"All Recklessness Aside, the light is on you now." With those words, we're handing a brand new set of songs to the world.
It started with the sound of the rhodes piano. As the chord progression was played, the intensity of the music inspired us to try and create a vocal line that would float alongside the music, creating a seamless notion of unity. In this song, both music and vocals attempt to conjure up a similar outcome: to instil a sense of peace, a sense of belonging and contentment. Textually, the song revisits our favorite subject. This time, however, we’ve dropped the metaphors and the similes and just plainly wrote what was on our minds. As such, the song has become a pamphlet against cynicism, against negativity and stupidity. It attempts to be a wake up call, though a very relaxed one. It doesn’t scream, it doesn’t attack, it just tells it like it is.
“If you don’t enjoy life in the now, when will you? Don’t say tomorrow, because tomorrow is always one day away”. Life is about rolling with the punches, about realizing the fragility and the temporal nature of it all and accepting it. But also, in the midst of this existential limitation realizing the gift one has received. To be conscious of oneself, surrounded by beauty, is something that shouldn’t be squandered as easily as we often do now.
In a way, Icarious tells a similar story. Inspired by the impressive soundtrack provided by Nymos, we tried to write a new kind of epic, a grand narrative that not only reviews the older myth of Icarus, but can also serve as a new perspective on all of our lives. Instead of giving up in the face of crisis and despair, the song heralds the modern hero, who refuses to go down in his sea of troubles and instead tries and tries again, perhaps against better judgement. In a way, what we’re trying to tell here is that although science might have introduced us to what seem to be the limitations of our existence, there is no limitation to our minds. And as long as we can think up new worlds and new possibilities, as long as we are able to create beauty and inspire others, we are never at the end of our journey.
Governments, political parties, financial institutions, multinationals and the individuals that spend their days spinning the webs for them, want us to believe that the end is near, that we are on the edge of a precipice. They keep repeating that we either need to turn back or remain perfectly still. These individuals are well aware that they are preaching fear in order to sustain their power. The world and humanity, for that matter, have never benefited from the exploitation of fear. But the dream, the jump, the plunge, the hope and the strength to keep on trying have brought us where we are now: not yet home, but on the brink of discovering that we are not our limitations, but our possibilities.
