Do you remember a great song back in the 90's called "Barely Breathing"? That was the first time I heard Duncan Sheik.
Duncan is still making great music now, and today I'm featuring his new single "There's No Telling"
Here's info from Music + Pirate:
When March of 2020 rolled around and the world turned upside down I, like many other songwriters, musicians, and composers found myself with more time on my hands than I might otherwise have had. Upcoming shows and theater productions were all put on hold so I started experimenting with (what I thought at the time were) radical departures from my previous songwriting and producing approaches.The world was possibly coming to an end - so why not experiment, mess around and have some fun in the meantime?
Also during this period, I began some inquiry into ideas and practices adjacent, though not explicitly connected, to my 30 plus year practice of Nichiren Buddhism. To clarify - I never stopped my Buddhist practice and I continue to chant assiduously every day - but I did widen the aperture of the ways in which I understood the “mechanics of daily life” to be working.
The people I began reading and listening to belong to a very loose conglomeration of “teachers” of Non-Duality or secular Neo-Advaita which is an evolution of both the Advaita Vedanta school of philosophy in Hinduism and also found in many streams of Buddhist thought, especially in Nichiren Daishonin’s writings. Rupert Spira, Ana Brown (who makes a brief spoken-word appearance on Claptrap) and especially Roger Castillo, to name just three, have had a major impact on my thinking about reality, for lack of a better word. So as I experimented with new ways of writing and recording music I felt the urge to experiment with writing lyrics that might express some of these ideas in the enigmatic and oblique way only song lyrics can get away with.
The title of the album is an allusion to my own deprecating view of how anyone, especially myself, tends to sound when trying to put into words ideas that are barely able to be experienced, comprehended, or understood, let alone written about coherently. But I will say that rolling these ideas around in my head and letting them find their way into the music has made the slings and arrows of this mini era more bearable and, even, at times, fascinating and rich. I owe a great debt of gratitude to the many teachers who have brought me to a place of relative “peace of mind” and I hope that comes through in the songs on this record.