The following composition was inspired by the singular amulet included in this video/cover art and has survived since the seventeenth century. When Damien first came across an image of this amulet, he was transfixed by its story and beauty and knew that he had to find some way of making a ‘story’ about it. Damien hopes that it reflects his love for his Jewish and Daoist philosophy, Eastern and Western merged together. Rain, lakes, waterfalls, submerge into chaotic noise, along with the modern world of tornado sirens, childhood memories on the television, and typing essays before midnight during a rainstorm. The piece can go on as a loop, just as the amulet does so in of itself. We step into the forest to escape the modern word or record its beauty, so we don’t forget it when we’re back in our shell of a capitalistic hellhole. We put one foot back into the home and are submerged with technology, chores, activities, daily prayers, etc. Then there is both, the middle, the none. Somewhere among the noise, we hope that this piece, like a Talisman, gives you a glimmer of that mirror.

you can download the album from the link below

https://gofile.io/d/fRz2nC

Album Cover: Amulet, silver, in the form of a square plaque; with eight lines of Hebrew text on each side, with cross hatching below on one side.

The inscription refers to the four rivers of the Garden of Eden.

Zke is Damien Ark and Justin H. Also Features Flugelhorn by M. Lodica.

Painting by Sara Rahmanian, Courtesy of the Artist