This special edition release of Dark Blue celebrates a decade of artistic vision, featuring eight tracks, including fan favorites Black, Epitaph, and Happy with the Future, all presented in a brand-new package with a 12-page full color booklet.
Originally released in 2015, Dark Blue is a deeply conceptual album, weaving a surrealist, self-penned narrative of exile, self-isolation, and love. This reimagined edition offers fans a fresh opportunity to experience the album’s hauntingly immersive journey like never before.
In a statement from Hamlet: Dear friends, music lovers and passersby!
DARKBLUE 10TH ANNIVERSARY – HOW IT MUST HAVE BEEN, AND HOW IT SHOULD BE!
It is 2025, and it looks like we live in the historical times – which says – not easy. In such epoch, reflection is needed as much as observation, and for some the voluntary internal exile is the way of coping. Which is why during my personal break time from the noisy circus of live shows and bombastic presentations, Transport Aerian decided to make a re-issue of its most introspective, intimate concept piece – which also turns 10 this year – Darkblue.
Transport Aerian would not have been what it is known for if we haven’t decided to give it an experimental twist: and so, we decided to give it the one it seems to have always needed. Back when it was originally released, I felt the story-driven immersive musical landscape we – by pure accident – created with Rachel Bauer could be expanded into many non-musical directions, such as literature or graphic art.
So, for the re-release we decided to team up with the young graphic artist Fiobos, whose artistry in portraiture and human form struck me the first time I saw him back in 2019. Just providing the graphic art for the album would have been a terribly trivial and boring idea so we decided to go for an artistic and psychological experiment: Fiobos will be drawing what he feels on basis of music and lyrics analysis in real time while listening to the pieces for the first time – only having been acquainted to the lyrical content but not music. He will have only the song duration time to finalize the first impression drawing and we will film the process.
Subsequently, after each song is “visualized” that way, he will proceed for more variations of impressions, thus creating the depiction of spontaneous emotions with his art – based on Darkblue story and music. We are aiming to release one such video per month, starting from the album release – oh and the way, it is set to 20th of March 2025 and will come out on Melodic Revolution Records. Will there be live performances of this sort? Perhaps. And if so, Fiobos will be a part of it.
But we will see what future brings.
Here is a sample of what’s to come visually.
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