In martial arts, a “breakthrough” occurs after many hours of practice, diligent focus and effort culminate in a moment of sudden understanding. A sudden leap that, in turn, opens up a new set of skills and abilities to be explored, until another plateau is reached and continuous effort must again be applied. It’s like leveling up in an RPG but, unlike an RPG, it’s, like, real man.
This album represents, to this artist, a breakthrough – the tendrils of the evolutionary drive could be traced through the past five years of diligent effort, and a return to Renoise, the Microsoft Excel of DAW’s.
Sometimes, after putting one foot in front of the other for what seems like forever, you look back and realize you are at the top of a mountain. We hope you enjoy the view.
Here’s a preview:
The Past Views the Future:
A hard glance across this vast chasm
Of a quarter century
You look soft, bent,
Irrelevant
Unspooled,
Wherefore art thou, rage? (you fool),
Face like your father’s,
Grim and penitent
Nice shirt, nice tie,
but did you have to forfeit your heart
as recompense?
I will never.
I will burn my soul into 10,000 shades of oblivion and shatter the night
Until all that remains
Is the tattered remnants of a day
Obliterated by a nuclear light
The Future Views the Past:
A look back across an eye-blink
I do miss your face, all angles and broken halos.
You have a daughter now and, oh,
It is a joy, greater than all your rage can fathom.
My friend, you can not know how
The sorrows of life will gather and pool around your
Heart until it suffocates,
So many times
The tissue becomes a scar.
You will.
Only then, in that great empty of suffering
Will you find, (how strange)
That dark, bitter alcove
Has become a vessel
for the light of
love
