Album Notes

Here we are at the turn of the millennium, and End Of The World Syndrome is predictably gaining momentum. For whatever reason, we humans seem to get a buzz from anxious dread, and this calendar change seems to lend itself to all sorts of Fun-With-Fear projects. From religious fundamentalists to computer techies, a lot of people seem to feel the turn to 2000 is a marker of doom.

My take on the situation is simple; we’re all going to die anyway. So, if we are in fact living in the End Times, the best thing we can do is try to cultivate compassion and realize that in essence, we are all God, everything is God (or Spirit, or One, or Allah, whatever your preference). On the other hand, if it isn’t the end of the world, each one of us is still going to die soon enough, in which case the best thing we can do is try to cultivate com passion and realize that in essence, we’re God. Either way, we’re headed to the same place.

‘Apocalypse’ is from the Greek word ‘apokalupsis’, meaning uncover, reveal. So literally, I’m using Bright Apocalypse to mean a revelation of light. I’m just trying to put out a reminder that there is more than one possibility of what an apocalypse can be, and this album is a portrait of an interior apocalypse, the end of our old inner world, in a good sense. The idea behind the album is very simple: instead of the world coming to an end, humanity just becomes a little bit more compassionate. The world changes from within, that’s my kind of apocalypse. The songs on album tell the story, step by step surrendering to the Divine inside us. The perspective is not from any one particular religion, but rather stems from the mystical truths that are common to all religions. I’m a spiritual mutt by nature, so they’re kind of Buddhist-Christian-Hindu-Jewish-Moslem-Taoist pop songs.

- Stuart Davis 1999