This is a song taking place in two places in time.  The opening lines being of about obvious regret of mistakes made. The chorus stating this regret then and the eventual feeling of emptiness after successfully purging the memory of someone in the past. 

HOLLOW

Transcendencies:  Inspiration/Joy/Hope/Victory the chorus of Transcendencies was written while in flight.  Inspired by one of my favorite authors and a short lived romance. Down below there is trouble, strife, anger, weakness, and a dark influence that is ever-present.  It is like a virus that is spread subconsciously in a populous.  Down there, there is no space for people like us.  We rise above.

TRANSCENDENCIES

 Habitually, my approach to writing starts with guitar (more piano of late).  With ‘Rewiring’ I wanted to take a different approach.  I wanted to start with the rhythm.  I made a tribal beat to drive this one through.  Something simple and brooding.  Some of the feel comes directly from Peter Gabriel’s ‘Come Talk to Me.’  This one is a little more intense. I wanted that feel of an approaching/already arriving army.  As if it came in the night and one was awoken by the sound of their marching outside the window.  A rude and foreboding wake up call. 

REWIRING

A collaboration with my good friend Alex Adams (brilliant engineer!).  We started with a haunting electric piano melody that he wrote.  From there we built the song part by part bouncing back and forth off each other.  Still one of my favorites; the song is one of a child-like incomprehension and yearning for a constant that is seemingly no longer present.  The narrator is confused and hurt that he/she is left to fend for him/herself alone without understanding

SO FAR AWAY

Written on the piano, this song is a reflection on unrequited love….both sides of the coin represented.  Keeping lights low so that the reality of a situation can be altered to a make believe situation where one is with the one with whom he/she’d rather be.  On the other side: the prospect of it never occurring again keeping the low lights prevents the images from haunting later as a reminder and pain of rejection by the one you love...

I wanted to write a punk style song. Very major tonality and crunchy guitar with a driving backbeat.  I also toyed with a different style of vocal melody which i wrote on piano.  It’s a quick, but fun tune.  The structure and progressions, though simplistic, to me, are perfect

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