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premiere: Alone Architect - Faded (feat. Dani Poppitt)

 / Montreal-gone-LA electro artists Jeff Feldman picks some poignant collaborators. Darkness and blood get a moment to break down and reflect with his friend singer Dani Poppitt. Personally, I’m absolutely fascinated by the dreams of death and life and how the two will never be disassociated by the two elements of our experience. Songs, as meditations, on the afterlife have always had resonance with me and maybe you’ll share that emotion with us as you listen to their newest track here.

Hey Mark,

I don’t really know where to begin so I think I’ll begin by saying I think you have something special going on over here at yvynyl.

I just stumbled across it recently and once I landed on yvynyl and started digging, I quickly realized that it was more than just another generic blog.  It breathes, has a pulse and feels alive. Thanks for creating a human, comfortable place to connect to new art!

My name’s Jeff.  I go under the moniker Alone Architect. I make what I’d like to consider to be cinematic, electronic music. I often compare my music to a novel. Weird, right? Or a film. I like to think that in listening to my songs, they take you on somewhat of a journey. That they tell a story. That they’re visual.

I’ve always had a thing for love songs. Not in the sense that I like listening to love songs, but more in the sense that I fell that there are so many of them out there that the world doesn’t need another one.  For example, listen to any pop tune out there and there is some form of love, lust, sex, heartbreak etc associated with them. Now, there’s obviously nothing wrong with love - the actual emotion.  It’s amazing!  It’s probably the best feeling out there.  Loving and being in love and being loved. I love it! Ha! That being said; there are other things to write about as well. So I’ve never written a love song.

Faded is, in a way, that love song that I had yet to write. Myself and Dani Poppitt, my friend and the vocalist on the tune, penned the story from the perspective of  someone who recently died & finds themselves unable / unwilling to leave our physical world behind for fear of losing their true love and never finding them again.

They’re trying to beckon their love to follow them to another plane of existence that they think is better. Closer to the source. So they can transcend together. They basically want their true love to kill themselves, so that they can be together.

Now from our human perspective that may seem pretty messed up. I often find myself wondering if what we think we know, is actually what we know. As a species, I mean.

So much of our beliefs are based upon “laws” that are only viewed as sensical because of our willingness to accept their validity. Even when it comes to science, all these values (numbers, equations etc.) that we use to obtain proof, through scientific equations and formulae, are only true based on our willingness to accept these values for what they’re inherently meant to be taken as. 1 being 1.  2 being 2.  1 + 1 = 2, for example.

Now, I’m not saying I’m anti-science. Far from it. I love science. I guess what I’m trying to say, is that we all have our own ideas of what happens to our consciousness energetically, once we die.  If we retain it and move on to a more evolved and aware state. Or if it just goes back into the flow of it all and who we were, the thoughts we had, the energy we bottled for our briefest of moments in this particular life, explodes into a wave of everything and our individual “souls” or “spirits” cease to be. Or there is a huge possibility that there’s nothing. That’s it.

The truth is, is that no one really knows. We all want to believe that we go on. That there is another dimension where we are going to transcend to, once we depart this physical plane.  We want to think that we’ll still hold strong bonds to those that we loved dearly and the fiercest in this life. That we’ll move on in another life, together as more enlightened beings. Beings working our way to the source of it all. To the light of enlightenment, where we’ll be able to rejoice forever and marvel at how ignorant and naive we were when trapped in our physical selves.

We want to live on, ‘cause, goddamned it, we’re important. We matter.

I wish I could believe that when I die, I’ll still be me, but version 2.0.

That I’ll be with those that I love most in their 2.0 forms.

This is kinda what this song is about.

I wish I could believe that I was important enough to live on after my
body dies.

But I can’t. Because I know enough to know, that I know absolutely
nothing at all. Like Jon Snow. Only not nearly as badass.

Enjoy the tune and please feel free to let me know if you need any more info!

Cheers,
Jeff /  Alone Architect

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