"Karpe Diem" genre: Progressive Electronica
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	Karpe Diem means Live for the Day! Imagine this was your last day to be alive. Every day.
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	Story Behind the Song I was working late one evening on synth stuff when I received a call that my friend Kathy Salkins mother, Margaret, died that evening. I knew her well, and the previous week had spent Thanksgiving with that family and enjoyed her stories and her singing of old songs from her daughters' childhood. I am a Buddhist, and so my thoughts turned to the difficulty of accepting the reality of death even after dying. And so, this piece came about - the first half representing life, the second half, the gradual acceptance of one's death and finally passing into the bardo, where one ultimately decides how one is going to be reborn (though not always very skillfully...) This piece, then, was also my prayer for her easy passage, and was performed and composed live on the spot. I'd had several years to think about this thing of death, and much of the culmination of that thinking is expressed in this piece.

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