And here we go. First song is recorded. An overture, sort of. Except an overture contains parts of the entire piece, and this doesn’t. What I’m writing is not quite a rock opera – partially because I don’t like that term. Some songs will be sung from different characters’ points of view, but most will be a central narrator. I think. A lot of lyric writing to come. A concept record? There’s got to be a better term.

The scope of this song is I hope similar to the scope of the introduction. My editor said that in the intro I’m almost challenging people to read it – which was actually the point. Get people into a certain headspace, which is sort of like this song where it becomes a wall of sound and you have to dig for each individual part. That’s a basic theme in the book and the introduction -

The book was about a writer in his fifties working on a book. In the future the book has yet to be written, even if it was written in the past. Complicated, but it solved one issue: the older writer is not aware of the book that has already been published because in his world the book has not been written. But wait—I hear people say—you’ve been talking as if the war has already occurred and the novel has yet to be conceived. Here’s my answer: time doesn’t exist. All of these different stories are happening at once.

As are the different parts of this song…

Introduction by theamericanbookofthedead

mp3 link: Introduction

Posted on October 26, 2009 at 9:45 am
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