It Is Finished

I've finished a project I had been spending too much time on. It is called The Dreamer's Guardian. I've posted it to my Myspace band site in full rather than a short snippet on here. It may take awhile to appear there as Myspace processes things rather slowly.

I am immensely relieved that it is finished. It is the first fully complete piece I've done in quite awhile. It was an exercise in frustration at times, fear at others and down right panic as well. This was a rather heavy piece and I would walk away from it from time to time to clear my head which is one of the reasons it took longer than I had hoped.

I struggled with its title for quite some time. I had wanted to work with drum programming hand drums and creating a more indigenous sound. As it progressed the mood seemed like warriors marching off to battle - but what battle? Yet with that in mind it's repetitious nature would on occasion induce a mild trance like state of mind. My mind would enter into a lull of sorts as if skirting the edges of sleep and I would have to shake myself awake to pay attention to what I was doing. With it's marching rhythm and deep resonating bass line I decided on the title as it is.

I hope you enjoy and please send your observations!

Anthony