A little back story from MCC on Passiflora, Subvision and "Savantgarde" x
"In the summer of 2007 an album called ”Passiflora” was recorded in Linköping, Sweden. It was to be the second full length album by the band Subvision, lead by Tobias and in which Martin and Simon were members at the time. The album had ten songs, most of them written solely by T, some co-written by M, and one track even had an old riff written by former Subvision bass player G. However, one of the songs - "Savantgarde” - was written solely by M, but as it didn’t quite fit the sound of MCC at the time, it was added to the Subvision repertoire. Safe to say - we had a lot of things going on at the time. Lots of ideas, lots of cross-pollination. But so it was, that soon after the recordings of ”Passiflora”, Subvision disbanded. It is time- and mind consuming to be in 2-3 ambitious bands at the same time. It was then decided that the newly recorded album would instead go under the name of ”Tobias Forge & Magna Carta Cartel - Passiflora”, but that idea was soon scrapped as T was also part of MCC at the time, and what was thought to become a synergy effect combining the names instead became stress, migraine and meetings with us not knowing were one thing started and the other ended. The album was then simply named ”Tobias Forge - Passiflora” and promo CDs were sent out to a vast range of record companies in hopes to land a deal. No luck. To this day, ”Passiflora” is still unreleased. The promotional CDs once sent out to labels has since become quite the collectors item amongst @/thebandghost fans and all types of Gossip Professors in the field. When finishing writing songs for ”The Dying Option” M wanted to use ”Savantgarde” - the unreleased song recorded in 2007 that was just laying around on an album that was not, and maybe never will be, released. Said and done - a few alterations were made; the new version would have a slower pace to it, and where acoustic guitars driving the old version, Juno Pads would instead dress this new recording. Along with some alterations to the arrangements of the chorus and cutting out one of two breakdowns, it was finally completed and released as you can hear it on ”The Dying Option”
