Hello everyone! Here, I wrote down a list of trivia from the development and creation of my debut EP, Chapter I. If you haven't listened to it, here it goes! Hope you enjoy it :)
- The album is called Chapter I because it's my first album (don't tell me), and because I feel it's the true beginning of my life in music, even if I released a few songs some years ago on the internet.
- It was nearly entirely recorded on March-May 2015, with the exception of Horizons: its background vocals were recorded back in 2012, by my singing teacher at the time.
- The project originally had nine songs, and was called Quest To Infinity. One of the four cut songs shared its title with the album. Why I cut these songs? I felt my vocals, melodies and lyrics weren't good. I do like the instrumentals I made for them, though, and might use them in future projects. When did I cut them? After releasing the first single.
- The gap between the release of Self-Destruct and Going Away as singles (5 months), and then the gap between Going Away and the album (9 months) is because I was unsure on how to release these songs after cutting those four songs. Going Away was released at a time I planned to release all five songs separately.
- If I went through with this plan, Robot would be the third single and released probably in April 2016.
- By the time I recorded it, Going Away had a completely different instrumental, with no synthpop elements. I changed it for its release because I truly hated it after revisiting it to edit the song.
- Going Away had a working title of This Is It, and became This Is It (Going Away) until I decided to release it.
- Robot almost was released as (Sounds Like) I Am A Robot, but I kept it as Robot because the other title was too long. (but Trapped In A Void (Unknown Land) isn't, right? Go figure)
- Self-Destruct was originally called Self-Destruction Program back when I was writing it.
- The "Unknown Land" in the title of Trapped In A Void (Unknown Land) was added because of how many times those words are repeated in the song.
- Horizons probably has the longest story. Back in my earliest album projects from when I was a teen, a song named Horizons Of A Love was listed. I also wrote the chord progression back then in my grandmother's piano. (it was originally going to be a piano ballad)
- Ultimately, I changed it to a electronic, triphop ballad, wrote its lyrics and did the first recording of it in 2012. In 2015, I recorded it once again with revised lyrics.
- The ocarina solo in it is inspired by the usage of the instrument in The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time.
- While I'm talking about inspirations, here's a Spotify playlist of songs that inspired me in the making of Chapter I.
That's it! Stay tuned for information on the release of the third single!