‘When We Had A Home Planet’ is the soundtrack for a short story about relatable human struggles set in a sci-fi protopia where a new generation of humans live in Europa, one of Jupiter moons.

It consists of 6 songs recorded live from Kret’s bedroom, just with a violin, a 2-track zoom and a (pretty sci-fi) pedalboard. The violin is morphed through the pedals into a voice that sounds futuristic, synthlike, but also quirky, intimate and with a fair amount of gloominess.

The album becomes a first approach to a research (in the most childlike version of the scientific method) that intends to test the limits of what we can do with a violin when we stretch its possibilities through modern technology.

“A long time ago humanity fucked up their home planet. A small and privileged part of the population managed to embark themselves into an uncertain and unprepared interplanetary voyage with hope for a new start. Two generations after, a boy has an existential crisis at the outskirts of his birth town in Europa, one of Jupiter moons.
The boy tries to reconnect with his familiar and specific heritage through the memory of his recently deceased grandmother, thanks to a tape from when she still was a teenager back on Earth. A planet that he never got to know.”

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Kret is a violinist, sound engineer, composer and music researcher. He thrives on experimental music and the underground scene. He has an academic background on historically informed performance and composition for video games. He has played violin with the post-rock band Purkinje, colaborated with a varied cast of musicians such as the ambient napcore guitarrist Ubaldo, the memetic digital musician Erik Hurtado (Opus Vivaldi among others) or the producer Ferida. He self-releases music explorations with a narrative/conceptual intent, centering his music around a violin expanded through pedals and DAW. 
credits
released October 6, 2023

All music recorded live at home in Aug 2022 with a violin and a pedalboard by Kret.

Mixed and mastered by Kret, cover art by DALL·E 2.

Tape design by Deiff Mg, Dalien Zopel & Kret.

Handling, cutting and folding of designs by Dalien Zopel, Deiff Mg & Kret.

Short story ‘ When We Had A Home Planet’ by Kret, text-curie-001 & text-davinci-002.

Thanks to Erik and Monika for their on-going support during the production of this album, their valuable revisions and advice.

When We Had A Home Planet

Bandcamp

its the year 2067 and you found this old tape under the backseat of your grandma_s spaceship

Who The Hell Is Me digital + cassette  5/14

bootlegtapes.bandcamp.com



izy - Soakin' (Prod. Juxman)

Purchase Cassette

Daniel Aged - KAWAI SQ

Written + Performed by r_ck_s
Produced by r_ck_s
Mix + Mastered by Alec Ness
Cover by Josue Caraballo

WILEY(r_ck_s)

Written + Performed by r_ck_s
Produced by r_ck_s
Mixed + Mastered by Alec Ness
Cover by Josue Caraballo

2DEEP(r_ck_s)

Low Supply

Related tracks