Dear Our Basement,
My brand new album titled The Art of Waiting explores our relationship to the pain of the past, the anxiety of the future, regrets and aspirations, and the indescribable beauty of life that often eludes me. An exposé on the feelings of tiredness, weariness, and being stuck under the oppressive force of time.
The pensive and melancholic track, “Doing Time,” is a lament on the routine and stagnant repetition of modern life, and struggles with self-control. Our obsession with time creates a stale and tedious prison.
Time is an illusion we have created to ensnare ourselves, forfeiting life for security and predictability, believing that the modern world is a machine which uses us for its will and not the other way around.
Waiting is the experience of death in slow motion. Since we have converted the action of living to the passive state of waiting, life is less the Art of Living, and more the Art of Waiting.
Let’s live in The Now…
James Parm