The World of Tomorrow

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From Urbania to The World of Tomorrow…

One of the tracks on Atmospherics 1: Urbania was the instrumental, Neon City, reminding us of another time and place – San Francisco in the 80’s. Concerts, clubbing, parties… it seemed endless. Of course until it did end.

While referencing The World of Tomorrow, it is really about how the future always seems to have a glossy sheen that looking backwards never has or had. “Backwards glances at a sepia life. In shades of grey.” But also, there is always that glimmer of optimism that The World of Tomorrow will fulfill the expectations and hopes hoping “the world of tomorrow is here today.”

There’s a Disco in My Head references that even when there isn’t music playing in the outside world, there’s a continual internal soundtrack and rhythm taking place. If you observe people around you, you might just notice their toes, fingers, or maybe a pen, tapping, even though there are no earbuds in or audible music playing.

Friday Nights is the finished piece that started as Neon City. A new-wave-ish track that recalls the chugga-chugga guitars utilized in many songs by The Cars, it recounts the rituals of saving and planning for the weekend, which would always start promptly when work finished on Friday afternoon. The rituals would include Tower Records and the countless clubs of yore (the I-Beam, the Palms, Echo Beach, Trocadero Transfer, the NIghtbreak, Club 9, etc.) with evenings that ended at all-night establishments, like the End Up.

The Ballrooms of San Francisco recounts the hundreds (probably thousands) of concerts and shows the city has hosted beginning with the Fillmore, moving over to Winterland, Bimbo’s, the I-Beam, Slim’s, DNA Lounge, the Kabuki, Mabuhay Gardens, The Stone, the Warfield, the Civic, Wolfgang’s, Old Waldorf, the Boarding House and the Regency Ballroom. The variety and evolution of bands starting with 60’s stalwarts the Rolling Stones and the Airplane, moving on through to Bowie, the Nuns, Romeo Void, Siouxie & the Banshees, Prince, the Sisters of Mercy, Blancmange, and far too many to name them all.

Misha (Slit Wrists & Happy Endings), the tale of a beguiling, mysterious and vibrant man of mystery who lived a wild and glamorous life until the pretense and glamour couldn’t overcome the harsh realities of being a hustler and hardcore drug(s) addict. Often mistaken for a lesbian, his very existence was self-creation. His name, his family, his history all changing like sand shifting under your feet as the tide rushes out. Charming, funny, wildly sexy, abrasive, combative, witty and a world-class flirt. He set the controls for an exit on his own terms. After some attempts that failed, he hopefully found the peace he never seemed to find in this world. The title (Slit Wrists & Happy Endings) came from a sarcastically flip conversation with him decades ago, and it stuck.

Slow Dancing is an earlier, sparser and much slower There’s a Disco in My head. With a bit of glitched vocoder and no proper vocal track, it works as a bit of android-robotic-funk.

Bridges Burnt. It’s what you get when you’ve completely misread someone you thought was a friend and confidant. That moment of utter and complete betrayal allows the well-crafted mask they’ve created to not only slip, but to fall off completely. Revealing the naked aggression that had been so diligently and carefully hidden behind the subterfuge of a faux friendship. There’s no going back.

Disco (Redux) is a slight rework of There’s a Disco in My Head, but with a treated Barry White-esque vocal.

Tomorrow’s World closes the album with a slower, reworked instrumental of the title track.

The World of Tomorrow is mastered in HDCD® by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering, Inc., for enhanced audio fidelity. HDCD® encoded discs will play on all CD Players.

The World of Tomorrow is available from:

The World of Tomorrow available now from CD Baby