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Swirl Season
Gateway 3: The Forbidden Odyssey

Album US 2018 on Swirl Season label
Hip-Hop/Rap

“Gateway 3: The Forbidden Odyssey” released on June 27, 2018. The cover art, a portrait of Swirl Season designed by a graphic artist, Stetson Fields, the Executive Visual Designer for Swirl Season's music and brand since 2015, was titled as “The modern Mona Lisa” by researchers. The album become one of the first album covers to display an Italian Renaissance styled halo on a human figure since the 1850’s. The halo became nearly extinct when a new era of art known as Realism arose. His second project landed 8 tracks that were executive written and engineered by Swirl Season in the span of 5 months (January of 2018 to May of 2018). The album is an honest recollection of his sudden broken lifestyle which he called “forbidden.” The album was written and recorded during the most depressed time of his young life and was the result of heartbreak and lead to his isolation from the outside world. It featured emotional tracks such as "Romeo" which quickly became his most streamed song ever and was titled after Shakespeare's famous tragedy, "Romeo and Juliet", and "No Way," which was a written as Swirl Season giving himself personal advice about how to deal with his struggles. It was rumored that he went through several weeks of only one small snack per day when recording the album. It is also believed that he had not eaten for nearly two days while shooting the photo for the album's cover art which explains the pose, blank look on his face, ideology behind the portrait, and title of the album. He never addressed the rumors publicly but people close to him have confirmed the theory. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/gateway-3-the-forbidden-odyssey/1403878969

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