrics in the second verse and bridge. That, and we got rid of some shouting chant in the chorus that, although quite popular with friends and some people I showed the song to on the forum a couple years ago, felt a little too silly for the song. Three of us: me, one of the other band members, and our mutual best friend, spent literally every day for an entire school year in that studio from 3:00 pm until sonetimes as late as 7:00pm, when the teachers had mostly left (we definitely weren’t allowed to stay but we weren’t stopped), recording that song and changing automation and just pouring everything into that first song.
The song developed into a three part story, following a man as he raced to stop something he wasn’t even sure was real. Once the idea of the Trinity concept album spawned, I began to work on part 2, which was truly just random experimentation (and one of the songs, alongside part 3, that I’m most proud of).
I won’t get into the details, but the band member I worked with left, and I couldn’t work as well. Then we brought in a replacement guotarist from the year below, who had strong blues and hard/classic rock influence, and was the best soloer you could ever hope for, and something just clicked. To say we worked so well together is an understatement. He just knew exactly what to do and play, and when he didn’t he knew when to step back and take a different approach. He taught me so much. Half the songs on the album were written by him, half by me - although most were really a blend of both of us. Once I wrote the lyrics to the songs, the only thing left to do was record them. Sadly, he left to move to England at the end of last year, and for the last year, our band hasn’t played a single song together live, which is fair considering exams and all, but I’ve taken this opportunity to finish mixing the songs, and improve my accordion enough to place a small accordion solo in Furia, Pt. 3 - Mars. It’s all there.
And now, three years later, it’s done. Who knows what next. I’ve already finished recording another three-part (17 minutes!) prequel to Furia, called The Bells, in which a bell rings four times, once at a time, separating each part of the trilogy, bringing to life the idea of the note from Trinity saying “long water, four o’clock”. Maybe a new album. I’ve got some songs planned for a solo album, too.
I would also like to credit my brother with major thanks, as he took the photo which has now become the front cover of the album. The image perfectly encapsulates the entire vibe of the album and even looks a bit like an explosion itself. He is an incredible photo-taker and is now studying film in university. I keep telling him he could be a world-renowned cinematographer. He really would. (Anyone who can guess what the image is of gets an applause emoji from me - that’s all I can give, lol.)
Anyway, thank you so much for letting me rant and would be delighted if you got through all that - though I truly don’t mind if you didn’t! I hope you all have an incredible day and as well, I so hope the events of the album never happen, though the way the world is going right now I’m not so sure. (Let’s not discuss that, please.) I’ll post the links to the album from all distributors below.
