The Past Becomes Present Again

No A.I. – No Loops – No Presets

We are creatures of memory. Memory is a massive part of being human. Happiness, suffering… all tied to memory. Memory anchors us in our pasts. Memory defines our present and future. While we spend a lot of time thinking of the past and the future – so much so it warps our present – none of it is really real as we are using memory which so often is not accurate to fact.

This album is one of my periodic: look back at my earlier stages & styles of composition, only with the abilities that come with time & tide.

As always this is all work by hand. I shouldn’t need to say this but so much of what I see posted online these days is not really unique original work. Even if the music is (well kinda), the cover art and video are clearly not human work at all. This saddens me. I will not do it. Even if it hurts interest. But honestly I do not think that refusing to do the (ever so lazy) AI thing changes my audience behavior at all. I deliberately made the cover art very minimal as a kind of quiet protest – and hopefully an indicator that this is a real work of art at all stages.

There is no video at all this time as I also note that videos on YouTube don’t seem to a) generate activity within themselves and b) lead back to Bandcamp or my site here. I am not saying that I won’t do videos ever again, just that I have other things I can do with my time right now.

The album name came from the track name; which came from suddenly realizing that part of a melodic hook was actually from a piece I made 20+ years ago. The past had made itself present – again. The other titles were assigned at the end as while I understood the concept I was composing within, I couldn’t find names. I considered Google Translate versions of the track name I had but it felt too twee. Instead I jumbled the words around the concept with reference to the feel of each piece.

For the trainspotters: as always, everything here was made 100% in Reason (R13). Nothing from outside my brain or the software. And again, No A.I. – No Loops – No Presets.