| Falling Through Freedom Remaster; An update from Rage Sadler | |
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| RageSadler | Sep 4 2015, 10:35 PM Post #1 |
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Rhythm Guitars & Vocals
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![]() I guess the cats out of the bag now… yes I am working on a “remastered” version of the band’s debut Falling Through Freedom. We have officially sold out of the original version of the album, which for me was a perfect time to go back over it. The band and technology has moved on a lot since 2011 when we started the album, in fact when we wrote and demoed the original versions of the songs it was way back in 2009 and 2010! I am the only member of the band still here after all that time. After the successful release of Justice Injustice and the positive reception the sound of that track received I decided I would be re-doing Falling Through Freedom to match that sound. I have started re-recording some of the guitars tonight [at Threecircles Recording Studio], I and Ade Hare (Recorded and produced the original Falling Through Freedom as well as our recent single Justice Injustice) have been listening to the existing guitars, bass and drums and Ade will be working on the drum sound over the coming weeks. Having heard the isolated tracks for the first time in years, I have to say what a sterling job Josh and Dan did with the drums and bass on that album the first time round. With those all we will be doing is altering the sound to match what we did on Justice Injustice. I was also impressed by the lead and solo work done by Anthony, given that he was only in the band a few months before he came in and recorded all the leads and solos, replacing Orrin’s versions. I still have the Orrin version of Falling Through Freedom somewhere. There are great songs on that album and in the past the recording/mix has been criticised. I hope that doing this now will put those complaints to rest and leave us with an album we can be really proud of and that matches the quality of our other releases. Vocally, I am a much improved “singer” from where I was when we did this record four years ago. I only had an evening or so to do the original takes, this time I will be spending the time to get all vocals sounding as brilliant as they are live. After we get the tracks up to speed with 2015, I will be asking Z-Plane to again master it as he did a great job with both The Waystone and Justice Injustice. So what’s next? Well we will be doing a new CD for it obviously as well as digital downloads. If you own the original album, you have one of just two hundred ever made of that version of the album! I am hoping we can offer those who bought the original a discount code of sorts too. Anyhow, I figured I would make this my first post on our official forum. It’s still being built, but feel free to sign up as I will be posting here. The reasoning behind a forum, which may seem a bit outdated, is that Facebook is becoming impossible to communicate to people over due to their algorithms. As we are a self-funded band we cannot afford to pay to promote every post so you see it, so we have to move away from Facebook as a medium for communication. Under a 100 people ever see what we post and that’s a total nightmare considering we have over 6000 Facebook likes! Much like Myspace before it, Facebook is becoming an irrelevance on the musical front so I figured we would make the move sooner rather than later. News will still be posted on our page and our website but the occasional more personal type message from myself will be posted here instead. I thank you for your continued support, without it I wouldn't be here doing this and I hope enjoy the remastered version when it’s released. Rage Edited by RageSadler, Sep 4 2015, 10:57 PM.
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| Ant Murch | Sep 4 2015, 11:30 PM Post #2 |
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Lead Guitars & Backing Vocals
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Very excited to be revisiting this album, it was hard work learning all the songs and writing new solos in a short time. I tried not to rush myself but given how much time and how many problems there had been just getting to where the album was when I joined, as a new member I didn't want to be holding the album back from being released. There are brilliant tracks on the album, some of which are still played live today, including the fan favourite "Quality of Madness" which we recently re-recorded live as a single, the album really does deserve to get brushed up a little to match the level of our other releases! And as Rage said, what better time to do it than now as we have sold out of the original version!? Expect to get Lost in the Sages Tower once again in 2016 \m/ -Ant- |
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