Two People In A Room

Every now and then time vanishes. Because the present is far too important to be postponed to a later date, because what’s happening in this room is too beautiful and surreal to be left unattended. Time vanished because one becomes so aware of the surroundings that our mind suddenly embraces new dimensions and perception planes. Thoughts become irrelevant and time collapses into a singular entity that moves in unison with our unconscious desires. The room we’re in then disappears, the walls crumble, the ceiling vanishes. We’re no longer in that room, we’re no longer in our body. Hands moves on the guitar despite our best effort to keep them still, creating this thick and raw sonic lava we didn’t know existed before. Shapes, objects, moods, atmospheres all emerge at the same time to create new realities, different realities, better realities. Hold this pedal, sustain this tone and a new room takes shape. This time, our dreams and our fears are hanging on the wall. Repeat this melodic motif and it’s our soul that’s held bare in front of us. Notes congeal into drones, we could follow them in their endless undulations and lose ourselves once again. We could also stay suspended in time, waiting for this beautiful chord change to take us elsewhere, comfortably numbed by the pulsating resonance of the room. There is someone else here, telling us stories, wonderful stories – some say life-affirming stories. We should listen, but will we? Notes bounce off delay pedals, they echo and reverberate, like fragile emotions escaping from intoxicated and hypnotized minds. Something imperceptible happens and these notes suddenly fill the room, make themselves heard and accumulate to become a gigantic crescendo that shakes the walls off and unsettle our strongest beliefs. Again this floating drone, both calming and foreboding. A picture – it’s been so badly kept we can’t recognize it anymore. And suddenly it happens, things come back to us. This story we thought we’d forgotten takes a whole new meaning, we finally understand why and how. In the background, guitars keep looping and become all the more abrasive and enveloping. It feels like a much needed remedy to numb our growing pain down. No way to escape now. It’s not a picture but a looking glass. It’s not a story but the raw reality of our life. Time to decide, time to disappear. Do we need this shadow anymore? How did it happen? It’s time to find somebody to walk with us along the path less traveled. Because it won’t last forever.

Two People In A Room is both brilliant and essential. A profound and visceral experience – not for the faint-hearted.

- Pascal Savy for Fluid Radio

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