Saga is well-versed in the art of building anticipation.
With just over a week to go until their 18th anniversary live, Saga tweeted to reveal another detail regarding their next, as-yet-unnamed album, nearly a year to the day after first teasing the news that they were about to embark upon the creation of another deeply significant ALICE NINE. album. The very fact that they aren’t rushing with this release already marks it as being something different from usual, and I have no doubt that the wait is going to make it all the better, more meaningful.
For such a small message, the tweet manages to make a spectacular reveal. Not only did Saga create yet another song suite like their first groundbreaking experiment GEMINI, the latter half of this nearly twelve minute suite makes use of an idea that Saga had been holding on to for over ten years. What was the long-incubating idea? A melody? A sound texture? A technique?
沙我三昧！╰(*´︶`*)╯
I can only imagine, and am so very excited to find out, in time.
But for the moment, patience ♪♡
August 29th, 2021.
Thank you for 17th theatre
While I do think that GEMINI is a work that each person has an emotional attachment to, it is, as you might expect, an album with particularly deep significance for ALICE NINE.
It’s unclear whether it will surpass GEMINI
However I get the sense that the time has come
Where we must create an opus that wholly reveals
Everything that the band is.
August 31st, 2022.
Although a year has gone by,
It’s unclear whether it surpassed GEMINI, but
I created a song suite this time that approaches twelve minutes in length with an idea that just about surpasses GEMINI jammed into it
The latter part of the song suite is an idea from over ten years ago