The Tower

“The Tower” is the rupture in the journey, the moment where the ground shifts beneath your feet and everything you thought was solid begins to crack. In the tarot, the Tower is often seen as the most unsettling card, a symbol of sudden change, upheaval and the collapse of structures that can no longer hold. But beneath its chaos lies a difficult truth. Sometimes the walls we cling to are the very ones keeping us trapped. Sometimes destruction is the first step towards freedom.

When I created “The Tower”, I wanted the music to carry that uneasy, disorienting feeling that comes with real change. The kind of change you did not ask for, the kind that shakes you awake. There are moments in the track that feel unstable on purpose, slight shifts, small fractures in the soundscape that mirror the shock of watching something familiar fall apart. Yet there are also glimpses of light within it, softer passages that hint at the possibility tucked inside the rubble. Even in the chaos, there is a strange kind of hope. A reminder that what feels terrifying now may be clearing space for something truer later.

The emotional tone of this piece leans heavily into that duality. Unease and clarity. Fear and liberation. Disorientation and the faint but steady pulse of transformation. I wanted the listener to feel the discomfort of letting go, but also the quiet promise that comes with it. Change is unnerving, sometimes overwhelming, but it can be vital. It can pull you from places you would never have left on your own.

The reversed audio that closes the track became an important symbolic choice. It creates a warped, slipping sensation, as though the music itself is trying to run backwards, resisting the inevitable. This reflects the human instinct to avoid change, to cling tightly to structures even when they are breaking. But the distortion that creeps in shows what happens when we fight too hard to hold onto something that is already falling away. The more we resist, the more the world begins to twist out of shape. The sound becomes strained, unsettled, and slightly out of reach, just like life does when we refuse to grow.

“The Tower” is not a song of destruction for its own sake. It is a song about the moment the universe steps in when you cannot move yourself. The moment everything shakes not to punish you, but to free you. It is the sound of fear and illumination meeting in the same breath. A collapse that becomes a clearing. A reminder that even when everything feels unstable, the fall could lead to something stronger, truer and astonishingly new.