“Majestic” is the word that comes to my mind when I listen to these tracks, now a full year + after they were played and recorded during the COVID period. There’s so much motion and emotion in the music. There are quiet parts, rhythmic parts, and parts with themes that swell to the heights of being.
In this era, where every rehearsal and every show can be recorded in high quality sound on a phone, potentially yielding a new release practically every minute in this current culture of “singles”, the purposeful creation of an album of music – an intentionally collected body of work – is extremely significant. The artist wants to codify this period of time in their work that bore the music. The artist, indeed we, the artists, want you to hear this album as a whole, composed of individual tracks that are related, representing what we had to say during a period “…where ventilation of space and mind enabled adaptation and survival, and improvisation became life…”. Now this will stand on it’s own as it goes through all time, lasting beyond us.
When you think of it that way, making and defining a body of work – like an album – is kind of a heavy thing – full of effort and responsibility to deliver something meaningful to one’s self and others in the present, that will still deeply move people in the unknown future past our lifetime.
At least, that’s how I look at it. That’s why, Ventilation, our second album, took some time to create.
– Bonnie Kane