Description and “Liner Notes”. See bottom for link to actual “album”.
After 5 months of planning, creating, performing, deforming, and editing it is finally finished. The first, and probably last, Mono album I’ve ever created. It is an “album” that I have dropped, shelved, and brewed over more than any other “album”. I first came into the idea during the Universal Sound Sessions when I accidentally left a whole lot of tracks in Mono, mixed them all down, and created Voyaging Sound (see The Rocky Mountain Orchestra). I was at how well it all blended in together, and began thinking about Mono songs. I tried to remix it into stereo, but it just sounded nasty, and it would have taken far too much effort and editing than I’m bothered to perform to fix it, so I stayed with the Mono mix, and started thinking of creating a Mono “album”. Musical Soul (the 1st track) came into being when I took the Heart & Soul progression and changed it from C-A-F-G to C-G-F-G. I took this new progression and created a song called ”Voyaging Sound [Stereo]“, which was going to be a type of “You Know My Name (look up the number)”, but never sounded quite right, so I shelved it for later release. I kept the melody, however, and made a Mono and Stereo mix of the song. The stereo is on my Rocky Mountain Orchestra “album”. After releasing Universal Sound I created a number of songs that added up to be 12 (counting Musical Soul), and I was going to release these songs as my 4th “album”, but was unsatisfactory with the sound of the songs, and shelved the work I had created during the month after releasing Universal Sound. I would then attract my attention back to Stereo and created my favorite creation thus yet, Grayscale. After Grayscale I decided to get back to the Musical Soul project, and created a number of new songs including “The Dream” and “Funhouse”, which could have appeared on Musical Soul, but they were far too long and strung together to fit the rest of the “album”, so I put them into my 5th “album”, The Rocky Mountain Orchestra, an “album” consisting of a collection of songs I created during the Grayscale sessions, and after. I took a few weeks off, and decided I would push this project back no further, and finally finished the “album” by keeping 4 originals (from the first Musical Soul sessions in Feb-March) “Musical Soul” “Interruption” “Thripshaw” and “Across Time”. I recreated two songs into “Static” and “Flying”, and added 5 new songs “For One” “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”[Lennon/McCartney](instrumental variation) “Doodle World” “In The Night” and “Yin and Yang”. I added two previously heard before songs “Texoma”(Universal Sound) and “Nebula #9″(Opus IV), because “Texoma” was originally mixed in Mono, and “Nebula #9″…well, I just really like the song and like it even better in Mono, so it had to stay 
. This “album”, having spanned over a time period of 5 months, has a variation in sound in it, as my musical tastes and experience has changed and grown. My latest songs on the “album” are more Psychedelic and much more interesting to listen to (ex. “Doodle World”, “Flying”), while the earlier ones are more of a one way street in the way that their short and simple (“Musical Soul” “Thripshaw” “Across Time”) [this may be contributed to the fact I was still under the influence of Universal Sound].
It Isn’t a perfect “album”, and yes it isn’t my best, but I still like it a lot. It has a long and winding history, and is the reason Grayscale and Rocky Mountain Orchestra came into being.
I hope you enjoy it 
thank you for listening and reading.
I really appreciate it. 
-Opus
