This is my second album, released in September 2022. If you want to support me, you can stream/purchase this album on one of the platforms listed here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/vladcrisu/moonlight-parasite-delightThis music came to be, as a result of the suffering I endured for a few months at the beginning of 2022, when our building was infested with bed bugs (and we didn't even know that's what it was, until about a month later when it was announced in a notice at the entrance in the building). I was the unlucky preferred victim of the bed bugs (my mom was actually the first one, she was staying with us at the time, but she returned to her home after a few weeks and was thankfully spared from then on). I've read that in many infested homes, not all people are bitten equally, most of the times the bugs seem to prefer one or two of the people in the house. Even so, only some people get very bad reactions to the bites (such as my mom and I), others seem to only get minor bite marks similar to moskito bites (which was thankfully the case for my wife and daughter). But in my case, the reaction was allergic, every new bite location on my body got swollen, red, painful and very itchy, similar to bees' stings. Once I inevitably scratched them because of the itch, they got even bigger, more swollen, more painful and they accumulated liquid inside them, and they would then break and cause further pain. I had big parts of my body covered in these. I think that's enough for you to get the point 🙂A few more thoughts about the writing and production process:I had many strong feelings to deal with during this period of time, and they all found their way into the music, although I think this time it's a bit different from the previous album. I am fortunate enough to be able to pour these feelings into music, to let them out in this way, they only real way I can deal with them. There is strong hate in there. Fear. Horror. Intense pain. Anger to last for months. But there are also good things in there for balance. For instance, a good night of sleep after many painful sleepless nights can feel like heaven. Spraying my house with deadly poisons to kill the bastards felt damn good. And so on.Once again I pulled all the stops and got as intense as I could, but I also experimented with contrasts and layering and building up the tension.I usually start developing musical ideas with a few instruments and then start adding more and more instruments as I get more and more ideas. I like to do whatever comes to mind, so everything goes, practically, which is why, for instance, in my previous album, I changed the musical genre in the middle of the track, or do unusual combinations of instruments or sound effects like in movies. There's that again here, but taken to a new level, I think. However, as I progressed, I noticed that somehow all instruments were acoustic instruments, I hadn't added any synths yet, and that remained until the end. Not sure why, it just came to be that way.Some of the ideas I remember exactly how I got, but many others are a mystery. I keep relistening to the whole thing to see if it's perfect, and in many instances I just can't even remember creating those melodies, harmonies, solos, transitions, rhythms, it feels surreal. It's like they came from nowhere.