I was about a year deep into recording what would become Windswept when I heard that David was making Season 3,' he explains. 'It's been a year since Chromatics performed at the Roadhouse. With disintegrated memory through the haze of television snow, I wanted to share a glimpse behind the red curtain.' Themes for Television is an epic from the cutting room floor. A nearly hour-long foray into the blurry hours of night. 'The project began as a sonic exploration of the sounds I was hearing in my nightmares,' Jewel says. 'I wanted to find my way out of the maze by focusing on beauty over fear — like the way the fractured sunrise looks in a dream.' Themes for Television is in keeping with the unpredictable twilit splendour one expects of Jewel. Working entirely without images, drawing from his own imagined version of what The Return might be, Jewel produced a monumental six hours of material. The 21 tracks that comprise this album have been culled from that prolific streak of inspiration, sequenced and edited last winter in Tokyo
