The Quality of Mercury | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: I love it. That is absolutely epic. That is the

0:03 Speaker 1: quality of Mercury. The track is called Radi eight and

0:06 Speaker 1: we are going to talk to the man behind that

0:09 Speaker 1: that project in just a moment. But welcome everybody. We

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0:14 Speaker 1: Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of

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0:28 Speaker 1: contact and Fosho archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday,

0:31 Speaker 1: November twenty nine, twenty twenty five, and let's bring in

0:36 Speaker 1: showing us via Microsoft Teams Jeremiah Rouse from the Quality

0:40 Speaker 1: of Mercury. Jeremiah, are you there.

0:43 Speaker 2: Good morning, Matt. Thanks for having me on.

0:45 Speaker 1: Absolutely it's wonderful to have you. I really really love

0:49 Speaker 1: I love everything you're doing here with the quality of Mercury.

0:51 Speaker 1: I love the sound. It's just epic. It's so it's

0:54 Speaker 1: so big, and the way that track, the way radiate,

0:56 Speaker 1: the way it ends is so cool. You got that

0:58 Speaker 1: that really long sustain on that guitar that just seems

1:02 Speaker 1: to go on and on and you feel like eventually

1:04 Speaker 1: it's just going to kind of fade out, but then

1:05 Speaker 1: there's that little thing at the end that it kind

1:08 Speaker 1: of seeks up on you. It's just so cool. I

1:09 Speaker 1: really but I listened to the full album and I

1:11 Speaker 1: love the whole thing. It's really really good. So congratulations

1:14 Speaker 1: on that.

1:15 Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much, and thanks for the kind words.

1:17 Speaker 3: You know, it's a it's a love of the art

1:21 Speaker 3: and it's something that I've been trying to really push

1:24 Speaker 3: for it in getting this sound for a long time now,

1:27 Speaker 3: and I'm really happy with the way the album turned out.

1:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So the album is called The Voyager,

1:32 Speaker 1: So what can you tell us about this? Obviously, I

1:35 Speaker 1: mean I feel like there's I feel like there's a theme,

1:38 Speaker 1: like there's a story here. But tell us about the

1:40 Speaker 1: album The Voyager.

1:44 Speaker 3: Well, you know, the album itself, it kind of explores

1:51 Speaker 3: the idea of longing and needing connection basically always you know,

1:56 Speaker 3: wanting something more or this search for something more grand

2:01 Speaker 3: or fulfilling in life, whether that's like a spiritual connection

2:05 Speaker 3: or human connection. But basically overall theme of the album

2:09 Speaker 3: kind of conveys that idea.

2:11 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was reading too that. You kind of tell

2:15 Speaker 1: me if I have this right when you the way

2:16 Speaker 1: you approach these songs, is it kind of like each

2:19 Speaker 1: one is a movie theme or or I'm sorry, not

2:22 Speaker 1: a theme, but a scene in a film. Is that? Yeah?

2:24 Speaker 3: You know what, I'm a very visual artist when it

2:27 Speaker 3: comes to the music, So like when I put things together,

2:30 Speaker 3: when I write songs, I kind of write a story

2:33 Speaker 3: that I could see, you know, being filmed cinematically and

2:37 Speaker 3: little short stories.

2:38 Speaker 2: Basically.

2:39 Speaker 3: You know, I come from a film production background and

2:42 Speaker 3: I watch a lot of sci fi stuff, and then

2:44 Speaker 3: that's kind of like my impetus to put these things together. So,

2:48 Speaker 3: you know, I would you know, if I had money

2:50 Speaker 3: in time, I would love to put like little short

2:52 Speaker 3: films together for all the songs. But that's kind of

2:54 Speaker 3: how I approach the music and the writing.

2:56 Speaker 1: Okay, No, that makes sense given your background. So are

3:00 Speaker 1: you currently working in film?

3:03 Speaker 3: I yes, well, not film, I'm managing audio video production company.

