Name: Pushing Against The Wind by Hierophlex
Duration: 5 min 3 s
Description: Entering 2023, with the heavy burden of uncertainty we all share, my thoughts are with Ukrainian people: Next to their arduous yet defiant fight for freedom and sovereignty, my personal problems feel quite frankly- insignificant...

more of the wonderful meloncholy chord work I love about your sound Pasi. This has heart...and grit! This is the Hierophlex I have missed.

makes me want to go back to some of your older work just to reminisce the magic. These synth/string pads!!!!

excellent soundscape......, & i agree wth ur statement......!

excellent soundscape and atmosphere! great work my friend !!

Wow beautiful change up into this magnificent chord progression full of hope - and still desperation of course - but then i wouldn't have it any other way, gorgeously dramatic soundtrack!

totally overwhelmed with emotion...it's the sort of song you hear when your life passes before your eyes

Hope you like this beautiful mystical song<3 

Written and Produced by Sinth
Edited/Co-Produced by Rhett 

Enjoy ✨

Miracle of Harmony

Wheelwright: voice, vocal melody and harmony, lyrics @wheelwright

Jonathan: initial music, instruments, mix

Fictive Sisters is a transatlantic collaboration of Wheelwright and Beckenstein. Our album Immaculate Distraction is available at https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction

image by Lani Maynard

Crossing time-zones
Godforsaken deserts
Midnight in transit stations
The illusion of freedom
Written in blood written in stone

It's just an idea
It's just an idea

The twisted wreck
Of a helicopter gunship
A distant call to prayer
Sweet liquorice and bitter cigarettes

It's just an idea [...]

He carries her in his heart
She's all he had now all he has
White knuckles holding fast
His mother's photograph in a young man’s hands

Now everything is lost
Now everything is lost

They say half the future’s buried in the past
But the fallen will not weep for us
When it’s our time to choose

It's just an idea [...]

bandcamp

Sweet Licorice And Bitter Cigarettes (with Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnR1vugWdEk
Free download--> https://www.zabirski.art/library/tracks/224
Photograph pixabay-AngelaL_17

Zapałki/Matches

Kit: uKORG, Hammerhead, Fugue Machine, Sampletank, Yamaha Synth&DrPad, Logic Pro X.
Acknowledgments: 
Samples 1) Samuel Corbin - “tba” copyright 2016.
2) Dead Peoples Records, No. 31 Mediated Voice & Silence (2014).
Both sample sets - Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license, CC-BY (freemusicarchive.org). 
Cover Art: Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991) by Cornelia Parker - a shadowy interpretation from Tate Modern.

Anthropomorphism 3

Lyrics/ copyright jo richter:

following the nutritional trail
a trilobite moves from a place
like that to a place like this

agile senses in a chitin shell
alarm in a world made of hunger
muscles react: volvation

when is it safe to stretch out again?
how long do you remain in stasis?
what is duration in trilobite terms?

you need to show strength, to feed,
to moult, to live your trilobite
lifestyle in cambrian waters

when does that urge undo precaution?
a theory of mind for trilobites
does not exist: we are not aware

of their mental cues, their inner states -
do they deliberate or just change shape
as some behavioural timer runs down?

in ancient seas, in its own time
a trilobite moves from a state
like that to a state like this

Trilobite Quandary        a poem by Jo Richter

Taking five, waiting for the time to arrive, searching for the will to survive, on the drive of your lives
Taking four, chilling for another cold war, dreaming of the broken dance floor, falling through another trap door, hoping for more
Taking three, dominoes are falling over me, imprisoned in the land of the free, submerged in a fake reality
Taking two, power trippers calling after you, looking for another breakthrough, rejoicing at the callous menu, it’s true
Taking one, mad dogs running for the sun, fat cats have only just begun, creaming cream, having fun

Counting Down

A colaboration with the composer Oghamyst and the songwriter Mary Kils.

Music Is What Feelings Sound Like

Que fais-tu baby?

Entering 2023, with the heavy burden of uncertainty we all share, my thoughts are with Ukrainian people: Next to their arduous yet defiant fight for freedom and sovereignty, my personal problems feel quite frankly- insignificant...

Pushing Against The Wind

Blackout

Xoxo

Inspired by the following haiku written by Darren Bourne:
Caterpillar
Opens her new wings
Metamorphosis
You can find Darren’s music on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual) and Youtube, and check out his website to find out more about his publications and merchandise: https://www.halfunusual.com.
Thanks to Naviar Records: https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/08/23/naviarhaiku503-caterpillar/

My Naviar Haiku

The Painful Opening Of The Wings (naviarhaiku503)

Hierophlex is my main channel for expressing various moods, visions and stories via electronic soundscapes.

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