Steampunk music revolves around a central question: "What if?" What if Japan's samurai waged the Boshin War atop giant walking war machines? What if man could build a machine so lifelike... he could fall in love with it? What if the Native American tribes stood in the face of technology and industry - and won? What if ruthless airship pirates roamed the skies in search of blood - and vengeance?
"What if?" indeed! It is why so many enjoy the rewritten history, the exotic places and colorful people and fantastic inventions that never existed outside of imagination. It gives rise to such creative possibilities. What if these characters and events were real? How could their stories be told - and how would they sound?
In Circumnavigator, Escape the Clouds' answer is the powerful fusion of spoken word and sung vocals with lush soundscapes, pounding drums, ethnic instrumentation, and distorted guitars. This broad palette of sounds portrays the tale of a man on an aerial quest to save his stricken wife. Each song tells of a specific event or characters encountered on the HMS Seraphim's unprecedented journey around the world.