Produced by Echo Collective
Neil Leiter: Viola, Bass Viola, Wind Sounds
Margaret Hermant: Violin, Harp, Wind Sounds
Christopher J Vibberts: all other instruments
Fabien Leseure: Mixing

Elusion

I’ll Rise At Dawn Once More (feat. Echo Collective)

Walking through your abandoned childhood home, every surface is muted with dust and cobwebs. At first you only hear your breath as images of the past come flooding back, promising to fill the void that has been left. Delicate piano echoes off the barren walls lifting the memories from the peeling paint. The caretaker is a lonely old cello moaning with each step as he guides you down the stairs.

Memory Of A Fading Home

: an idealized mental image of another person or the self

Chiming hammered sitar, pizzicato violin, introspective synth, and droning Bloom.

Instar

Imago

Chrystal Für - Imago

: a protecting covering : a sheltered state or stage of being or growth

Howling Optigan, discreet piano, rolling Ebow guitar, and chattering percussion.

Chrysalis

Chrystal Für - Chrysalis

: the early form of an animal that at birth or hatching is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose before assuming the adult characters

Swelling Tibetan singing bells, underwater pulses, floating Hammond organ, and deep droning synths.

Larva

Chrystal Für - Larva

: a cell formed by the union of two sex cells; the developing individual produced from such a cell

Pulsing ARP Odyssey, soaring violins, throbbing cellos, droning, beating bass, and gurgling synth.

Zygote

Chrystal Für - Zygote

April 15, 2019

Notre-Dame is on fire.

Eleven years ago I found myself inside this iconic cathedral thinking, absorbing…recording. I felt an overwhelming sense of awe sitting there quietly reflecting on this monolithic structure. The beauty of its architecture. The power of its presence. The weight of its history.

As I sat, the most unusual and haunting sounds filled the air. Choir voices and the great pipe organ, echoing off the massive stone walls. But nothing was constant or seemingly organized, instead it felt sporadic and random. I took out my recorder and captured these sounds.

On April 15, 2019, as the flames overtook "Our Lady of Paris" I watched on in dismay with much of the world. Saddened by the thought of potentially losing this 850-year-old monument, including all the history and relics it housed, I mourned the loss.

But then my thoughts turned to other losses. Buried losses. Lives lost to religious wars. The horrors of the Inquisition. Indigenous peoples killed and stripped of their culture, lands, and dignity in the name of God. Children abused by those in places of spiritual power. These are losses much greater than a stone building. Being raised Roman Catholic, I felt the internal conflicts churning inside me...familiar and uncomfortable feelings. The familiarity of the rituals are a part of an identity I no longer relate with.

As millions of dollars quickly rolled in from wealthy businessmen and religious devotees I pondered the disparity in the distribution of assistance to those in need. Big dollar gifts to famous landmarks make for high profile news. Helping the nameless who struggle on a daily basis to recover from institutional abuse is what Jesus would have done with those dollars...or so I was taught to believe.

The audio on this album was recorded inside Notre-Dame one cold afternoon in March of 2008. The captured sounds were then fed through an analog tape delay machine seven times. The sound morphing and evolving with each succession. Sections from each pass were then spliced together forming the full length of the piece. The full track was then fed through the tape machine three more times to add hand manipulated echo and ambiance. Finally, the entire piece was stretched to 4 times its original length slowing down time much like our perception in emergency situations. The result is a challenging listen that pulls you from the rapture of a choir of angels to the darkest depths of this gothic Goliath through the inferno, finally to emerge on the other side.

Here we are-- an opportunity, a calling to rise up our choir of voices and pull through to a new reality where beauty isn’t a luxury of the privileged, and sacred isn’t a tool against the powerless.

Déchoir

Déchoir I-VII

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"Requiem" is the first single from the forthcoming Chrystal Für album ELUSION available worldwide May 28, 2021

"Requiem is a soaring recognition of a year of trials and tribulations and an eagerness to lay it to rest. Slowly evolving tones defy gravity as they launch into space making way for an emerging synth that in its gentle pulsation reminds us how alive we still are. Requiem is an end, and a beginning."

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Requiem

Music Für Listening. Music Für Ignoring. Music Für Creating. Music Für Living. Chrystal Für creates impassioned ambient music to enhance your daily existence.

Chrystal Für's Christopher Vibberts is a producer and film composer whose work can be heard in many award-winning short, animated, documentary, and feature-length films, as well as campaigns for AAA, Honda, Marriott, Lagunitas, Beats by Dr. Dre, ESPN, Sector 9, Subway, National Geographic, & many others. He currently records & performs with David J (Love and Rockets/Bauhaus) playing sitar, guitar, keyboards, lap steel, Melodica, and flute.

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