Abscondo
I'm an American who has left Seattle and am now living and creating in Eastern Europe (Slovakia). I hope to help you lose yourself and forget your cares, if just for a moment, in my music music and writings. More importantly, I hope to be a friend who inspires you in your journey of self-discovery.
Strangled Into Gray
An anthem about the personal struggle against the forces of conformity.
[ tags: teachers preachers doctors anticonformist ] [ genres: acoustic indie ] [ info: 3:40 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]
Tattoo Angel
A seductive song about a woman whose tattoo is taken as a symbol of her fleeting youth.
[ tags: fun cafe youth tattoo passion carefree ] [ genres: acoustic folk ] [ info: 3:04 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]
Midnight Snow
This is the title track from the album "Midnight Snow". This track is about the pain that inevitably follows many of life's most beautiful experiences, symbolized by the departure of a lover.
[ tags: rain pain love loss snow beauty ] [ genres: acoustic orchestral ] [ info: 3:49 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]
Buyer Beware
A song that celebrates giving in to someone despite the fact that there can be no tomorrow.
[ tags: seduction relationship affair ] [ genres: acoustic indie ] [ info: 5:00 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]
Candle Glow
Intimate, quiet song about those dark, sacred, beautiful nights set to perfect music and candle-light. Candle Glow is about finding the courage to embrace such experiences in the midst of, and despite of, our daily struggles.
[ tags: candle flame intimacy bliss pleasure ] [ genres: acoustic downtempo ] [ info: 4:03 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]
Morning Rain
A melodic song about waking up to a dreary, gray morning of routines and responsibilities. "Morning Rain" celebrates our individual struggles against those necessary aspects of life which tend to leave us forgetting to notice life's beauty and inspiration.
[ tags: rain alarm clock work boredom struggle ] [ genres: acoustic folk ] [ info: 3:04 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]
Beneath The Lies
A laid-back, soft, melodic rant against the forces of oppression and the forces against basic human dignity. A reminder that we all want the same basic freedoms and we all know what's right.
[ tags: human freedom rights dignity respect ] [ genres: acoustic indie ] [ info: 2:30 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]
Footprint
An ambient yet rhythmic song about how frustrating and sickening it can be to understand the damage we are doing to the planet as cancer-like humans.
[ tags: green environmental anticonsumerist ] [ genres: acoustic ambient ] [ info: 3:41 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]
Dreamscape
A melodic rant against ignorance, conformity, and oppression which suggests the importance of finding one's own voice and space in the world.
[ tags: anticonformity antioppression anticorporate ] [ genres: acoustic folk ] [ info: 3:37 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]
Sentiment
[ tags: sentimental memories longing ] [ genres: acoustic folk ] [ info: 4:17 mp3 ccbysa2.5 ]
The Abscondo debut solo album, "Midnight Snow", is comprised of dark, acoustic music which is accompanied throughout by bongos, timpani drums, hand-clapping, maracas, tambourine, and even foot-stomping.
"Midnight Snow" is a deeply personal concept album. The first 5 songs (which can be thought of as Side A) are "Midnight Snow", while the last 5 songs (Side B) are to be thought of as "Morning Rain".
Side A, "Midnight Snow":
Track 1, Strangled Into Gray, is an anthem about the struggles of everyday life. The frustrations expressed in Strangled Into Gray provide the spark for everything that is to follow. Every note on this album was intended as a response to this daily struggle. The next 4 tracks take us to those candle-lit evenings full of intimacy, inspiration, bliss and beauty. How intense and magnificent life can be under the right influences! But what is the meaning of these moments in relation to the struggles and mundanity of yet another tomorrow in the world as it actually exists?
Side B, "Morning Rain":
After the candle is blown out at the end of Track 5, the beauty symbolized by a midnight snowflake is replaced with the grayness of a rainy morning. The difference between the lightness of snow and the heaviness of rain is only a few degrees in temperature. The idea of this small change in temperature is meant to symbolize our small changes in perception. "Morning Rain" reminds us that "Midnight Snow" is not and cannot be a permanent state; that, symbolically, the next morning will come and we will have to deal with its unpleasant and harsh realities. Track 10, "Sentiment", closes the album with the idea that perhaps what matters is not life's peaks or valleys, but the contentedness of a life well-lived with that one special person who is worthy of spending one's entire life with.
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