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The Species That Knew Too Much - part 1

Hello.  " The Species That Knew Too Much " is my 2019 concept album addressing various topics, the main one being that our species is in danger of extinction because of climate change and a confluence of other existential threats. Elites and political leaders are "fiddling while Rome burns", meaning they are neglecting their responsibilities to address this global emergency. One of the underlying artistic premises for the album is to explore worst-case scenarios, e.g., asking questions like, "what if we can't get it together in time, and what if we do actually go extinct?"  Another general idea is that all the old conflicts - around nationalism, religion, race, gender, identity etc - will obviously be rendered irrelevant if we go extinct as a species.  At that point it won't matter how well you control migration, how high is your wall, how big is your button, or what colour flag you're waving. Sometime in 2018 I became aware of  Extinction

New album from David Barrows in 2019

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Hi, it's been a long time since I posted on my personal blog.  But now with the impending release of my new album, it's time to start writing again. The coming weeks will see a series of blog posts related to the new album.  Like I did for my last album, I'll make one post which acts as a kind of "table of contents" and an overview of the new record, then I'll create an individual post about each song. This is simply an introduction and a kind of test to ensure this blog is still functioning.  More soon. dB