Reflections

The Ghost Within: The Tale of Turmoil
N Pa
2013

I have been working on this concept album for over five years now and I’m working towards releasing it in the coming months.

It has been such a long and intense journey to get the album even close to completion. At this time it is about eighty-five percent complete. That’s saying something considering the ups and downs I’ve had with the album such as tracks being lost due to computer and/or program crashes, moving over four times (not going to dive into that) and artists bowing out due to schedule conflicts, which I both respect and understand.

I have been SO fortune and thankful to work with some of the most talented and hard-working artists I’ve ever met or spoke with either by telephone or through e-mail. They’re so committed to their craft that it inspires me to push myself even harder to make this something worthwhile.

The album is about our main character Turmoil - which is a play-on-words. The story of the album is not about the death of our beloved main character, but it is about the fight and uncertainty that is in all of us when we’re trying to move on when something tragic happens such as the loss of a loved one for example. For some people, it’s almost impossible to escape the thoughts of someone you’ve loved, whether it is a family member or even a boyfriend or girlfriend.

The story goes in and out of the realms of the Reality and Lucid Dreams/nightmares that Turmoil experiences.

The concept summary was written by Joshua Wright and goes as follows:

“Devastated by the love of his life leaving him, Turmoil, finds himself drowning in a cesspool of depression and wanting out of his emotional roller coaster ride. The ghost within haunts his thoughts as he feels his grips on sanity slipping away. The listener gets taken on his journey through madness and back again. Join Turmoil in his process musically, and evolve as he does, and as the music progresses, so will he.”

Each of the songs on the album represent a certain emotion and ambience of Turmoil, for example:

Memories - In the first single from the album, Turmoil is seen in a nightmare, unable to escape the thoughts of his significant other. He’s trapped by all the overflowing and overwhelming memories of her. His only safe haven are those memories, and The Ghost Within is making that his hanging-on point.

Release Me - In the second single from the album, We see Turmoil wanting off the roller coaster ride that is the drowning thought of TGW and his significant other. He wants out of this nightmare/reality of being dependent on her, and the focus is put on being healed. This track is more towards the end of the album, and is based in REALITY, and NOT a dream/nightmare.

Sea of Darkness - In the third and final single from the album, We’re now deep into the nightmare that Turmoil has been experiencing since Memories. In the Climax of the album, we see Turmoil finally succumbing to sleep from not being able to sleep the days before (referenced in Blistered) and that TGW now has the reins on Turmoil, and is beginning to bring him into Madness, in the sheer scope of his vivid nightmare/Lucid Dream.

The album’s release date is September 10th, 2013

Track List:

1. Prologue (The Beginning)
2. Turmoil (featuring Xenoc)
3. Memories (featuring Meital Cohen of Knob and NPC)
4. Blistered (featuring Chris Volz)
5. Sea of Darkness (featuring Richard Bush of The Peace Creeps, Bobby Jasso, Jacey Taylor Music, and Bionik)
6. Interlude (The Battle) [featuring David Wong on Violin]
7. On The Inside (featuring Frank Pino, Jr. of Waltham)
8. Release Me (featuring Pete Murray of Lo-Pro, Space Camp Stowaways, and DJ Darkside)
9. Not Today (featuring FloatstoneHeart and Esper Fiction)
10. Epilogue (The End is Never The End)

Narrated by: Michael Leonard (FloatstoneHeart) and Michael Rosen
Album Cover by: Pierre Kenal Louis
Original image created by: Robert Carter

Samples:

• Track 2 contains samples from “Turmoil” by Xenoc

• Track 3 contains elements of “A Life in Memory”, a Science Channel documentary.

• Track 5 contains samples from “Karma (Comin’ In For The Kill) by Bobby Jasso and Frank Gryner

• Track 7 contains samples from “Ilyena” by The Mars Volta

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