The Deccan Traps self titled album featuring the legendary Sir Brian May From Queen

The album includes songs such as Spellbound, Until You Love Me, Are You Ready To Rock, Beautiful and Dream of a Thousand Nights. 

Dream of a Thousand Nights is the centrepiece of the album which shows that when two opposing sides will not yield, when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object, chaos ensues. 

The song features an epic guitar fanfare and an introspective, bluesy guitar solo played by none other than Queen legend, Brian May. Brian also contributes his voice to beautifully narrate one of the most iconic passages from cosmologist Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot speech at the closing of the song. TDT were delighted to have the words authorised by Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan’s wife and cosmological partner. 

The Deccan Traps always intended for their debut to be a complete piece of work which would include individual artwork for each track and credits in the accompanying booklet. 

Escape Music has the greatest pleasure to announce the release date for The Deccan Traps self titled album featuring the legendary guitarist Sir Brian May of the band Queen on guitar, with 300 limited edition double Vinyl “Side A+B Blue Solid colour and side C+D Snowy White colour” all will be numbered 1-300!

Now both Vinyl and the CD are available for pre-order, you can order your copies from: https://www.the-music-shop.net/

The Deccan Traps project began when Neil F, Lois and John started writing songs together over a decade ago. As Lois is Neil’s sister and now John’s wife, the chemistry was immediate. Between them, they had a shared passion for Rock, Funk, Jazz and Classical music, having grown up listening to everything from Queen and Rainbow to Stevie Wonder and Weather Report, to Mozart and Prokofiev. However, they were writing epic Rock songs and wanted to create an brilliant Rock band with the guys to do the music justice; not only to record but to play live. Only one thing missing… 

Big songs needed a big singer; enter Ricardo Afonso. Ricardo was born in Angola, Africa but grew up in Portugal. After singing in local bands, he made the move to London to take up the lead role of Galileo in Queen’s musical We Will Rock You at the Dominion theatre, London and blitzed the role of Judas in Andrew Lloyd Webbers Rock Musical Jesus Christ Superstar at the Barbican. 

Neil had been the touring bass player for Queen + Adam Lambert since 2011, a position he still occupies today. Through some mutual friends, Neil reached out to Ricardo and following a meeting in a back street pub in London, it was immediately obvious that Ricardo was not only a phenomenal vocalist but also the musical soulmate that they were looking for. The Deccan Traps was born.