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Frail Light

When We Walked, Every Creature Hid

So Much

Recorded specifically for the Kalinkaland "Lightwaves 2" compilation

The Suicide Prevention Hotline

One Of These Days Some Eyes Will Be Opened



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What does the future of peace and quiet look like? Is it possible for someone to find serenity in a world where population mushrooms and buildings continuously jockey for the best possible view? With Kael Smith’s (Mombi, Khale) Mute Forest this dichotomy is at the epicenter of his 'Infinity Pools EP' due April 7th via Lost Tribe Sound.

To coincide with visuals courtesy of Gregory Euclide (Bon Iver, Erased Tapes), Smith’s debut EP fuses acoustic sounds, mangled electronics and provocative lyrics across four meditative yet mesmerizing tracks.

Serving as a companion piece to his expansive and sonorous LP, 'Deforestation', due later this year, Smith’s 'Infinity Pools EP' was actually written as a reaction to that material but will be released first.“ 'Deforestation' will in a sense be a prequel to the EP,” explains Smith. “And for listeners who follow along, should provide an interesting reverse narrative,” he concludes.

“Crypt,” the EP’s opener, contains oscillating vinyl-sampled rhythms, chiming electric guitar and gently struck nylon guitar. Following that is the sparce and haunting “Volcanoes Flowing,” which traces a melancholy beat and slow, lovely piano crescendos to its heartbreaking conclusion.

Darker in tone, title track "Infinity Pools" has a commanding presence using ominous electronics and damaged samples of Le Creuset pots being struck. Heavily processed and featuring vocals from Smith’s longtime girlfriend Kelly O’Brien, the track unfurls into a hypnotic groove over the chilling words “You’ll feel like an ember trilling/out in space.”

Washing over the listener to conclude the EP, “Eat the Skin” originally started as an A Winged Victory for the Sullen remix of a song off of their recent LP, 'Atomos'. As the track progressed though, all of the layers performed by AWVFTS were eventually stripped leaving only acoustic guitar and Smith’s voice. “I like to pretend we wrote that song together, hopefully someday they will hear it” desires Smith. He uses the big, cavernous sound of acoustic guitar as base for unhurried, dulcet vocals and airy electronics. “I’ve always loved the big, acoustic sound of Seafood’s “Desert Stretched Before the Sun”“ explains Smith. “I really tried to emulate that deep resonate tone where the acoustic sounds like a tidal wave.”

All songs written, performed, recorded and mixed by Kael Smith (kaelsmithmusic.com)
Kelly O'Brien backing vocals on "Infinity Pools."
Mastering by Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering
Production assistance on "Crypt" & "Volcanoes Flowing" by Matthew Herron

Original artwork by Gregory Euclide (gregoryeuclide.com)
Copyright 2015 Lost Tribe Sound (losttribesound.com)
Published by Settled Scores 2015 (ASCAP)


Mute Forest - Eat The Skin (from Infinity Pools EP)

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Life On the Dancefloor

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Seal - Life On the Dancefloor (Paya-Pd Remix)

An ode to the late Nick Talbot (Gravenhurst)

12.4.15

I first discovered Gravenhurst back in 2004 while exhausting the last of my pizza-serving paycheck at my local record store, Stinkweeds in Tempe, AZ. As I was thumbing through new releases, eerie, atmospheric-folk began to play over the store’s sound system. When Nick’s voice emerged from the fog, I was hooked. I purchased Flashlight Seasons that day and immediately felt as if I was let in on a secret. I listened to that album incessantly. To make extra money during this time I began to DJ weddings, mitzvahs and private parties.  The nights were long and the playlists were pre-chosen by the clients. When I climbed into my ’86 Honda Civic (nicknamed “the roller skate”) at the end of the night all I wanted to do was to cleanse my ears with Nick’s beautiful, intimate songs. His music was my companion; something I could count on when I was lonely. Although I never got a chance to see Nick perform or meet him in person, I felt like through his songs I knew him intimately.

