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Better Work

from Portrait Imperfect by Chase Elodia

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Better Work, a track that contemplates the absurdity of our culture’s tendency to entangle productivity and self-worth. “I’m interested in how people find meaning and purpose in our increasingly secularized cultural moment,” Elodia explains. “For many people in my generation, the answer seems to be in work and professional success. We are conditioned to value our vocational labor over other aspects of living – friendship, service, community – that may be equally if not more fulfilling and rewarding. In this song I imagine a young musician pleaing to an unavailable God to be recognized for their work, hoping that they will achieve salvation and everlasting recognition – not through their communities or friendships – but via their creative output.” Walentiny and Allen traverse the multi-metric ostinato with ease, and the band builds to Guerin’s final solo statement before closing the piece on a cautiously optimistic note.

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"Clenched within your grip
I surrender all of myself to you,
Who taught me to believe
In the contingencies of salvation
Show him, once more

Swaying back and forth in your arms
I lose my sense of time
This evanescent glow
Will fade into nothing
We will dance into the dark
With a light swing
He wants to see your work
He wants to see
Show him, once more

He needs more,
Go, show him again
Step by step by step I confront this,
the ticking clock of my mortality
I work to resist it,
But it knocks and knocks and knocks So persistent
Show him, once more
He needs more, more, more
More, more, more
When I was a child
I would play in empty rooms
Humming a tune
That no one would ever know
It was mine alone
Unencumbered by the need
For a larger meaning
To provide a reckoning,
An accounting
Of reasons why

Last chance, show him
Now"

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from Portrait Imperfect, released May 13, 2022

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Chase Elodia Brooklyn, New York

Chase Elodia is a composer and drummer based in Brooklyn, New York. His music takes cues from media theorists, singer- songwriters, jazz composers, and poets to ask questions about how we relate to both ourselves and one another in our increasingly digitized, secularized cultural moment. His new album, Portrait Imperfect, will be released on Biophilia Records in May 2022.

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