Early Nights From Now On
About the Album
Early Nights From Now On is my most psychological solo album to date. It is about childhood phobias, life transitions, and the innocent inner child inside us fighting against becoming our deepest fears, which is represented by Big Bird.
I have recently become fascinated with liminal spaces. I love traveling through endless, abandoned, corridors that are like mazes. These “in between” or “threshold” spaces can be simultaneously comforting and unsettling. It’s like a place that only exists so you can get to another place. I tried to explore the idea of creating liminal space within my compositions, as well as in the themes in my music, such as the songs “Thresholds”, “Another Way Out” and the instrumental “Running from Big Bird”. Each song carries on the theme of trying to find the transition, exit, or escape from the phobias and threats (I.e. Osmophobia and Bigbirdphobia). The album cover artwork illustrates a threshold with an exit sign, and the only way through has the looming shadow of Big Bird waiting to strike. I felt these ideas were all fitting with the opening track “Under the Radar”, which is about remaining undetectable from a vicious and cutthroat world. The Morse Code at the beginning of the track literally translates to “Big Bird Was Here”. Who is Big Bird, and who are you? Or are you one and the same?…
The album is also about growing up; falling in love, navigating fears, and wanting to settle down with a sensible early night. Anything to be distanced from those aforementioned childhood phobias.
With every new solo album I make, I try and do a few things; I try to sharpen my songwriting and recording skills, I try to explore a new concept to write about, I try to experiment with new compositional techniques, and most of all, I try and make music that feels authentic to me. I try to make each new album just a little bit better than my last, with the hopes that if I continue doing this, I will eventually build a portfolio of music that will speak as chapters in my musical life and artistic career. I am not so focussed on commercial success or trying to appeal to perfectionistic standards. I am far more interested in the process of creating art, because it is something truly unique and special: You are bringing something into existence that only you can. If Einstein was never born, someone else would eventually discover the theory of relativity. However, if Beethoven was never born, no one else would ever write Ode to Joy for the rest of time. I am definitely not Beethoven, but I am Caspian. So here is a piece of my life written as music that I would like to share, in the hopes it will inspire you, or at least entertain you for a brief moment in your day.
Caspian Scott 