3:09 Speaker 1: Oh excellent.

3:12 Speaker 3: It's for a good portion of my career I did

3:15 Speaker 3: film production mainly a lot of corporate stuff that worked

3:19 Speaker 3: on you know, music videos and commercials and some independent

3:23 Speaker 3: short films and stuff like that. But my bread and

3:26 Speaker 3: butter is in the corporate realm and that's kind of

3:28 Speaker 3: what I do now as I manage large events and

3:32 Speaker 3: provide the av support for large events.

3:35 Speaker 1: Oh excellent. That must be an exciting field to work in, too,

3:39 Speaker 1: because as technology continues to evolve, I mean, you probably

3:44 Speaker 1: never stop learning, right, You're probably constantly evolving in what

3:47 Speaker 1: you do, and it's got to be I mean, it's

3:51 Speaker 1: got to be just an amazing time to have a

3:52 Speaker 1: career in your field. I would think, well, I enjoyed

3:56 Speaker 1: a lot.

3:56 Speaker 3: The one aspect that I really enjoys being able to

3:59 Speaker 3: travel a lot. So I mean that my job takes

4:01 Speaker 3: me to a lot of places. But you know, being

4:03 Speaker 3: immersed in the new and upcoming technology is also really cool.

4:08 Speaker 1: You know.

4:08 Speaker 3: It's it's hard to keep your finger on the pulse

4:11 Speaker 3: of everything because technology is just increasing so rapidly, and

4:14 Speaker 3: there's always a new gadget out and by the time

4:16 Speaker 3: you master one thing, it's obsolete.

4:20 Speaker 1: No doubt, no doubt. You're obviously very busy and you've

4:22 Speaker 1: got a lot on your plate, so I'm curious because

4:24 Speaker 1: I know that there was a was it a nine

4:26 Speaker 1: year gap between the first album that you did Transmission?

4:31 Speaker 1: Is that correct?

4:33 Speaker 2: Yeah?

4:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean with my career and the way I

4:35 Speaker 3: travel and family, you know, the music unfortunately is more

4:39 Speaker 3: of a hobby and you know, it takes the back

4:41 Speaker 3: seat to life at this point. So I try to

4:44 Speaker 3: create when I can and record when I can. I'm hoping,

4:47 Speaker 3: you know, to keep up the pace a little bit

4:49 Speaker 3: better than I have for the past nine years now

4:51 Speaker 3: with my kids being older and whatnot. And yeah, but

4:54 Speaker 3: it's it's, uh, you know, it's it's a great.

4:58 Speaker 2: Creative outlet for me.

4:59 Speaker 3: I have to do it, but sometimes making the time

5:03 Speaker 3: to do it is just very challenging.

5:05 Speaker 1: I would imagine that can be challenging because you know,

5:07 Speaker 1: you're probably day to day, you've probably got all these

5:11 Speaker 1: ideas in your head right for songs, and you just

5:13 Speaker 1: want to you know, you want to be able to

5:16 Speaker 1: find the time to actually record them. Yeah, I would

5:19 Speaker 1: imagine that's I would imagine that's hard in a way,

5:22 Speaker 1: but I mean a good problem to have, and that

5:23 Speaker 1: you've probably got tons of ideas. You strike me as

5:26 Speaker 1: someone who is constantly thinking about this stuff. But then

5:29 Speaker 1: to find the time to actually record them and really

5:32 Speaker 1: and to really do it right, you know, the sound

5:35 Speaker 1: that you achieved. I'm also very curious, and I'm a

5:38 Speaker 1: little bit of a recording nerd and audio engineering nerd,

5:41 Speaker 1: so I'm just curious about your process because you really

5:45 Speaker 1: achieve that sort of I think, I use the word

5:48 Speaker 1: epic coming out of that song. I mean, it's just

5:51 Speaker 1: you've got such a big, full sound. What is your

5:56 Speaker 1: process like in terms of recording?

