Some time ago I was recording the first track for a collaborative album with great Belgian musician Syndromeda, when a melodic, vocal part came out spontaneously. When I sent him the finished track, though, he firmly rejected that vocal part. At first I didn’t understand why, but then I realized he was right. In fact, that part had nothing to do with the track, it was something personal that had simply exploded out from deep inside of me. So I removed it and decided to turn it into what it actually was: one of my solo tracks. To do so, however, I needed some inspiration and an album to record it for. I found the inspiration I needed in the usual place: the photos by my uncle and personal photography teacher Domenico “Sem” Semeraro. I went through the various photos he had sent me as candidate covers and the perfect one was there, waiting for me – it’s the one you can see on the front cover. This whole album’s concept was built on and molded around that picture.
For the record, the vocal part that started it all is the one on Brimstone Rain.
