What’s in a name?  Naming a new album is one of the most difficult parts in the process.  How do you encompass months of work and emotion into a couple of words?  But first, where did this album come from?  Unlike the previous album ‘Before Third Stage’ that was a reaction against religion, Apparent Horizons is a reconciliation with the world through the maturation of a new found faith.  As in all art, the result is the result of the artist growing.  So why ‘Apparent Horizons’?  An apparent horizon is a term in physics that describes invariant properties of spacetime that are observer dependent.  Observer dependent is key.  This is how I view the world.

Making an album is a very deliberate act.  It requires hours upon hours in the studio and while there is creativity, once there is an idea, that idea needs to be executed on with vigor.  It’s been 3 years since ‘Third Stage Ignition’, so at the outset it was decided to comb through the hundreds of ideas accumulated during that time and find a theme.  Finding the themes turned out to be very simple.  The themes were:

1. Reconciliation of my life and faith with how I know the world to be, not with how I was taught the world is by well meaning sheltered ignorant Christians.
2. I need to let go of the guilt.
3. Find beauty in my life as I struggle to maintain my goals with a rediscovery of faith while experiencing life the way the creator intended.

That seems to be quite a bit for a single album, but as it turns out, it’s not.  This album is about reconciliation and moving on.  For once you have moved on, you can experience life.

Track 5, ‘Finding Life’ nicely sums it up, if I may quote my own lyrics, here goes:

Find my life again

Find my fire within

And I’m running down a path that is bombarding me with sin

But it is so beautiful, my life is full, and so is my soul

I hope you enjoy the album.  It will be out soon.