The story behind the track & artwork: Decadence & Servitude, is an classical music piece I composed & recorded in 2016. Another poem entry in my musical diary. Featuring a gypsy violin as the leading instrument, accompanied by an orchestral backing. It's a dark toned musical, with that tone set right from the first second. This entire piece, is a poetic rhyming extravaganza. Continuesly in motion, with phrases & sections ever so rhyming, connected in measures & rhythm, as the piece progresses in it's storytelling. With the entire piece played in the key of F, in a musical mode that's associated with the psychological thriller genre's of movie scores. It's a telling of a dark tale, with one following the notes of the lead violin, like it's notes are breadcrumbs leading towards its final destination. The entire piece of 20 minutes reflects this, in it's diverse tempo, and flowing from stresses & reliefs, and gentle to harshness, that I would almost associate to horror in certain sections.

To give it a title based on the disturbing, rotten-decay & strict characteristic, I decided on condensing it to two words, Decadence & Servitude. And I can imagine it as a foundation to an theaterical play.