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Why Is Ships Fly Up Instrumental?

 

I have great respect for bands that include vocals in their music. The work of some of them, I believe, will stay in my heart forever. When I started my musical journey over ten years ago, I didn’t really realise that there were bands playing instrumental music at all. I only associated instrumental music with virtuoso guitarists. That’s why the bands my friends and I put together in our youth always included a vocalist.

 

However, on some subconscious level, when I immersed myself in creativity alone, I wrote instrumental music. And only later, as if following a certain stereotype, I’d start thinking that I’d still have to find someone to record vocals for my tracks. Without realising it, I was getting closer and closer to understanding what my soul was asking for.

 

One day I recorded an album, but before releasing it, I asked myself: “Maybe I should stop resisting my inner desires and leave it the way I want it? After all, I mostly write instrumentals anyway — so why doubt it?” Something just clicked inside me. I let my music simply be what it is. And it was, and still is, purely instrumental.

 

Then fate introduced me to post‑rock — and I realised, “Damn, I’ve been on this wave almost from the very beginning — I just didn’t know there was a whole genre of such music.” Talk about being a dinosaur, right?

 

Overall, I immediately felt a weight lifted off my shoulders. I no longer had that feeling of being constrained, or that I was making somehow “incomplete” music just because it lacked vocal parts. Plus, my experience as a composer in the gaming industry — which I’d already been doing for some time by then — mostly involved writing instrumental soundtracks, which is exactly what I did. And it was this work on soundtracks for games and various other projects that largely laid the foundation for the kind of music I make today. My soul led me to create Ships Fly Up, and I’m very happy about it.

 

I still love music with vocals. And I don’t rule out that one day Ships Fly Up might collaborate with a vocalist. However, among all the albums I’ve released, only the track “You Can Change Everything” features vocals — and even there, the voice serves more as a narrator than as vocals in the conventional sense.

 

We’ll see what the future brings.