The Great Leap Into The Forever Unknown

THE GREAT LEAP INTO THE FOREVER UNKNOWN [Outtake from All Your Heroes Become Villains]

Music: Allan Gabay. A variation of a Chopin Etude. Piano: Allan Gabay. Recorded at Dungeon Recoding Studios. Miami, FL 2006. Engineered and Produced by Fred Freeman. Mixed by Fred Freeman.

Our keyboardist Allan Gabay and I worked tirelessly on All Your Heroes Become Villains. We all did really. But the DJ loops, provided by Kamran Aghaipour, and Allan’s keyboard tracks were such an essential part of the sound of this album that they took two to three times longer to work out than the rest of our parts. We knew that in order to pull off what we were trying to, which we still aren’t sure what that was, that instrumental passages were going to play an integral part of the sound of the album. We spent weeks choosing sounds, creating filler-beds and instrumental bumpers between songs to make them all flow into one another seamlessly. This was one of the pieces that Allan had come up with – which is actually a variation of a Chopin Etude. It was meant to slip in between two songs to add mood. But it never made it past the delivery room. A still born if you will. It’s a rough to be sure. But it’s Allan at his most inspired. He recorded it in one take. No planning. No rehearsing it. Just laid it down. Perhaps he was just warming up while the engineers were checking input levels. We hadn’t even remembered it existed until recently. Roger found it buried in a folder of lost tracks. If done right it very well could have added to the Heroes album. But it got lost. Now it’s been found.

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