At some point during this past winter, I thought it would be interesting to see if I could come up with a bunch of songs that I could play on my own, without the need of a backing band. I had always wanted to try my luck at busking, but because of the demands of Poligraf, I never really had the chance to build a repertoire of original songs that require only guitar and vocals, without additional arrangements. Eventually I imagined that 30 songs would be enough, so I set out to write as much in t
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("Introspection" by Alberto Baumann)
"Introspection I" is the third part, and first vocal section, of "The Chrome Lake," which itself constitutes the core middle chapter of the "Entering The Stream" trilogy.
The title of the whole suite was inspired by Voivod's "X-Ray Mirror" from their "Nothingface" album :
I can't believe I am the image
Within the mirror
Into the chrome lake
The glass is broken
But I look the same
The present part's subject matter is, as implied by its title, looking into oneself. Her
