When tension becomes excessive and gets no release, then it might turn into some sort of crisis, in this case economical, and if we focus on all of the social tension we've seen recently in so many countries around the globe, we could also say that tension leads to crisis, in this other case, a social crisis.
I'm not sure if Jaco Pastorius had those concepts in mind when he composed and recorded this tune for his Word of Mouth project, I think that it must have been more of an inner-self expression to him, just to call it some way. What I'm sure of is that this song represents so well the actual tension in the markets , not just because of the title (Crisis), but because of its structure and harmony: a big summation of tension, that seems to be leading us somewhere but which is just leading us to more and more tension, just like the economy these days, right when you feel that the exit is right next door, you realize by reading the papers that the worst might be yet to come, that there's surely more tension to arrive. By the way, at some spot it really seemed that I was talking about Jaco himself, his life really was a summation of tension with no release, until the moment that this tension became madness and surrealism, which would finally lead him to death. (Just in case you didn't, I really recommend reading his biography written by Bill Molkowsky)
Close your eyes and listen to the sound of crisis: agitation, surrealism, but above all: tension, lots of tension. You've been warned, eventhough these concepts and feelings should be familiar to us nowadays.
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