Why, I've been so distracted that I haven't been able to direct you to my shiny new song, downloadable here.
As I'm sure most of you know, absinthe was the chosen drink to get crunk on in late 19th-century/early 20th-century Paris. Supposedly a whole slew of artists, writers, and general bohemian eccentrics were frequent drinkers of "the green fairy," not just for the purpose of getting smashed, but as a source of high-proof liquid inspiration. Van Gogh, Picasso, Hemingway, Toulouse Lautrec, and Oscar Wilde all gave props to the wormwood-infused drink. Then eventually the conservatives got uptight, and suddenly there was a widespread campaign against absinthe saying that it was a dangerous hallucinogenic drink that turned good Christian folk into murderous Dionysian heathens, and absinthe ended up being outlawed in America and several parts of Europe.
Absinthesizer, then, is apparently about a psychedelic drink that provides instant electronic inspiration to musicians. It is a bit of a throwback to Synestheseus and all its psychedelic tomfoolery, but as with my other Manticore material, there is a sinister edge just beneath the whimsy.
There's ornaments on elephants and katydids on kids,
and plasma-sucking flowers that will grow from your eyelids.
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