Ink Element releases second album “True Love Never Dies”
The Hong-Kong based artist Ink Element has released on Friday, June 21st a second album, “TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES” with 11 songs
“TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES” continues Ink Element’s debut album “ISLANDS” and its journey into self-awareness and loneliness, with a strong angle on a feeling called Love as the most comprehensive feeling, taking you to new heights and dragging you down to fall.
This album travels across these meanders of moods and derivated feelings, illustrated by three cycles depicting the complexified and somehow deranged relations that surge between two individuals.
SPIRIT / DEEP / SAANG YAT FAI LOK
A tale of the dangerous workplace
A main character is invited to show attention to a teammate who is showing him a constant interest. He himself is healing a ending story and is not ready for a new one. Moreover, he is reluctant in putting himself into a work relationship.
One day, he understands how much he hides and runs from love.
He finally declares his interest, but too late. She got engaged into another story. He insists to get a chance. She gets scared. She reports him as an offender. He is blamed, ostracised, and eventually quits.
If SPIRIT tells the story, DEEP tells the emotional intensity and its accomplishment in physical love.
SAANG YAT FAI LOK expresses the guilt and the emotional misery.
There is no resent here, only damages and regrets. Two attractions, not happening simultaneously, in a fast changing environment.
It highlights how the exacerbation of feelings and overthinking can turn the frustration into fear and pushes both characters into inadequate decisions to a state of no possible return.
MODULAR / BPD KISS FLATTEN / MUSTANG
A positive and sunnier cycle.
Two characters not destined to each other, with different engagements in life, are struck by the arrow and cannot manage their mutual attraction.
MODULAR tells their first date, at a moment when they had both decided on their own that nothing would happen in that kind of deliciously guilty lie to yourself.
BPD KISS FLATTEN tells their first unexpected kiss in an empty street, on one party night with too many external stimulations, where the kiss turned out to be a disaster after they pushed back to each other while their internal conflict resurged.
MUSTANG tells the unknown and the wild. Their uncertain and undefined journey into what can and cannot be, where the decision belongs to each other, and the risk to cast off and find your real selves on the way.
You don’t know who you are as long as you don’t love for real. Love is the reflection of yourself in someone else’s soul.
CAST A SPELL / WESTLORD / DECEMBER THWARTS
How love conditions all other feelings.
CAST A SPELL is the madness of not admitting the end of a story, refusing the grief, and maintaining the hopeful that a lost love can come back against its will.
WESTLORD is about escape and exile, when the situation justifies to start anew and give yourself a chance.
The ending piece, DECEMBER THWARTS, is all about grief, mourning, remorse, regrets and absence. It starts with anger and ends in loneliness.
OPENINK and TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES
Two songs don’t belong to any cycle:
the opening song, “OPENINK” which makes the transition with “ISLANDS”, the first album, and
the title song, “TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES” dedicated to all sorts of loves, including the love for kids, the love in religion, the love at first sight, any kind of love, suddenly granted, and that will never go away.
Love is the source of everything, including all its derivatives and transformed products such as empathy on one hand, or jealousy on the other, to name a few. Love is given to you when you are born, but this ability is then tweaked, distorted, degraded, by moments of life. Life is about how you regenerate and maintain this constantly challenged capability to love.
It takes commitment to fight for love. It takes heart, soul and reason.
Love is an art learnt by lessons of pain.
Art is life.
Learning to love is learning to live.
The Ink Element
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Based out in Hong Kong, Ink Element collates his lifelong experiences through electronic music and creates a deeply layered, digital music that reflects his life as a European living in the East, touching upon themes of expressiveness, communications and feelings.
“It's about the weight of our societies and what prevents humans being their true selves,” he says about the ideas underlying the songs.
The first album, "Islands" is a collection of 8 stories happening over a night in Hong Kong, with characters haunted by obsessions, self-consuming greed, and at the same time expresses the theme of loneliness, when people become islands unable to build bridges between them.
Along with DJing under his avatar Milk Element, and his work as an as author, The Ink Element's capacity for sophisticated and deep storytelling is what sets them aside as artists and persons in our large and complex societies.