Nick passed away a year ago today. At the time I coped with the tragic news by recording one of my favorite songs of his, “The Diver”. And while my version could never hold a light to the original, I recorded it with great sincerity and sorrow. I learned later that Nick had suffered from the seizure-causing disorder epilepsy, a disorder my mother also suffers from. That’s why I’m releasing the cover as a pay-what-you-want digital download via Bandcamp with 100% of the proceeds going to the http://www.epilepsysociety.org.uk/, the leading provider of epilepsy services in the UK though research, awareness campaigns, info. resources and expert care. Please consider donating a minimum of $1 for the song and help give people with this often debilitating disorder your support. 

With gratitude and fond remembrance, 

- Kael Smith

You can download the cover and donate here: https://muteforest.bandcamp.com/track/the-diver-gravenhurst-cover

Recorded and arranged by Kael Smith
Lyrics by Nick Talbot
Mastered by Taylor Deupree (12k)
Cover art by Lynn Vanlandingham
Original of "The Diver" appears on Gravenhurst's 2004 album Flashlight Seasons (Warp Records)


The Diver (Gravenhurst cover)

Glass of Sand Water

My Violaine Morning - The Downtown Lights

[p*dis] distribution sampler for February 2012.

Olafur Arnalds - Another Happy Day - Autumn Day (erased tapes)

You and my winter

Written, recorded and mixed by Mute Forest. Mastered by Kirk Clausen and Kael Smith at Crosspoint. Photo taken in Denmark by Kael Smith. Single layout by Kelly O'Brien.

Pray for Hail

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Lyrics:
I've been dead since I was born,
Saw the world didn't want no more,
I stood back and watched it burn - and now everybody's dead.

Out of sight and out of mind,
Will not do the daily grind,
I'll have my coffee like I have my time - Well I've got none of it,

Trade in God trade in your wife,
Leave it for a better life,
Wash your sins then leave em' out to dry - then fucking burn yourself,

We're elephants on chicken legs,
Houses built on stilts in water,
We buckle and we bend and then we drown,

Brace for impact - brace for ground,
Take a stand then tumble down,
You'll never get to be the man you want.

I said I wasn't built for this,
Told him that we'd all fall down,
"Tough luck," he said, "humanity ain't shit".

It’s all supposed to say
your father is gone.

Koda - In the Deserts of La Femme Period Chaser (JacM Remix)

This is a demo version of a new Mute Forest song called The Riven Sun. This track is an exclusive download for Kickstarter backers. Learn more here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muteforest/mute-forest-expands-further-for-album-2

The Riven Sun (demo)

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Koda - The Last Stand (JacM Remix)

first track off the soon-to-be-released "do they still make lighthouses?" record. 

Back and Fill

Kashiwa Daisuke - Coto

Dead Air for Radios is the first solo album of Kevin Moore, under the name Chroma Key. The album was released four years after Moore left the keyboardist seat of Dream Theater. It has since sold around 10,000 copies.

Personnal :

    Kevin Moore - vocals, keyboards, bass
    Mark Zonder - drums
    Jason Anderson - guitars
    Joey Vera - bass on tracks 3, 4, and 5

N° Album :    1 (Or second : "Music Meant To Be Heard" was the initial demo tape for Kevin Moore's work, published within certain Dream Theater fan clubs, and distributed by Kevin Moore himself. Very few copies of the original tapes exist. The tape was converted to CD at an unknown time, and is distributed as a CD-R in most bootleg distribution networks. All of the tape except for "Song For Eric" "Blanket" and "Space Dye Vest" would later be remastered and published on "This Is A Recording."

Released 	June 8, 1998
Recorded 	Bill's Place, North Hollywood, CA
Genre 	        Prog Rock
Length 	        44:04
Label 	        Fight Evil Records
Producer 	Kevin Moore, Steve Tushar

Chroma Key - 03 - Undertow

"things I want to tell you" from no-man's 2003 album "together we're stranger".

Tim Bowness - vocals.  Steven Wilson - instruments.  David Picking - electronics.

Produced by Steven Wilson.

"There are things I want to tell you,
I no longer tell you.
Ways I want to hold you gone to waste."

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