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Chimera

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Jabir In Lab 03:06
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In an identity coded ecosystem, how much authenticity we are willing to lose to experience the sense of belonging and how far we are willing to go to be our authentic self? In a world full of labels, how much of our identity is our own creation and how much of it is just our response to expectations? 

How we define ourselves in relation to our environment subconsciously rules our preferences and intentions; in an extreme view, we are nothing but a collection of broken mirrors replicating our environment. This environment used to be our local tribe where real needs were met, our local community where we naturally belonged. But today, in our over-connected world, our broken mirrors detect a much larger radius and leave us with more unanswered questions: how much of our efforts here in the Middle East are a response to some sort of western gap? How much of our artistic journey is walking towards someone else’s carrot? Or moving away from the stick? 

Our internal search for authenticity is our individual effort to give meaning to our lives.
But in reality, it is the bridge between the self and the other in which we find true connection, freedom, and meaning. With this conflict between authenticity and sense of belonging, can we define our own authentic role while still being relevant to our environment? Can we liberate from fixed and expected identities, traditional or progressive, and still feel accepted? Can we be our individual unique image and still fulfill our social duties? 

In Greek mythology, Chimera is a fire-breathing female monster with a lion’s head, goat’s body, and a serpent’s tale and refers to a thing which is hoped for but it is impossible to achieve.The album “Chimera” is a self made story about a human chimera that comes to life: a combination of many things yet not belonging to anything. The story has five chapters starting with creation. The creator then presents the results and the whole town starts to celebrate. People gradually start analyzing the new creature and expect the Chimera to behave in a certain way according to the things they can see and relate to. The creature then decides to leave its homeland in search for similar creatures and to create an independent isolated colony. Before leaving, it plants a seed in the homeland with it’s DNA code for the future. This all happens in a kind of post-apocalyptic setting but the idea is a reference to present time: to an artist in search for his identity or anyone who doesn’t belong to their time and place and hopes to achieve the impossible somewhere else in future.
 

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released April 1, 2021

Artwork: obese.dogma777
Mastering: Nima Aghiani

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