6:00 Speaker 3: Well, you know, thanks, you know, thanks again for the

6:02 Speaker 3: kind wordas I appreciate that. It's you know, I guess

6:08 Speaker 3: I really base what I want to do on the

6:10 Speaker 3: sonic like landscape. I do want to create these lush,

6:13 Speaker 3: you know, big sounding landscape, so that's kind of the

6:16 Speaker 3: priority when I when I record. But my process is,

6:20 Speaker 3: you know, I generally start, you know, noodling around with

6:23 Speaker 3: some type of rhythm section on an acoustic guitar or

6:27 Speaker 3: an electric guitar, and I and then you know, from that,

6:30 Speaker 3: I kind of get the hook or the chorus part

6:32 Speaker 3: of the song, and then I have to build it

6:34 Speaker 3: or out around that. It's probably ninety nine percent of

6:37 Speaker 3: time how I start writing a song, and since I

6:40 Speaker 3: play by myself. You know, a lot of times when

6:43 Speaker 3: I'm recording, I may have only ever played that guitar

6:46 Speaker 3: part once or that you know that thing one time only.

6:49 Speaker 3: It's not like I'm a rehearsing band or something like that.

6:52 Speaker 3: So I kind of build it as I go, and

6:55 Speaker 3: then you know, just kind of crafted in the box

6:58 Speaker 3: with effects and whatnot. I have a general idea where

7:01 Speaker 3: I want to go with things, but there's a lot

7:02 Speaker 3: of nice surprises that happened along the way.

7:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, I would imagine. I mean, do you sometimes find

7:08 Speaker 1: that what you end up with at the end of

7:10 Speaker 1: it is significantly different than sort of your initial idea,

7:13 Speaker 1: your initial concept.

7:15 Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say probably most of the time it

7:17 Speaker 3: ends up being quite a bit different than the initial concept,

7:21 Speaker 3: just because you know, the happy accidents happen and you're like, oh,

7:25 Speaker 3: that that sounds different than I thought, but it's really good,

7:27 Speaker 3: so let me go with it.

7:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, that must be exciting when that happens, And is

7:33 Speaker 1: it correct? That is it all you?

7:34 Speaker 3: Like?

7:35 Speaker 1: Do you have any collaborators at all, any guest musicians

7:37 Speaker 1: or do you do everything yourself?

7:39 Speaker 3: So I do everything myself, and I basically program some

7:45 Speaker 3: basic drum beats with some software, and then when I'm

7:48 Speaker 3: all done with the you know, recording process, I'll have

7:51 Speaker 3: somebody actually play real drums and record drums for me. So,

7:55 Speaker 3: oh okay, for this is my second record, but for

8:00 Speaker 3: each record, that's that was my process.

8:02 Speaker 2: I wrote, recorded all.

8:04 Speaker 3: The instrumentation around some program drum tracks, and then I

8:07 Speaker 3: had the drum tracks replaced by somebody who can actually play.

8:11 Speaker 1: Oh. Interesting, Yeah that makes sense because I was thinking

8:14 Speaker 1: as you were saying that, you know, when you mentioned

8:15 Speaker 1: programming the drums, I was sinking, Wow, these drums they

8:18 Speaker 1: sound amazing. But but so you have is it the

8:21 Speaker 1: same drummer on each track all the way through or so?

8:24 Speaker 3: Yeah, for this record it was one drummer. I actually

8:29 Speaker 3: connect with Mario Quintwit. Yeah, Mario Quintero from the band Spotlights.

8:33 Speaker 1: Oh okay.

8:33 Speaker 3: He also produces and mixes, so he recorded and you know,

8:41 Speaker 3: played the drums for all the songs, and he did

8:43 Speaker 3: the final mixing of the record, which I'm super happy with.

8:46 Speaker 3: I would not have gotten to you know, where it

8:49 Speaker 3: is now without Mario's involvement.

8:51 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it sounds incredible. So he wasn't involved in transmission.

