Also, finally sat and listened and watched the Idles album. Man! It’s like a fever dream! Really challenging in the abstract songs. The ballads are gorgeous! I love that every album of yours sounds so wholly different from the previous. Now I wait for that folk/recipe colab with Toth! 😁
Time...funny thing...that back a little over a month ago was bingeing ELO albums as there were a few I had missed, (somehow!). I discovered a 44 year old album I had not heard before, (Time by ELO of course), and have had it on replay mode for over a month, speaks to how music can be timeless, even though the Production of the album is steeped in the tech of 1981. That said, the album was originally meant as a double album concept, (but truncated for the eventual release),about someone thrown out of their time of 1981 to 114 years into the future and wants to go back because its a cold existence with no heart. Perhaps written as a cautionary tale by Jeff Lynne using the musical tools of the future as it was in 1981. In recreating a mix using a surviving track list note, I revel in how fresh it sounds. Pop prog melodies to die for. Time standing still. Just over the weekend, I walked into a local record shop that is playing this album randomly. That isn't just serendipity. It's Time folding in on itself like a beautiful origami sculpture made of wind trying to whisper in my ear. The construct of time by us as "sentient" beings is perhaps both miraculous and tragic all at once. We are a slave to our clocks, our calendars and our perceived mortality as dictated by the ticking of the clock, (as Pink Floyd lyricist), RogerWaters, said in Floyds song Time,
"And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death"
If we could really master the art of the now, perhaps immortality is right there in our hands.
The urge and push by outside factors to fill every waking minute with information, Productivity, chores, emails, correspondence, information gathering, news, noise, even music.....etc. It's all too much sometimes. Real silence is something I don't think the human animal really remembers...and might be afraid to.
Couldn’t agree more and well put. The animal knows silence in a way that we probably did once, yes… I really loved those ELO lyrics too, I’ll have to get on that album. Thanks Joseph!
Favorite lyric of the album, “Though you ride on the wheels of tomorrow, you still wander the fields of your sorrow.” An absolutely perfect couplet IMO!
Incredible! I’m having a listen to the new album now. Watched the animation at school pick up. Music and art transport us and yours does it better than most! 🙌
Also, finally sat and listened and watched the Idles album. Man! It’s like a fever dream! Really challenging in the abstract songs. The ballads are gorgeous! I love that every album of yours sounds so wholly different from the previous. Now I wait for that folk/recipe colab with Toth! 😁
Time...funny thing...that back a little over a month ago was bingeing ELO albums as there were a few I had missed, (somehow!). I discovered a 44 year old album I had not heard before, (Time by ELO of course), and have had it on replay mode for over a month, speaks to how music can be timeless, even though the Production of the album is steeped in the tech of 1981. That said, the album was originally meant as a double album concept, (but truncated for the eventual release),about someone thrown out of their time of 1981 to 114 years into the future and wants to go back because its a cold existence with no heart. Perhaps written as a cautionary tale by Jeff Lynne using the musical tools of the future as it was in 1981. In recreating a mix using a surviving track list note, I revel in how fresh it sounds. Pop prog melodies to die for. Time standing still. Just over the weekend, I walked into a local record shop that is playing this album randomly. That isn't just serendipity. It's Time folding in on itself like a beautiful origami sculpture made of wind trying to whisper in my ear. The construct of time by us as "sentient" beings is perhaps both miraculous and tragic all at once. We are a slave to our clocks, our calendars and our perceived mortality as dictated by the ticking of the clock, (as Pink Floyd lyricist), RogerWaters, said in Floyds song Time,
"And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death"
If we could really master the art of the now, perhaps immortality is right there in our hands.
The urge and push by outside factors to fill every waking minute with information, Productivity, chores, emails, correspondence, information gathering, news, noise, even music.....etc. It's all too much sometimes. Real silence is something I don't think the human animal really remembers...and might be afraid to.
Couldn’t agree more and well put. The animal knows silence in a way that we probably did once, yes… I really loved those ELO lyrics too, I’ll have to get on that album. Thanks Joseph!
Here is a link to the best reconstruction of the double album, though of course I am working on one as well! https://youtu.be/DSRL2oOh6OM?si=cR68gVguh3C0ggR5
Favorite lyric of the album, “Though you ride on the wheels of tomorrow, you still wander the fields of your sorrow.” An absolutely perfect couplet IMO!
Incredible! I’m having a listen to the new album now. Watched the animation at school pick up. Music and art transport us and yours does it better than most! 🙌