"Clandestiny" is a fake word Donovan made up that he thought sounded cool. The song wasn't supposed to be that long, but it ended up ballooning into 16 minutes. This is the first song Donovan wrote for the album. Jacob's Lullaby is an attempt to capture that process in sound, although the concept was made up posthumously after the song was already written. The title refers to Jacob's Ladder, the final ascent your soul takes into heaven after you die. We felt we should have some sort of short, spacey interlude to precede the final song, so Phoenix whipped this one up. She fantasizes about one day riding the waves with her father. The young girl awaits his return from his voyage, living vicariously through his journeys. This is a fantasy song about a seaside kingdom and focuses on the daughter of a ship captain. Donovan wanted to keep the song fast-paced and not give the listener a chance to breathe. The first 2 minutes of the song were written after the final section. The distorted organ sounds in this song and in Clandestiny were inspired by the band Van Der Graaf Generator. Because the melody was so chromatic, he found that he could pretty much choose any chords for the guitar and keyboard and it wouldn't sound too bad. At first it sounded awful, so he changed it to a cycle of odd time signatures that had the same length as 4 bars of 4/4 so the melody would still fit into an odd time signature setting. He wanted to take "Entry of the Gladiators" and add a rhythm section of changing time signatures to create some sort of creepy circus. Donovan wanted to add a short, creepy, complex instrumental to the album. This song was written with the last section first. This was the first song we wrote and the first we recorded. This song tells of a beast stuck in a tar pit, who, despite his desperate situation, decides to keep strong and trust that he'll get out one day. The song had no end chorus initially, but Donovan and Joe pressured Phoenix to add one. The middle section was written by Phoenix improvising a drum section and then writing the chords and melody after. It was created by experimenting with different sets of maj9 chords until it sounded right. This was inspired by "Everything" by Bubblemath. It tells a tale of introversion and what it's like to feel detached from those around you. This song was written over a long period of time by Phoenix. The story is a metaphor for Joe's discovery of prog and the way that prog rewards listeners who choose to take the time to get to know it. The song tells of a magical fungus with life-giving properties that is known by all but only sought out by one individual. The chord progression for the trombone solo was born out of a jam session. "The Fungus of Eats" was written by Donovan, Phoenix, and Joe from a jam session. This song started with Donovan writing "Conception." He wanted the album to start with a bang and give a good introduction as to what the rest of the album would sound like. "Conception" starts at 0:00, "The Fungus of Eats" starts at 1:37, 'Duggle" starts at 4:47, "Journey" starts at 7:31, "Redeem" starts at 11:09, and "Arrival" starts at 13:31. This song is actually split into multiple sections. This led to us calling it a "Suite" because it seemed too disjoint to be one song. The last song written was Kitchen Suite, which was the only song we collaborated on. La Bestia was the first song written, along with another song that we decided to use as a bonus track called "Snow." Then came Once Upon a Time, Jacob's Lullaby, Clandestiny, Outside, and Clown Analysis. Each separate song was written by only one member, with one exception. Our writing process is very individual, not collaborative, which we think led to a wide range of writing styles between songs. The album was mixed by Aaron Young and the cover art was created by Madeline Curtis. Tracking was done in the Preston's basement with one mic and Audacity. Eventually, with the entire rest of the album written and recorded without vocals, Anthony Nunez was brought in to finish vocals on Kitchen Suite, Outside, and Clandestiny.
We all really liked old-school prog bands, especially Genesis, and were also heavily inspired by an obscure modern band called Bubblemath.Īs we got more serious, Genna and Jake started to lose interest in the band and started to drift away as vocalists, leaving the core writing group of Joe, Donovan, and Phoenix to work on composition while we looked for another singer. That's when we decided to write more serious "prog" stuff.
CLANDESTINY WALKTHROUGH SERIES
We started by writing a series of joke songs that ended up on a short EP that's on Youtube called "Cooks Crew," but soon after, decided we wanted to do something more substantial. We are all cousins, are musically interested, and like a lot of the same bands.
The band started with the core group of Donovan, Phoenix, Joe, Genna, and Jake.
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