Badinage‘s new album ‘Once Upon A Time’ is a treasure chest of tangible, organic instrumentals that express raw feelings and emotions without words. A veritable smorgasbord of aural pleasure and moods. The details behind the structure of the album are fascinating. Comprised of ten chapters, presented as Book One and Book Two, the album is centred around the idea of storytelling—the art of creating meaning and coherence by organising seemingly random or arbitrary experiences into a structured whole. The song sequence employs the literary/dramatic narrative structure known as Freytag’s Pyramid: Exposition > Rising Action > Climax > Falling Action > Resolution The Exposition is established at the outset with the…