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Art creates art. A person can write a short story, present it to a small gathering of friends one evening, and within a few months one of the attendees could have written a novel based on the emotion and meaning of the offering gifted as a moment of light entertainment.
It is a direct response to the way the mind works, finding meaning and direction in the Labyrinths of the mind, the sparks of neurons connecting that lead us away from the gruesome fear of the Minotaur, and instead count the threads of the strings that lead to freedom of thought and expanded art.
What connects for audiovisual artist Sky A is his ability of adaption, a talent that few of us posses to take one piece of art and turn it into a myriad of impressions that the mind can conceive; in days of old such an exposure of aptitude might have been labelled as a true act of renaissance, even a polymath, but which today in Labyrinths could be seen, as the artist himself suggests, a ‘journey’ a voyage through the reaches of expression, pulling at each thread and tying them in such a way that the tale he wrote and which forms the basis of this intriguing and passionate album.
Teaming up with Three Trapped Tiger’s drummer Adam Betts, and producer Aneek Thaper, the sense of exploration is overwhelming, it asks of the listener to think of constructs, whether walls and tunnels are perhaps what they seem and how this alludes to the synaptic pathways within the human brain, and as tracks such as Foot Of The Door, Spider Silk, Gallows, and Rhizomes, Sky A highlights the rich nature of human transformation of how art is viewed, adapted, and presented.
We all walk through the maze of a labyrinth, however the majority of us forget that one thread that can save our minds from faltering, and the ones who do, those who understand the nature of the maze of life, will feel the breeze of artistic freedom wafting through the tunnels with the scent of an experiment soundly seen as successful.
Sky A releases Labyrinths on March 28th.
Ian D. Hall