Devin Townsend työskentelee uuden ”Lightwork”-nimellä kulkevan albumin kimpussa: ”Outoa, abstraktia ja mutkittelevaa”
Kanadalainen musiikin monitoimimies Devin Townsend ei ole levännyt laakereillaan korona-aikana. Karanteenikonserttien lisäksi mies on nähty Sepulturan Sepuquarta-videosarjassa ja sävellystyön ohella hän on julkaissut pitkiä kitaraimprovisaatio-pätkiä. Ilmeisesti aika ei ole käymässä pitkäksi jatkossakaan, sillä Townsend on ilmoittanut Twitter-tilillään päätyneensä työstämään uutta albumia nimeltä ”Lightwork”. Albumi on vielä alkutekijöissään, mutta alkanut päästä muotoonsa. Luvassa on Townsendin mukaan outoa, abstraktia, mutkittelevaa ja ihmeellistä materiaalia. Townsendin twiitit aiheen tiimoilta voit lukea tästä:
I think I’m writing an album, unexpectedly…called ‘Lightwork’ that is abstract and stream of conscious. Still significantly far away from anything, but it’s determinedly taking shape. It’s been odd though, as every record is a reflection of the time it was conceived
…— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) August 4, 2020
…and this is clearly a weird time. It’s strange, abstract, meandering, and weird. If I try to curb it and write something more disciplined, it would be a dumb rehash of stuff I’m clearly bored of. So I follow this where it wants to go…
— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) August 4, 2020
Almost seems like it would make sense for it to be a continuous, shifting, colourful beast as opposed to a collection of songs, more like songs in a highly elaborate and sort of alien stream of conscious: no real beginning or end…
— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) August 4, 2020
But regardless: as much as I have tried to shift my motivations from this weird collection of work to something more ‘palatable’ it seems clear that this is what’s in my path now, so I’m going to finish it in the way that it insists
— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) August 4, 2020
I suppose considering the strange unique intensity of this period, it makes perfect sense when I hear it…
— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) August 4, 2020
Alien as in: ‘this makes no traditional sense but seems to have an underlying order’
— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) August 4, 2020
Visually, I see a weird kind of muted ‘Winnie the Pooh’ type landscape with endless processions of characters, objects, people, creatures etc wandering from one side of the page to the other, an endless parade of dissimilar things, and just kind of watching them go by.
— Devin Townsend (@dvntownsend) August 4, 2020