Chain of Missing Links (4:28)

From Zammuto’s Wordpress:

“Consciousness is exploding and developing!

We find a lot of unmarked and cryptically labeled cassettes. Most of them just turn out to be mixtapes, which are fun to listen to in the van, but every once and a while there’s something really unexpected on there. The voice from ”Chain of Missing Links” came from a dubbed tape in a thrift-shop that had “meditation” hand-written on it, so of course, Paul picked it up. It’s hard to shake the feeling that there was some fate involved… the cosmic plane tilted in our direction that day.

It was a guided meditation tape. There were elements of progressive relaxation, but the imagery was extraordinarily vivid and journey around the body took us to some very unexpected and private places, not all of which appear in the track. Paul methodically cut out all of this spectacular imagery into a series of a few dozen samples, also saving the verbs, prepositions and conjunctions that would allow us to reconnect them later. Then it was a matter of recombining the with the goal of reaching a deeper realization. The great strength of New Age is that it is not afraid to leave reason behind.

Science has obvious limitations and often has trouble expressing itself. I have a degree in chemistry, and I’ve studied hard science for a large chunk of my life, and I still love it. But the reason I left it for music had to do with this feeling of constrained expression (and being forced to spend entire days in windowless rooms under fluorescent lights).