"Shadow Work"
Pennsylvania, USA
Original Concept:
Album title look familiar? It should, because my primary goal for InCoAlMo this year is to finish last year's record. :D
My InCoAlMo 2023 album was mostly done on time, but needed a couple more songs to fully realize its intention and meet all of the challenge Rules. (The full story can be found in my Post-Game from last year.)
Of course, this means that this entry will be an automatic PARTIAL (at best) for this year, but given everything that i have going on in my life this spring, that's maybe okay. :)
For easy reference, the album's concept, as written last year, is the same, and reads as follows:
"No matter how fervently we seek the light, there are always remnants of our journey, forgotten and unchecked in the shadows.
Before they can be let go, they need illumination."
Artist Post-Game:
Sadly, i didn't get very much done on finishing this project. My other entry for 2024, "The Last Total Eclipse", was lightweight (as it was designed to be), but still took priority because of it's one-recording-a-day nature. I was hoping that, beyond that, i'd still have time to finish the last couple of songs for "Shadow Work", but there were just too many distractions this year.
The little bit of progress i made was some continued writing on one of the two final songs, "Red Moon", which is coming along nicely. The last track (both to be written and to close the album), "Die Trying", has yet to be started (beyond the overall concept and a few lyrics fragments).
I will probably go back to the original Plan B (since Plan A was actually finishing this album in March of 2023) and try to finish this record later in the year for release whenever it's done.