Yesterday, Basti from “Never Ending Music” in Regensburg was here. We shot the video for the crowdfunding of my concept album “Space Escapism Opera”. We had a great time. Soon the video will be cut an uploaded and the crowdfunding can start.
Stay tuned!
I have thought about the titles on my concept album Space Escapism Opera and have changed the working titles of the songs into final titles. It was important for me to have titles with different lengths and to make other people curious about the songs.
working titles:
01_Future
02_Protagonist
03_Technologies
04_Moon
05_Experiment
06_Awakening
07_Journey
final titles of Space Escapism Opera
01. Ouverture – Megacity 2050
02. Jericho
03. Race of Technologies
04. Moon Colonization – A New Ressource
05. The Experiment
06. New Eyes – Escape from a World of Sickness
07. Finale – The Journey
You can listen to a few songs on Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/col-chi/tracks
https://soundcloud.com/col-chi/06_awakening-demo
(Click the link to get to the rocking sound)
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This is the second demo song of my concept album “Space Escapism Opera”. The style is dark and progressive metal. I recorded it at home. Chris R. from the band “SoundCircle” performed the vocals. Enjoy it and don’t forget to write some feedback how you liked the song.
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06_awakening (working title) lyrics:
Reaching the dark side
I open my new eyes
Now I can see the shadows in me
Repressed in the subconsciousness
Where am I?
Turn on the light
The past has reached me
Where am I
Turn on the light
Are my eyes open right now?
I remember now…
It will never be – like before this disease, it came to our family
This dark empty hall – is the cemetery for my hopes and my will to believe
Believe…me…
Irreversible Process, it divided us in two
I hold your dying hand because I can’t do more for you
The subconsciousness repressed the shadows in my mind
This is my life, this is my life
It will never be like before
In this cemetery God is weak
God is too weak to kill diseases
It will never be like before
It will never be – like before this disease, it came to our family
This dark empty hall
Irreversible Process, it divided us in two
I hold your dying hand because I can’t do more for you
The subconsciousness repressed the shadows in my mind
This is my life, this is my life
The future’s analog – reject Biotechnologies
The future’s analog – reject Neurotechnologies
The future’s analog – reject Digital Technologies
The future’s analog – the future’s analog
It will never be like before
In this cemetery God is weak
God is too weak to kill diseases
It will never be like before
My escapism is a journey inside myself
Property means nothing, knowing is wealth
To find the truth I take this last trip
To leave this world of sickness with the wisdom I equipped
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https://soundcloud.com/col-chi/06_awakening-demo
(Click the link to get to the rocking sound)
It’s finished now. This will be the cover for my concept album “Space Escapism Opera”. It is drawn by concept artist “Helge C. Balzer”.
The cover shows the situation in the year 2050, where most people use virtual reality for nearly everything. Work, spare time, games, relationships, sex etc.
The person on the cover died because of a faulty neuro implant and lies dead in his empty room. No one recognizes, because his avatar in the virtual reality is still alive.
The meaning of the eye on the cover? This is still a secret, until the album is finished. Stay tuned!
About Helge C. Balzer: Helge is a freelance illustrator for games, movies and books. He has illustrated for the RPG Pathfinder, Game of Thrones, Hennen’s novel “Die Elfen”, Necromancer and many more. You can see the works on his website www.ars-atra.com
I’ve recorded a demo of the first song from my concept album “space escapism opera”.
To listen to the song, click here:
https://soundcloud.com/col-chi/01_future_demo
Have Fun!
Details about the song you can view here:
https://progshot.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/the-concept-album-storyline-part-one/
I’ve recorded the second half for the song “Technologies” of my concept album space escapism opera. You can listen to it on Soundcloud.
It’s about the sickness of technologies in the year 2050. The protagonist’s best friend is dying of a sudden brain death while having a trip in the virtual reality.
I’ve recorded an instrumental part for part 6 (“The Awakening”) of my concept album space escapism opera. You can listen to it on Soundcloud.
I have painted a new title image for the progshot Facebook page.
The App “Adobe Ideas” is a great tool for vector drawings. I used a Stylus Plus Touch pen.
Don’t forget to LIKE the Facebook page 🙂
This is the first part of the concept album storyline. It starts in a megacity in 2050.
The way to the tool store.
The streets of the megacity in the afternoon. We are in the middle of the 21st century. I enter my electro car. One of the few cars in the city that is not a sharing car. I tell my electric vehicle to drive to the tool store. My favourite store in this giant city. My car asks me what smell I would like to smell. I tell the car to generate the smell of coffee beans.
The engine starts by itself and takes the way on the 3rd level bridge.
We drive past the skyscrapers, one by one. Some have really beautiful structures. The architects were inspired by nature when they designed the buildings. Decades before no one could imagine to use lightweight fibre materials for buildings. They were too expensive.
I enjoy watching the cityscape. It is epic.
I lean back and relax. We drive past the hospital. I can see inside through the windows. Many robots help to carry medicine, to lift patients and to assist during operations. They are automatic systems, sensors and communicating machines. The society of machines.
I look upwards. The sky is nearly darkened by quadcopters.
It is easy to get a permission to fly them. But there are also many self-flying quadcopters. The whole city traffic has become very dense. But thanks to automated driving systems there are seldom any traffic jams. In the past we had street signs. Today the streets are free of street signs. The cars communicate with each other. The street signs disappeared with the standardization of automatic drive systems.
Now we have nearly arrived.
The car turns left and takes the street that leads to the tool store. Finally, on the 2nd underground level of Metropolis the car stops. “I hope you will enjoy your tool shopping tour.”
Well…what I finally achieved? A theoretic structure of the concept album.
In my head, it is nearly finished. And I tried to write down my thoughts and ideas, how to make a homogenic music concept.
In the past I have written a lot of songs for different bands. More songs than the bands could have played. So there is already existing a bunch of song material for space escapism opera. I just have to select the best songs that are working with the concept. I dissected the songs into single parts, instruments and tracks. Then I analyzed the character and atmosphere of the songs in the concept album and assigned the tracks to the fitting songs.
Listen to the audio file.
The songs are written with a midi program. So you can listen to a 8-bit version of the assigned song material:
01 Future (0:00-0:55)
02 Protagonist (0:55-1:14)
03 Technologies (1:14-1:44)
04 Moon (1:44-2:05)
05 Experiment (2:05-2:31)
06 Awakening (2:31-3:22)
07 Journey (3:22-4:08)
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