Visually, and a theme that runs throughout, this EP is one that was recorded solely in my bedroom (bar the exception of one song that was recorded in SamXVIs living room). Just with a mic, interface and laptop, nothing fancy. This is where I first recorded again in a long time, and even before my own bedroom set up I was recording in my friends bedroom. Home is where the start is..the start of the new journey into music I'm about to be on for the forceeable future. Whilst the language throughout remains one that is positive and at most parts uplifting, there is a dark theme running throughout the theme of the music and it's transitions between each song.

Conceptually it’s all based on a line in my opening song Dreams “I brought you here to witness my revival”,it’s about resurrection.

The first interlude after Falling is called Abyss. It’s got a piano coda that’s supposed to feel like death, the idea that I, the Artist that is Abby Power is on an operating table, fighting for life. where the song should end, it keeps going, slowed down, dropping to just one synth line, but then it brings itself back to life with Same Page.

The interlude that connects Take Time and Self Reflection is called Requiem .It’s supposed to be like funeral music, what should be the lowering of a coffin: It’s a church organ, and my vocals are like a choir - and then the quote links back to the one in the intro, about Dreams; the idea that you’re always awake but always dreaming, that duality of life. And then you’re back to life with Self Reflection, a whole song which is just bars, back in the fight.

Which then beings us on onto The Light. A song that was actually added to the EP as a fluke. I went round to SamXVIs house, our first meeting again in over five years. Himself and his friend hennessey_tk (a fantastic guitarist) and myself all built the instrumental from scratch (can I add, little beat making was done by me, I simply helped with what vibe we were going for), I wrote the lyrics and recorded as we went along and by the end of the session, The Light had been created, and I couldn't leave it off the tape so it became my big closing song thanks to that beautiful guitar solo at the end!

And then it ends with that piano, which is actually my chorus melody from Dreams, reprised right at the end for track 8.

The tape FX in the intro is supposed to be the first phase of my career in fast forward.

The tape goes on and it plays the first part of the first song on my first mixtape, and then starts forwarding, stopping briefly to get highlights of each mixtape, each stage, until the tape finishes, ejects and flips over, and this starts this mixtape, the second phase, the continuation of the journey and how the music is part of your existence

The very very end can go either way. The tape is stopped, and it’s up to the listener to decide whether it rewinds back to the start, continuing the career of Abby Power, or whether it then fast forwards even more into another stage of your career, and being.

The speeches are a composite of two different Alan Watts speeches - the first one is the Music is a Journey one and the second one is the Dream of Life.

The track's on this EP were produced by SamXVI, hennessey_tk, 6th floor and Whiteboi beats from the USA. The project was mixed and mastered entirely by SamXVI and he had full creative lead on the arrangements and how the tracks intertwined with each other.
The cover art was created by an Indonesian art studio specialising in anime illustrations, called Ivanwind studios. The image was converted using an image we actually took of me in my real home recording set up, so this is as authentic as I could make it!

There are no features on this project because I wanted it to be about my own journey and the realisations I had to make and to showcase the growth since my last run at music.

Home is where the start is.

Thank you for listening.