It all started with some jamming, many YT channels host lots of nice "guitar backing tracks" (rock, blues, funky, ...METAL off course!).
At one point I landed on some "synthwave playlist" -- not intended as backing tracks, just a playlist for listening. But since the tracks had few if any "lead" lines, it was straightforward for me to play guitars on top. I kept cherry-picking from such playlists and enjoying improvising with my guitar on retrowave, synthwave, etc..., meanwhile experimenting with my sound (playing through some very versatile Neural DSP guitar plugins).
At one point I had enough "audio-notes" and "recurring-improvvisations" which were no more improvvisations though, to think that those ideas could also turn into real songs!
But wait... . That stuff "standed" on already published material from other artists. So I made some experiments: write new original material from scratch to replace the "background" keeping the guitar layer as it was for a while, actually turning the material into original music; reasonably I had material for 3 or 4 songs (*).
The thing worked, but my skills in keys/synths/piano harmony composition and arrangement are by a large amount not sufficient to render credible results!
So I asked my dear long-time friend of mine Romeo, who is very good at piano and music theory, to work with me on this material.
In a while we had much more material than initially available (*) and the chance publish, say, not just a single as Alex Kult but an LP as a band became viable.
And here it is: STAR PRIME.