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Release 7: The Edge of the World
Good morning, dear lovers. My internet all but disappeared this week, as my share house collectively busted our allowance and forgot to pay the previous bill (hey ho). However, it's times like that you realise simply how much you rely on the fixtures of pop culture in everyday life. Of course, this project is distributed online so I share my time almost equally between staring at web browsers and staring at my guitar. But communication-wise, a lot of bits of my life were shut down by the internet (sorry to the people I haven't emailed back yet).

Perhaps it's that mild isolation that encouraged me to work on 'The Edge of the World'. A song that is about isolation and working yourself up into confusion because of the things you can't see. But also, it's an idea I've avoided for a while because it is musically a bit more confronting. Not a nice familiar 4/4 pop rhythm, but a stilted, stop-start affair where I tried to create a musical environment that reflected the general confusion of the song theme. I actually had this musical idea a while back but didn't work on it because... well... it's easy to talk yourself out of ideas that are a bit more out there, in the face of so much successful straight ahead pop music. So in this case, mild isolation has cut me off from influences that may have made me rethink this release. It encouraged me to work this idea through and put something out, which, I suspect, may be one of my more polarising works.

A couple of quotes I find interesting which relate to this:
“A good artist should be isolated, if he isn't isolated, something is wrong.” Orson Welles
“On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.” Janis Joplin
“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.” Henry Miller

If I could come close to living up to these fine people if would be a good thing. At least for the moment, I must admit I'm a bit more nervous about putting 'The Edge of the World' out than any other song for this project thus far.

And it's nice to have my internet reconnected. xx

A couple of quotes I find interesting which relate to this:
“A good artist should be isolated, if he isn't isolated, something is wrong”, Orson Welles
“On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone”, Janis Joplin
“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness”, Henry Miller

If I could come close to living up to these fine people it would be a good thing. At least for the moment, I must admit I'm a bit more nervous about putting "The Edge of the World" out then any other song for this project thus far

And its nice to have my internet reconnected xx