In the upcoming months, I will be sharing the inner workings, writing process, and construction of the Amps for Buddha's second full-length (third overall) album, 'Slouching Toward Nirvana'.
My goal is to have the album completed for a late spring early summer release. Figuring out distribution will be a part of the goal.
So begins the writing process. I feel I've chosen an appropriate title for the album. It was taken from a book of poems by Charles Bukowski, under the same name. The title speaks to me. When I first came across the book a few years ago, I told myself I would use the title and interpret it in my own fashion.
Slouching Toward Nirvana feels exactly what I'm doing. Whatever ends of nirvana are, is up for another discussion. Coming from a minimum-wage working world and trudging along to a place where I would want to be, to be considered a success on my own terms, has always been aside of me.
Slouching Toward Nirvana easily extends to my mental health. ...In short I'll say, whenever I feel a depression, it is the battle between my mind finding peace and my brain telling me, "fuck off and die." ...It is a battle and a battle that I am winning.
As for now I'm writing down ideas for the album, making an outline. Playing around with different sounds, tempos, harmonies and rhythms. The album will be a concept album. I'm not aiming for a bunch of songs pushed together onto a disc and calling it an album. I want to take you for a journey.