8:55 Speaker 1: I assume he was not it was not. Okay, okay, Now,

8:58 Speaker 1: how did you come to work with him? Is he

9:00 Speaker 1: someone that you just know through the industry or I've been.

9:04 Speaker 3: A big fan of the band Spotlights for a long

9:06 Speaker 3: time and then you know, I've been I'm the guy

9:10 Speaker 3: that reads all the record jackets and all that stuff

9:11 Speaker 3: and credits.

9:12 Speaker 1: Same And I had.

9:13 Speaker 2: Seen that he had done drums for.

9:17 Speaker 3: A band called Machines Learning way back when, which I

9:21 Speaker 3: liked it, and so I know he was at one

9:25 Speaker 3: point he was promoting his audio mixing business or it's

9:30 Speaker 3: Audio MQ, and I just I connected through him, I

9:34 Speaker 3: think through his website, asked him if he'd be interested

9:36 Speaker 3: in working on the project with me.

9:38 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, wow, no, that's fantastic. Yeah, Like I said,

9:42 Speaker 1: the whole thing, it just it sounds really really good.

9:45 Speaker 1: Before prior to Quality of Mercury, had you ever been

9:48 Speaker 1: in a band a full, like normal sort of working

9:52 Speaker 1: situation in a band.

9:55 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, for a brief period, I was with

9:58 Speaker 3: some friends and we had though you know, we called

10:00 Speaker 3: ourselves an emo band back in the late nineties early

10:03 Speaker 3: two thousands. Yeah, you know, we had played a handful

10:09 Speaker 3: of shows throughout a year and we really enjoyed it.

10:13 Speaker 2: It's just tough being in a band.

10:15 Speaker 3: I would love to be in a band, but you know,

10:19 Speaker 3: different personalities to work with. Everybody's got a different work ethic.

10:23 Speaker 2: And I enjoyed it a lot. I found to be

10:26 Speaker 2: a bit frustrating at times.

10:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody, I wish I could remember who it was,

10:32 Speaker 1: but somebody was on the show who was a solo

10:36 Speaker 1: singer songwriter who had transitioned from being in a band

10:39 Speaker 1: to just doing a solo thing, who said something about

10:42 Speaker 1: something like, when you're in a band with three other people,

10:45 Speaker 1: it's like being in a relationship with three other people

10:49 Speaker 1: who are also in a relationship with three other people.

10:52 Speaker 1: And it's just it's so difficult. And I know from

10:54 Speaker 1: my own experience too, because you know, if you're in

10:56 Speaker 1: a band with several people, everybody's got you know, you've

10:59 Speaker 1: got varying levels of commitment and uh vision in terms

11:03 Speaker 1: of where you're going and and you know, sometimes and

11:06 Speaker 1: it's not anybody's fault, it's just you know, kind of

11:08 Speaker 1: how it goes. But it can be it can be

11:11 Speaker 1: very difficult, you know, and especially too you're someone with

11:14 Speaker 1: with your commitments and your schedule. I'm sure it's it's

11:17 Speaker 1: just easier, you know, to be able to do this

11:21 Speaker 1: on your own and to uh and and to be

11:24 Speaker 1: in control of everything and not have to check with

11:26 Speaker 1: anybody about you know, Hey, are you available to play

11:29 Speaker 1: this show on this state at this venue? Oh? No,

11:32 Speaker 1: you're you can't do that day? Okay, I guess we're

11:34 Speaker 1: not playing that show.

11:35 Speaker 3: You know.

11:35 Speaker 1: That's the kinds of things I would go through when

11:38 Speaker 1: I've played in bands, and and it's it can be

11:41 Speaker 1: really hard. But that brings me to the question, so

11:45 Speaker 1: is there any sort of live performance of of any

11:48 Speaker 1: of the work that you've done as the quality of

11:51 Speaker 1: Mercury that you've been able to do. I don't know

11:53 Speaker 1: how that would work exactly without a band, But have

11:56 Speaker 1: you ever found a way to to do any of

11:57 Speaker 1: this live? You know?

