Lost In Ladakh

From the album Voids, available November 4, 2022 on Western Vinyl
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Voids

Old Fire - "Don't You Go ft. Bill Callahan"

Good morning and welcome to just another day in August. What will you do with your time today? Me? I'm going to spend about an hour sharing this amazing track with you. Then I'll go for an hour-long walk in the park, and listen to my own track which [I think] I finished last night. Yesterday I dug out one of my older synths (it's the Novation Nova) and pushed myself to extract some beautiful ambient swells from it. I think I've succeeded, at least in my way. Composing music could be a very solitary experience for me, and even though it is immensely therapeutic and often very much reflective, it does, on occasion, get a little bit lonely. It's like saying something to no one in particular, but once it's said, it does "feel" better. Even if there's no one to say something in return. But I do miss conversations. Conversations about music and conversations with music, in an abstract sort of language between two composers sharing a vision and sculpting a tale. This is where Vince Pope's idea of collaborating with numerous artists from around the world really resonates. He acknowledges our current predicament and beyond by accepting that we are "... divided by language, ideas, history, but united by the desire to create music..." For his truly collaborative release, titled Together Apart, Pope gathers artists from a wide representation of musical genres, including Dmitry Evgrafov, Stefano Guzzetti, Sophie Hutchings, and many others on his 12-track album, to use music as the means to connect us again -  "music, the language that all of us understand and that needs no translation."

Together Apart

Concrete Clouds

TRACK PREMIERE : Vince Pope, Lambert - Concrete Clouds

Here's a diffused ambient piece I made reimagining elements of Mozart's opera 'Così Fan Tutte' (So Do They All). I was interested in exploring material from the original piece and finding relationships between new and old. I was inspired by the idea of giving those elements from the past a new context, shifting them into modernity.

Written by SINK, Mozart
Arranged, Performed, Produced and Mixed by SINK

Mastered by Aneek Thapar

Artwork by Tjitske Oosterholt

Lyrics from Mozart's original opera:
Soave sia il vento,
tranquilla sia l'onda

Gossamer

Regen is the 2nd single from my forthcoming "Unlearning" LP out 10.07.22 

Pre-order "Unlearning" LP: https://alekfin.bandcamp.com/album/unlearning

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Credits:
Music by ALEK FIN
Label: @MysteryCircles
Mastered by Dave Cooley for Elysian Masters
Artwork by Wilmer Murillo

Lyrics:
Don't understand it through my heart
Don't complicate it from the start
I'm regenerated

Regen - Single

Regen

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VI. Overture – No Drums Version

Somehow I feel that artists of all media [and particularly, musicians] have always dealt with the concept of the "end of time". Whether it's through the destruction of our own planet, some unknown apocalypse, or the universe as we may never know it, post the inevitable human existence [it all will end, after all, right?]. These thoughts, and the resulting output, are then brought on by a blip in our own very linear timeline that makes us wake up for a moment from the cycle of being and ask, "Is this it?" Perhaps a bit of existentialism never hurt anyone to refocus their energy on what truly then matters. [What truly matters to you?]. We've all experienced this, especially with our own latest global crisis, which still continues to ripple, mutate, and destroy, even as I type out these words [my friends in Shanghai are particularly distressed]. It's no wonder that so much latest output from musicians across the globe has been reflecting this temporary state of humankind [just check out the themes of the many new posts on Headphone Commute, like this Requiem or We Will Live On]. So I'm not surprised, and indeed, a bit delighted, to be bathed in an expression of human extinction by the Montréal-based Tunisian composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound designer Haythem Mahbouli, with his second album for the Japanese Schole label, titled Last Man On Earth. Across the eight pieces, "the album envisions man's final journey on our home planet and invites its listeners to immerse themselves into his last harrowing conquest." This is a beautifully produced and orchestrated journey, which leaves me aching with memories of Jóhann Jóhannsson again [and I do not just mention his name lightly], with its cinematic tendency to blend elements of electronic and modern classical genres, featuring synthetic and organic instrumentation, including a choir by the Budapest Scoring Orchestra. Today I'm giving you a taste of what you can experience on the entire album with this short track, titled "The Great Flood."

Last Man On Earth

Last man on earth

TRACK PREMIERE : Haythem Mahbouli - The Great Flood

Binaural Cyclops

Buy In the Octopus Pond: 
https://arrowounds.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-octopus-pond

Buy the 4 album series:
https://arrowounds.bandcamp.com/album/therianthrope-series

Lost Tribe Sound proudly introduces 'In The Octopus Pond', the first album in a series of album from Arrowounds, titled, the 'Therianthrope Series.' With previous works, Ryan Chamberlain has taken us through personal lows and bleak watery worlds in disrepair. However, 'In The Octopus Pond' sheds much of that skin and sets course for lush, green environments steeped in the bizarre. That said, this new material sounds more accessible than ever. The first entry in the trilogy draws from a range of musical influences, Can, Bark Psychosis, Young Gods, Slowdive, Durutti Column, Seefeel and much of early 4AD.

Rather than tackle some inner monologue or global crisis with the album, ITOP is instead accompanied by an obscure short story and visuals just as fitting. As both Arrowounds and LTS would prefer to take some time away from heavy realities and make up our own.

For here it begins and circles back into itself…
In the days before the great boil, the earth was lush and green, cared for by a race of mystic octopoed. In acts of preservational instinct, many chose to build their temples high on top of engineered tumuli, weary of prior flooding and wildfires that drastically disfigured the landscape. It was here that these priests of arms who carved ornate reliefs into the great pillars of obsidian and bone, dug down seeking mineral deposits in the earthen abyss and found a gestating world beneath the below... to be continued

In the Octopus Pond

Blue Entombed (Edit)

Arrowounds - Blue Entombed (Edit)

Break it Off

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