Tyler Kamen-Cornucopia Modus
Imagine every stage of your life is a video game. Tyler Kamen can write the soundtrack to your life in a jiffy. This talented songwriter exploded our minds to fragments with his superior album, Bamboozle Tesseract last year. He ups the ante and the level fittingly, with Cornucopia Modus. The thrill is ours, comrade. If you’re ever in a need to write a rock epic, I cannot point you in any direction but Tyler Kamen’s. His songwriting slices open parts of otherworldly exploration with surgeon like ease. You travel on a magic carpet with a mage, understanding a whole new aspect of divinity. If Bicentennial is his opening, you’ve just put the helmet on (fans of 3 Body Problem, wink wink). Gearing up, the opening song is like listening to Rush on an acid trip. You’re subjected to the exciting theme song, the guitars flowing melodies taking you through the scenic divinations to be witnessed eventually. Underneath is the third track, with instrumentals that tease the aspects of time travel. There are ridiculous melodic runs, sudden shifts and dramatic changes. Tyler Kamen balances the ride with each song exploring one aspect of a fantasy world with his raw talent and budding excitement. You’re in every part of the journey with him, while witnessing in awe the kind of instrumental genius he portrays. The Vegetable Tribe introduces you to a new species, an entire interaction with creatures that have a purpose. When he draws back the curtains, you can imagine the entire picture-a puzzle you’re making as he introduces you to the pieces. If you think songs like Frequency 9 are interludes, you’re a silly worm. Tyler Kamen designs these as B-rolls that can entice you to visualise the next background. As far as rock epics go, I cannot name one artist that would delve into the detail of what he is making with such care. Write a book parallelly, and we have an audiovisual voyage for fans to obsess over for years to come. The tones he chooses for songs like Jinx Loon give you the mystery and veil the depth of the whole story. He weilds Chekhov’s Gun, and he's using the trigger carefully. When you’re taken on journeys like Road to Lizard House, you can express the twists and turns. You might exhaust yourself telling your friends, so might as well host a listening party for Cornucopia Modus. Rarely do you find a gem like this where so much work is put with so much fervor. Each album of Tyler Kamen’s is a whole new world, and being a part of it is a greater than any movie you can watch. A spinoff of Dungeons and Dragons is the only feature I can visualise for this brilliant work. Check out more of his albums and his collection of work on his Spotify. Make sure you follow Tyler Kamen for more epics that will drop soon! Till then, I’ll be taking a nap in Gnome City.
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