Allegories spawned
from a need to experiment with musical concepts, and a restlessness
that made free time impossible or unwanted. Originally, we formed
Allegories as a side project to explore improvisational ideas, but it
soon became an obsession.
At first, dozens of skeletal, dream-like soundscapes were created and
soon narrowed down to the most promising twelve. These twelve sonic
explorations then started to feel more like songs. These songs then
started to fall into three distinct suites. Eventually, those suites
soon became the album: Surreal Auteur.
It’s strange, when we were manipulating these improvisational sketches
into very precise songs (without a clear understanding of what they
would become) we weren’t concerned. The anxiety or occasional pure fear
that can be associated with creating music was lifted. The only goal
was to make something that excited us, work with people that excited
us, and try to continue exploring areas that were new to us. The
singular consistent fear was that our computer would break and that we
would lose these months of work, without any way of retrieving the
songs. Luckily, we finished. No technological disaster. Our sanities
partially intact, the same way they were when we began.
Only now, months after finishing the record, waiting for the chance to
have the record diffuse into the “public’s” consciousness have we been
anxious. Maybe it’s more anticipation since we don’t really feel
apprehensive.