[2019-09-13] Bryan Beller (The Aristocrats) "Scenes From The Flood" 2CD double album with many guests (Onion Boy)

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14200

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8 Panel Digipak with TWO 20-page color booklets!

Bryan Beller's (Joe Satriani, Aristocrats, Dethklok) epic progressive double concept album feat. 26 all-star musicians.

Bassist/composer Bryan Beller (The Aristocrats, Joe Satriani, Dethklok, Steve Vai) presents a sweeping, epic-scale modern progressive double concept album that asks the question: When the storm comes for us, the big one after which things will not be the same, who are we and what do we become in those defining moments? What do we keep, and what do we let go? ''Scenes From The Flood'' employs an all-star cast of 26 musicians to explores themes of ambition and loss, intentionality and reality, hope and disillusionment, and uses every second of its 18-song, 88-minute running order to tell an emotionally consuming and unforgettable musical story.

Produced and composed by Bryan Beller (except ''Angles & Exits'', composed by Janet Feder). Mixed and mastered by Forrester Savell. ''Scenes From The Flood'' is performed by: Christopher Allis, Bryan Beller, Nili Brosh, Paul Cartwright, Darran Charles, Julian Coryell, Mike Dawes, Janet Feder, Guthrie Govan, Ray Hearne, Gene Hoglan, Mike Keneally, Jamie Kime, Fred Kron, Teddy Kumpel, Jake Howsam Lowe, Evan Mazunik, Nate Morton, Rick Musallam, Mike Olekshy, Griff Peters, John Petrucci, Matt Rohde, Joe Satriani, Rishabh Seen, Joe Travers, Leah Zeger.

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. The Scouring Of Three & Seventeen
2. Volunteer State
3. Everything And Nothing
4. A Quickening
5. Steiner In Ellipses
6. Always Worth It
7. Lookout Mountain
8. The Storm
9. The Flood

[CD2]
10. Bunkistan
11. As Advertised
12. Army Of The Black Rectangles
13. The Outer Boundary
14. Angles & Exits
15. The Inner Boundary
16. World Class
17. Sweet Water
18. Let Go Of Everything

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T7BMGGZ/?tag=imwan-20

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14200

"The Storm":

JohnG · 03 Aug 2006

Got a sneak peek at this at Aristocamp last month, Bryan is very proud of it. Check out that guest list! Wish it would be available at the NYC Aristocrat show in August but it looks like it comes out in September.

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14200

"Volunteer State":

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14200

The pre-order price for this 2CD set has dropped by $4, and is now $20.99:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T7BMGGZ/?tag=imwan-20

JohnG · 03 Aug 2006

Bryan Beller on working with Guthrie:

GUTHRIE GOVAN: (The Aristocrats, Hans Zimmer, Steven Wilson)

At this point, I have arguably spent more time working in the studio with Guthrie Govan than with anyone else appearing on “Scenes From The Flood”. (Probable exception: Mike Keneally.) Imagine my surprise, then, when it was Guthrie’s feature that ended up being the only track on the entire album where we recorded it, tweaked it, and finished the mix of the whole song…only for us both to realize it was The Wrong Sound, and we needed to scrap it and start over!

Resetting a bit here: The song “Sweet Water” – the 17th and final “full” song of the entire “Scenes From The Flood” journey - asks the question: After everything happens, can you go home again? When I finished the demo for it (which took three solid weeks), it almost sounded to me like a throwback to something from the end of one of my first two albums. Griff Peters was the guitarist for both of those sonic journeys from the 2000’s. The only other guitarist I know who can hear so many different variations and ways to play one single note, and take such care doing so, is Guthrie Govan. Everyone knows that Guthrie is one of the most inventive and fearless improvisers of any guitarist playing today, and his technical prowess and stylistic range are quite literally limitless. That being said, it was the more intimate knowledge of his melodic expressiveness - developed during our time together in The Aristocrats, and specifically through collaborating on guitar ballads like “Flatlands” and “Through The Flower” - that made me realize that, for the bittersweet finale of this particular album, it simply *had* to be Guthrie Govan on the lead and solo of “Sweet Water”.

Thus began a process that developed over six months, as we engaged in extremely detailed conversations about guitars, pickups, amps, and anything else we could think of to make sure this extremely sensitive melody and moment in the album was going to be The Right Thing. Many, many files were exchanged over a long period of time. Perhaps it was a case of tunnel vision, or just a mutual mania over trying to get it “right” as opposed to just letting Guthrie be Guthrie, but somehow on December 22, 2018, we ended up with a supposedly final mix that we both listened back to, and went…NOPE. And that’s when we started over.

Four weeks later, Guthrie delivered a completely reworked version of the melody parts, and once we brought it back into the mix, we both knew it had been worth doing twice. Finally, with the melody settled, Guthrie threw himself into the solo, and knocked out one of the greatest guitar solos I’ve ever heard in my life…in just two shots.
Once we agreed that everything was, at last, as it should be, it was settled: Tracking on “Scenes From The Flood” was complete. Guthrie’s solo on “Sweet Water” was the very last thing to come in.

Guthrie Govan (Official)

[2019-09-13] Bryan Beller (The Aristocrats) "Scenes From The Flood" 2CD double album with many guests (Onion Boy)

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