Dear friends, music lovers and random passers by!
During the exciting times of work on Darkblue, we have made small promo trailers, each dealing with different aspects of the upcoming album. As they were a little spread in time and space, I have decided to make this blog post: for you to be able to see them all, together and imagine the puzzle pieces as they fall into one picture.
Enjoy!
DARKBLUE TEASER 1:
DARKBLUE TEASER 2:
DARKBLUE TEASER 3: MEDLEY AND CONCEPT
Dear friends, music lovers and random passers by!
Today we’re getting once step closer to the release date of Transport Aerian’s incoming musical and poetical experience of Darkblue. Now with a lot of excitement we can announce that most of the technical work has been finished, and everything concerning the artwork and design is now successfully put together. There was a considerable struggle with the search of a matching visual artist, but the solution has found itself unexpectedly, as it appeared that the album’s main collaborator Rachel Bauer had, besides quite impressive vocal capabilities, a considerable talent in visual artistry. A combination of my concepts, Rachel’s works and a little help of a visual creativity by Jess Telmatt resulted in a set of great visuals, photographs and artwork that are to be implemented in the different dimensions of album’s existence.
Just like Bleeding, the physical release of Darkblue will contain unique artwork for each song including lyrics provided on every pagr of the booklet, and a plenty of artwork will be used to form a matching atmosphere on all of the web pages related to Transport Aerian.
A second exciting announcement is that we are opening an official website very soon, which besides all the obvious advantages and perks, will also feature a mailing list and I can already promise a very special treat for those who will be the first to inscribe to it!
Finally, to tease you even more, we decided to reveal the album cover artwork today!
Keep tuned, you’ll hear a lot more from us soon.
Kind regards, Hamlet,
Transport Aerian Project.
Dear friends, music lovers and random passers by!
Today it is time to give you the last blog note before the time when the event that I and, as I really hope, some of you as well, anticipate. The experimental blend of a literature act and music, the gloomy story of love and longing, is what Transport Aerian’s upcoming studio effort has become is coming closer to the date of its release.There are less than a few months left for us – and for you – to wait. Today it is time to reveal some final details that we were keeping undercover for all this time. A lion share of the atmosphere, concept and the haunting chemistry of Darkblue, has been brought there by the hand of my collaborator, with whom together I made this album: a woman, a lady, an artist, who represents the female character within the narrative canvas of the album. Today I’m going to introduce her to you. Her name is Rachel Bauer.
Not being a part of progressive rock world, Rachel is, however not a stranger to the music environment and I take it as a honor to collaborate with her, as it brings Transport Aerian to the whole new level, opening the new musical and existential perspectives, which I, by the nature of my approach to the art consider of the biggest importance in the album making process.
As any complete musical piece of art, an album requires not only musical but also a visual component. And while some of the technical visual work for Darkblue is made by the guest visual artist Jess Telmatt, a good share of visuals are created by Rachel herself and her vision through the lens of the camera, which matches the ideas and concepts of the album flawlessly. In this blog I give you just a taste of her visual works – and just a snap peek at what she is… I promise more for you to see soon!
The second, and probably just as exciting bit of news, which I must share with you, is that now we’re getting close to the release date, which is set to be in the very beginning of May. The album in its physical and – optionally – digital shape will be available world-wide with a great and irreplaceable help and support from our artistic allies, Melodic Revolution Records family.
“We were once lost in time, but
I am a fog walker.
Your black spire on the lonesome island stands out of the gray mist on this day,
And you: once locked yourself up, isolated within a high tower upon the shower of memories,
But you, you were dancing through fog, just like me.
I approach”.
– Full Body Access, Darkblue,
Transport Aerian.
(Hamlet, photo by Rachel Bauer)
Dear friends, music lovers and random passers by!
