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Turning the Triad

by The Knight Owls

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    Experience our sophomore concept album the way we intended. The jacket contains deep conceptual photographs that represent the tracks on the album. Lyrics for each track are included in the jacket artwork. Features Chris Kaplan's "Fire Trine".

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1.
Three in One (and One in Three) 04:58
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2.
So Strange 13:55
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3.
Just Another Day 04:57
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4.
The Triad 16:39
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Devil on the Highway 05:08
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6.
The Wind 04:56
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7.
Here's to You 01:54
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about

Turning the Triad is an album that puts forth philosophical ideas regarding emotions and truth that I have spent my entire life pondering about. The main concept behind the emotional aspect of Turning the Triad is that there are Three Primary Emotions, much like the Three Primary Colors. The Primary Colors (Red, Yellow, Blue) make up every color there is, has been, or will be. An infinite number of combinations. The idea of Primary Emotions isn’t different at all. The Three Primary Emotions being Love, Hate, Pain/Heal (Pain/Heal are absolutely dependent on each other. One can’t be without the other. Two sides of the same coin. One simply is going up, the other down) create an infinite amount of emotions that we all as conscious minds can experience. Three emotions that bind us all together. Something we all have in common with each other.

The Three Primary Emotions are in an endless cycle, a Triad, and throughout existence we drift through these emotions, and descendants of them. Just as we can drift through these emotions, we can become stuck in parts of the Triad as well. I’m sure this has been something we all have experienced at one point of another. Overall, this is an individual process. Different people’s Triads will “turn” differently, “individually”. No one ever feels exactly like anyone else, the combinations are just close. The descendants of the Primary Emotions are just close.



The best way for me to describe the concept of Truth in this album is with a metaphor. Imagine a giant empty room that could fit everyone in the world inside, facing inward at the center of the room, while standing in a giant circle. Inside the center of the room is a box labeled “Truth”. For the sake of argument, everyone in the room can see the box perfectly, despite the fact it would be clearly impossible to do so. No matter what way you look at this, and no matter how you approach it, the conclusion you will come to is: No one see’s truth the exact same way. Whether people’s views of Truth are extremely close together, or polar opposite, it will never be seen the exact same way as another. This creates individuality. The idea that there are no right or wrong answers. There isn’t just Black and White, but instead…Black, White, and Shades of Gray. Black, White, and Shades of Gray fit into a Triad as well.



Turning the Triad also talks of what is for an individual, is nothing less than that of true, and we can’t ignore it. People feel sad, and put on these masks with fake smiles on, trying to convince themselves and others they are feeling something they are not. We have True reactions to things as individuals. It’s part of who we are, and we shouldn’t deny it. Our Truths are so for a reason.



Turning the Triad reflects all of these philosophical and conceptual ideas, and each track is written about or inspired by one or more of the Primary Emotions.



My intentions and hopes for those who listen to the album are that they transcend this reality for the time they experience the music, and when they descend they will taken away something beneficial to themselves and those around them.



“It’s okay we’re all together.

It’s okay we are all one.

Love is just part of a cycle.

It will never be done.”



-M. Check

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released August 11, 2012

Matt Check, John Check, Manny Pena, Ron Wagenhoffer

Additional Instrumentation: Christopher Bruno, Ben Picarello, Frank Yanni, Troy Anderson, Tony Jones, Danny Faraone, Christopher Andrascik, James Miller.

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