"Then the Morning Came" is a line from a song off the new record titled "Below our Feet".  The whole record circle's around the idea of  losing the ones' we love in death and coming to that place where all seems lost and unbearable and then the "morning" comes.  There is the undeniable hope we all feel with the birth of a child, finding love, or something as "common"  as the sun rising. The songs I wrote for this record are celebrating the hope I found in watching life move on past the loss and finding great happiness in being able to start over each day.

 Q:Where and how was the new album recorded?

A: The album was recorded at Crazy Beast Studio with Ben Durrant who is also our electric guitar player.  We try to record each song live...and that is maybe why this record took so long.  We all have families now so we couldn't go away for week in a barn and drink whiskey till we thought we sounded good. Recording this album was especially great for me because I finally got over (most of) my self-doubt in the studio.  I finally had a talk with myself: "you chose to be here because your making a record that will be sold to the public-so sing the song, get the job done in the best possible way and stop acting like you don't know what to do with your voice."   It was a 8 hours here and 10 hours there and then we wouldn't record for another month.  Ben was using microphones from the former Soviet Union that were smoking up the booth I was in and throwing sound effects in and fuzzy pick-ups over acoustic guitars and vocals.  It was experimenting and learning in the best possible way.  Many of the songs were taken from a batch of a hundred takes: where we tried the song a different way each time and we picked the best out of the batch.  We brought a horn section in and Michael Rossetto back in with his banjo and then we had a record.  It was slow but creative and very cooperative.

Q:What is different about this album from your first 2 full length records?  In the past Alexei and I would bring songs to the band that were pretty much finished but with this record the band helped shape the songs in their beginning stages.  I am also a very different person than I was when I released Find Your Way Home or Casting the Bones... and I think that is true for the rest of Roma di Luna.  It reflects greatly in our music and how we perform; we aren't afraid anymore.