In July, I did a track on leaving the Goldilocks Zone, which was a sliding-microtonal/polytonal dirge with Godfleshian sensibilities. This one starts where that one ended (which was actually its beginning since I sequenced it backwards), and attempts to move to a less-entropic state. Multiple threads are explored, intertwined, and abandoned along the way, but what is arrived at in the end is almost a farce.
I’m of the impression that we’ve started gradually moving away from the hospitable zone, based on human behavior over the past 12,000 years or so. If the messages cut into megaliths, left buried at Gobekli Tepe (interpreted as a literal or metaphorical Eden gate) at the beginning of that period are any indication, we’ve left the proverbial garden and are in an age of predation. It’s hard to conceive of a zone where life could flourish where it doesn’t self-destruct, but maybe there’s a way. Meanwhile in politics…