a dusty biography
So in working on the current web overhaul, and with the release of music finally coming towards the end of this week, I’ve been taking a look at the various bits of ‘bio’ material written up over time to see if any of it is still useful. It’s an interesting process, because new, more concise info blurbs need written, but it leaves you wondering that while what’s old may no longer be representative, how much of it is carried forward into new and revised incarnations?
In the spirit of this undertaking here is something written in a rare clear-seeing moment in hazy 2007. In a lot of ways it still captures the core desire (for lack of a better term) of the project that in many ways still holds true, even if it’s a little overwrought; as well as what doing it meant on a personal level when it first emerged as an idea, even if it would take some time yet to form more tangibly.
This is the part about purpose and meaning. This is where we make a sales pitch. This is what makes you either believe or turn the page. That decision is up to you. We offer only ourselves, but not a packaged version of ourselves. We tire of image heavy culture that lacks real ideas and imagination and pretentious bands that sound alike and yet claim to be a revolution. We’re sick of surface meaning. Irony for the sake of being ironic, self-conscious stabs at nothing; it is meaningless and exhausting. We never want to hear another shoulder shaking anthem about going out on a Saturday night again. What happened to the poets? Art is a catalogue of human trials, tears, love, evil, misery, illusions, delusions, imaginations, high hopes and bitter failures. It is beauty and ugliness existing in the same frame. It is duality and unity simultaneously. It is not a way to get laid after the show. Of course, this in itself is pretentious, but we don’t want you to buy into anything or dress like anyone. We want you to think. To reach deep into you inner recesses and find that the universe exists as much there as it does all around you. We want you to know that we think music can facilitate this no matter what we look like. If you don’t like this now, come back later, maybe you’re mind will have changed. Also this will continuously evolve. What is presented now is only the skeleton, the meat will form over time. Be open-minded, apathy serves no purpose.
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