Wild Album by Eugene Iodine

Wild Album

Wild Album starts where Epoch Change ends. After transforming into the Grasshopper, the hero discovers a New Beginning – a Retrospective without retrospective: everything is like the first time! Alphabet symbolizes returning to basics, Zen symbolizes concentration. So, Wild Album is the second part of the series dedicated to the moods of 2020 (the moods accumulated by 2024 are not yet considered). Here the supposed hero, already in a calm, controlled and natural detachment from himself and from the sick, sad world, reads the book of his life.
He runs his eyes through illustrations of events of his personal history. Neither the memory of these events, nor the events themselves are built into his body and psyche as before: now they are separate. But he knows that he was directly involved in them, playing the main role. These events do not belong to him and never belonged to him, but they were intended specifically for him. Now he looks at them with the same look as an adult looks at his childhood toys. Whatever the situations were – naive, childish, nihilistic, edgy, trickster, existential – now it's just a comic book about someone who he once was; just someone else's life, recorded on a holographic medium that permeates the fabric of the Universe. In our case, to use Frank Zappa's expression, this is a film for your ears. Ideas and plans for all compositions: 2020-21; recording: 2020-21, 2023. Alphabet Zen was recorded very first (for Epoch Change), before it was known that the album would grow.

Wild Album is a deck of wild cards that were dealt to the hero by chance or not, and, as it turns out, represent the building blocks of his fate.

Eugene Iodine
December 23, 2023

Life is hard. Heavy.