I have too many personal music projects to give this trio the attention it deserves and hustle gigs for shows, but I'm still proud of the work we did on these recordings and thought I'd share again.

Just now, I came on here and decided to... change the art back to my original album art that I made, which features a worker bee sitting on a sofa watching TV. And, I'll explain why.

The title of the first track and album is a reference to the Philip K. Dick book: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" In the book, the protagonists wife when suffering from depression is asked to use a "Mood Organ." A piece of technology that emits good mood. Surrounded by a desolate world, she says it's unhealthy because it induces an absence of appropriate affect.

In psychology, the word affect is used in this manner. In this case, having an absence of appropriate affect means, as it did in the book, that you aren't responding in the appropriate manner to your surroundings. You're escaping from reality. For modern first world society, the common mood organs exist as TVs, cell phones, and video games... all things that allow you to escape the reality of the happy, sad, or mundane.

The image of the worker bee and the TV represents the average consumer after an, all too often, mundane work day, returning home to live a - perhaps - more desirable life through what modern entertainment channels have to offer. I think everyone has their mood organs... their way of escaping. I think some are healthy and some are not. I think it's important to understand when we're happy or sad, what makes us that way, and why.

Now in a new year, I'm going to try to do some solo piano recordings and bring back some semblance of this music because I miss it.

Hopefully this is the first and last epic facebook post for me for 2014

http://brianhavey.bandcamp.com/album/absence-of-appropriate-affect Meer weergeven