Rainmaker

Available for purchase on Bandcamp and Mirlo.

My second "serious" album, and unlike the previous one, more vocal than instrumental. A bonus track (The Beach) is also available for those that purchase the album on Bandcamp.

While it's not a concept album, the common theme of all the songs is rain, in its different forms. The title of the album is a homage to "Rainmaker" by Kansas, one of my favourite songs ever: the title track itself pays tribute to that, as it acts as an unofficial "sequel" to what may have happened in the original song. The album is a mixed bag of different genres, as while it's mostly tending towards metal and progressive rock, it often veers into other directions as well, touching electronic, folk and more. This allowed me to experiment more with different sounds.

All recorded, mixed and mastered using open source and free tools: thanks to all the software authors for making this possible! In particular, I want to give a shout-out to Fedora Linux, JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK), Ardour, MuseScore, Lilypond, Guitarix, Rakarrack, DrumGizmo, Hydrogen, Yoshimi, Dragonfly Reverb and sfizz: all those projects rock, and are what made this possible.

Credits

• Guest vocals on "Desert Rain" by Paolo Navarretta (The Black Crown)
• Drums played by DrumGizmo (Muldjord Kit)
• Audio samples obtained on freesound.org and movie-sounds.org
• Cover picture by Victoria Borodinova (Pexels)

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