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Glass House (Revisited)

by The Deafening Silence

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1.
This Glass House 06:24
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2.
Still Holding Out Hope 05:20
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3.
The Penance Unfolds 02:59
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4.
The Platform Waits 06:05
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5.
The Candidate Persuaded 04:37
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6.
The Sun is Sinking 05:13
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They say that it's like nothing else 02:05
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8.
Lay to Rest 04:11
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9.
Release 04:15
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GLASS HOUSE (Revisited)
THE FULL STORY


Before I explain the story of Glass House and this new addition, I just want to assure everyone that the original mix remains intact. Nothing has been added or taken away from the original recordings. Only a remaster has taken place resulting in a much cleaner, more spread out sound, and an improvement of the overall sound quality with previously undetected audio errors removed.

A year ago, back when I first recorded the album, The Deafening Silence existed simply as way to distract my mind and vent my frustration during a time of insomnia and poor mental health. The genesis of Glass House begun when I put my synthesizer down for a while and instead picked my guitar back up and started writing little folk-esque noodles. I found what I was writing to be very honest about the time I was living through and thought the chords were very moving. I immediately got to work on an album that truly represented the emotional state I was in at the time and before long the demos of Glass House were put together. Before adding leads and synthesizers, I listened to these demos again and again, and the titles of the songs soon came to me as if they were writing themselves.

The overall title of Glass House for me came from a place of feeling that everyone could see into my life at the time. I had just lost someone from my life who was very dear to me and it was highly likely that I would never see this person again. Or at least not in the same way. Many things happened to me during this time as well as the loss of this person and it all built up into some form of meltdown. Something that I had never experienced before. I had to take time out of work which is very out of character for me, and the insomnia simply took over. At one point during the production of this album I hadn't slept for almost 3 days by which point I think I came the closest to madness that I had ever felt and I'm likely to feel again. After this I must have just crashed and slept for as long as my body needed me too. Thinking that it was over and I had finally slept, some more events unfolded in my life and the insomnia was back again just a couple of days later.

The results of this time have produced what I believe to be my most honest and emotional work I have ever made. Upon its release and the months that have passed since, so many people have connected with the music on this album and I couldn't be more pleased with this. It truly warms my heart that people heard the messages contained within and have connected with it in their own special way. I always thought that the album had this wonderful raw quality that added to the emotions I was expressing with this music. I listened to it again semi recently and discovered, to my shame, that part of this is down to audio errors that I simply had not noticed at the time of mixing and mastering the album. I don't know whether this was due to my mind being in a state of disarray, or because my knowledge of music production wasn't the same as it is now, or maybe it was a mix of both. But it didn't seem right to me, that music that has meant so much to you but also to myself was burdened with these errors that were simply unnoticed before.

Great care has been taken to preserve the sound and feel of Glass House whilst improving the overall listening quality. I have decided to keep the original album available on my discography as I still believe that it stands as a statement of the time it was made in. But I also hope that you enjoy this addition and maybe even find something new or a new connection with it that you perhaps never had before. Working on this cleaned up and improved version for me was very cathartic as it reminded me of the place I was in then and made me very thankful of the place in which I am at now. It also showed me just how much I have learned about music production through the rest of The Deafening Silence albums and through my work as Parker. This album was such a personal milestone for me. I feel it deserved the best mastered sound quality.

Enjoy

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released July 30, 2023

Instrumentation
Korg Minilogue XD, Electric Guitars, Bass Guitar.
LABS Modular Piano and Cello, u-he Podolski, Minimoog (VK 1).
LFO Audio VST'S: Moog Matriarch, Moog Grandmother, Moog Sub 37, Polymoog, OB-6, ARP Odyssey.
TR-808 sounds.
Drums.


All tracks composed and produced by James Parker


Album art created using composite images by Sasha Matic and Filip Kominik used under licence from unslash.com.
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unsplash.com/@filipkominik


With incredible special thanks to Kirstie Bellew...

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