System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian has gone back to the studio to start work on his second solo album.
The new record, titled ‘Imperfect harmonies’ will be released mid-year.
The album is expected to be a natural progression from the orchestrated version of the ‘Elect The Dead’ album which was released recently.
"I have been calling the music 'electro-orchestral-jazz-rock' because it has all of those aspects in prominence within the songs," Tankian says. "A few are more stripped down, but the majority of the songs have this huge wall of sound presented in a way I've never heard before. It's not common to have a song that is both electronic and orchestral since one is synthetic and the other organic, but I found a way of meshing a lot of these colors together."
Tankian recorded the ‘Elect The Dead Symphony’ In New Zealand last year. "The making of 'Elect the Dead Symphony' gave me the confidence and tools to create ensemble pieces for orchestra more confidently and effectively than before," Tankian says. "And that became one of the primary colors for this record along with electronic, jazz, and live instrumentation."
More will be unveiled about ‘Imperfect Harmonies’ in coming months.
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