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The real life story of how the songs on the Deliverance from Flames CD came to be is written below. The music brought me out of a very dark real life depression into a very happy place, and I hope it can bring you a little joy too. You can read more about it in the Bio section.
He was a bona fide treasure hunter. He scoured the country purchasing old things of value and stockpiling them. He would stop and sell some of them for a few months, and then he would rest for a few. Life was good.
Over time, the treasure trove became enormous, and there was enough that the Chordslinger could rest for a very long time.
Then suddenly one day there was smoke. The storehouse was burning. Intense heat. Workers scurried as everything evaporated in the flames. Time seemed frozen in silence. The Chordslinger stared back and he could hear voices in the smoldering ashes. He could almost see them. They swelled and melded into whines and cries that mutated into the sounds of many instruments. They were a melody with a mind of its own. He left in despair. The sounds haunted him and he had to play the music. When he did, he found that the voices were not the instruments. The instruments were the voices. He could only call it “Frenzy”.
In the days that followed, he could not think at all. Anxiety and nervousness built into a hurricane that roared until his mind wandered into the eye of it. Different voices lived there. They spun into the sounds of violins and strings that were the “Calm in the Storm” . They had such force that he had to play the music, and then he finally slept.
Several more days passed and he found that he had been infected with confusion. Nothing made sense. It was all chaos. The chaos fed on itself until the voices returned. They slowly oscillated into sound. First, they were melodic, then they were a chaotic guitar, then they were an angelic piano. It was “Chaos Transformed” . He felt a little better and went and played the song.
It was time to get on with things. He began formulating a plan, and a guitar in his head ripped out a simple tune. The voices were gone and so he happily went and played the song which he called “Finally Over” .
He returned to an earlier calling as a healer. It was a way to help others and still earn his keep. It helped to dull his pain. But the pain wasn’t gone. One day the mixture of pain and happier times transformed into music. The song that rolled into his head this time was called “Silver Lining”, and made him feel like happy little devils were dancing on one shoulder pulling the notes into a minor chord, when suddenly the angels would swoop down and pull it back with frenetic energy. That energy was what kept him going. He was hearing lots of music now that came and went quickly. Many of the tunes that had spontaneously appeared in his head were gone and he felt a need to remember what had happened. So he began recording them all.
Reality dawned on him. The fire had happened for a reason. It was his destiny to treasure hunt again, but the disaster had happened because he needed to be pushed back into remembering that helping others completed him. With this thought in mind, the music flowed and took on a different attitude. The song “In my Mind" combined synthetic sounds and high energy which was consistent with the way he was beginning to feel. He named another song “Get Up” because the pleasant guitar and phased morocco seemed to create more energy for him than coffee. “Just Feels Good” and “Got to Keep Going” were simple sounds, but they resonated inside him and made him feel like he was flying.
As some time passed, as with the voices, the songs in his head faded. He spent his time treasure hunting and healing. Life was good.
His friends began coaxing him into sharing his experience. He thought about it and suddenly one day another song roared through his head. It started with a guitar that played simple power chords, but then began soaring and sailing. It felt very powerful. He knew that it was about “Breaking Free” from the devastation of the fire and understanding what had happened and why it had happened. It was time to share. And so was born “Deliverance from Flames”.
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