the dark green shanty

ALBUM BIOGRAPHY:

I started work on this album in september 2025 shortly after the release of release this when im dead that previous month.
This album shifted towards having more centric unified overarching concept. The concept in question was influenced by personal
tribulations I had dealt with, recent and old. A lot of death happened in my life at this time, most notably the death of my grandparents.
In 2024, my grandmother tragically passed away, then shortly after my grandfather began his battle with cancer, to which he would
eventually capitulate to around the time I was writing this album. I found their whole story captivating, two people who loved each other
so dearly both dying within such a short time span... it's truly remarkable, it felt as if it were destined. Another influencing factor this album
would be the persistent fear of death I have experienced throughout my whole life. I recall being very young, no older than 3, asking my mother
something along the lines of "what happens after we die?" She replied with something along the lines of "we go to heaven honey". That was a
good enough answer for me until age 10. I'm not sure what happened, but I slowly began to questioned it all. Long story short I became eventually
came to reject all religion. Now having a lack in the traditional belief of a higher power, I was left with the terrifying fact that when we die we cease to exist.
Being so young, I couldn't possibly have navigated through these thoughts, so I sat in extreme persistent denial until eventually resubscribing to religion.
I slowly realized through trying to force myself to be religious that religion simply was not for me. And I slowly went back to being unsubscribed to religion.
Throughout being a teenage, stereotypical things have occurred with me that have occurred with many other teenagers... I began to question things.
A lot of things. I went from following the American right wing political ideologies of my parents to more non conformist and progressive views. This set up
the groundwork for me to requestion religion. It took a long time. Undoing the denial. So this album is a representation of that,
a representation of the acknowledgment and the acceptance of everything finite. Each track follows a different part in the fictional story I made up.
In fact, there really isn't a story. It's mostly up for interpretation. I didn't put too much concrete meaning into it. This album is essentially your canvas.
But to put what is concrete about this album's concept into simple terms, it's about the persistent denial of death in our society,
and also about growing old and dying, and why that perhaps isn't a terrible thing.

MAKING PROCESS:

As for the sound of this album, the recording process was very similar to the last. I used my iPhone microphone to record essentially everything.
I primarily used the Greek Bouzouki on this album, as oppose to using an electric guitar. I used the MIDI synth in my tuner app.
I still wanted to maintain a distorted noisy sound, so this album leaned a ton into electroacoustic. Still used audacity despite all my friends yelling at me to get a DAW.
Nothing fancy about the production on this one either.