A road trip to a place to belong.
Into Now will release on December 31 at many digital music providers.
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As per last time, the Bandcamp release will be the superior release. Bandcamp will come with a pdf file with liner notes and a richer look at the story. To sweeten the deal, there’s a second mix of “Here In Now” that sounds a little closer to the song in my own head.
My thoughts and motivations.
Belonging.
Belonging is human, beautiful, normal, and vital. Community, charity, affection, and even purpose can spring from our human need to belong.
When our need to belong is abused, that beauty is perverted into hatred and atrocity.
I had just finished reading Herman Hessse’s Siddhartha and Clive Barker’s Imajica. Both are different yet impressive books about self discovery.
I was watching pain compound on pain exponentially. I saw a common root of this pain. People need to feel safety, emotional connections, and belonging. These natural feelings have been capitalized on in destructive ways.
Into Now came from observing this. To get the negative out off the way: Tyrants of Humours exist as the story’s nemesis. They appear in Hannah & the Tyrants, “Feeding off her pain.” Here, they abuse the people in their own circles. Everything must be what the Tyrants say it must be. The Tyrants appear again in the first third of Watch Out: “We better f*** him up. That loser ain’t one of us, no other reason why.” Here, the Tyrants make it clear to their own people that abuse is the proper remedy when dealing with outsiders. The net sum is that you don’t want the Tyrants to call you an outsider. Especially not after they’ve noticed you.
The unrecorded song for the Tyrants of Humours asked: “Who will you hate so you can belong?” The answer, hopefully, is nobody. You can not hate them without hating a part of yourself. You deserve better.
The Tyrants will lay claim to any purpose, then abuse that purpose to serve themselves. They are the school bullies, the abusive partners, the indignant embezzler, and the scornful fundamentalist .
I honestly had a panic attack singing the first third of Watch Out. My brother spent about two hours on the phone talking me down.
Now to the human, then to happier thoughts.
Hannah, Nick, Aaron, and Sylvia represent four reasons a person may feel alienated. They know the kind of pain that many of us know: Bullies, abuse, isolation.
These four characters received a all from “The City.” It’s a place called “Now” found at other end of an empty unnamed highway. Their choice to get on that highway is their choice to leave the worst behind.
The bulk of the album is those four saying their last goodbyes to old pain. They have chosen to heal. They have chosen to make this journey. They have chosen camaraderie and acceptance.
The tagline is: “A road trip to a place to belong.”
This is my love letter as of 2018. Let’s love this moment. Let’s love ourselves, imperfect and beautiful.. Let’s extend that love outward. It can only be a simple choice and nothing more. Choose to love.
Know, with joy, what love you are worth. You are.
Know, with calm, that your neighbor deserves that love. You can’t love them without loving yourself.
Let’s have that future.
Know that the Genuine You deserves happiness and, if necessary, healing. It’s a journey, and it’s a journey you can make. You deserve that and so much more.
With love,
Andrew
Arcanasphere
He has worked as a level designer for a small online video game, as the grim reaper in a haunted house, and traded web design for concert tickets and tattoos.In years past, he could be found performing improvised comedy or stage magic in the south side of Austin, Texas.
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