In this episode, I talk with Bay Area musician Art Elliot about his song Earth Abides. Art's music broaches subjects such as apocalyptic futures, lost loves, bleak ice ages, and depression-era folk art. Fashioning himself as a modern day alchemist Art transmutes popular music to the experimental, jazz to power pop and folk to blues. His tropes are cryptic messages etched into the ether for a generation deaf and droned out to their portable electronic listening devices.

Art has performed at many local Bay Area venues including Mama Buzz, El Rio and AMF Southshore Bowling Alley. At the time of this writing Art has emerged from his laboratory with his first EP, Earth Abides, which features songs about robots, national parks, loneliness and a planet where the rich sell the rest of society for monetary gain and shoot themselves into outer space.

Check out Art Elliot's music at www.artelliot.com.