Journey to Ranucan: How It Happened

On March 29, 2017, the first album Journey to Ranucan was released. It’s dreamy music that opened up many new things for me. The opening track, The Way of the Heart, doesn’t just start the record — its main motif essentially served as a catalyst, a guide into the journey itself: the journey to Ranucan.

I’ll remember that moment for the rest of my life. The Ships Fly Up project wasn’t fully formed yet — I just had a guitar in my hands and I was playing. And then this motif simply passed through me, through my entire being. I kept playing it over and over again. I even remember tears welling up while I played — I was so caught up in that fantastic flow. And the motif wasn’t even complex. In general, I rarely write complicated music. For me, things are quite simple in this regard: I compose the way my heart tells me, the way I like it myself, the way the music itself perhaps wants it to be.

It seems to me that a composition is something alive. It knows what it should ultimately be like. My task is to try to attune myself to it and let it be itself — so that it can take on musical form in accordance with the image and likeness of its soul, its metaphysical foundation, so to speak. However, it’s hard to say anything concrete here, because this is no longer the realm of reason, words, and logic — but the space of feelings, experiences, and a completely different, unexplored and mysterious side of our lives.

Over the course of two years, three albums were released under the Ships Fly Up banner. Each of them, I’d like to believe, is exactly what it was meant to be. At least, my heart tells me that’s true.

The ships continue their flight. Thank you to everyone on board. And to those who are outside the ship — catch the lifebuoy and climb aboard: there’s plenty of room on the ships.