While the name may be deceptive, io & Titan is a one man show out of Brooklyn. Matt Schlatter, the man behind the music, has developed a complex sound and stunning arrangements that feel grandiose and take up a whole stage.
Wandering Mind is like a beautiful film, beginning with setting up the characters and setting the routine, breaking that routine, rising through the climax, and then bringing you in for the final resolution. The story it tells is one of losing yourself in the dream. Matt talks of both a literal and figurative wandering mind through immersive travel and holding onto the dreams you set before yourself.
“I have always been a dreamer,
don’t keep my thoughts on a chain.
Hasn’t gotten me far.
It’s still my faith,
and it is blind.
I believe in the wandering mind,
oh I believe in the wandering mind.”
Based on the choices I make, this could be written about my life. If you know me at all, you know that I am constantly trying to figure out how to make impossible situations come to fruition. I feel like staying rooted in these dreams is the only way to stave off being an old curmudgeon. If we lose sight of the sky, we forget what the sun feels like. I know that’s cheesy, but it’s true.
io & Titan’s song is firmly ground in the idea of experiencing the world. Not only traveling to other countries, but diving into the culture. Travel without immersion is just a vacation. io & Titan want to learn from and experience the world, not just take snapshots of it.
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