Hello all,

I hope all is well!

Great news! CDs are in!

We're preparing the packages (signing CDs, etc) as we speak. These will all be going out in the next couple of days.

Due to a massive spike in costs, the liner notes on the physical albums is very simple. So, we'll be sending out (through BackerKit) a digital liner notes. Keep an eye out for both the CD and the PDF.

Tales of The Black Piper CAMPAIGN

The Black Prism - Digital Release

The Black Prism - CDs

Tales of The Black Piper - Early Access for Writers

Refractions

Physical Black Prism CDs

Status of All the Things (in one spot)

1. The first is that they actively promote their catalogues. This is something we haven't done a whole lot of - leaving this mostly up to word of mouth. (We've focused most of our resources on the work, and haven't been able to promote as much as we'd love to.) This is why it's incredible that we currently have 24k+ monthly listeners on Spotify! Still, what would things look like if we had active promotion? Definitely a question we want to get answered.
2. Second, and much more importantly (though you may or may not find it interesting), Symphonic has a revenue sharing model that will allow us to easily "split share" with our composers and other parties. This will make the capturing of funds, royalty distribution, and reporting 100% automatic for our collaborators. With all that we have to tackle, both on this and upcoming projects, the more automation we can take advantage of, the better! And also, if things with Symphonic work well on this release, we'll likely be looking to move our other releases over, so we can take advantage of what they have to offer.

The Black Prism - Physical CDs

Refractions

Refractions - Timing

Reflections

Tales of The Black Piper

The Black Prism

Reflections / Refractions

Tales of The Black Piper Anthology

To our Thousand Stars,

We’re so thrilled that you’ve decided to join us as we embark on this exciting new adventure to bring the Seven Satrapies to life through music in our upcoming album, The Black Prism.

Many of you know Michael from Kaladin, but I wanted to take an opportunity to introduce myself and share with you some of the things that are most exciting to me about the creative direction of The Black Prism.

First off, hi - my name’s Ian! I’ve been lucky enough to work with Michael on this project since the very beginning, first coming onboard as additional administrative support, until ultimately accepting his offer to support the team behind The Black Prism in the capacity of creative director.

The Black Prism is an album unlike anything The Black Piper has done before. Not only do we have an opportunity to work with a series that checks all of the ‘epic fantasy’ boxes that we so loved about The Way of Kings, The Black Prism gives us the opportunity to explore a huge variety of new and interesting sounds, styles, genres, and techniques, both compositionally and sonically, by blending our composers’ experience as Hollywood professionals with my experience leading teams both creative and technical across a variety of industries, training as a classical musician and career as a sound designer for film and video games. We are deeply inspired by the rich tapestry that Brent has woven throughout the Seven Satrapies, and are excited to explore cultural, social, political, and magical ‘spectrums’ through this album.

One thing that is really important to me is that we demonstrate respect and responsibility as we represent both the lore of Brent’s Seven Satrapies and also the cultures and peoples that created the various styles, instrumentations, and sonic expressions that we are drawing inspiration from. In addition to wonderful music, you’ll have the opportunity to read about the instrumentation and influences that we’ve woven into each track once the album is released.

Another element that I’m really excited about is how we are marrying music and sound design to create a unique experience for our listeners when it comes to developing the sound of ‘magic’ in The Black Prism. We’re drawing inspiration from musical spectralism alongside the fundamental harmonic series to develop sonic ‘flavors’ that will be subtly identifiable whenever a particular color of luxin is being drafted throughout the album. Our plan is to support this with sound design inspired by digital and analog synthesizers to give a uniquely ‘otherworldly’ twist to your experience of ‘hearing light.’

Over the next several weeks, I’m very much looking forward to working with the team on this project, and can’t wait to share the final product with you! I’m humbled by the opportunity to bring the world of The Black Prism to life, and so deeply appreciate your generous support in allowing us to do what we do.

In light,
Ian

Down to Business

Thank You

Hi everyone,

Wow, what a turnout! Thank you all for jumping onto the relaunch and pledging so quickly - you really came through! We're getting a Lightbringer album!

There was a minute there we were hovering at just $4 below the funding goal. I don't know which one of you pledged the extra $4 to cause the campaign to land right on the money at $7k, but you're awesome!

You are all amazing!

One of the Ian's on our Discord server was joking when he posted the following image and wondered aloud, "How will we ever reach our goal?!"

A minute or two later, we were there!

What's Next?

Since we're only a few days into the campaign, the next question is: what next?

The answer is that we are very interested in making this album the best it can be. There are two things we learned from our survey that you are all most interested in: better quality music and more music (in that order). So, now that we (and by we, I mean all of you amazing people) have unlocked the album itself, it is now time to turn our attention to UPGRADES!

First on the list: soloists!

Additional Tracks

THANK YOU