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Seven Year Itch -Todash
New song inspired by Stephen Kings’ Dark Tower series….
Todash is a state of being that allows someone to travel between universes. It is not a common state and is usually triggered by a powerful event or object. The todash state is usually accompanied by the “kammen” or chimes, which produce an unpleasant sound similar in effect to a thinny. Alain Johns goes todash twice when he enters Maerlyn’s Grapefruit to try and save Roland’s soul which is trapped inside. There are several ways that a person can “go todash”. One of these ways is to locate a bend of Maerlyn’s Rainbow. These glasses can all send someone into another world, but Black Thirteen is the most likely to do so. Todash occurs in certain circumstances when someone dies, an experience shared by Jake Chambers and Donald Callahan. A final way to go todash is by finding the “highways in hiding” or the “todash highway”. These are paths that are usually hidden to passerby, but some people, like Callahan, are called to them. They lead to worlds just next door, where only a few details are different, like Spiro Agnew or someone named Chadbourne becoming president of the United States. Going todash is very dangerous. It is possible to get stuck between worlds in the “todash darkness”, where the todash monsters dwell. It is possible to reduce this danger by keeping your destination in mind and by travelling with company. Being in the todash state imparts certain abilities. It allowed Eddie Dean to walk through a locked door in The Manhattan Restaurant of the Mind. It also allows a person to see the vagrant dead.
I just played this in the living room from my computer and pretended I didn’t know where it was coming from, and freaked out my friend. It’s quite…unsettling. Which is the point, obviously but…trippy.
Awesome, this makes me happy! I love freaking people out!!!
Seven Year Itch -Todash
New song inspired by Stephen Kings’ Dark Tower series….
Todash is a state of being that allows someone to travel between universes. It is not a common state and is usually triggered by a powerful event or object. The todash state is usually accompanied by the “kammen” or chimes, which produce an unpleasant sound similar in effect to a thinny. Alain Johns goes todash twice when he enters Maerlyn’s Grapefruit to try and save Roland’s soul which is trapped inside. There are several ways that a person can “go todash”. One of these ways is to locate a bend of Maerlyn’s Rainbow. These glasses can all send someone into another world, but Black Thirteen is the most likely to do so. Todash occurs in certain circumstances when someone dies, an experience shared by Jake Chambers and Donald Callahan. A final way to go todash is by finding the “highways in hiding” or the “todash highway”. These are paths that are usually hidden to passerby, but some people, like Callahan, are called to them. They lead to worlds just next door, where only a few details are different, like Spiro Agnew or someone named Chadbourne becoming president of the United States. Going todash is very dangerous. It is possible to get stuck between worlds in the “todash darkness”, where the todash monsters dwell. It is possible to reduce this danger by keeping your destination in mind and by travelling with company. Being in the todash state imparts certain abilities. It allowed Eddie Dean to walk through a locked door in The Manhattan Restaurant of the Mind. It also allows a person to see the vagrant dead.
Seven Year Itch - Walter O’ Dim
The second song I’ve written inspired by the Dark Tower Gunslinger series by Stephen King.
Walter or Randall Flagg…whatever you call him, he is a wizard and sorcerer. He leads Roland through the desert and palavers with him beneath the universe. Roland is transported into a nightmarish vision for an unknown amount of time. When he awakes Walter is a pile of dust and bones. This song is inspired by their palaver and the vision Walter gives Roland.
Any thoughts?
Seven Year Itch - …and the gunslinger followed.
I am finally reading the last book (until the new one) of the Dark Tower Gunslinger series by Stephen King, and have decided to write an album inspired by the set which I have just re-read over the last months.
This song is the first, and I would love some feedback.
It is inspired by the feeling I always get when I start reading the series. The awe of an adventure beginning and the overwhelming feeling of the set of challenges I know Roland will face on his quest to the Tower. The desert sun baking him as he trudges through the dust, the mystery of the tower and the burden of his past filling his mind as he chases the man in black.
So what do you think?
The Dark Tower. Illustration. .05 pen.
