Vancouver-based Trailight, launched by photographer-turned-musician Omer Cordell, is currently work on a new album, The Primitive Mountain. An audio teaser for the album is available below; the complete tracklist is as follows:

"Open Doors"
"Sentient Beings Pt. 1 - The Dim Future Of Our Distant Past"
"Sentient Beings Pt. 2 - All That We Are"
"We Are The Ocean"
"Frail Human Form"
"Passer By"
"A Thousand Years"
"Navarino"
"Beyond The Rubicon"

Cordell has checked in with the following update:

"Every Monday until the release of the album I will post a write up about each song explaining the meaning behind the lyrics and how I came to write the music for it. Of course, I do encourage everyone to have their own interpretation of the songs based on their own experiences."

Today I'll start with track 1: 'Open Doors'.

The song started off as a bass composition I was working on which ended up as the guitars on the track. Often when I sit at home and play through my pedalboard I come up most of my ideas while using different pedals that produce a certain ambience. This one in particular was inspired by a chorus and a delay pedal with harmonics that I played over the notes. The original idea is somewhere on my YouTube channel.

The song starts with the chorus and the question: 'Have we been here before? Will we all come back once again?' touches on the subject of reincarnation. Our entire lore of ancient wisdom hints at the belief in such an event and more recently, a couple of well respected scientist proposed an actual theory of the possibility of how this may occur."

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Devin Townsend Project drummer Ryan van Poederooyen was asked to record the drum tracks for the album. He checked in with the following update:

"Here is a song from an album I recorded a month after recording the Z2 double album in 2014. The band is called Trailight, it has many guest appearances from other well know bands; guys like Dave Padden (Annihilator, Terror Syndrome), Jed Simon (Scar The Martyr, ex-SYL), Christofer Malmstrom (Darkane, Non Human Level) and numerous other guest appearances including my close friend Conan Freeman. Here's a sneak peek into the sound of this record. I really enjoyed playing drums on it and dug the tunes! Hope you guys dig it as well.... got some flashy drum parts in the middle of this tune Good times! Enjoy!"

Cordell recently posted a 30 minute behind-the-scenes look at the production which can be viewed below. For information on Trailight go to this location.