The Tamarin Chronicles

Story
The Lost Chord... A symphony that should never have been silenced
In a forgotten corner of the world, where the winds whistle in minor scales and the mountains resonate with echoes of ancient chants, there once existed a legend that few dared to name... the Lost Chord.
It was said to be not a simple set of notes, but a primordial vibration, predating even the Big Bang. The ancients called it Ekaran, "the note that unites what was with what will be." According to the manuscripts of the Brotherhood of the Silent Ears, whoever managed to play the complete chord would alter not only music, but the very structure of reality.

The Fragmented Score
For centuries, the fragments of the chord were hidden in impossible scores, scattered across continents and dimensions. One in a cave submerged under the ice of Greenland, another in an unfinished symphony by a deaf composer in Vienna, and the last, recorded in the genetic memory of a lineage of mute singers from the Atacama Desert.
No one had managed to reunite them. Until Lorena appeared.
Elaia was a young luthier from Bilbao, the daughter of a Basque violinist and a Portuguese astronomer. Since she was a child, she heard melodies in her dreams, notes that didn't fit into any known scale. Her violin, made from wood from a tree that only grew on the summit of Gorbea, vibrated only when she thought of those melodies.
One day, while tuning her instrument on Mount Artxanda, a gust of wind brought her a voice:
"The harmony you seek is not in the sound, but in the silence between the notes."

The Convergence
Guided by dreams, Lorena traveled the world, collecting the fragments of the Lost Chord. Each one demanded a sacrifice: losing her sight to read the Vienna score, giving up speaking to learn the desert chant, and diving into icy waters to recover the ice tablature.
Finally, during a total solar eclipse, Lorena appeared at the center of the world: a hidden crater in the heart of the Pyrenees. There, with her Gorbea violin, she played the Lost Chord.

The Awakening of the World
The sound wasn't a sound. It was an expansion. The mountains bowed, the oceans calmed, and humans for a moment remembered they were made of the same music as the stars.
The chord didn't change the world by destroying it. It tuned it. Wars ceased for seven minutes. Children were born without fear. Languages ​​understood each other without translation. And then, silence returned.
Lorena disappeared. Some say she became a constellation. Others, that their violin still vibrates in the Bilbao wind, waiting for someone to remember the melody.

Epilogue
Since then, musicians around the world have dreamed of notes that don't exist. And in every corner of the planet, someone tunes their instrument, hoping to be the next to play the chord that could change everything.

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Sonic Universe

The Lost Chord II

Story
Elkano: The Sailor Who Completed the Circle of the World
Born around 1486 in Getaria, on the Basque coast, Juan Sebastián Elkano grew up among nets and tides. From a young age, he embarked on fishing and trading ships and later participated in military campaigns in Algiers and Italy. His nautical experience made him a skilled and respected sailor.
In 1519, he joined Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, which was searching for a western route to the Spice Islands. They set sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with five ships. After crossing the Atlantic and discovering the Strait that today bears Magellan's name, the fleet entered the Pacific.
During the voyage, Elkano faced mutinies, hunger, and storms. In 1521, Magellan died in the Philippines, and Elkano assumed command of the Nao Victoria, the only vessel that managed to return to Spain. In September 1522, after crossing the Indian Ocean, rounding the Cape of Good Hope, and sailing across the Atlantic, Elkano arrived in Sanlúcar, thus completing the first circumnavigation of the planet.
More than a voyage: a geographical revolution
Elkano proved that the Earth was round and that the oceans were connected. His feat confirmed the possibility of sailing around the world, which transformed trade, geography, and global politics. In his report to King Charles I, he wrote: “We have discovered and circumnavigated the entire circumference of the world, going west and coming east.”
In 1525, he embarked on a new expedition to the Moluccas, under the command of García Jofre de Loaísa. But the voyage was even more arduous, and Elkano died in the Pacific Ocean in 1526, probably of scurvy.
Today, Elkano is a symbol of exploration, tenacity, and vision. In Getaria, his hometown, he is honored as a hero. His name lives on on ships, schools, and monuments. And his story continues to inspire sailors, dreamers, and creators.

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Elkano IV

Story
Princess Vasilisa and the Forest of Trials
In a distant kingdom, where winters sang with crystal flakes and forests whispered ancient secrets, lived a young woman named Vasilisa. Her beauty was like the moon reflected in a still lake, but what distinguished her most was her wisdom: she spoke to the birds, understood the language of the grasses, and her heart beat with compassion and courage.
When her mother died, she left her a peculiar gift: a small, silent wooden doll, which she was to keep secret. “Feed it when you are in danger,” her mother told her, “and it will guide you.”
One day, her stepmother, jealous of her light, sent her into the dark forest to ask for fire from the dreaded Baba Yaga, the witch who lived in a hut on chicken legs. The forest was full of trials: trees that spoke in riddles, rivers that demanded promises, and wolves that guarded invisible paths. But Vasilisa, guided by the doll and her own intuition, overcame every obstacle with humility and cunning.
Baba Yaga greeted her with coal-like eyes and a thunderous voice. “If you want fire, you must work,” she growled. She imposed impossible tasks on her: separating grains of sand, weaving with invisible threads, cleaning the haunted house before the rooster crowed. But the doll silently helped, and Vasilisa fulfilled each test without complaint.
Impressed, Baba Yaga gave her the fire: a burning skull that glowed with unearthly light. Vasilisa returned to the hearth, and the flame revealed the hidden shadows of her stepmother, freeing the young woman from her oppression.
In time, Vasilisa became an advisor to the Tsar, and then a queen. Not because of her beauty, but because of her wisdom, kindness, and perseverance. Her story became a legend: that of a woman who, facing darkness, found light within herself.

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Sonic Universe II

Vasilisa

Silently the Shades of Evening is a Civil War–era hymn cycle told from the perspective of a God-fearing army surgeon, Christopher Christian Cox. It opens with an instrumental portrait of Baltimore on the brink of war, then follows his choice to don army blue, his first exposure to battlefield carnage, and the long nights inside canvas hospitals lit only by lanterns. Songs arise in the very places where the wounded lie—campfires before dawn, crowded wards, and a quiet riverbank where he tries to make sense of what he’s seen. Instrumental pieces move the war forward in waves of battle and exhaustion, while the vocal tracks are the surgeon’s own sung prayers and field hymns, written to steady frightened soldiers and his own soul. The album closes with an evening hymn that gathers all the sorrow, mercy, and small acts of courage into one twilight song, pointing toward the later hymn-writing life that waits beyond the war.

Canvas Tents and Lantern Light

Crowded Wards, Endless Night

Volant Records is a story-driven label and shared universe: cinematic concept albums, stutter-house, western sagas, haunted pop, and hymn-like instrumentals. Home to Jupiter Morrow, Avaline Ingels, Shadow Face, Buck Ramble, Choralith and more. All Worlds Reserved®.