Category: Art Blog

“I Said to Godhead:

The first rule of radio is that dead air freaks people out, makes them change the station. When there should be sound, and is none, is uncomfortable. Are you even listening to me? You can almost hear people straining their ears to hear you, to catch one note echoing back in reply to a prayer, a plea, a please. Do you even have a sound, a vibration? Pure silence is impossible to hear because our ears make a faint noise when listening—it is our eardrums humming a bit. Do I sound crazy because it’s the truth? It’s true—we can’t hear silence because our own bodies are so loud, our biology reminding us we’re not rotting, not yet. You must know that our ear drums continue to vibrate for a while after we’re dead. Is that you, finally?”

“This album was recorded in the Spring of 2020, the compositions on this album began as a series of Lent meditations on the spiritual life.”

“At a pause from daily life
          When all grows quiet and still
When you have brought yourself to a peaceful pause in the seeming doldrums of this life
          And beginning to see things as they truly are
There comes a clamoring…”