Ideology

Ideology, in the Althusserian sense, is "the imaginary relation to the real conditions of existence". It can be described as a set of conscious and unconscious ideas which make up one's beliefs, goals, expectations, and motivations. An ideology is a comprehensive normative vision that are followed by people, governments, or other groups that is considered the correct way by the majority of the population, as argued in several philosophical tendencies (see political ideologies). It can also be a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of society such as the elite to all members of society as suggested in some Marxist and critical-theory accounts. While the concept of "ideology" describes a set of ideas broad in its normative reach, an ideology is less encompassing than the ideas expressed in concepts such as worldview, imaginary and ontology.

Ideology refers to the system of abstracted meaning applied to public matters, thus making this concept central to politics. Implicitly, in societies that distinguish between public and private life, every political or economic tendency entails ideology, whether or not it is propounded as an explicit system of thought.

Ideology (album)

Ideology is the first instrumental solo album of American musician and composer David Harbour.

History of creation

During the 80's–90's, David Harbour was well known to the listeners as a virtuoso bass player of David T. Chastain, Michael Harris and Tony MacAlpine bands, as well as a participant of Leather and Chastain bands. In the mid-nineties Harbour began to pay more attention to the piano, his first musical instrument, which he began to play as early as five years of age. Several years of work in this direction resulted in that in the late nineties, David Harbour decided to implement some of many musical ideas he got in his arsenal, in the form of an instrumental solo album. According to the information from an older version of his site, the original working title of his forthcoming album was Lost for Words.

The recording itself of the album was delayed for some time, due to the fact that in late 1999, David received an invitation to join King Diamond group. After recording with this group its album House of God (2000) and the completion of the tour in support of it, Harbour left King Diamond and started working seriously on his own solo album. He placed two demos on his official website and said that besides being a composer and a bass guitarist he was also going to play all keyboard and piano parts on this album. The first solo album of David Harbour was released in the beginning of 2003. The disc named Ideology presented ten instrumental tracks composed by David.