Richard Reed Parry with Arcade Fire live in London (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
I Was In The World, Was The World In Me has been released from Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire‘s first of two solo albums, which is out tomorrow.
“I Was In The World, Was The World In Me is a song about the elements and our bodies being inextricably interwoven – about being a human and experiencing a moment in nature that’s so direct and powerful that we lose our sense of where we end and the world around us begins,” he explains.
“A simultaneously blissful and terrifying moment of ‘losing yourself’: swimming in a river, realizing that the same beautiful tactile sensation you’re having in the water is, in a way, a living version of what you might experience at the moment of death. The molecules of your body actually merging with the molecules of the world around you…we become ashes, thrown into the sea, absorbed up into the clouds, raining down onto the land and into the rivers…as we turn, turn, turn again.”
Quiet River Of Dust Vol. 1 is set to be followed by the second record in the spring of next year.