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Reaching the Sun (Demo 2021)

by Markus Widegren

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New version (partially re-recorded and remixed) will be released 2024!

Consciousness, art and language are inextricable from each other. They evolved together with the human species over hundreds of thousands of years. While we as a species grew up, a new realm, separated from our ordinary physical reality, but just as real, also grew inside our minds

Soon the many intangible, but vigorous, things and beings that populated this other realm started to travel. From mind to mind, from generation to generation, carried only by words. These potentially eternal entities, or ideas if you like, became symbiotic parts of us. For good and bad.

Then our thoughts began to manifest in actual reality. Stories of spirits and gods, invisible but ever present, affected our choices and concrete actions in daily life. Ideas in our heads turned into flint knives in our hands. We invented bags and bread and bikes and changed the world and ourselves forever.

This craft of bringing change into reality and to others, with words and art instead of brute force, is what eventually became known as magic. All of us innately able, but those especially skilled became shamans, witches and magicians, helping us to navigate through our shared second reality.

In time magic veered off and mutated in many different directions. Religion and science zealously externalized this highly personal inner experience and placed it in the unreachable hands of experts. Then we started to forget the importance of primal magic in our lives.

Today the original connotations of magic – creativity and imagination – have been lost to most people. Yet it is still permeating our culture through music, books, movies and video games. Only these days we call it fiction. To me this faculty for fiction is the very core of humanity.

Which brings us to this album. It's a fictional exploration through words, allegories, allusions, symbolism and metaphors, deliberately designed to transfer thoughts and alter the consciousness of the listener. So if you like you could listen to it as if partaking in a thousands of years old magic ritual.

Some might call all this pseudo-psychology, some might call it raving madness. I prefer to call it: Reaching the Sun.

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released December 2, 2021

Music and lyrics written, performed and recorded by Markus Widegren in April-May and December 2020.

Mixed and mastered by Anders Rudolfsson in 2021.

Cover art by Markus Widegren.

© & ℗ Markus Widegren 2021
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Solo-project from Expanding Chaos-member Markus Widegren.

Reaching the Sun Redux coming 2023.

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