12:00 Speaker 3: I keep exploring that I haven't done it yet, And

12:03 Speaker 3: it's not that I don't want to. I think it's,

12:06 Speaker 3: you know, a big challenge to figure out how to

12:08 Speaker 3: do it. There's definitely I got ideas. I have people

12:11 Speaker 3: that you know would play with me as well. It's

12:14 Speaker 3: it's more about finding the time to make it happen.

12:16 Speaker 2: At this point.

12:18 Speaker 3: That's my biggest challenge with my music. It's just finding

12:22 Speaker 3: time to make all this stuff happen. But I would

12:23 Speaker 3: love to do it, and I hope, you know, hopefully

12:26 Speaker 3: I get a chance to do something live at some point.

12:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that would be uh well again, you know,

12:31 Speaker 1: with with evolving technology, there are there are ways to

12:34 Speaker 1: do it, but like you said, you know, time is

12:35 Speaker 1: uh you know, time can be a barrier to that.

12:40 Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you too about the artwork. Now,

12:42 Speaker 1: you created this yourself, correct the cover for the Voyager.

12:45 Speaker 2: I did, Yeah, I did.

12:47 Speaker 3: You know, using the the AI tools that are available

12:50 Speaker 3: out there now I can get some really you know,

12:52 Speaker 3: astonishing results. But you know, I think it kind of

12:55 Speaker 3: really I was able to achieve my vision of the

12:59 Speaker 3: artwork with with the AI tools.

13:02 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, no, I like it. It looks like it's

13:05 Speaker 1: almost hard to describe. It looks like a spaceship landing

13:08 Speaker 1: in some sort of body of water or river or something, or.

13:15 Speaker 2: A latic alien planet like.

13:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but I like it. I like that, and

13:21 Speaker 1: I really like the colors too. Yeah, it's it's very

13:24 Speaker 1: very cool. How do you feel about I mean, do

13:27 Speaker 1: you have any thoughts about it a little bit of

13:29 Speaker 1: a side street, but it is a subject that comes

13:31 Speaker 1: up a lot on the show, and you're working in

13:34 Speaker 1: areas where you know, technology is, as we discussed earlier,

13:38 Speaker 1: is evolving so rapidly. I mean, how do you feel

13:40 Speaker 1: about the use of AI in all things creative?

13:46 Speaker 3: You know, if you treat it as a tool to

13:50 Speaker 3: you know, enhance your art, I'm all for it.

13:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really torn.

13:55 Speaker 3: You know. I just started messing around with Suno, the

13:59 Speaker 3: audio recordings, and I am blown away with the results

14:02 Speaker 3: that give me. But like, at the same time, I

14:05 Speaker 3: don't I don't feel right using it. Like right, it's

14:09 Speaker 3: kind of cool for inspiration and it's just jaw dropping

14:12 Speaker 3: on what it's doing, but at the same time, it's

14:14 Speaker 3: taking it's taking away that ar street. So ah, man,

14:19 Speaker 3: I'm torn, you know. I'm I'm a bit old school,

14:23 Speaker 3: you know. I like analog. I stay analog, so to speak.

14:27 Speaker 3: And I think, you know, after messing with this AI

14:30 Speaker 3: music generator, like, I had a lot of fun and

14:34 Speaker 3: it's it's been, you know, quite an experience messer with

14:39 Speaker 3: music with this Suno. But I am going to continue

14:42 Speaker 3: to write my songs record them in the traditional way.

14:45 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I think I think that's good. Yeah, it is.

14:50 Speaker 1: Suno is incredible. I always tell people, though, to enjoy

14:53 Speaker 1: these tools while we have them, because the sharks are

14:55 Speaker 1: circling in terms of class action lawsuits all that kind

14:59 Speaker 1: of thing. But not that I think these uh not

15:01 Speaker 1: that I think these tools are going away. I think

15:02 Speaker 1: it's too late to shove the the genie back in

15:05 Speaker 1: the bottle. But still, yeah, it's it's.

