Ground Control Touring

What is it about a bonfire? 

The flames are charismatic and dance, the sparks billow and flicker off.  But what is beneath?  In smoldering embers that stay alive until the next morning there is a slow endlessness.  The flashing whims of light and dark pass by without stopping, but the glowing coals beneath the action offer a new perspective.  Something approaching permanence in the relentlessly impermanent world.

In all these years of making up songs, the aim has always been to just say the thing as directly as possible.  Name it, don’t decorate.  Nonetheless, what has come out has often appeared as billowing clouds of metaphor and half-formed feelings.  Then in the shadow of close real death in 2016 I made a couple of records that managed a little better to speak directly.  The terror in opening up so unreservedly to an abstract public was blown away by the…