interconnectivity

today i started to attempt to explain the relationship between the music and its meaning, i'm probably going to update this lots of times

Concept and outline

A six track EP that progresses from a simple acoustic set up to a full electric band with glitch rhythms.  Each song is structured individually to include some progression.  The Ep itself will progress from track to track in the same manner as a concept album through the instrumentation and themes (within the lyrics and the mood).

As the narrative theme becomes more abstract and all encompassing the music becomes less organic as it is overcome by technology.

Throughout the album there are several recurring themes in the lyrics, the quotations in italics show one of those themes - water.  The tide, the sea and the ocean, rain, flow and fog.  Throughout the EP this theme represents several things but the main one is this intrinsic relationship between constancy and change, the great settle of masses of water filled with rippling detail and movement.  

Track Listing

Track 1 – Bacton Shore
bacton shore is no more and that i can't ignore

Bacton Shore is a song that introduces a thought process that rids of restriction, attachment and language.  The opening song describes the EP itself through the story of a town of people that disappear, like the music eventually does in the final track.  Through a slimmer metaphor of decree, which isn’t realised without an overview of the entire EP, the song will start a thought process that progresses, and yet remains constant throughout. 

Track 2 – Tzoots
i'm standing in the rain, the rain

Tzoots uses the relationship of two people to address issues of restriction, willingness, causality and change.  Tzoots highlights how character’s perceptions create opposing views, what effects they have and how they can change.  One character lives an alternative lifestyle that is difficult to attain because of societies rules and regulations.  The other character starts to judge this lifestyle negatively before finally appreciating its benefits declaring in the final line 'you're the one that makes me feel alive'.  The music reflects the mood of those characters and describes, along with the lyrics, the progression and blending of their relationship.  The blurring of the characters in a penultimate, discordant section of the piece releases to a seemingly enlightening experience that is soiled finally by the songs aggressive rock motive that represents the constancy within change as the listener is reminded of earlier in the music.  The separate vocal sounds on the recording will represent the the characters and their merging together. 

"One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us." - Philip Zimbardo          

Track 3 – Drift 
the fog wont let her see past the tide

Drift uses situation to discuss nature, tranquility, mindfulness, attachment and ‘freedom and restraint’.  A narrator uses the idea that opposites are equal and interrelated using the concept of a traveler trapped in a stale state of mind.  After much chopping and changing, the  song ends by quoting the beginning but with a chord progression from later in the song representing the idea that the cycle has a linear property more like a spiral (change within constancy and vice versa).

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."- Baruch Spinoza

Track 4 – Wash 
let it rain, so ink is dripping off my page

Wash then accepts the propositions of the previous songs and moves on to concentrate on mindfulness, perception of time and language, openness and tranquility.  Wash repeats a chorus that suggests all has already happened but has an always varying musical foundation that indicates, again, the change within constancy.  This character has opened up to the power of the mind and allows the idea of the equality of opposites and the limitations involved in language to be relaxing.  There is a repeating chorus that has a different backdrop but the same melody each time.  Like the verse in Drift and the main riff in Tzoots this represents linear circularity.  

"I don't believe that our will is "free" but I do believe it is possible to give up the illusion that it is. We can still live a moral and fulfilling life without believing in free will." - Susan Blackmore

Track 5 – Rail n Stile
it's just flowing down the drain

Rail n Stile uses abstract phrases, repetition and warps in tempo to hint at thought beyond language and consider causal relationships, time and togetherness.  ‘It is the drain’, a looping lyrical line represents not only the interconnectivity of all and the change within constancy but also the release of a draining thought processes through a dissonant tonal structure that releases to openness (but unlike in Tootz, ends with some clarity).   

"The frame itself thus becomes part of the premise system.  Either, the frame is involved in the evaluation of the messages which it contains, or the frame merely assists the mind in understanding the contained messages by reminding the thinker that these messages are mutually relevant and the messages outside the frame can be ignored." - Gregory Bateson  

Track 6 (unwritten)

Sounds and made up words over an arctic musical landscape ends an EP that concludes mindfulness beyond the realms of language can unlock a door to a tranquil understanding.  The song will dissipate into nothingness, as track 1 anticipates, through an ever increasing sonic filter.   

"Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor from no cause, does anything whatever ever arise at all anywhere."  -  Nagarjuna