R3A The Incredible Journey
Mark Sheeky
2002

Track listing

1. Challenger (4:14)
2. Please Wait (1:08)
3. Superhighway (4:19)
4. Downloading (6:40)
5. Silver Glance (4:07)
6. Kopakaramba (4:26)
7. Loneliness Part II (3:22)
8. Catacombs (5:21)
9. Circle (4:30)
10. Loneliness Part I (1:12)
11. Autumn (2:58)
12. Gaea (4:07)

About this album

The Incredible Journey was composed and recorded in 2002 using the first iteration of Mark Sheeky's custom-designed software, Noise Station. Most of the tracks date from March to May 2002.

The album is less conceptual than Synaesthesia, but still conveys a variety of moods, from the calm Downloading, to the expansive and cinematic Catacombs, which along with Gaea were among my first compositions from the mid-nineties.

Several tracks on this early album were influential on later music. Challenger was re-recorded and used on the later album The End And The Beginning, and this is the first outing of Autumn, a piano-based tune that was eventually released on the album The Twelve Seasons, as well as being the main theme to the game Bool.

A small number of CD-R copies of this album were made with colour laser-printed inserts and sent to music review websites in the early 2000s. This album has never been released on digital platforms.