Several months ago I announced that Transport Aerian has started working on the new album, under the title Darkblue. After that, I slipped out of the information space, fading from the sight of the virtual and physical existence. This was not a hibernation. Behind the stages and in the shadows of silence I am actively shaping the material that will be the next album. Now, after a couple of months of work and dozens of thoughts, ideas and bits of lyrics written, I have finally come to terms with the recordings, and this is why I was not giving you many updates recently: I prefer to concentrate on the music in process of its creation, not letting any influence in, and not letting much of the energy out. It is necessary as I still believe in a somewhat romantic idea that music is about capturing the spirit, rather than stamping the product meant utterly to fill your followers expectations or, even less, your pockets. This is one of the reasons why Darkblue is drastically, incomparably different from my previous recording experiences and than my previous album, which essentially brought me back into the existence as an artistic power and opened a plenty of horizons that await to be engaged.
But I think now the time has come for me to open a little bit more of what I’m slowly putting together. Unlike Bleeding, which was mostly but a set of songs, bound together by one mood, or rather, by a desperate need to shout in the desert in hope to hear some echoes, the Darkblue will be a conceptual album. That said, it is not merely a set of songs bound with the same emotional state, which I did the previous times, rather, it is the one-piece musical diary that tells the surreal love story, which is being recited throughout the album’s temporal and spatial space from the face of two main characters. This makes the album not only essentially different as it does have a plot and the story line, but it also makes it different on the way it is constructed, as it has no songs, it has one piece to comprehend entirely. I am aware that this approach, however, most likely murders the album as a commercial effort. I am not only aware of that, I’m also absolutely happy and conscious about that decision, because I dedicate what I’m doing to those who are willing to hear, and willing to participate and share the energy of music with me. I do not try to knock on the deaf and blind shut door of the mainstream media, stage or genre-oriented or utterly tasteless auditorium. I believe what I’m doing is for those who is capable to let the spirit in only. You are one of those, because you are reading this. You were probably one of those, because my previous effort, a shout out in the desert, a cry of coming back to life after a painful experience of being shattered to pieces was not unheard or unnoticed. And that’s why now I feel the freedom of doing what I feel like. And you, the ones who believed in me, gave me that freedom.
A few months of work and a year of conceiving was actually almost enough to record the majority of parts. I have recorded and written all the instruments on my own, mostly in my own small and cosy home studio. As Darkblue is a story-telling album, and it has two main characters, one of which, a lonesome and broken exile — is represented by myself, and the other – by the very special guest singer, whose participation made this album very special sound and energy-wise, but whose identity I will keep in secret until the later date. The release date is still to be announced, as its being discussed with the amazingly helpful label Melodic Revolution Records, which will be helping us bringing the album into the world and I must say it is relieving to have such a helping hand in this journey.
As I’m aware that music only might be not enough for the album to become truly a piece of art, and as I intend to keep on with the high standards of the physical releases, the next step will be putting together an appropriate visual design. I strongly believe that the album is not but a set of songs, rather its an artwork, a package, a physical artifact that you’d find pleasant to hold in your hands. Right now I’m working on the different design concepts and look for the artists who can make it happen. In any case I intend to keep the visual side on the level appropriate to the modern standards of real music, hence it is most likely that the physical form of the album will include some exclusive package. To finish this transitional update, and give you something to consider before more will be ready to come, let me introduce you to this teaser, which shows some aspects of the incoming album more precisely. I trust in your helping hand for making this all happen.
Dear music lovers, friends and random passers by!
Christmas is at hand, it’s pulse is in the streets and in the digital lines of virtual space. I wish you all Merry Christmas, and to those for whom New Year is more symbolic – Happy New Year. I hope that what you are fighting for, what you’re dreaming about will get one step closer. It was a good year for music, a hard year for the world, and the shades of changes gather in the air, we all can almost taste them. I hope you all will be doing well. And I want to thank you all. Because without your visible or invisible, active or subtle support none of the miracles of music that happened to me and to the others who share this side of barricade, for all the independent artists – without your help nothing ever happens.
Happy New Year, Merry Christmas. Bless you.
Hamlet
Transport Aerian Project.
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