I'm very excited to share that the debut album for this project is mastered.

It's been an amazing experience to see all of this music brought to life, and I definitely had several highly emotional moments experiencing half a decade's worth of work.

I figured out why it took so long, though. It was more than just the painful emotions keeping me from being able to complete the project. It wasn't ready to be realized.

Over those years, as I kept writing music for the album, I had to experience producing other works, which gave me the inspiration needed in so many places on this album.

It felt like, only just recently in the past several months, did the album truly reveal itself and become clear. Then every sonic choice became obvious. It seemed I had to wait to attain a prerequisite knowledge in order to complete the work, and the side-quests had finally completed.

As for the "genre." You'll hear in this album a few different styles, but they are centered around my particular compositional proclivities. I've been calling it Alternative Americana for a while, but I'm not really sure anymore. It might simply be Alt-Rock. Considering where it started, which was mostly acoustic guitar-based, the music took on a rougher edge, sometimes even quite dark.

The original concept for this project was developed around 2018 and was based on a few things I wrote in 2016. Then, around 2020, that original concept started to morph. I kept a lot of the core, but it needed more additions.

Half the story was finished, but there was a lot left unsaid. Too many emotions are still unprocessed.

Some of the music was taken from when I wrote with my former group, Shifting Tracks; that song goes back to 2010. When that group ended in 2018 and I founded my solo project, the original idea was going to be a compilation of songs that didn't fit with Shifting Track's catalog anymore. Plus, I had written a few tunes that fit together with those, so I was going to release something under my name. Well, I'm very glad I didn't.

This project truly took on a life of its own. It made me grow in ways that are hard to articulate. As though the album was a teaching tool. A magical device that pushed me in multiple disciplines to become so much greater than I was.

I cannot wait for the day to share the title with you. I've kept it secret for so many years now.

Till next time
-Bryant

P.S. This album led me to start designing something so much bigger. But, I can't talk about that yet.