it's hard to believe that I'd actually find fun in music again, let alone posting my music at all but here we are.

This is the last track I worked on before my upcoming surgery-- I knew I had to bring everything creative out of me for a final push before I will have to spend the coming months in recovery, (possibly) away from music again. Even though the song doesn't feel "finished" to me, I knew I had to put this one out.

i'm incredibly sorry for being super awkward/distant these days. I wasn't mentally at my best and along with some health problems I couldn't be as active as I wanted to be. 

at the end of the day I just really wanted music to be fun, even if I I don't really fit in or anywhere near good enough compared to most everyone else

...

thank you for listening, if you do. 
hopefully I'll be better by 2022.

love,
keyseeker

traveler's water orb

we'll start by letting go

some teasers here and there, but mostly songs I've kept working on for far too long

for all the time we lost (2019-2021 demos XFD)

end of an era.
https://keyseeker.bandcamp.com/album/aurelia-of-a-bygone-era

This piece from loika meant the world to me and it was the perfect representation of what this album felt like when I was making it back in 2020. 

trivia: "temporary passenger" was the original title of the album

https://twitter.com/loika/status/1322512727663763456?s=20

the sun rises (2020)

b-side filler

I'm going against my natural instinct of holding onto tracks that I can't seem to finish

first track I felt at some peace with in months

it's definitely a weird song and i didn't write an outro because i forgot how to

more stuff in the coming months (I think)

sunbeams crossing / gardenstrides

a letter for a dear friend

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hey! it has been a while. 
'love in losing' definitely grew on me over this year, and it was a pleasure to make a remix of it. 

this song was announced at the end of my 2023 demo reel on youtube !
you can check that out here:
https://youtu.be/VSC1ruW4hKs?si=QIq4dv4Ja0OqyMQt

A bit of a disclaimer: 
Audio is a bit weird here and there, and I did plan to fix it in time but I couldn't. Maybe it's just me second-guessing (as usual) but don't be surprised if the file gets changed sometime in the future.

excited to share more and more in 2024 :)

aquoferne - Love in Losing (keyseeker remix)

i should've stopped holding things back when there's no guarantee if there's ever a good time to ever show things to the world

things change so quickly, and you may never know where you'll be in a year or two, let alone how the world will be in less than that

..

..

this is a song i made last year, probably one of the only ones I made that is of full-length, and I felt like that was a testament of how life has been these past few years - and perhaps life had finally caught up to me, or I have lost my love for music or both.

i wish i didn't hold back so many of my releases over the years because of short-sighted, ambitious endeavors because i feel like i probably would have improved as an artist way more if i did - a streamline of ideas is way better than the unfulfilled promises, 6 unfinished albums, and friendships lost over the last 10 years.

looking back now, I'm just left frustrated about what could have been - and the lasting impression that this shit isn't worth it anymore. The times caught up to me. All of my internet music heroes are all but gone. The internet music listening scene is no longer how it once was.

I know how brash and embarrassing it is to dump personal garbage onto a piece like this, but I always felt like it was strangely appropriate to the art - I always saw 'keyseeker' as a project, a journal of sorts told by woven stories. I felt like if there was a way to solidify the context in which we create as something we can look back on, we can understand and appreciate things more without falling knee-deep into the cynicism of how the modern audience digests art: there's only 3 ways we take in art these days: masterpiece, mid, trash. And that's the worst way to ever see the world.

I do appreciate y'all for sticking around. It's unfortunate that I still feel so burnt out these days about music and the surrounding community at large - so much so that I hardly listen to much newer music at all.

that being said, I do find this a bit of a cop out for announcing a "new song" when this song was finished for over a year and I just felt like it wasn't good enough. I'll dig up some more older songs and maybe finish some newer ones for a final demo compilation later this year. this will be my last music for a long while. I had so many ideas and stories to share through my music but I personally can't take the pain of lost opportunities, unfinished projects, skill issues, software limitations, and FOMO anymore. i'll be focusing on other things in life after this.

thank you for 10 years of keyseeker. I don't know how else to say this but I really did appreciate everything from everyone. from every message or comment, to every shared experience in between.

I'm sure I lost so many people along the way. But for those unfamiliar, we will end it the same way we started - by quitting when it felt like things had just begun.

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maybe someday, we will take our place again.
but it's time to take the long path back home.

- keyseeker

alchemist's preparation

"25"

I wrote this song back in 2022 and cherished it so much-- I wanted to save it for a full length album, but that didn't see the light of day

I just thought 2/5/25 would be a good time to release it.

"25"

"Palette" EP 
2025.03.07

out on Bandcamp now + spotify/others soon

nothing new, just some old songs all in one place. 

tracklist:
01. traveler's water orb
02. alchemist's preparation 
03. sunbeams crossing, garden strides
04. stride 
05. 25
06. flickering fire (demo)

https://keyseeker.bandcamp.com/album/palette-ep

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more releases coming this year. EVERYTHING MUST GO.

stride

"Palette" EP 
2025.03.07

out on Bandcamp now + spotify/others soon.

nothing new, just some old songs all in one place. 

tracklist:
01. traveler's water orb
02. alchemist's preparation 
03. sunbeams crossing, garden strides
04. stride 
05. 25
06. flickering fire (demo)

https://keyseeker.bandcamp.com/album/palette-ep

flickering fire

a song I made back in April 2015, as afterstories.

spring.

end of an era

https://keyseeker.bandcamp.com/album/aurelia-of-a-bygone-era

aurelia (2020)

end of an era.
https://keyseeker.bandcamp.com/album/aurelia-of-a-bygone-era



oathbearer / promises of yesterday  (2018)

celestial tide (2020)

"What is it that we (make), that fools us to (believe)"

end of an era.
https://keyseeker.bandcamp.com/album/aurelia-of-a-bygone-era

make, believe (2020)

i didn't want to say goodbye, but it's all i could say

departure

shoutout to oliver francis

p.s. i actually played this- i just don't have any real opportunity to record with a real piano

apathy

postcards

for the time when we thought we found "a place to call home"

forest sanctuary

existence

we forgot who we were meant to be

//

an old track from 2016.

https://twitter.com/theafterstories/status/1042262795193131008

seeking light

what are dreams, anyway?

https://keyseeker.bandcamp.com/album/aurelia-of-a-bygone-era

what was left behind (2018)

link to "Retribution Law" webtoon: 
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/retribution-law/list?title_no=410707&page=2

surprise! I was commissioned to compose the soundtrack for this week's episode of "Retribution Law" a supernatural mystery webtoon series created by the amazing disqette!

it was an honor to have a hand in this project in a little way, disqette and her vision for this project was super intriguing to me and I love how much passion was put into her art, it really has helped me to find some breakthrough to make music again

naturally, I strongly recommend reading up to chapter 16, as this track was created for that chapter specifically! (it comes out tomorrow !)

again, thank you to disqette for the commission !

hope you enjoy the chapter release!

follow the artist & webtoon author disqette here:
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/disqette

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