“Troposphere,” the title of Christof R. Davis’s new single says so much about the seeming inspiration of the track. The title refers to the part of the earth’s atmosphere and the planet itself where the bulk of life and weather patterns exist. Almost the whole drama of life on earth including that of the human race has happened within the troposphere. The song begins with resonating drones like the sonic manifestation of primordial sunrise, the kind that has fallen on countless millennia of the history of life on earth. In drifts an evolving melodic tone and another shining and intertwining with the first. The dynamics of the song are organic and expressive of the subtle forces that have remained consistent and nurtured a great diversity of life and for lack of a better way of expressing it the manifestation of the natural course of the development of the planet across time from the early eras before life and on to the current era. The ambient composition brings in a bit of flute sound late in the just over two minutes of the song as perhaps a symbolic nod to the thin sliver of time that is the existence of our species and those that led up to our emergence on the planet. The delicacy, grace and fragility of the song contains within it an implicit statement on how we cold be no longer part of that grand symphony of natural forces by virtue of or civilizational choices. With any luck people will collectively choose to change course and that flute sound in the future equivalent of this song will sound out longer to reflect a choice for the path of wisdom and sustainability and not one embracing greed and elite power. Listen to “Troposphere” on Spotify and follow Christof R. Davis at the links below.
Christof R. Davis on Apple Music
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