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As the Sun sets, so the Moon rises as its echo; as one light dies, another, altogether different light is born. 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To Johnny and Robert, Gilgamesh resonated eerily with the present moment – and it catalyzed their song-writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor Gilgamesh is a story of friendship, love, loss, grief, bad governance and good dreaming; of natural disaster and environmental crisis. It also contains the first recorded act of human destruction of the natural world: when Gilgamesh and Enkidu travel to the Sacred Cedar Wood, slay the guardian spirit of the forest, and cut down the trees with their axes, thereby bringing catastrophe upon themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJohnny and Robert wrote the album between March 2020 and February 2021, during a year in which we all wandered unsure of our path, lost in the cedar wood. 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