15:09 Speaker 2: It's crazy times right now.

15:11 Speaker 3: It's I don't know what the future holds, but it's

15:13 Speaker 3: gonna keep evolving and getting better. But does that mean

15:16 Speaker 3: everything's going to be looking and sounding the same?

15:18 Speaker 2: I don't know, right.

15:20 Speaker 1: Right, yeah, exactly, Yeah, we'll see. You know, the technology

15:24 Speaker 1: it does move. It does move very quickly. By the way,

15:27 Speaker 1: did I see something about do you have a family

15:30 Speaker 1: member who's also on the album with uh doing backing vocals?

15:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, my daughter of Violet, she did backing vocals and

15:37 Speaker 2: some of the tracks.

15:37 Speaker 1: Oh that's so cool. That must be that must be

15:40 Speaker 1: a kick.

15:42 Speaker 2: Yes, she kind of.

15:43 Speaker 3: You know, I wanted to do backing vocals for almost

15:46 Speaker 3: all the tracks and she she did like half of them,

15:48 Speaker 3: and then she refused to do the rest. Oh really, yeah,

15:52 Speaker 3: you know at nine years. You know, a young girl

15:55 Speaker 3: changes a lot in nine years. So when she was younger,

15:59 Speaker 3: she was more interested in help me out, and as

16:01 Speaker 3: I got closer to the end of the recording process,

16:04 Speaker 3: she didn't have anything to do with it.

16:06 Speaker 1: Oh, no kidding, Oh that's funny. No, that must be

16:09 Speaker 1: so cool though, having your daughter on the tracks. Is

16:11 Speaker 1: she I mean, does she have interest in being a

16:16 Speaker 1: professional musician or or what do you what do you think?

16:18 Speaker 2: I don't know. You know, earlier on I thought she

16:21 Speaker 2: she was playing piano. She loves to singing.

16:23 Speaker 3: She still sings constantly, so I think I think she'll

16:28 Speaker 3: have the bug. You know, she's still kind of young,

16:30 Speaker 3: but I think she gets a little bit more into

16:32 Speaker 3: the high school years. I think she's gonna kind of

16:36 Speaker 3: reconsider what she does with music and take it a

16:38 Speaker 3: little bit more seriously.

16:40 Speaker 1: Right right, Yeah, No, that's great, that's that's fantastic. And

16:43 Speaker 1: then so what can you tell us too? I wanted

16:46 Speaker 1: to ask you about these songs because I know Radiate.

16:49 Speaker 1: We opened with Radiate because that's kind of the focus track.

16:52 Speaker 1: As we say, what's what can you tell us about

16:56 Speaker 1: that song? And why is that song so significant to you.

17:02 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I guess for most of these songs,

17:05 Speaker 3: you know, they're all kind of set in a space theme, right,

17:09 Speaker 3: the sci fi space theme, but they're all most of

17:11 Speaker 3: my songs are metaphors for something either it's like some

17:15 Speaker 3: kind of love lost or longing for something bigger or new.

17:20 Speaker 2: And that's kind of, like I said, the overall theme

17:22 Speaker 2: of this. But this particular song.

17:24 Speaker 3: You know, it's it's about this guy who's stuck in

17:28 Speaker 3: this disabled spaceship that's you know, about to explode and

17:33 Speaker 3: he needs to he needs to get out of there,

17:36 Speaker 3: and oft in a distance is a smaller space station

17:40 Speaker 3: that he's gonna try to like kind of use the

17:43 Speaker 3: airlock to eject himself out towards that.

17:48 Speaker 2: Space station for survival.

