Coaxial Chaos by Watabou
Coaxial Chaos was written and recorded years before it was finally able to reach release. Because of the delay, a lot of the views and circumstances expressed throughout this release are more reflective and indicative of struggles that existed for myself and the others around me in 2014/2015 instead of being active obstacles in my everyday life. Though some topics I mention are absolutely cyclical and others are systematic problems, so despite this not being a super contemporary evaluation, there is still a lot to be said that may help to hear.
There was a certain level of intense connectivity to my life situation that allowed me to create this record; a consistent fight against misery with everyone I knew alongside me that bred the inspiration for every single one of these tracks. Since the record’s completion, I’ve taken a lot of time to reflect on the thoughts, actions, events, and people present in my life around this point to try and best articulate the meaning and intention behind each idea, as well as to hopefully inspire you if you are in a similar situation to the one I was. It is intriguing to look into how much certain things have changed and how others have been cyclical occurrences. Revisiting and completing this record and accompaniment has given me countless amounts of insight as to what I hope to accomplish through sharing my work with the world, and as I continue to create I hope to better connect with you and hopefully we find ourselves in a situation to continuously inspire and motivate each other to fully express ourselves as an act of becoming and better ourselves as an ultimate act of self-expression. My love is with you always and I hope that to you this album means even a tiny fraction of what sharing it with you means to me.
Tracklist
| 1. | Coaxial Chaos | 1:55 |
| 2. | Misplaced Mistrust | 2:56 |
| 3. | Winding Backroad | 2:47 |
| 4. | Composite Compassion | 4:20 |
| 5. | Synaptic Viaduct | 3:14 |
| 6. | Friends | 1:35 |
| 7. | Gabber Punk Girl | 3:22 |
| 8. | Upward and Outward | 3:19 |
| 9. | Tragic Sidestory | 5:20 |
| 10. | Phantasmagoraphobe | 3:30 |
| 11. | Sentimental Entropy | 6:37 |
Credits
Watabou is currently the solo project of Rebekah Riott
All tracks written by Watabou, with significant creative ideas contributed (where signified) by Matthew “m@ the c@“ Morden and Chris “Ruckus” Campbell, between September 2013 and March 2015.
Vocal and Synth Recording by Matthew Morden in a Mid-Michigan forest
Guitar Recording by Bob Chamberlain in Pittsburgh, PA
Mixing by Rebekah Riott, Erik Smith, and Matthew Morden
Mastering by Brad Boatright at Audioseige in Portland, OR
Album Artwork by Logan Schmitt of Logan Schmitt Illustration in Columbus, OH
License
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.
Watabou is the amalgamation of extensive electronic programming, punishing physical externalization, subconscious realization, and constructive manipulation of myself and my art. It is the peak of my artistic externalization and I hope you understand and enjoy it for what it is.