With a title like “Dying Alone,” one cannot help but immediately get into a somber mood of reflection, melancholy, and sorrow. After all, we are all coffin bound, and many of us are destined to spend our final moments alone. I suppose that the current global situation has only exasperated our loneliness, a prospect that many of us are not welcoming in the very end. I remember having one of our last conversations with my grandmother. I remember her asking, “What happens next?” as I sat there holding her hand. “I don’t know what will come next,” she said as she drifted in and out of lucidity. “I think I know,” I said to myself, but my lips stayed sealed. I think I know, but then again, do I? Titles like “Dying Alone” can bring back repressed memories, stir up emotion, and color the way that I hear the sound. And it’s not the only introspectively titled piece on a new album by Hammock itself titled Elsewhere. And while these thoughts make me sullen and sad, there is a spark in the night that makes me want to reach up, out, and live. To that end, “Elsewhere serves as a gateway to another place, materializes feelings of separation and loss without closure, and calls listeners back to live their lives – not spend them longing to be something or somewhere else.” And that’s just the words – the music by Hammock is a whole other journey. I think it is fair to say that I have covered and picked nearly every album by Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson for my Best of the Year selections for every single year since I discovered the band in 2006. And I’m sure that I’ve got the 2021 pick right here. So without further ado, I’m honored to exclusively premiere for you a track titled “Dying Alone”.

"Seeking overlooked beauty and prizing reflection in a distracted world, Hammock creates cinematic music for the road less traveled. In stirring works of shimmering post-rock ambience that swell with hope and melancholic nostalgia, the Nashville-based duo of Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson immerse listeners in living visions of moments long past, animating life’s fond remembrances and scarring losses with gentle lens-flare harmonics, heart-surging neoclassical drama, and pensive silence. A direct challenge to the passive existence of modern life, where everything can be experienced but precious little is felt, Hammock demands, and richly rewards, patience and contemplation."

I've listened to this album more than a dozen times already, and I'm excited for you to hear the whole thing on November 5th, 2021, when it comes out on all of your favorite digital platforms. And yes, the world needs this on vinyl, but I suspect that the pressing is postponed as are all most recent releases. Quick recognition of two appearances on the album as well: Matt Slocum on the cello and Matt Kidd (aka Slow Meadow) on the piano. Oh, and have you noticed that the mixing, mastering, and cover art are done by Taylor Deupree? An amazing package of like-minded folks on this one.

Elsewhere

Dying Alone

TRACK PREMIERE : Hammock - Dying Alone

"Amber" is a track recorded for SEQUENCE8 compilation by @futuresequence label/magazine.

"Amber crackles like the surface of a quietly waking volcano, a rising melting-heat of ambient melody gathers momentum before fading and giving way to a wonderful piano refrain."

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Amber

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Hypnostar - Back Home

in the bleak midwinter

Skyscapes 2

a nice soft mellow track, hope you like ti and many thanks for listening, Brian Hawkdream.

Whispers Beyond Time

Pretty modular patch #2

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Soothing

From the debut album For a Wandering Beam of Sun. Vinyl available at http://solidarityhymn.bandcamp.com

Dropped Beneath The Downs

From album "Fragments".
This album created mainly with Teenage Engineering OP-1, cassette dictaphone, and field recordings. Some tracks I recorded directly from OP-1, others were edited, mixed, and rearranged in a DAW.

Download from bandcamp (name your price): https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/fragments

I posted some videos for this album on my YouTube channel: youtube.com/valotihkuu

Gear: Teenage Engineering OP-1, Zoom H6, LOM instruments Uši Pro microphones, Sony TCM-200DV Cassette Recorder.

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Fragments

Near the Summer House

opening track from the ep “Somnolent” by @Hilyard
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Somnolent

Hilyard - Night Swept the Forest

The track from my latest album "Swallow".

W&P by Masaya Kato and Denis Davydov (Valotihkuu) 
Mastered by Denis Davydov 
Artwork pictures by Oleksandr Demianenko

Listen full album: https://band.link/5HXVt

Swallow

Gardenia

Here are some original solo piano pieces...  some mixes from my podcast... some exclusive track premieres...  and some tracks from the albums I review on Headphone Commute... Enjoy!