I have recently enjoyed contributing to two collaborations and when Fivos Valachis posted the track 'Ithaka' for open collaboration I could not resist offering something in response to it. 

Fivos's composition is based upon the poem "ITHAKA" by Konstantinos Kavafis and upon reading it I found that it offered a very different perspective upon the journey to Ithaka to the one that I am familiar with in the context of the Odyssey. I will continue to reflect upon and consider this different perspective however in preparing to work on this my first thought was for Penelope. As such it is with thoughts upon separation, loss and longing that this interpretation is rooted. I hope that it is pleasing to your ears and offers something to the soul.....

Thank you Fivos for the opportunity to contribute to this beautiful composition. I hope that you like my interpretation.

To hear more of Fivos Valachis' wonderful compositions please visit @fivosvalachis

ITHAKA by Fivos Valachis feat. An Imaginal Space

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Excerpts from the Everyday Dust album Landscape X and The Valley Of Foghorns.  Out now on https://soundcloud.com/sparkwood-records

Here:
https://sparkwoodrecords.bandcamp.com/album/landscape-x-and-the-valley-of-foghorns

Arguably a soundtrack with no film. A wash of analogue synthesisers, industrial drones and burbling electronics - with more than a nod to avant-garde film scores, early Tangerine Dream and 80s horror soundtracks. 

"The petrified, ghostly landscape is burned out and barren. Relics of bygone industry scatter the horizon. However the vast array of smouldering factory chimneys would suggest the city is not entirely dead… The mechanical grinding ebb and flow of industry haunts the air, and a deep droning pulse can be heard emanating from deep within the haze and smog… and what are those foghorns??? What do they mean? 

Towering above the dystopian vista, the colossal X Temple glowed like a beacon both hopeful and terrifying. To fully understand the riddle, the Sage, Nevermore must find the Clavis Aurea buried deep in the ruins of the city. Within its walls can be found the ancient mechanical rotor deciphering machines that will break through the secret coded meaning of the cipher he carries. 

In the distance, Nevermore hears those foghorns again… “

ITHAKA by Fivos Valachis feat. An Imaginal Space

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