STANDING 7/8 COUNT

Circumstance and fate play an equal role in the creation of a single voice. Lucha Libro were no strangers to either, having been born on a mostly deserted, and desert-covered, planet bathed in the constantly tone-shifting rays of a dying star. What had existed beneath the sand was the stuff of legends; the artifacts proving the existence of a former civilization scant and unreliable. While venturing beyond the borders of their isolated town, the quartet happened upon what they believed to be a sinkhole. Further investigation, however, revealed a lost outpost, not unlike their own, buried beneath the sands of time. With the chasm widening by the minute and the grains beginning to clog the homes and businesses of a rough and tumble, long-dead society, all they could grab was a weathered ledger. Within, not seen for centuries, perhaps, was the accounting of a gun-for-hire service. Bounties, kill reports, payments; the story of outlaws, bandits, and rapscallions was beginning to unfold. This was the fuel for what would eventually become a four-album series entitled The Ballad of the Forgotten. The second entry, The Bounty, would remain the most forgotten as it tinkered with strange time signatures and spoken word sections, until recent years when their body of work underwent a reevaluation revolution. Copies of this seminal album are hard to come by nowadays, though not impossible to find, unlike the memories buried in the inspirational ledger.