17:51 Speaker 3: But you know, the tether that he would normally wear

17:55 Speaker 3: doesn't you know, go that far out, so it would

17:58 Speaker 3: be too short. So he's going to be out in

17:59 Speaker 3: space free and he's hoping to meet uh someone on

18:03 Speaker 3: the other side halfway basically, So that's kind of just

18:06 Speaker 3: that story there literally, but metaphorically it's about you know,

18:12 Speaker 3: having all of your options you know, taken away except

18:17 Speaker 3: for one, and you've got to take the leap of

18:19 Speaker 3: faith to move forward and survive.

18:24 Speaker 1: It's relatable. I think everyone's yeah, been in that position

18:27 Speaker 1: or will be at some point certainly. So yeah, yeah, no,

18:31 Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's that's interesting. And then

18:34 Speaker 1: what about in a moment, So at the end of

18:37 Speaker 1: our segment, we're gonna play uh, Ganna made or a Ganymede.

18:40 Speaker 1: How am I saying that?

18:41 Speaker 3: Right?

18:41 Speaker 1: Ganymede.

18:42 Speaker 2: It's Ganymede. Yeah, named after one of the moons.

18:47 Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, Well, and and what can you tell

18:50 Speaker 1: us about that track?

18:53 Speaker 3: Well, that track that's essentially a love story, and it's

19:00 Speaker 3: it's basically about this guy who ort he meets a

19:07 Speaker 3: partner on a like a space station and basically falls

19:14 Speaker 3: in love with her, follows her around, and then he

19:17 Speaker 3: she she's kind of reckless and loose and wants to

19:22 Speaker 3: get off the planet Jupiter and go to the moon Ganymy,

19:27 Speaker 3: which is this ice planet, and and he follows her,

19:30 Speaker 3: but you know, he hates going there and things don't

19:34 Speaker 3: work out, they don't see eye to eye, and then

19:36 Speaker 3: she ends up leaving him. That's kind of what the

19:39 Speaker 3: story is about, and the significance of this track.

19:44 Speaker 2: You know, I think this was this was my initial single.

19:48 Speaker 3: I think this track really captures, you know, what the

19:52 Speaker 3: album is about, and like what the landscape is of

19:55 Speaker 3: the album, and like the journey is of the album.

19:58 Speaker 2: So this is why it was the lead track.

20:00 Speaker 3: It kind of has all that in there, you know,

20:03 Speaker 3: the space, the metaphorical story, plus the sonical landscape.

20:08 Speaker 2: So it kind of laid out what the album's though

20:10 Speaker 2: all about.

20:10 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, it's another great track.

20:13 Speaker 1: We're going to play that in just a couple of minutes.

20:15 Speaker 1: But now, what is uh, what's kind of your future

20:19 Speaker 1: trajectory with this track? I mean, I mean, not with

20:21 Speaker 1: this track, but with with your music, with the quality

20:24 Speaker 1: of Mercury. Because obviously I'm sure you don't want to

20:27 Speaker 1: wait another nine years until the next one. But I mean,

20:30 Speaker 1: do you have do you have plans for the next

20:33 Speaker 1: album or are you obviously in the moment you're focused

20:36 Speaker 1: on this one, But I mean, are you already thinking

20:39 Speaker 1: about songs for the next the next record, or where

20:41 Speaker 1: are you with that?

20:42 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure if I'm gonna do another record

20:44 Speaker 3: right away. You know, I just started recording a new song.

20:47 Speaker 3: I want to release a single, oh, in the next

20:49 Speaker 3: few months.

20:50 Speaker 1: So good.

20:51 Speaker 3: I'm going to do a single, and then I have

20:52 Speaker 3: an idea for an EP that I want to do.

20:56 Speaker 3: Some things that have already recorded but want to recreate,

21:00 Speaker 3: you know, older things that I've I liked in my

21:03 Speaker 3: shelved a long time ago that I want to kind

21:06 Speaker 3: of give new life to and do an EP.

