About the album Heart Of Darkness

In the past 3 decades I have been playing in a series of original and coverbands. All these years I’ve never stopped writing and recording music, lyrics, riffs, rhythms. And they kept piling up on me. A lot of this stuff still remains as uncut diamonds or, more likely, fool’s gold. Some of the material did get tracked as real songs, but somehow I never came to the point of finishing them. A crude mix was as far as I got, always skipping to new lyrics, exploring new musical ideas that drove me further on.

Friends had repeatedly insisted I should do something with all this nearly finished material that I had branded T.A.P. – The Attic Project. But somehow I felt the songs were not ready yet, that I was not ready. And then came the corona virus and the first lock down.

The lock down in March 2020 was horrible in a lot of ways, but it provided me with the necessary time on hands to go through and sometimes rediscover my material. I carefully chose the thirteen songs that, to my ears, really stood out from the rest. I started to arrange and mix them from scratch. I did’t mind that some songs told older stories, but I wanted them to express a certain unity, a general sonic feel and flavor to the whole.

Some of the stories these songs tell are true, others are totally made up, most of them are a combination of both. All of them tend to be dark. I obviously love dark music so much more than the happy feel good stuff that’s out there. But all the songs come from the heart. In a way these thirteen tracks tell stories of the past 20 years, of my past 20 years. And in this way, this album stands for what and who I am today.

I hope you enjoy these dark musical stories, straight from my heart, as much as I did in creating ‘Heart of Darkness’.

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Chris Jacobson