REKAL Inc. (inspired by Philip K. Dick's story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale") by LeventeZone

From the new album "The Dowland Shores (of Philip K. Dick's Universe). Inspired by the story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick.

Album info page: leventeth.wix.com/thedowlandshores
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-dowland-shores/id1135844998
Bandcamp release: https://levente.bandcamp.com/album/the-dowland-shores-of-philip-k-dicks-universe
Amazon CD: https://www.amazon.com/Dowland-Shores-Philip-Dicks-Universe/dp/B00IWQ0UUO

"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" poses a fundamental question: how can we define our identity if our memories are artificial? The music explores this duality of machine-constructed vs. genuine human realities.

“...the supposedly real world has begun to feel more and more like a Philip K. Dick novel. [...] You might note that, alongside Dickensian and Kafkaesque, we now have an adjective to describe this state of affairs. Phildickian. And the world seems more phildickian every day.” (Jesse Hicks, The Verge, 2012)

Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was an American writer, whose works, exploring philosophical, political and theological themes, have moved from a rather unique corner of “science fiction” into mainstream (including cult film adaptations like Blade Runner and Minority Report) and into courses on literature.

In Dick’s exquisitely complex, often disturbing (and disturbingly prophetic) universe there are numerous veiled or direct references to John Dowland, the English Renaissance composer. While navigating through Dick’s unique and turbulent world, these references for me were akin to encountering safe shores of humanity, of familiar and cosy reality, where one could stop for a moment among the many turbulent flows and currents.

This album is about those shores - the human, sometimes background or secondary, stories and undercurrents in Dick’s ever-changing labyrinthine universe.