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On air with: Dan Deacon, a friendly big man full of existential agitations. His musical art is transformative and convulsive. He (Dan) asks himself heavy questions about why we are beings with different kinds of intelligence, or he dwells on his obsession: death, the fragility of life, the nothingness of existence. Every now and then he contrasts this with the intensity of the moment lived, almost as if to become aware of the fact that we rarely become aware of what happens around us.
I'll take Sat By a Tree as an example, the first single from this new endeavor of his. We find the main ingredient: the meaningless existence and the fleetingness of living, but also a certain participative observation of the conscious moment as a threshold to deep reflection. I'll rephrase it so I understand better. Basically, Dan sits next to a tree, the universe around him expands, and he cannot help but think about how short life is.
Fresh but never trivial, it is imbued with a sense of urgency to embrace the surroundings instead in the second single: Become a Mountain. Exclusively a keyboard-piece, with arpeggios that create ethereal and nebulous atmospheres. A significant contrast between the neurotic piano and the subdued, calm singing.
The album is varied, the Baltimore musician is a free spirit, mixing psychedelia with minimalist classical, offering no references, and I won’t either, because I don't understand a thing about electronics.
Like a somnambulist exploration of a senseless reality, the days pass lazily in similarities and Dan is shattered: he seeks salvation in natural elements and in a certain romanticism. The best composition for me is Weeping Birch, the skeletal intertwining of the synths refers to something higher, unattainable for the average person. The final crescendo is cosmic dust that comes into contact with the atmosphere.
Long live those who struggle to live.
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