This is a song from 2022, with talks of exile and of community of thoughts.

From a strictly musical point of view, the song takes its inspiration from "Mother", by Roger Waters / Pink Floyd - isn't it quite a reference ?

Drain Age inherits indeed from a few principles to the legendary piece : a beginning and omnipresence of an acoustic guitar in strumming mode, with a pretty low rhythm ; continuous verses ; surges of guitar solos... 

As Austin Kleon states it vividly : there is to theft in art ! (Steal Like An Artist : http://steallikeanartist.comand I must admit that such an influence in one's work is like a f¨%¨# piece of luck !

For the rest, it remains quite personal a text, about the feeling of solitude, which has more or less made its way into quite a few of us, during those latest Covid years : isolation, rejection, a wish of somewhere else... For some, it came to be decisive to get out (either to get away from forced lockdown isolation, or even to find the means to earn a living !) I also thought of those emigrants, notably the White Russians, but not only them : almost all diaspora might fit.

At the time, I was under the impressions of the pretty good novel, called "the swan's song", by Irina Golovkina, which evokes those who didn't choose the road to exile to the Western Europe, after the Russian revolution. The actually had to face an internal exile instead. https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Irina-Golovkina/238826, lequel parle de celles et ceux qui n’avaient justement pas choisi l’exil vers l’Europe, mais qui ont de fait dû subir un exil intérieur. 

Yet, in exile, there can be a sense of community.

I've actually had the chance to meet people, who shared my doubts, concerns and temptations. God, how such encounters do help ! That's what I wanted to express in this music, where the text - for once - was like a real urge and drive.