The Time Being | Steve Kilbey

i and i a guy in china tim earnshaw sent me his book a brilliant rumination on who I actually is and what is time and all that kind of thing the book is set in the present tense its funny its sad its sobering its philosophical  and eventually touches on the buddha himself asking the questions what is all this stuff? who am i? what is the true nature of the past and the future? earnshaw is the observer the observed and the observation we spend an endless second with him in a continuous moment on a train of thought as he brilliantly dissects time with his razor of reason he searches for the me yet fails to locate it everything is perspective and we are all deluded its true buddha would have called it maya but time is not what we think in fact it is nothing only willed into existence by humans as the joke goes: as a way to stop everything from happening at once the book is a paradox its nihilistically hopeful its not some dry old bit of academic jargon either its eminently readable and entertaining many wont get it though but it was certainly right up my alley i tell you very  grateful he sent it to me easily one of the very best books ive ever read his use of language is impeccable he points out lots of tiny details youve probably never noticed he connects up numbers and words and ideas you thought had no connection all the time he addresses you the reader you can hear the voice in his mind as it dictates this book to him right now much beyond that i cannot describe this marvellous volume a real treat that you’ll enjoy as well as making you think 9 and a half stars […]

martin and i have our fifth album ready soon man its been a long time we been partners in this martin provides all the music i provide the singing and the words there was our first lovely album quite minimal in places the second album melodic and poppy the third album suddenly we hit a real peak the fourth album growing and changing now we have album number 5 glow and fade and lo we are now some weird prog rock duo with lots and lots of floydian references the slide echo guitar the percolating synthesisers the sheer length of track two and its transformations the songs are about wide eyed naivete and crushing cynicism the void the crowd nature of time time of nature the struggle and the defeat love in all its old disguises the illusion the disenchantment the mistakes it really is quite a journey and the moods are departures from before i think this a special record and those who may dig it will certainly dig it yeah amen