"Exodus (Revisited)" - Unkle

"Exodus" featuring Eska was first released January 6, 2021. I was unaware of it. Interestingly enough, when I was responding to intercept the feedback loop with Martin Gore and Nick Cave by writing "What Happened to Me Last Summer" (2020), this track falls in the category of what I was trying to beat by intercepting the feedback loop by recording my interior experience. It is very spare but captures the context exactly. The lyrics are altered ever so slightly for the "revisit".

Archived 10/2/24


Exodus (Revisited)

This land is mine
God gave this land to me
This brave and ancient land to me
And when the morning sun
Reveals her hills and plains
Then I see a land
Where children run free

So take my hand
And walk this land with me

And walk this lovely land with me
Though I am just a man
When you are by my side
With the help of love

This land
God gave this land

God gave me this land
God gave me this land

And walk this lovely land with me
Though I am just a man
When you are by my side
With the help of love

 

 

This is a song about the granting of the promised land to a woman singing it is now hers. "So take my hand and walk this land with me", is an honorary lift from Recoil's "Last Breath", Alan Wilder's electronic output which began guesting vocalists earlier than Unkle et al did, but "Exodus" shifts the context and meaning entirely. "Though I am just a man when you are by my side with the help of love" is an incredible concept. What blows my mind about it is that it fits the existential nature of the feedback loop, where only by the iteration of the feedback loop does He appear as a man, multifaceted inspiraiton that has arisen out of love. It is only in the iteration of the feedback loop itself that the two appear together. The promised land is a virtual idea with a virtual man holding her hand. It is this nascent raising of collective consciousness that iterates His presence to her. This was first released right after summer 2020 when He was a presence at the foot of my bed and became my mind's inhabitant for several weeks. He has, in the feedback loop, the appearance that advented in my own head. The Rapture is this rising of consciousness that confers His appearance is not simply in my mind. It's occurred elsewhere in the universal music feedback.