Music News - New Album: Reflections of The Infinity Chamber
09 June 2021 - 0 Comments
On Friday 4th June 2021, a creative, original, and eclectic compilation album of The Infinity Chamber songs recorded by brilliant artists from England, New Zealand, Turkey, and the USA was released.
The project idea developed during a recent video-clip release for the band, and flourished into a quite remarkable and interesting album.
The Infinity Chamber is New Zealander, Dylan Paul Ware, his songs, videos, and collaborators.
"I've been writing and performing songs since I was about 17. Writing then was a matter of survival, the songs were the lines of twine I lay down in the labyrinthe. Later, the process was more violently eruptive - like vomit, or pus, or the delivery of babies; less a matter of will, and more that of a compulsion of the spheres. It eventually settled into something that feels rather like a craft, imbued with what passion I have.
I left my New Zealand home many years ago now, and after a great number of adventures, by the grace of chance, ended up living here, in the churning civilised chaos of Istanbul. I lead a band here, called The Infinity Chamber, and we did play a fair bit, and were just knuckling down to record a fourth album when a series of bizarre misfortunes struck; the sudden paralysis of our drummer, the tanking of the economy, a little bit of primadonna guitarist tantruming, and not the least inconvenient of which was a certain troublesome, ongoing pandemic.
We, like every other band, really just want to be performing, to be stomping these songs out the way they're meant to be stomped - live, loud, and wild - and to be jiving with the audience. This unrelenting lockdown has been good and bad, for me. Thankfully, I have a lot of hobbies, brewing, looking after my birds, cooking, gardening... so the forced sojourn really presented me with a lot of time to focus on doing creative things like making video-clips, shooting stop-motion. That's a hobby that's a lot of work, and a lot of fun. It's quite magical really, when you see the figurines come to life. It's a bit like being god. Except better, because I don't give them cancer, though they may be eaten by monsters. ...which I also create. *(see the videos for Willow, and Matthew)
So from this position of having no opportunity to play, I had this idea. There were already several covers of my songs floating around, why not organise a few more musicians from around the world, from England, from The United States, from Turkey, and from New Zealand to contribute their own take on an Infinity Chamber song. The brief was simple: any song you like, take any liberty you like, do it in any way you like, and let's see what happens...
There were challenges, Istanbul's been in fairly regular lockdown for a long time now, the daily Coronavirus infection rate was astronomical - at the time we were making this it was more than 63,000 new cases a day - two of the artists involved independently came down ill with it (one of them quite seriously), but they both pulled through. There were a couple of guys who stuffed me around and never produced anything to show, fewer than I'd expected. There were also issues with permissions to iron out, releasing a compilation album was a learning experience in terms of legalities, but persistence paid off, and well, what we have is better than I'd ever imagined.
There's no need to throw up one's arms in despair at times like these. Rough times always come along periodically, but where there's a will, there's a way. If you're determined, you simply don't give in when confronted with a set-back, you find a way. I think this is a fine album, it came together seamlessly, and it's interesting, which is something I find really rewarding."
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