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Made 10.11.23
Relistening 3 months later, now not the same person any more.
This is epic! The chords that come in at 3:25!
Maybe one day this track will be played by the full band, or even an orchestra. Truly imagining it as big as possible. I hope now you will also...
I consider myself very lucky indeed,
to be where I am.
In all respects.
Track made for the Relics 'Tavern Synth' compilation as a one-take improvisation on November 10th 2023
As the compilation is to support 'Feed More', the track is meant as a message of hope to all, that many people who are in a position to help those going without the basic food or drink to survive are doing so, and that your struggles are being noticed and acted on by the good humans of this world.
Picture taken in a tavern near Bardejov, Slovakia in May 2022
during The Owls and Marne weekender.
-15 is the coldest temperature I have been in. It triggered thoughts of wondering how something like -80 feels (Oymyakon) and other areas I've talked about in previous releases.
Track made for the Dungeon Squid compilation, as a one-take improvisation on November 9th 2023
Picture taken in Kvilda, Czech in December 2021
Music made 18.3.24
I am 5 years old
My first daily journey begins.
Lots of days
from home
to school to home again,
and everything in between.
I hated school. Vehemently and passionately. It took me in directions I didn't want to go... or maybe they were the directions I was supposed to go in, to completely reject that direction and try something else, other ways of understanding and learning.
'Hill Mountain Skies' is about wishing bigger and looking higher, and remembering to congratulate yourself if you manage to overcome any journey that felt unconquerable, or recovering from any bad path that felt like an unretrievable situation.
There is so much more to that story than this, but I won't overdo things here!
Music made 18.3.24
Soundtrack to a game I am working on called 'Second Attempt At Living'. The start screen is a character coming back to life, believe it or not. Far fetched but it could just work.
So far all I have made is the soundtrack and the title, so I guess you could call it working on it.
That was the introduction, to something!
It was my first synth play for quite a while, so it felt like I had to quickly relearn how to play and record, amongst all the language and life and other riff and sonics learning of lately.
Made 9.11.23
You may have spotted one of the many themes if you've been here a while!
Infinity.
Yes, lots of that.
Many infinities.
Seriously imagine that though.
That's fucking massive, that is!
Some good ol' Yorkshire philosophical me creeping back in for a moment. It's true though, innit!
This is the wrong introduction for this track, but my brain needed to expunge that thought with vigour!
I can't figure out the musical and geographical influence that led to the first 'riff' pieces before what follows... any thoughts?
about
45 minutes of dungeon synth with elements of dark ambient, atmospheric, drone sounds. Improvised recordings made during Winter 2023, as part of my survival of the season.
Each track is a stream-of-conscious chapter. One take, one shot, diary entries from different dates, times, feelings, sounds, thoughts.
Spontaneous formations tell six individual stories towards a whole, from imprinted lightning reminders of my days wandering lost in pain and cold blizzards, being on varying mountain levels, holding onto mental health whilst wanting to disappear from existence, and the aftermath and how to relearn how to just accept and be me.
That's a lot in one paragraph, I realise. I do tell them from a safer place where I can look back to see what each important mind imprint taught me for the long run. There's always something good, strong, powerful to gain from surviving bleak times. It's not all in vain, so worry not.
credits
released June 22, 2024
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Played on Arturia Minilab synth between
November 9th 2023 and March 21st 2024
Cover painting by PETRIS, an artist growing and exhibiting nearby where I live in Orlová, Czech. Thank you for the picture and permission to use it for this. It sparked all kinds of things in my mind, eventually being part of how I survived Winter this time around!
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Cheers Dan Nguyen for chatter and helping along what held together 'Winter Rhapsodies', a.k.a. 'Frostbitten Synthesis Of The Moon In The Cold Frozen Lake Of Eternal Mountainscapes'
(!) Immortal could have made a better album in 1992 with that title.
Love to Blanka always for everything! Endlessly inspiring... <3
Latest Morbid Beauty collection (comps/unreleased), the 6th in the Gruesome Delights series.
Noise, harsh noise, HNW, PE, industrial.
Monochrome Studies Of Humanity, Nature, The Mind
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supported by 46 fans who also own “Winter Rhapsodies”
Suspenseful and Eerie. Each track tells a story. Spirits haunting a boneyard and aliens scanning the wreckage of a battlefield are just some.of the images brought to mind. Michael
Hong Kong's Enor D reinterprets nursery rhymes as noise pieces with elements of musique concrete on this playful new album. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 5, 2022
