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The original title of this track was "Fever Carpets", which later became the name of the project and thus complicated things. At the time I created it, I was either putting my music out under the collective moniker Autosuggestion—much of the band's actual output was less actual band material than whatever Jeff, Joseph or I produced whilst dicking around in Garageband or Audacity—or using short-lived placeholder names like Silencer or Stop Codon, so it was less of a conflict. In both cases, the title is a reference to Thomas Ligotti's wonderfully evocative novella/thought experiment "The Red Tower", although here it does double duty with a nod to the Legendary Pink Dots—another influence on this particular sequence—in addition to acquiring further ambiguous implications.

"No-One Holds the Key to the Tower" is really a triptych of sorts, comprised of three distinct movements that each wind down before the next begins and start and finish on their own terms. All three revolve around themes of sickness, and the moods and trains of thought which accompany it: The first, being laid up at home with obligations piling up, daydreaming or outright hallucinating; the second, the strange mix of tension and abstraction that accompanies being rushed to the hospital and the blur of such nights; and the third, a portrayal of the dreary inertia of waiting somewhere boring acquiring the paranoid horror of fever-dreams and subsequent insomnia.

The first part here was half the inspiration for the last long section of "The Eye of the Storm"; the other half was the coda to the Autosuggestion standard "Night", but that's a story for another time...

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from Ghost Musick for Ghost People One: From the Ruins of the Cathedral of Erotic Misery, released February 11, 2017

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Purveyor of fine musical curios, grotesques and arabesques since 1 January 2014. Mostly just one weirdo in a literal attic.

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