Christian probably had very little to do with it. I stare at the typed card, the hollow in my chest expanding. Inside are two dozen long-stemmed, white roses and a card.Ĭongratulations on your first day at work.Īnd thank you for the glider. I sign for the package and take it upstairs. I listlessly make my way downstairs and find a young man noisily chewing gum, holding a large cardboard box, and leaning against the front door. Steele.” A bored, disembodied voice answers, and disappointment crashes through me. The door buzzer startles me from my anguish, and my heart skips a beat. I sit and stare blankly at the brick wall. I turn on the flat-screen television so there’s noise to fill the vacuum and provide some semblance of company, but I don’t listen or watch. I miss Kate, and I imagine her lying on a beach in Barbados sipping a cool cocktail. I don’t want to start crying again-not out on the street. The thought leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, but I dismiss it and try to keep my mind as numb and as blank as possible.
I suspect he has been overgenerous in his payment, and Of course, I can afford a car-a nice, new car. I shut the door on that thought immediately. I walk toward the bus stop with my head down, staring at my feet and contemplating being without my beloved Wanda, my old Beetle. It doesn’t begin to fill the void in my chest, a void that’s been present since Saturday morning, a painful hollow reminder of my loss. Out in the early evening air of Seattle, I take a deep breath. I’ll see you tomorrow.”Ĭollecting my bag, I shrug on my jacket and head for the door. “I’ll be off, if that’s okay with you,” I murmur. Somehow, I manage to curl my lips upward in a semblance of a smile. I think we’re going to make a great team.” he smiles down at me, his blue eyes twinkling, as he leans against my desk.
The time has flown by in a haze of new faces, work to do, and Mr. The result, at the end of the trip, is the album Shadow of the Sun.I have survived Day Three Post-Christian, and my first day at work.
There in a counter-intuitive act of creative catharsis, they managed to dissolve the album’s formal technique into a cool and paradoxically sane sound of confusion. To further coat the album with an air of uncertainty and tension, the duo decamped to Berlin to mix with Finnish beat-meister Jonas Verwijnen of Kaiku Studios. Elsewhere on the record, the band recognizes that no journey is possible without being on the road, paying tribute to the cosmic trucker boogie saint in “Slow Down Low” and “Free the Skull.” From the narcoleptic dancefloor killer “Zero,” the record spirals perfectly into a resplendent daydream, the ecstatically pretty “In a Cloud,” which is a spectacular moment to witness. Exploring the record, a listener will perceive the song "Night Beat," with its off-kilter dance rhythm, as an attempt by the band to find meaning and acceptance in this new, shifting ground, while “Wilding" delivers a familiar Moon Duo sound, taking refuge in a repetitive, grinding riff-scape. The unchartered rhythms and tones of this album reflect their strive for equilibrium in this new environment, and you can hear that Shadow of the Sun is the result of months of wrangling with this profound, unsettling way of being. Moon Duo used the creative process as a flickering beacon of sanity in an ocean of uncertainty while in these land bound months.
#Anastasia staring at the sun full
It was from this stir-crazy fire that Shadow of the Sun was forged.Įvolving the sound of their critically acclaimed first two full length records, Mazes (2011) and Circles (2012), Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada have developed their ideas with the help of their newly acquired steam engine, Canadian drummer John Jeffrey (present on the band‘s last release, Live in Ravenna. The effect was akin to the act of descending from a train after a long and arduous trip, only to see it (and all your subsequent realities) speed off into the horizon without you. Working in a rare and uneasy rest period for the band, devoid of the constant adrenaline of performing live and the stimulation of traveling through endless moving landscapes, offered Moon Duo a new space to reflect on all of these previous experiences and cradle them while cultivating the new album in the unfamiliar environment of a new dwelling a dark Portland basement. Moon Duo‘s third full-length LP, Shadow of the Sun, was written entirely during one of these evolving phases. The highest apex of psychedelia, be it art, music, drugs or literature, is to induce a prolonged consciousness shift that affects the consumer far beyond the time that they were privy to the act.
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