Faces

This album has roots in my early years of visiting the observatory in Sunriver, Oregon with my Dad. I looked through the telescopes and saw the moons of Jupiter with my own eyes. It slowly came to me that it would actually be possible to stand on those moons. The ice on Europa is real; it would hold you up. And if stood there and looked out, the sky would be filled with the swirling storms of Jupiter's upper clouds. The orange god would be surrounded by the blackness of space itself. 

Though these thoughts can inspire, they begin to chill your bones as you move farther away from the sun. Temperatures plunge. There is no air to breathe. Radiation is immense. Standing upon Neptune's moon Triton, the sun would begin to resemble the rest of the stars as you faded into the nothing. 

Voyager II took one of the only clear images we have of Neptune. I don't believe we were meant to see that kind of image. Unaided, our eyes are only prepared to see the sun, the moon, and the stars. Looking into the blue clouds of the last planet you cannot help but think of the black halo of space that surrounds the planet and extends forever. 

I cannot un-see those images. They have become a...  more
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released January 14, 2019 

July 30th 2590, 

Returning to their base in the Leviathan Plains, clorantine miners on Neptune’s moon, Triton, noticed a faint blue glow out their portside window. 

Tracing the light source, they found a small black craft frozen near the entrance to a lava cave. Rubidium dating puts the craft’s age at roughly 3.9 billion years old. 

Dr. Amala Chandra has begun a dialogue with the craft’s inhabitant. It is able to communicate through subjective neural radiation recoil. In essence, it can both read one’s mind and transmit directly into consciousness itself. 

Sub-neural scans of Dr. Chandra have allowed us to reconstruct the images imparted to her by the craft. They are often accompanied by a music that Dr. Ch can feel but not hear. Our neural scanning systems have attempted record and reproduce her experiences. 

The following are the images and sounds that have been reconstructed so far…

Evening In The Norgay Montes, Pluto

Mars, Old Age

Jupiter Devouring Her Moons

Lightning Storms On Neptune

Europa

Triton, Swim

Voyager II (Frost)

The Ashen Spirits on the Surface of Mercury

Prologue

Track 3 from our upcoming album 'Paradise Lost'. This album follows the story of the fallen angel Iblis. We share her life as she learns to live below Heaven and Earth and seeks a return to her home in the sky.

Visit Me

Latlaus Sky (Pronounced LAT-lus) is the Portland-based duo Brett and Abby Larson. After releasing 'Swells E.P.' to positive reviews in 2011, the two began finalizing concepts for a masterpiece love story, 'The End of Sorrow'. After writing numerous versions, poems, and accompanying paintings and sketches, the sweeping 14-track album was finally completed in Boulder, CO where the two played and recorded the songs themselves. Latlaus Sky's influences stretch from Elliott Smith to Burial. The music is at times intimately acoustic and at other times reminiscent of Eluvium's spacious soundscapes. Following Sufjan Stevens, the Larson duo may be among the forerunners in the beginnings of 'Contemplative Folk'. Indeed, the music seeks to develop and create a meditative space where the listener can melt into the rich synths and delicate melodies. It is in this way that Latlaus Sky opens our hearts to the story of love and letting go that permeates The End of Sorrow. The duo is currently working on an instrumental follow up sequel The Other Shore, to be released someday. THey are also hard at work writing a new story that will become an album too. It is Paradise Lost chronicling the mythical story of an Angel who fell from grace and landed in a forlorn and desolate land. The story is very loosely based on Milton's 17th century epic by the same name. Larson has said that this album will take years to complete. 
Látlaus Ský is Brett Larson and is currently signed to Three Sixty Records. Contact latlaussky@gmail.com for information and candies.

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