Second Earth is a concept album in the tradition of War of the Worlds & Journey to the Centre of the Earth. The ideas and music came together over about 3 years with a large effort between January - June of 2015 to produce the final product.
The album tells the story of our environmental neglect, social division and inability to respond to the challenge combined with an eventual response. Here's the lyrics, backstory and artist credits booklet
As a non-singing keyboard player, the challenge to produce this album was met through an extensive Internet collaboration. In excess of 20 other musicians from around the world contributed vocals, drums, guitars and saxophone - all but three I never met face to face.
I wrote the script, music and lyrics and performed the keyboard parts (except for two as listed in the credits) and engineered the entire recording - I estimate about 250 hours of my time. I regarded this as something improbably large and quite frankly one of my best achievements - although I like some of my other music more, the sheer magnitude of this wins.
The album is available here to stream or download in high quality (free if you like or name your price) - I hope you enjoy it. Browse around the Bandcamp site for my other music as well.
If you have any comments I'd love to hear them.
Ian
The album tells the story of our environmental neglect, social division and inability to respond to the challenge combined with an eventual response. Here's the lyrics, backstory and artist credits booklet
As a non-singing keyboard player, the challenge to produce this album was met through an extensive Internet collaboration. In excess of 20 other musicians from around the world contributed vocals, drums, guitars and saxophone - all but three I never met face to face.
I wrote the script, music and lyrics and performed the keyboard parts (except for two as listed in the credits) and engineered the entire recording - I estimate about 250 hours of my time. I regarded this as something improbably large and quite frankly one of my best achievements - although I like some of my other music more, the sheer magnitude of this wins.
The album is available here to stream or download in high quality (free if you like or name your price) - I hope you enjoy it. Browse around the Bandcamp site for my other music as well.
If you have any comments I'd love to hear them.
Ian