Rubidium Funeral Dirge and some of the title track had already been around for a while, both made around the same time. The former came first and it was me wanting to do a funeral doom jazz album. Both tracks went down in Tahoe when I was doing stuff at their library still, and thusly are centered around ultra distorted and modulated guitar that I recorded even longer before that. But a little bit ago I had access to an electric guitar for the first time in a while and got down for a while. It was a friend's guitar in Reno, and his place is pretty woodsy, so ridiculously enough I proposed we go as far into the forest as our extension chords would let us and record there. That's where the clean guitar in the title track came from, and the whole conception of the The Journey, and I'd go on to tack on all the samples and synths and drums later. The last track has some of that forest guitar too, but especially modulated.
I guess it's not as awesome as you might have thought.
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