Making the sounds I wish existed, one song a month, 10 years and counting.
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I originally wrote this song over a year ago for a different idea, and then recently decided to include it on this album by figuring out the visual story I could build around it, rather than the other way around. One more chapter in the album to go, and then something special!
This song began when I randomly overlaid the Don’t Stop Believin’ vocals on top of the cello from “Down You’ll Go by Fires Below”. After converting both to a slowed down triplet rhythm, I got pretty excited by the idea, and it turned into a style I’m definitely going to revisit.
I’m a bit nervous about releasing this one since the tone is so different from what I’ve made in the past, but this album is about stories and I wanted it to have room for both the dark and fantastical along with something more uplifting and down to earth
I really want each of these songs to have some unique thing that I haven’t heard or done before. For this song that excitement came when I realized I could try and musically create the epic feeling of a gladiator fight scene and ultimately build the full song/story around it
I loved the overall instrumental melodies at the end of “Down You’ll Go by Fires Below”, both with the vocals and by themselves, and wanted to build out an epic instrumental-focused version that goes beyond the final explosion
Non-repetitive songs like this take me a lot of thought in planning out the structure, and how the instrumental and vocal interact to paint as compelling a story as possible in 3 minutes. And I based the initial idea for this story on an episode of GoT some of you may remember
I started this one back when many New Year’s resolutions were still alive and well. In the song “ex” was my fun play on words to refer to the character’s past self before their resolutions, aaand I figured it was time to bring back a bit of that dark dance vibe I love so much.
For this interlude I originally planned to officially release the instrumental of “Dark Things on Either Side” but after hearing a slowed down version last month and how well I felt that fit the song I decided to switch it up and release this version instead. Hope you like it!
This was one of the most technically challenging songs I’ve made with a ton of wild effects, styles, and tempo changes based around me trying to find a creative way to represent some of the darker inner dialog that can happen at times.
I based the story of this song on a particular Dungeons & Dragons session I played a few years ago with some friends, and tried to condense many of the twists and turns from that adventure into 3 minutes.
After having watched the show “Agatha All Along” a while back, I formed my own coven of 4 vocalists led by Scarlett to sing a cover of the main song from the show “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road”.
Around when the second season of “Arcane” was coming out I was really feeling the emotional dynamics between Jinx and Vi again and wanted to build on that dynamic in a unique uplifting part 2 to the story of one of my darker previous songs “Cast a Villain”.
A new journey starts today, and I think you’re going to be hearing some of the most creative and highest effort things I’ve made. I have many stories I want to tell so I hope you’ll follow along with me as we read through this book!
I bring you my most ambitious project yet! This song took me over 100 hours to make and combines elements from every song on the album into one big album finale. I will be back, soon-ish! In the meantime, I hope you all like this one like I do!
I wanted to give my “Twisted Expression” era another go but this time re-working my “Maestro” song with the same singer and writing a darker take on the classic rock-a-bye baby lullaby. Sit tight, the album finale is coming up next
I’ve been a big fan of League of Legends music and around a year ago I got pretty excited hearing the vocals from their 2023 Worlds song “GODS”. However I thought the instrumental could have gone in a different direction and decided to give it the Cjbeards cinematic treatment
I wanted this one to feel mildly annoying but at the same time working its way into your head to the point where you can’t stop listening to it despite the irritation. That was a fine line to walk, but if it ends up stuck in your head then my work here is done :)
Big brass, bigger bass, and a throwback to my song “Killed The Cat”. Hopefully this one may just be catchy enough to have you wishing the devil well :).