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