An Architect, A Reality Builder (YSMHB) Track

An Architect, A Reality Builder is one of two reinterpretations of the track An Architect of Her Own Reality from the debut LP Bourgeois Doppelgänger - a release whose title was drawn from Hawkwind's "Steppenwolf". This version takes the original's loose conceptual frame and pushes it into a more open, drifting construction, reflecting the laissez-fire, nonchalant attitude that runs through the Sessions.

Where the companion piece An Architect ov Reality leans into a more direct re-shaping, An Architect, A Reality Builder feels like the track viewed from a different angle entirely- the same material approached at a different time, and therefore sounding different by necessity. This is the core of the Sessions: the idea that any YSMHB piece, if reconstructed earlier or later, would inevitable take on another form.

The track sits within the album as one of its clearest examples of YSMHB's recursive method- not nostalgia, not revisionism, but a kind of temporal improvisation. A return to a past moment that no longer exist, rebuiilt ion the present moment that will soon be gone.

Om Pharaoh Records