Hello, I remember there was a post you made about solar punk and lunar punk where you mentioned a book you were writing where 1/2 of the Earth is shrouded in darkness the premise of which interested me highly and I was wondering where I might be able to read it
Hi! I'm nearing the last stages of production of a music concept album which presents the story conceptually, lyrically and musically. It won't be for everyone, because the genre of the music is "progressive metal", so it's pretty intense, but then again so is the story, and the lore. It's also very uplifting, colorful, and rejuvenating compared to most metal music. It will be released under the artist name "Sun Keeper"
All of the instruments were recorded last year except for the orchestral strings which will be recorded by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra around next month. Right now we are entering vocal recording, there's about 20+ vocalists who will be voicing the different "dialogue" of about 30 of the characters from the world, so it's sort of a "adventure fiction story book music album"
Depending on how well it does, I could return to an actual manuscript and produce a novella or similar to supplement the concept album, which could be cool! But the manuscript I was working on in 2018 or so was analyzed by two publishing industry professionals and we realized together that the angle wouldn't have worked very well for a traditionally published novel.
So the original approach to telling this story (the novel, told from my original angle) was kind of like very-ripe bananas but now we are baking banana bread (this concept album) out of them. So it's still coming out, but in a very different way.
I'll post more updates on here once we finally complete the record and begin figuring out how to get it out to the world.
Thanks for the question!
