Dreamless Sleep

Polaroid

We grow,
and drift.
We sway,
and unravel.
But forever,
we intertwine.

The Tangled Webs We Weave

The Tangled Webs We Weave

It’s with great pleasure I present the final piece of my new EP, Dreamless Sleep, out now everywhere.

These songs are my love letter to Spring weather, and the state of change it represents for me. Much like the seasons, I have found myself in a state of change lately — and if you feel the same — I hope these songs can be of some benefit to you; to unwind, to escape, to slow down the world and take a moment for yourself. Through these sounds I leave you a piece of me.

An urgency, an intimate explosion. The new single by Laura Masotto was inspired by the recent climatic situation giving voice to one of the most direct, essential truths: Our House is on Fire.

Our house burns, like our certainties. Her violin translates both the human sentiment in front of danger and the danger itself, the threat. From fragility to vehemence, from fear to resistance, from fight to oppression: all these feelings interwoven creating a DNA of our times. These sensations condense into an almost mystical vortex, built thanks to a crescendo pattern that intersects the strong solidity of the violin. Like a human being trapped in the vortex of a larger entity, of an unstoppable force.

The electronic sounds, which are direct effects of the distorted violin, surround the sonorities of the instrument, they merge, as an opposite output deriving from the same source. An overwhelming duality that touches the human being in his intimate essence.

The track evolves trough two opposing forces that seem to fight: the violin grows, explodes, as in a form of resistance, and it contrasts the electronic dissonances, arising from the instrument itself: it is a vertical ascent, which follows the delicate sense of balance that is formed between all things, in harmony. The track is in fact a unique track, a hypnosis, a fire: it stands out in the silence like a tremendous and romantic incipit, which opens to the experimental future of a violinist able to treat her instrument with courage and talent.

 

‘This track came as a sort of epiphany. I have been very inspired by the incredible strength of Greta Thunberg and the power of her resistance. I see in this young woman the realisation of a solid resistance, the blossoming of a new hope. But despite the deeply moving feelings this new movement’s triggered in me, I couldn’t separate the fact that this is happening because we are already living in dark, critical times. It is already happening. This created a sort of duality in my mind, in which both light and dark are fighting each other, in a sort of perpetual motion. I wanted it out, as a statement on its own.’ - Laura Masotto

Our House is on Fire

Through sound I leave you a piece of me.

Music has always been deeply personal — in it, I have found identity, and it has become an extension of language for me. Each song is like a sonic diary, reminding me where I was,  physically and emotionally. I’ve learned a lot about myself through melodies, and the thought of someone else, perhaps miles away, having a similar experience while listening to these sounds, gives me a sense of greater purpose.

My name is Adam. I’m a musician, producer, visual designer, and human being in Austin, Texas. Inspired by several genres and mediums, I write ambient music with a focus on guitar-based looping, immersive soundscapes, and melodic storytelling.

Dreamless Sleep

Adam Dodson

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