Forging Reverie

- Bittersweet Update: New Album & Lineup Change -

The good(GREAT!) news: The new album is ready and we’re putting together release materials now! Get excited.

This news is bittersweet, however…

Over the past few months we’ve pressed on through many set backs, and some very difficult decisions were made. A major change has taken place within the band, and we decided the best way to share this news would be with a personal video announcement within a blog post.

This video is our tribute to Ryan Kinghorn, our founding bassist and dear friend. Ryan has been integral to everything Forging Reverie has accomplished and become, since our formation in February of 2006. The details of this departure are purely circumstantial and absolutely amicable, and the decision to move forward was easily the most difficult decision we have made as a band.

Ryan wrote and recorded the new album, “Motion Canvas,” with us, and although we are announcing our parting just before its release, it is important to recognize that he is in no way disassociated with this project. In fact, because of his involvement, it is only fitting that he remain in the album artwork, and any promotional images for the album, which will be revealed shortly.

So here’s to Ryan! Enjoy the video; we laughed our butts off going through all of the old clips. He’s an irreplaceable dude, and it’s sure to be a different kind of fun without him.

We’ll miss you MC Safety. “Be safe!”

AES 2011

Happy Sunday everybody!  Derek coming at ya from… a very late (but hella fun) night.

If you follow us on twitter, you’ll know that yesterday Justin and I went to the 131st annual Audio Engineering Society convention in New York City.  We tweeted a whole bunch of photos, but in case you missed them, here’s a quick recap! 

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After we wrapped up on the show floor we headed up to midtown to Rudy’s guitar shop.  Tons of great vintage gear for us to drool over.  Then we went back towards the west side but stopped for a couple of pints at The Houndstooth Pub which is owned by Snow Patrol.  They had huge prints of their album art on the walls (so cool!)

Then we met up with Slau for some sushi.  Slau is a recording engineer/producer from B Sharp Studios in Queens.  What a great guy.  He knew of some really cool places to stop in for a beer, and is just the nicest most genuine guy you’ll ever meet. 

THEN we all met up with Matt from Recording Hacks and had a few drinks with him.  We probably could have talked all night…into the next day (wait, we did that).

So we finally made it back to the last train out of Grand Central, got home at about 3:00am, and totally crashed. 

A good night. 

We did some redecorating at our rehearsal space today.  Tons of organizing, rearranging, and painting! We took down some old funky wallpaper and hung up the canvas from the Motion Canvas photo shoot :D 

We still have a little bit of fine tuning to do, but we’re slowly turning the space around to be a more creative environment.  Expect some more photos soon as we get things together.

Woo!