A Darker Shade Of Tao

Cool album. Like the contrasts. Love the synth sounds in track two. Third track was very enjoyable. The Longer Way Home seems softer than the others so far, liked the lyrics. The Gloom starts beautifully and doesn't last long enough. I Believe is a nice mix of the two apparent styles, intertwined. I think it works well. Same again, with The Dragon's Scale. The Other Side has made me think a bit about what the artist has said about the concept of the album. If you use the coin analogy, then yeah you can only see one side at a time, but there are always two sides so up the analogy to a 'spinning coin', that way you get a blend, more chance of an equilibrium. Being stuck on either side isn't good, as you can have too much of a good thing as well as the bad. It's about balance, which is exemplified in the yin/yang symbol. It's everlasting equilibrium, however you look at it. Slip Into The Sun, slipped by as I was writing that! The Sun being the original Father of all things that were experienced by primitive man. Viral is plain pessimism, good track, but fairly depressing really. The Wheel Of Time is a very Eastern philosophic outlook. I prefer spirals myself, or gyres. Where each revolution aspires to accumulating wisdom and expansion. That I personally feel the whole human race is on a downward spiral doesn't help me and my own outlook. But hey, we all have good times and bad, artist and listener. Today isn't a good one. Everything seems wrong and seems to be going wrong. Yesterday was good. Tomorrow might be better. Trick is not to get stuck in a rut of negativity. Even if you stick with the wheel, there are wheels within the wheels and if you are edging on the Eastern side of philosopy and theology, we are stuck under an Iron sun for a few hundred thousand years yet before things start getting better, so yeah, we are stuffed like a turkey! Lastly, The Final Hour. All I will finish on is that it's never ending, just we carry on in a different essence of being. So, I will see you again in a million years from now, when we are in the Golden Age!-)