About Natural Disasters
D E B U T S O U N D T R A C K A L B U M
Calm Before the Storm.
Anxiety of the Anticipation.
Terror of the Escape.
Burden of Tranquility.
Each piece in Natural Disasters will encapsulate anxiety's disruption of peace before disaster, the culmination of terror, ultimately followed by tranquility either as a result of survival or death.
As I wrote my music, I found myself imagining situations in which an innocent soul is going about their everyday life before it's violently interrupted. For example in Tsunami, the first installment in the album, a fisherman in a lone fishing boat is going about his typical day before an earthquake hits, causing swells of larger and larger waves followed by an instance of calm as the ocean churns up a large tsunami that the fisherman then has to survive. In Blizzard, I imagined a lone hunter treading back through the snow, marching in knee-deep powder before dark grey clouds swirl overhead. This brings about a great blizzard that the hunter drops his things to escape, running back to his village for his life before being caught in an avalanche and dying under the snow as the music fades away.
What I came to realize is natural disasters, though tragic, show how quickly our lives can change with no control of an outcome and how powerful nature can be. My music aims to encapsulate that, translating those inexplicable feelings into emotion. No matter the natural disaster, each follows the same theme of peace before disaster followed by tranquility (overshadowed by destruction). For that reason, each installment in this series, while different, will be in the same key to highlight the underlying similarity.