It's been a long time coming..

The first instrument tracks for this album were recorded over three years ago (before Margin of Safety even existed) by me and Mika. Since we started we've been trhough four different recording hardware (computers, digital recorders, microphones, amps and all-sorts periferials) and that in the end resulted in a varying sound quality throught the tracks.

That in count and all other overlapping projects, lack of faith and pure lazyness, the completion of the work kept getting delayed indefinitely.

There were times when each one of us suggested that we scrap everything we've recorded and start from scrach. If we had done that, the album would have been finished at least a year ago. But that wasn't realy an option considering all the work we had already put into it.

Two tracks got dropped from the album (one of them will be re-recorded for our next one and I promise, that one will NOT be three years in the making), one short song was composed and recorded a while ago.

All in all Dream Traps & Black Cats turned out to be a different album than the one we started recording, and that might be a good or a bad thing. But here you are, our first album that due to circumstances came out fourth.

This is what it used to be like..

All music by Margin of Safety
Lyrics by Jari Schroderus

Mika Hiironniemi - Drums, percussion, MIDI-tracking, recording, mixing, poducing

Petri Koivistoinen - Bass guitar

Jari Schroderus - Guitars, vocals, MIDI-tracking, harmonica, co-producing, coverimage