It's almost 10 years since I released Postcards, and in that time I've graduated, worked four jobs, moved house three times, been to about 15 furcons and visited about 20 European countries. To give me something to work on in 2019, and as a mini-nod back to my first album, I'm following it up with ATLAS. And I'm excited to get composing!

First a bit of background: Postcards was a bit of a mish-mash, as a lot of first releases can be, it was a sort of "best of" my early work. I followed that up with The Absence, which was more synthy and calm and then Verisimilitude which was much more ethereal and definitely an experimental time, mostly feeling like I'd exhausted the playful orchestra theme I live by. With the release of my fictional game OST Grand Fox Sandbox in 2017 I felt a bit more inspired again - it made the most money for charity (as all my album donations go to charity) and gave me a lot more confidence in myself as a composer, it was just about finding the time to create.

I want to make more of it in 2019 and I want to release an album by the end of the year - Postcards was released in November 2009, it'd mean a little something if it came out around then. ATLAS is going to be a "Travel Diary" of some of the places I have visited in the decade since Postcards, and turning my memories and experiences into a travel album. In the summer of 2019 I'm going to the Scottish Highlands so that might well yet make its way into the album. I've seen plenty of Europe and I want to try new styles, but keep close to that wholly "Equium style" of orchestral/playful to make a travel companion soundtrack.

Let's get scribbling!