Catharine Asaro ’s Modern book Diamond Star follows an interstellar rock star caught between three war refinement . In parliamentary procedure to plug up her novel , and add a musical accompaniment , Asaro had to become a rock Isaac M. Singer .
In a late audience with the Baltimore book and web log wing of the Examiner , Asaro delved into how she resolve to incorporate her late skill fiction novel with a themed rock album . Her finding to rock out has given rise to the Diamond Star Project , a collaborationism between her and Baltimore rock stripe Point Valid .
Diamond Star picks up on strands from Asaro ’s 2001 Nebula - winning novel The Quantum Rose , as minor character Del is kick upstairs to protagonist status for the raw Holy Scripture – the fourteenth entry in her Saga of the Skolian Empire series . Del , a wayward son of the rulers of the Skolian Empire , retrieve his largely successful chase of a musical vocation draws the ire of both his own family and their enemies the rival interstellar empire roll in the hay as the Eubonian Concord . thing only get worse when his concert go take him to Earth , a third refinement that has tense relations with the Skolian Empire .
Asaro join forces with Point Valid , which is composed of singer / guitarist Hayim Ani , drummer Adam Leve , guitarist Max Vidaver , and semi - departed co - founder and bassist David Michelsohn , to turn the lyric Asaro pen for Diamond Star into full songs . The projection finally get into a full “ soundtrack ” for the book . They ’ve been ferment on the album since 2007 , when Asaro first reach Ani in the hopes of register “ The Carnelians ” , one of the novel ’s most significant songs .
Regarding her writing process , Asaro excuse how music has always played a crucial part :
I ’ve always had a close connection to both rock and classic euphony . I make up the write up to music , and it instigate raw ideas .
The process make well , harmonise to Asaro , when she and the band were full collaborators . She detailed how she could only drop a line one special song when , paradoxically enough , Ani started spill the beans it :
Not all the lyric were finished when we started recording . I was also receive hassle with one call call “ Emeralds . ” It was supposed to be done , I did n’t like what I had written . On the 24-hour interval Hayim did vocal for that song , I sat in the recording studio apartment on the floor a few groundwork away and wrote while he peach . So I was literally doing the last rewrite of the lyrics as he recorded them . And finally , they run out . He was also able to look at them and make suggestions for articulate that accommodate his music better . It was very satisfying for me as a writer to work that way , listen to him do the song while his euphony filled the studio .
work on the album has allow Asaro an opportunity to take her erotic love of music to the next horizontal surface . She actually hear how to sing in parliamentary procedure to well write Diamond Star , and she ’s currently take in vocalism lessons and tattle in the Central Maryland Chorale . you may also see her on the coming Diamond Star album , along with a crew of other performers , although Hayim Ani arguably contributed more than anybody , other than Asaro herself :
Hayim and Point Valid wrote a deal of the music for the CD , and I wrote most of the words , as well as music for three birdsong . Hayim also contributed three original compositions , both music and lyrics . He does the vocals on almost all the birdsong . I do sing a bit , a solo predict “ ruby , ” and the female vocal on “ In Paradisum , ” “ The Sound of Silence , ” and “ Sapphire Clouds . ” A fella bring up Michael Belinkie did the vocals for the Carnelians Finale . And Hayim brought in a lot of his friend to do guest section , either subservient or backup vocals . They were all excellent . I care them all . If I had to pick one that stands out the most for me , I mean it would be the violin unaccompanied by Dina Eagle in “ Emeralds . ” It ’s haunting .
you’re able to judge for yourself by checking out the YouTube video recording for their song “ Breathing Underwater . ”
The novel Diamond Star is due out May 5 and can be orderedhere . you may get the soundtrack albumhere .
[ The Examiner ]
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