“Doing this” meant enlisting 26 musicians, three visual artists, and three key engineers – all spread across four continents – to bring Scenes From The Flood to life. So when I realized I had that much music in my head, and something to say along with it, I got over my initial fear of tackling something so conceptually audacious, and finally just said, yeah, I’m actually doing this.” Ever since, my favorite albums always felt like they were telling a story. “I completely absorbed the story, the visuals, the long form double-vinyl structure, and the repeating themes that defined it as a concept album. It was a gift from my grandparents for my ninth birthday,” says Beller, now 47. “ The Wall was the very first album I ever owned. The resulting sense of story urgency and dramatic narrative presents like a soundtrack to a movie suspense thriller as much as it does a double album. The deluxe packaging ( two 20-page double-CD booklets, and a 24-page full-size LP booklet) reveals not just album artwork, but unique cover-style artwork for each of the eighteen songs, or “scenes”. Several melodies and themes interweave and interact throughout the course of the album, a connective tissue through 88 minutes of emotional peaks and valleys. Presented in the classic format of four vinyl sides (or four “parts” on two CD’s), Scenes From The Flood was inspired by hallowed progressive double-albums like Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Yes’ Tales From Topographic Oceans, as well as more modern expanded works, such as Nine Inch Nails’ The Fragile. Ī work so sweeping in scale that it took Beller nearly a decade to conceive, compose, and now fully realize, the album grapples with an existential question: When the storm comes for us, the big one after which things will not be the same, who are we and what do we become in those defining moments? Scenes From The Flood employs an all-star cast of 26 musicians to explore themes of ambition and loss, intentionality and reality, hope and disillusionment, and uses every second of its 18-song, 88-minute running order to tell an emotionally consuming and unforgettable musical story. But nothing he’s done before can truly prepare you for his newest release, the massively ambitious and unapologetically progressive double concept album Scenes From The Flood. Leah Zeger (Stevie Wonder, Annie Lennox, Hans Zimmer)Īnd Bryan Beller on bass, keyboards, guitars and lead vocals.Īs a bassist and composer, Bryan Beller (The Aristocrats, Joe Satriani, Dethklok, Steve Vai) has never been accused of being insufficiently driven. Rishabh Seen (Arijit Singh, Mute The Saint, solo artist) Matt Rohde (Christina Aguilera, Jane’s Addiction) Julian Coryell (Alanis Morrissette, Jewel, Aimee Mann)įred Kron (Colin Hay, Donna Summer, Anchorman 2)Įvan Mazunik (Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, solo artist) Paul Cartwright (Portugal The Man, Cee Lo Green, Mary J. KEYS, STRINGS, ACCORDION, SITAR, PERCUSSION, AND MOREĬhristopher Allis (Deana Carter, Denny Laine) Joe Travers (Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Zappa Plays Zappa) Nate Morton (Cher, The Voice, American Idol house band) Gene Hoglan (Dethklok, Strapping Young Lad, Testament, Death) Griff Peters (Mike Keneally, Billie Myers) Rick Musallam (Mike Keneally, Ben Taylor) Jake Howsam Lowe (Plini, The Helix Nebula) Jamie Kime (Zappa Plays Zappa, Jewel, Dr. Mike Keneally (Frank Zappa, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, solo artist) Guthrie Govan (The Aristocrats, Hans Zimmer, Steven Wilson) Nili Brosh (Michael Jackson ONE, Tony MacAlpine, solo artist)ĭarran Charles (Godsticks, The Pineapple Thief)
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