It's been a while, I am still a bit undecided about this whole blog thing. It seemed great during that "covid daze", to get things off my chest or use this as a kind of online diary, or even self therapy ... dunno. A lot of things are always happening, sometimes I may be just a little lazy to post stuff. Apologies!
So I have a new vinyl coming in January 2025, yay! I've been putting quite some effort into this, finding labels who'd take a bit of a risk. Don't get me wrong, I think this album is among my finest and totally deserves this "proper release". I may have quite my own philosophy about this, I don't think everything needs to printed on physical media anymore, no!
I am not even a collector at all myself, but I know that there are people who love to have such things and like I said: This particular album totally deserves it. It will be the third Surya-vinyl after "Holy Holy Holy" in 2017 and the super rare "The Hermit" from 2016!
A few words about all this in general, because some people really liked it and one fan even wrote it may be my best release since Samsara's last album which in some ways is quite a bit "funny" for me, because the backgrounds of these two albums can't be much more different really:
This one here was made here in my brasilian home studio, in calm, with passion and dedication - while the Samsara-album almost ended my career. I really didn't want anything to do with it all anymore, almost gave up guitar because I had to play these songs like a zillion times before recording them under the stress of a dissolving band.
And how ridiculous it seems spending thousands of bucks on a recording (SBE), oh perhaps it still sounds a wee bit better while at the same time I hear the stiffness behind my tracks, and it's all just way too big of a compromise for me. So what's more important, good sound or passion? Eventually the goal is going for both! I might say with that latest Surya-album I am almost there and proud of my achievements.
It's a great album. Period.
