Botanist - III: Doom In BloomBOTANIST are different. When composer, lyricist, vocalist, and multi instrumentalist Otrebor created the San Francisco based band in 2009, he already had a specific lyrical concept in mind that has persisted to permeate all releases until and including today. The songs of this project are told from the perspective of a protagonist called "The Botanist", who is characterised as a crazed man of science that lives in self imposed exile, as far away from

rather than his dark demise as he flies too close to the sun

Like the lines of a sniper's cross-hairs

"Waterloo Sunset" from Something Else by The Kinks

Meditatio II similarly contains compositions that interpret man's thoughts and feelings about death

Presented here is a rare 45 RPM single

Limited bundle includes XL t-shirt

recalls the atmospheric

Massa/ Neubrandenburger Philharmonie/ Malzew - Piano Concerto

and "Say I Won't

Summon Yoruba gods

to deal with the intense pain in her life

this new live collection once again finds Simple Minds 30 years later scaling the heights of those dizzy days