"Ascending Stairs" to be released

FMT are getting ready to release the next tracks "Ascending Stairs" and "Ascending Stairs (Downtempo)" after Gary Rees' fine mastering. TM writes the notes like this:

"I heard a phrase "E-F#-E-D#-C#..." when I was sleeping just after a dream (which I don't remember). After I woke up in that rainy morning, I opened a new blank sheet on MuseScore, a notation software to write it down.

"It seemed to me that it well reflected my sentiment at that time, which might be an effect of COVID and the rainy season but might be something else. It also seems to me now that the sentiment I had was quite common with what is in our track called "Far From The Way" as well as Russian music.

"It must be ordinary to put chords on it, but we are FMT. I identified the scale (or mode) as A or F# Ionian, developed it into a longer phrase, and added a 6-beat pattern of a dyad phrase on the same scale like ascending stairs. The title originated from this. Thus, no chords are specifically designed at all in this track.

"The dream phrase is not necessarily the only central melody whereas the ascending phrase was equally central. The ascending one hears something accompanying but in fact we treat it as something much more central and it's developed more complexly on the 12-strings guitar.

"Usually, I come up with an idea that features quirkness or uniqueness... something interesting that doesn't seem to exist. But it was not the case this time. "