Album Credits:
Composed, mixed, and mastered by Simon Milliman at Urban Jack Productions
Simon Milliman: Synths, piano, guitar, and orchestrations
Danelle Dullum: Vocals on parts v, viii, and x
Bryan Daste: Pedal Steel and Baritone Guitar on parts v, vi, and viii
Joshua Slamp: Guitars and Double Bass on parts v, vi, and viii
Liner Notes:
In an interview recently I was asked about the difficulty of creating an album of music each month at my home studio, during quarantine, with five kids, two dogs, and nine chickens mucking about. My response was an appeal to the Greek mythology of Chaos from whom all creation was birthed. I might have some talent for music, but my truest talent is being interrupted. I don’t think anyone is as good at being interrupted as me; I like to think I do it with a certain panache.
From chaos we all create. One of the children of Chaos was, Erebus, the living personification of darkness. For this album I wanted to create something cinematic, something I wouldn’t mind hearing as the soundtrack to a good sci-fi. The final track on my previous album, The Weeping Candles, was a song called, Helios and Selene. Helios, the Sun, and Selene, the Moon, were the basis for my lyrics touching on an eternal love in an indifferent universe. This was my high idealism mixed with my existentialism. That same existentialism brought me to Erebus, but without the usual trappings of viewing Erebus as something evil. Instead Erebus is simply mysterious; mysterious as the darkness, at times atonal as chaos but at other moments pure and at other moments overwhelmingly powerful. This may be a spoiler, but Erebus and Nyx (night) had children of their own including: Aether (heavenly air) and Hemera (Day). From Chaos we receive Darkness and from Darkness: Light.
The final part of the album was subtitled, Inifitus Fini, after Danelle Dullum, the only human voice on Erebus, informed me that it is an appropriate soundtrack to death. This was completely on accident, but it feels fitting as all lights will someday be extinguished, however, the darkness is an Infinite End.
-Simon 8/17/20
