Euphoriant by Mike Dickson

A perhaps surprisingly minimalist version of events, as I have come to express them.

"I like living, breathing better than working... Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It's a kind of constant euphoria."
"What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap."
"Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart."
"I think my biggest strength is that I always keep doing exactly the same thing. There are forwards who go crazy with euphoria, but after a goal, I let myself fall back to the midfield, recharge. Keeping yourself cool and concentrated on your mission."
"On 'Euphoria,' it's so fun because we're all the same age, so being able to hang out and go out together and go to different events together has been so fun compared to always being the youngest on set, which was really fun, but it's like, you're going to go home to your husband or wife, and I'm going to go home to my dog."
"There used to be a time when people used to hold up cigarette lighters and candles at concerts, and the place was aglow to celebrate the end of the evening, or during a slow song, there was this congregational euphoria that used to exist. It still does, but now it's a question of iPhones being held up."

Tracklist

1.	Euphoriant 01	6:24

2.	Euphoriant 02	15:25

3.	Euphoriant 03	3:51

4.	Euphoriant 04	7:16

5.	Euphoriant 05	4:55

6.	Euphoriant 06	9:52

Credits

released December 31, 2023

All music is (c) 2023, Black Cat Music Factory
All titles performed, orchestrated and arranged by Mike Dickson
All compositions by Mike Dickson unless otherwise stated.

Recorded in Edinburgh and East Lothian
Artwork (c) Black Cat Art House

Numerous samples stolen and mutated beyond belief from many different sources, without credit or any possibility of recognition, mostly because that amount of paperwork is not something that anyone really deserves.

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