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25th November 2024

Brian Guests on the Forthcoming Debut Album by The Deccan Traps

Queen + Adam Lambert bass player Neil Fairclough’s ‘other band’, The Deccan Traps are finally releasing their long-anticipated debut album at the end of the month. The 10-track self-titled album features the singles ’Sun and Moon’ and ’The Great Divide', PLUS the epic closing track ‘Dream Of A Thousand Nights’ which features one Dr. Brian May.

The album will be released on 29th November 2024, exclusively on CD (including digital download) @ www.thedeccantraps.com - a vinyl version of the album is also in the pipeline.

Click here to pre-order now.


On the collaboration, Neil said:

"Brian plays on Dream of a Thousand Nights. We’d written a track with the working title Nothing Can Stop Me, which was the centrepiece of the whole album. It’s a bit of an epic, just over 10 minutes long. At the peak of the track, there is a fanfare which we had planned to play with layered guitars. We could have gone ahead, but to be honest, it would’ve ended up sounding like we were doing a weak Brian May impersonation. There really is only one person who can pull off that type of stuff and that’s Brian. I am massively fortunate to be in a position to be able to ask him".

"At the end of the UK/European Tour 2022, I asked Brian if he would play on the track. He said yes, and a few months later we sent the stems down to his studio where he recorded his parts. When the guitar tracks were sent back, we were utterly, utterly blown away by what he’d done...it had completely transformed the fanfare section into this massive, epic...well, you know what I’m talking about, he’d absolutely Brian-ed it."

"After the track had its initial mix, Brian was coming back to me with little arrangement ideas and production suggestions...by this point, we’re in dreamland because it just made the song better every time. It was Brian’s suggestion that changed the song title to Dream of a Thousand Nights, which is one of the song’s lyrics."