artwork: @sparklecats2009 & @ezip
music: @damifortune
piano arrangement & performance on "four seasonal offerings" (tracks 1-4): @rewitkin
guitar performance on "the forest is for the trees" (tracks 5-8): @october_stereo
flute performance on "plate tectonics" (tracks 9-11): @ZBWMusic
saxophone performance on "yukimarimo" (tracks 12-13): @dorkus-64
violin performance on "it rained after the fire" (track 14): @retropetet
drumset performance on "blue whirl" (track 15): @cryptovolans

Written with a ROLI Seaboard, soundchips from some very old machines, a piano, a field recorder, and some excellent instrumental recordings from friends.

Elemental Fusion is an album of collaborations with instrumentalists. In most cases, I asked friends to record a few minutes of improv or pseudo-improv to use as a springboard for writing a piece of music. The tracks would then be built around whatever they sent me, often chopped up and manipulated. The result is serendipitous; these works were pushed in unique, unexpected directions by my collaborators' performances. The compositional challenge was thrilling.

This album also interprets the word "fusion" in other senses - it is a spiritual successor to the similarly-named pair of diametrically opposed EPs I released in 2022, Elemental Harmony & Elemental Chaos, combining their respective styles of "melodic chiptune" and "ambient glitch" into one work that lives on a spectrum between them. It is a blend of acoustic warmth and digital processing. It is also a synthesis of many different styles, sounds and techniques that I've come to enjoy employing in my writing.

Elemental Fusion is perhaps my most challenging and varied work to date, and I think about it as a recital of sorts for the classical concert stage, a statement of purpose. To that end, detailed program notes are included with the album!

--HVB

Elemental Fusion

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08 - the forest is for the trees (feat. october williamson) - IV. last light

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Welcome, friend.
Here we are at this hallowed impasse, foretold by the believer of time after Time, humorously existing within the one, static Eternity.
One way or another you made your way here, and now your eyes naturally assert themselves upon these markings of seeming meaning.  What goodies might they find?  What distortions may yet interject?
Exhaust your searches and breathe deep.  Despite it all, here we seem to be.  
There is no more to be done.  Nothing more to be.
That's all, folks.
Still, life goes on.  The tireless carousel, with shapes and lights of such magnificence and glamour that it can make one sick--round and round it goes.
When in carnivals, amusement parks... We sample the greasy, hypersweet and ultrasavory foods and challenge our guts on throttling rides o' plenty.  It's all part of the experience.
Won't you partake in these delights with me, beloved friend?
♥

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PellyColo

Tokyo based music maker

Reach me out:
pellycolo[at]gmail.com

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08 - the forest is for the trees (feat. october williamson) - IV. last light

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