21:08 Speaker 1: Oh. Very nice. Yeah, there's so many different ways to

21:11 Speaker 1: release music now, and so many different strategies you can use.

21:14 Speaker 1: And I think the album format is great for what

21:17 Speaker 1: you're doing because obviously all these songs, you know, there's

21:19 Speaker 1: there's a theme, there's a story here with everything. But

21:22 Speaker 1: but releasing singles is great too. And you know, as

21:25 Speaker 1: soon as the next singles ready, we'd love to play

21:27 Speaker 1: it here and have you back on the show to

21:28 Speaker 1: talk about it, because you know, we really like what

21:30 Speaker 1: you're doing a lot. But No, that's great. I'm glad

21:33 Speaker 1: you're I'm glad you're already working on uh on something new.

21:35 Speaker 1: So that's fantastic. That's good to hear. Jeremiah, where should

21:39 Speaker 1: people go online to?

21:40 Speaker 2: UH?

21:40 Speaker 1: Where's the best place to go to keep up with

21:42 Speaker 1: everything that you're doing?

21:43 Speaker 3: UH?

21:43 Speaker 1: Be it with the quality of mercury or or anything

21:46 Speaker 1: else you want people to be aware of and know about.

21:50 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm most active on Facebook.

21:53 Speaker 3: I'm not real great at social media, but I'm most

21:56 Speaker 3: active on Facebook. If you want to listen to my music,

21:59 Speaker 3: I always try to people to go to band camp first.

22:01 Speaker 2: But yeah, music's available on all the streaming platforms.

22:05 Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, band Camp is a great resource. And yeah,

22:10 Speaker 1: the album is the album is there and it sounds great.

22:13 Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know too. Something people don't

22:15 Speaker 1: realize about band camp is you actually get a higher

22:17 Speaker 1: quality You'll get a higher quality file if you get

22:20 Speaker 1: it from band camp then if you're just say, streaming

22:21 Speaker 1: it on YouTube or something like that. And I've noticed

22:24 Speaker 1: that people don't seem to realize that. But that's one

22:27 Speaker 1: of the reasons that band camp is so great. So

22:29 Speaker 1: I like to direct people there. Absolutely.

22:31 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you know, I have vinyl for sale.

22:34 Speaker 3: Oh you do my first Yeah, my first album. And

22:37 Speaker 3: then there's pre orders for this record, so I will

22:39 Speaker 3: be releasing a vinyl Oh hopefully, I'm waiting. You know,

22:44 Speaker 3: the pressing companies are all backed up all the time,

22:46 Speaker 3: but I'm hoping to have those in hand by the

22:48 Speaker 3: end of December early January.

22:50 Speaker 1: Oh, that is so cool, very cool. Yeah, that's awesome.

22:53 Speaker 1: I love to hear that is. Are you also doing

22:55 Speaker 1: physical CDs physical discs of.

22:58 Speaker 2: No no CDs so it's just digital in the vinyl.

23:00 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's really cool, very very cool, excellent.

23:04 Speaker 1: Well listen, Jeremiah, thank you so much. We're gonna play

23:07 Speaker 1: this track, Ganymede in just a moment. We'll let you go.

23:10 Speaker 1: But like I said, when you've got the next single ready,

23:13 Speaker 1: please come back. We'd love to have you back on

23:15 Speaker 1: to play it and talk about it. And like I said,

23:17 Speaker 1: we're fast fans here. I love your sound, I love

23:20 Speaker 1: everything you're doing, so we definitely want to stay in touch.

23:23 Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate you, Matt, thanks for having me on.

23:25 Speaker 2: It was a great time.

23:26 Speaker 1: Absolutely, we'll talk to you soon, my friend. Take care bye,

23:28 Speaker 1: take care. All right. That was Jeremiah Rouse and the

23:31 Speaker 1: project is the Quality of Mercury and we're gonna play

23:34 Speaker 1: this track. So this was the first single from the

23:36 Speaker 1: album The Voyager, and this is called Ganymede.