I always felt that the original issue of this EP was overlooked. I really didn’t do that much promotion, mainly because I knew that the full length would be so different from the bits put on it. But by mid-June 2009, the full length was finally done, and I wanted to revive this ep to give fans the right idea. This is at the same time the prelude to the album and the complimentary to it. What I did at this point was take the majority of the songs from the original issue, and alter them with various effects, as the original ones were used as is in the full length. I also added all the unused recorded material from the album on here, with the exception of two songs, which I will discuss in the full length album session, but those two songs were demos and not b-sides. As the theme of the Travels was based on authors and books, each title of songs on this issue were named after a story by Fredrick Lawrence Green.
at first Svartgalgh was going to re-release the 7 song EP from 2007 that Dungeons Deep Records dropped and that I failed to put out through Mortification Records. The guy was ressitent to release stuff that was associated with other record labels so on July 19-20th I did a really shitty re-mix of all 7 songs from the original EP using cheap effects on Adobe Audition, something I’m really not proud of, in fact I can’t even listen to those mixes anymore they are so bad. I want to say that I purposely made them sound bad because Svartglagh was a shitty little record label and they released shitty little drone bands, so I wanted to appeal to the fanbase. I’m not sure what my motivation was at the time. In addition to the 7 re-mixed songs, I added 5 more songs, also re-mixed heavily, 4 of which were pieces that didn’t make the cut when I put together Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The Mind. So this new EP, combined with the LP, would have contained everything that was recorded for the project between 2007 and 2009. Although the songs on the new EP were heavily butchered.
“On the Edge of the Sea” was influenced by Chalkine’s “Crimson”.
A lot of people that weren’t into dark ambient who heard the full length “Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the Mind” kept telling me that the album would have been more effective split up into individual tracks. They of course missed out on the whole concept and didn’t listen to it properly. They wanted to over analyse it, instead of taking it simply as for what it is, as it is listed in the booklet. This EP is done in that manner, and I think it doesn’t represent well, and is a harder listen.
I had been in touch with Svartgalgh Records since the summer of 2008, who had originally shown an interest in putting out a Vision Lunar release and then submitting the song “Alien Reverb Song”/”Suicide By Venus”/”Ambush for the Hunter” for an Okkult compilation in November 2008. However by the late summer of 2009, they were switching owners, so no promo was done whatsoever on this EP. I have no clue how many copies were even sold or are left, and my emails are never answered, so I decided to alter the artwork a little bit and release it for free digitally.
Forthcoming Travels artwork preview sent by Costin Chioreanu
Bellow is the original myspace blog post for the release of the EP:
As the title of this blogs confirms there is a documented travel that is underway. The travels were first introduced back in November 2007 when I took a short amount of demos and compiled a promotional EP, entitled appropriately Forthcoming Travels.
The idea was to introduce the album which is now done and finalized “Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the Mind”. The artwork is now done, and Valse Sinistre is working on publishing this book/album. The thing is that this isn’t an album. It’s a book. Not a readable book. Not an audio, word spoken book either. Its a listenable musical book. This book is in the form of a CD but takes you through places in your mind you havent been before. It is a 2 and a half year work that is finally accomplished. Mike Lachaire will be your guide through this journey.
More info will be revealed soon!
Peine
Digital version of the artwork, photoshoped by myself.
Forthcoming Travels artwork front cover
Forthcoming Travels artwork insert cover
Forthcoming Travels artwork back cover
- Theory of an Odd Man Out
- Mist of the Waters
- On the Night of the Fire
- Give Us the World
- Ambush for the Hunter
- The Sound of Winter
- The Magician
- A Fragment of Glass
- A Flask for the Journey
- Clouds in the Wind
- On the Edge of the Sea
- A Song for the Angels
track 1 contains portions of the 1947 film “Odd Man Out”
artwork created by Costin Chioreanu
recorded January 2007-June 2009 at Mortified Studios (NJ, MTL1, MTL2, MTL3)
re-mixed July 19th-20th 2009.
released by Svartgalgh Records (Sv060)
released on August 28th 2009