1- the Galapagos islands are by definition an archipelago. Water is one of the primary associations/images of my music work. The tracks also represent the disparate styles i work in, like islands in the sea of my musical thoughts, each separate yet clustered together.
2- modes of transportation play a significant role in Vonnegut's writing. This ep references modern travel by land, air, and sea.
3- the blue subway tunnel on the cover is the blue tunnel presented to leon, which he chooses not to enter.
4- ice can be just as deadly as anything else (cat's cradle). Hence, track 3 and the robert frost sample in track 4.
5- galapagos features extensive literary quotations. Historical recordings of famous speeches seem apropos.
6- Vonnegut suggests that human intelligence seems predisposed to inventive self-destruction. Nature, on the other hand, has ways of making us more docile, and infinite patience with which to do it. I find it hard to disagree.
I'm sure there is more one could talk about, but that's the extent to which i constructed this album.
Cheers.
One more thing i forgot. Vonnegut places an object (sometimes many) in every story, around which the characters exist. He has a name for it, i just don't feel like looking it up. The object itself is unimportant, except for the ways in which humans misuse it. Mine is the pentacle (mona plays the xylophone or marimba or something...). See, it just keeps going.
Anywho, cheers again.
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