:) by Bëker

This ep was almost tagged onto the Binary Drama, but I decided that Binary Drama had a story, and these songs didn't belong. Don't Cry was written in 1982, and Dreamfinder was written in 1986. I always felt these were strong songs and decided to re-re-re-record them. I wanted an upbeat song for the lead track and wrote Smile. I wanted to record an instrumental, and when digging through some old sequences I found Ixtab. It was mostly complete in a very rough form. Ixtab is a very dark song, a huge contrast for the other upbeat, happy songs of the ep. Dreamfinder was recorded in 2 days, along with all the keyboard parts for Don't Cry & Smile. The vocals for Don't Cry, Smile and all the parts for Ixtab took almost 2 weeks. Funny the way things go sometimes.

A solo project, that has been percolating for a long time (longer than one has fingers and toes). The madness is perhaps the manic side of Bëker's disfunctional bi-polar personality. Binary Drama is the first of this branding, written mostly in 2007, through the worst of times and later the best of times. It was a lazy project the refused to finish itself until now.