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This one was a long one coming for two years...alot of pain and anguish but eventually I think I got it half-way decent. A mixture of procrastination and hardware issues making it a real pain. It is what it is, but I hope some of you can get some kind of enjoyment out of this one. Jump Man, an instrumental prog piece, followed by a short little prog metal jam called Kenoby's Strut. I was so bummed out after finishing this that I didn't bother posting it, I felt like I couldn't get the mixdown just right, but I think its at a level where its kind of passable as a decent piece of music. Hoping to release more soon this year if I can get out of my overthinking regarding mixing decisions. Cheers now, I'm gonna go to sleep...

The Ouroboros

The Ouroboros is a snake that eats its own tail.

It is a symbol of unity, of something that embraces the whole universe. You can interpret it in many ways. In one way, you understand that this totality is made out of a paradox. That a lot of truths about the universe are contradictory, but nevertheless what makes it real. For instance, "there is no absolute truth and this is an absolute truth." But more than that, something that is finite (like a snake), but infinite in its shape. 

You can also interpret it in the sense what the universe does, it does it to itself. You can't act on anything out of it and there is nothing acting on it. Enclosed circle. The snake is a symbol for what is earthly, animalistic, receptive, concrete and not abstract, something that crawls and lies in our unconscious. 

The ouroboros is, like the circle, a symbol of being complete, full, eternal and at the same times this can only be because you are also finite, incomplete (like a snake seeking to bite something) and momentary.

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