Ball of Wax 42 Songs: Mark Schlipper – The Meaning of Life

The Luna Moth‘s Mark Schlipper returns to Ball of Wax as a solo artist with his take on “The Meaning of Life.” The song  is an exercise in somber minimalism, with a repeating minor key figure played on an acoustic guitar for the first two and half minutes accompanied only by ghostly, buried vocals. In the final minute of the song, guitar fuzz seeps in like a swarm of mesmerized bees, enveloping, but not derailing, the main guitar part. As the lyrics are indiscernible, I’m not sure exactly what meaning the song posits, but the sounds suggests the horizons of stillness and hypnotic dread also found in the music of Earth and La Monte Young.

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2 Responses to Ball of Wax 42 Songs: Mark Schlipper – The Meaning of Life

  1. Mark S says:

    The indiscernible lyrics …

    “Life is short
    And pleasures few
    And holed the ship
    And drowned the crew
    But o! But o!
    How very blue
    the sea is.”

    Written by Clive Barker in Abarat

  2. Louis C says:

    Nice work Mark. I feel powerful when listen it every morning.
    Thanks for sharing.

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