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Two For Mistake

First Light

Variables

The Gist

Rust (feat. Tom Misch)

Magnolia II

BOOKLET: https://eklektikaberlin.com/files/1383302/the-nearness-song-cycle-lyrics-and-story.pdf

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THE DUOLOGUE OF STRINGS AND LIGHT
At an unknown time, in an unknown place and in an unknown valley this story begins. At the centre of the valley’s strange acoustics — that zone where mist rose like an argument the earth had not resolved — the music itself began to change. The violin and the guitar, those two itinerant voices of Call and Echo, no longer behaved as discrete instruments. They became agencies through which the valley’s metaphysics began to speak.

From Call’s ridge came the violin: agile, tensile, jagged in places, its tone shaped by a lineage that ran from classical bowing to the ecstatic angularity of 1970s jazz rock. The lines were restless, almost impatient with the limits of melody — long serpentine gestures expanding into harmonic space like questions fired into the early light. Critics of the hypothetical future would later argue that the violin here does not “solo” so much as petition: each ascending figure asks the universe to reveal one more hidden syllable of its grammar.

Far below, Echo’s guitar answered not as a subordinate voice but as a counterpart with its own philosophical agency. The guitar’s tone carried the warmth of wood and the coolness of circuitry; its phrasing felt like memory pulled through electricity. Where the violin burned, the guitar shimmered; where the violin leapt, the guitar hovered in suspended polyrhythmic chords—extensions, ninths, elevenths—intervals that acted less as harmony and more as commentary. Scholars of musical semiotics would later describe these chords as “spatial markers,” allowing the listener to inhabit the liminal region between the two players.
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CONVERGENCE.DIVERGENCE.DUOLOGUE (The Nearness 5)

Duality

For My Ladies (feat. Rocco Palladino & Charlie Stacey)

When We Are

Welcome to the Hills

Yesterday Princess

CHANCE TO SAY MY PIECE Feat MARCUS GILMORE

Bring Backs

Run Outs

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