SECRETS OF THE WALL REVEALED Imagine dusting off a beloved album,
comfortable as an old pair of jeans, and one day discovering that
it goes much deeper down the rabbit hole than you ever envisioned.
The thematic intention of every note...The nuance behind every
veiled reference...Until you finally recognize that hidden deep
inside is a distinctly powerful message you never knew was there.
It's like discovering buried treasure within the walls of your own
backyard. Seen by some as merely as story about how someone
disintegrates when they become isolated, or how we, as a society,
disintegrate when isolated from one another, Roger Waters'
semi-autobiographical rock opera about a burned out rock star who
suffers a dark night of the soul while trying to examine his
unhappiness - and along the way is haunted by his unhappy memories
of his domineering mother, abusive schoolteacher and distant wife -
is a deliberate gape down dark, uncomfortable corridors of the
soul, searching for that wounded child within; a work that uses
complex narrative structures to express typical Modernist concerns
such as the shattering of consciousness and the decay of modern
society. Brilliantly crafted into the album's message and
production are elements of something bigger: a philosophy about the
meaning of human existence that tread on the mental real estate
owned by giants like Freud, Sartre, Camus, Kafka, Orwell and
Kubrick, among others. Without being too obvious, some of these
tiny, yet bare glimpses into existentialism are so deeply woven
into the framework of The Wall that they remain mostly subliminal,
yet there are few who listen to this work and don't feel it
resonate within. The Wall, originally released in November of 1979,
is a remarkable and thematically-rich canvas made powerful not only
by how deeply it draws upon some very essential human struggles
with anguish, abandonment and despair, but also the crafty way it
ultimately reveals itself as a philosophical treatise about our
interpersonal relationships with others. Think you know what Pink
Floyd - The Wall is all about? What if I told you at the very least
it's a lot more than you may have previously imagined. PRAISE FOR
TEARING DOWN THE WALL "Smart, sharp, insightful and profound..." -
Blake Morgan, President ECR Music Group "The most complete study of
any album I've ever read. Tearing Down The Wall is absolutely
forensic " - Mike Yusi (UC Radio)
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