Biography
On 15th September 2009, Kingdom of Glass released their debut album Other Side of Elsewhere, with downloads available through Amazon, Nokia and iTunes with physical CD distribution through Amazon.
The Other Side of Elsewhere is a broad collection of songs relating the pressures and strain on today’s, self-inflicting society. From paranoia, mental collapse and domestic violence, through global warming, political unrest, greed and prejudice. However, the Other Side is also an album of hope, vision, defiance and survival. Of having the strength to swim upstream and forge own way - the plight of the little man uprising. That sparkly feeling in a relationship and a warm cuddle in the morning.
Musically, guitar melodies dance an entangled tête-à-tête, unifying into captivating hooks and solos above a rich fusion of arena-sized rock and lush cinematic soundscape - pushing technical and compositional boundaries to incorporate elements drawn from classical, alternative and electro-tinged indie.
Originally meeting in High Wycombe during their late teens through the formation of a three-piece Electronic / Industrial band, David and Lloyd grew and tuned their song writing, recording and gigging experience through the nineties. Following a break as each member pursued family life, both were reunited through the internet mid-2008, re-kindling their passion for producing the creative music that had been dormant over previous years. While both have been touched by tragedy and death along the way, the songs are also a by-product of today’s information driven society - where any experience is just a click of a mouse away or streamed real-time into the home.
Where and what is the Kingdom of Glass? “It’s really a metaphor for escaping today’s pressures into an alternative reality – a portal or looking glass into a different time and space”, mused David. “As the ‘multimedia’ generation, we love the whole movie and gaming experience. Lloyd’s lyrics are intense and always tell a story. Like a film score, we wanted a musical vehicle to allow our stories to journey through and explore any subject, from fact, fiction or fantasy. We didn’t want our imagination to be confined.”
“We looked to create something that wasn’t an output of today’s somewhat formulaic and sterile music industry. Rather, songs that would evoke emotions and get people thinking. I sometimes get feedback that the songs are a bit on the heavy side,” recalls Lloyd, “but that’s me – never able to stick to the boy meets girl format. But I think that the scope of the production works well. The expression ‘bring on the tuba’ kept cropping up as it seemed that we had used every other sound at times”
The full, live band line-up, comprising: guitars, drums, keyboards and string quartet, is currently rehearsing for upcoming shows in 2010. Watch this space!
Kingdom of Glass is also halfway through writing and recording their follow-up second album, “Killing Jar”, which is due for release mid-2010.
So here we are in 2013!
And that tricky album, the third!
We are working to finish Digital Sun, hoping its out by march this year!
The line up is growing with A drummer and Bas player soon to be conformed, but for know we have put up Circles, Yes it's a new direction but then if you don't move on you die!
We are as I write this getting quite a bit of radio play, in the u.s and are hoping to break the u.k.
For a preview, please visit: www.myspace.com/kingdomofglass
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