Jewel – Flume

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The thing about works borne of pure creative passion is that they tend to take a lot to complete. This doesn't just mean they take a lot of time (although time certainly accounts for a lot of the taking), they also take a lot of focused mental energy. This is the real sacrifice we have to make for our art. It requires immense mental resilience to be able to channel your focus for a sustained period of time, a period of time that often reaches into months rather than weeks - years, sometimes - and the toll this takes can be significant. 

The larger the scope, the more protracted the endeavour, and the more distal the completion horizon. The more space you place between yourself and the finished piece, the greater the number of obstacles you go up against. Unfortunately that's just part of the creative landscape. Along the way you'll find yourself questioning whether you're going in the right direction, if you'll ever reach your destination - whether anyone will even care when you finally do. 

You have to just be patient and have faith in yourself that the value of what you're doing is more than just the finality of it. It's about fulfilling something that's fundamental to the core of your being, about nurturing an aspect of yourself that if left untended, would leave you feeling incomplete. Whether the culmination of your efforts is a scene of countless voices of praise and adulation or one of quiet, solitary satisfaction, the greater meaning behind your accomplishment is more important than whether or not you receive the 'appropriate' admiration for your trouble.

Although me and Flume are magnitudes apart in terms of the places we inhabit on these great plains of expectation, both of us have recently committed ourselves to vast projects, at the expense of a great many other things, and have both emerged on the other side with works that are imbued with so much of ourselves that to come to the end can feel a little surreal - and sad. Whether your final result is received with bated breath or is barely received at all, what's important is that you've left an important imprint of yourself that will endure long after you're gone.

The landscape you face may be Himalayan in scale, but there will always be a Jewel to be found amidst the treacherous peaks of doubt and uncertainty. 

I do write a damn fine metaphor don't I!

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A Journey Like No Other: Himalaya by Ellipsis

The Music to Save The World playlist is sponsored this month by Himalaya from Ellipsis.

The journey begins; fresh Chillstep from Ellipsis to help you conquer your own mountain. Stream it now:

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About the curator - Andrew McCluskey

Matt Jenko is a university postgraduate and music producer with an unhealthy obsession with Rick & Morty and all things Game of Thrones. When he’s not in the studio (a rare occurrence these days), he’s fueling his passion for music either on the net or out in the real world. He likes being out in the nature (in the least strenuous capacity though, let’s be real here) and chilling with his cat, and he’s also pretty proud of his mammoth collection of books that he’s never read.

Checkout Matt's project Ellipsis on Spotify and Facebook