Moving, Motion, and Emotion

This album holds the songs that were written just before and after the move to Maine, so they tend to be very introspective, proximal, and topical, albeit with consequent occasional forays into more distal space and time (in various directions).

The song order follows a thematic throughline:

• Ravelsway sets the stress-dampening, nesting/nestling context.
• In the Maine identifies the prompting event of the move.
• Sooner or Later lists some of the immediate challenges related to having a fundamentally resilient mindset.
• Take a Break says that I can moderate that approach more healthily without betraying my ingrained family traditional ethics.
• Solitary Empathy identifies a specific energy resource dynamic to adjust… one that had eluded me until recently.
• No-Mow May describes an example of celebrating a more relaxed, appreciative perspective on this new life.
• Try Try Try is a wryly humorous assessment of success/failure at attempts with adaptation.
• Properly Prepared expresses Maine-specific outcomes and the association with being (im)properly prepared.
• By Any Other Name is a plea for the world/audience to try peace and love in specific.
• Intimate Rhythms presents a combination of two topics:, namely: snacking and romantic-ness (i.e., not specifically romance, as such).
• What is Her Name? is about a specific, mysterious, historical wife (of someone other than myself).
• Falling in Love is about working diligently and resolutely to build a home and life that I am starting to love.
• Nice and Quiet describes healthily cutting loose past trauma (but not one’s Self) in order to more freely pursue a happy future.
• Deer on the Lawn is about healing from trauma, taking the next steps, and appreciating Maine.

This is the first of my albums that actually has a title track, which acts as the meaningful trunk that branches into all of the other songs; naturally, the title song was written next-to-last so that it could contain references to scattered points across the album.

On a technical note, TuneCore stopped accepting any submissions that have any sort of overlap with Suno (even my delimited use), so I changed distributors. Their loss.

LANDR has proven to be a better partner anyway; however, they only allow 12 submissions per calendar month when those works have anything to do with AI (where I understand their need for a spam throttle). I found this all out just after June started, so I delayed the release of the album until July. Future albums might have their release dates affected similarly.