This is a personal picture I’ve been working on here and there for a bit over a year.

It’s a fanart piece for an album called ‘Uncle Raven’s Super Happy Funtime Carnival, The Ballad Of Lost Hallow Act 2′ the last album in a series of operas/musicals (I kinda don’t know enough about music to be able to tell the difference well xD) set around the fictional city of New Albion, made by Paul Shapera.

It’s a bit hard to describe New Albion in a nutshell.

It’s a story that starts as steampunk, and ends as cyberpunk. It has a religion around constructed dolls with souls, a literal search for heaven (that is not very pleased about it), the love story of a sheriff and a werewolf lady, a mermaid that swims in vodka in a bizarre carnival, a radio host that fights his show’s characters for control over the narrative, an albino tribe deep in the city tunnels, an AI that reads thrashy sci-fi magazines and dreams of having adventures with their siblings… the list goes on.

I can’t even express how much I love these operas. The music and singers are as absolutely fantastic as the stories. I think I might have listened to the album I made the pic of about 932847309485 times and will probably listen to it 932847309485 more.

If any of this sounds like it might strike your fancy, you can hear them all (and buy them, too) here: https://mochalab.bandcamp.com/ (Dolls of New Albion is the first one in the series).