The Owl - Signalling The Start Of The Unwinnable Battle
from #48 - Split with Hatiyar by The Owl
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This one is fun in headphones and probably inspired by Meshuggah's Chaosphere. This bit follows some lovely clangs mixed with keys/chains being jangled, and I was really pleased with how things switched in this track.
The term 'pyrrhic victory' is a wonderful phrase, coined in relation to the 3rd century B.C. Greek King Pyrrhus who lose a third of his army in winning 2 battles, and was quoted 'If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined.'
I know this is well known, but it is still very interesting... and I named this track as I did in relation to this idea. It's the middle track on my half, and with the titles that follow getting more bleak and apocalyptic, it very much refers to the battle being fought by this vast world's insanely vast population against things they have caused themselves with the mess of the environment, hunger, poverty, violence, bigotry, hate and all the general bullshit that goes on that we are all aware of.
How much longer can we battle against it, before it is our own undoing, personally and globally? If it all somehow gets solved or situations improved, how ragged and out of energy might we be to reach that point?
Thank you, if you read my rambles and details of what motivates my sounds and titles.
The term 'pyrrhic victory' is a wonderful phrase, coined in relation to the 3rd century B.C. Greek King Pyrrhus who lose a third of his army in winning 2 battles, and was quoted 'If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined.'
I know this is well known, but it is still very interesting... and I named this track as I did in relation to this idea. It's the middle track on my half, and with the titles that follow getting more bleak and apocalyptic, it very much refers to the battle being fought by this vast world's insanely vast population against things they have caused themselves with the mess of the environment, hunger, poverty, violence, bigotry, hate and all the general bullshit that goes on that we are all aware of.
How much longer can we battle against it, before it is our own undoing, personally and globally? If it all somehow gets solved or situations improved, how ragged and out of energy might we be to reach that point?
Thank you, if you read my rambles and details of what motivates my sounds and titles.
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from #48 - Split with Hatiyar,
released April 26, 2021
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The Owl Orlová, Czechia
A/V experiments since first DIY tape in 1994
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