... through your music, great project, much peace from germany!

I think this is the 6th time I played it... <3

Simply lovely music. It is becoming one of my favorite pieces. It is timeless, evocative, and profound. Thank you!

Green Fairy

The first completed Anndra track in a year. A new album will follow soon.

She mourns amidst the ruins (unmastered)

Torngat

Boxcar 13.. By Thee Final Church Of Thy Hydrogen Bomb And Thine Holy Fallout..A Backyard Ghost Side Project, Appearing On Sombre Soniks Dark Ambient 13 https://sombresoniks.bandcamp.com/album/dark-ambient-vol-13

Boxcar 13

Theme 1

Theme 2

Sasha further explores the themes of her first collaboration album Earth Songs. While her album "Khmaoch" explored the roots of civilization, "The Edge of Architecture" probes into the future of the modern age. 

Black gigantic buildings loom over our hubris as we reach for the unnatural with each new brick in the wall. The night reeks of dark fluid as flickering neon lights reflect on wet streets. Winds howl over a jungle of steel and shadows of automated builders creak in the distance. 

Field recordings blend with deep drone and ethereal overlays on this immersive album. For lovers of Sasha's unique style of cold and warm ambient blended together into an emotional ride.

The Edge of Architecture

ProtoU - Glass Fractals

Druhá Smrt - The Village of Thorn

Nihilstik Plague Ambient from Azrael Hoyland, featuring my good self on 'vokals' and mastered by Sombre Soniks Studios...
Available on thee debut Plaguewielder ep, 'World Funeral Requiem', on Sombre Soniks here:
http://sombresoniks.bandcamp.com/album/world-funeral-requiem

For more info on Plaguewielder:
http://www.facebook.com/plaguewielderambient

For more info on Sombre Soniks:
http://www.sombresoniks.com

Purchase Release

Plaguewielder - Shadows Of Mortality

Track created by Mike O'Brien (Melankolia, James the Lesser) exclusively for the Facebook group Libyans and Americans United for Friendship and Peace (http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/LibyansAndAmericans/)

The vocals are spoken by me, but they appear courtesy of Faith Goble, who wrote them, and owns all rights thereof.  The poem is called "The Corridor".

Let us find the way to friendship and peace through understanding and shared community....

LYRICS:


Hold off the empty sky

 With ancient, rocky pier
 And the warm dust 
Once carried on
 Now-ageless feet,
 A soft, stopped silt 
Lodged now in joins
 Where aeons meet.
 
Beneath the endless
 Solitude of sky 
And cold breath
 Of the looming stone,
 The walker walks . . .
 And walks alone.
 


Mike OBrien - The Meaning of Our Existence

Melankolia was started in mid-2007.
I should say, the concept started 2007.    
The music actually formed and took shape late 2007  - 2008.  My original goal with Melankolia was to try and 
put feelings to music.  I originally started with a very 
poor setup and poor instruments.  The difference between 
now and then is almost definately the passion.  I had 
enormous passion and creativity then, just not the right 
tools to express it fully.  As the years went by, I found 
I had to reclaim again the original fire for creative 
work.  Thanks to the many friends and supporters I have, I 
realized that continuing forward is the one true course.

A bit of background:

Melankolia has at this point (1/13) 3 studio albums, 2 
EP's, and countless contributions to many different 
collaborative works.  The discography falls as follows:

 - Nokturnum - 2009, Beneath the Fog Productions, 7 track 
album.  Later referred to as the project's "demo", 
Nokturnum sold over 150 copies, and is currently sold out.

 - Orpheus Down - 2010, Quartier23, 10 track full album.  
Orpheus Down saw the ascent in quality to MIDI sounds and 
better instrumentation.  Orpheus Down has sold an unknown 
amount of copies, and is still available through distros 
and online stores worldwide.  One track of note is a cover 
of Vond's Slipp sorgen løs.

 - III - 2012, Quartier23, 15 track full album.  III took 
over 2 years to fully come together.  Featuring 80 minutes 
of music, it also boasts the collaborative talents of 
Appalachian Winter, Buer, Hoyland, Immundus, Karsten 
Hamre, Loell Duinn, and Mortiis.  Currently available 
worldwide through various outlets.

http://www.melankolia.bandcamp.com



Mike OBrien - The Meaning of Our Existence

Melankolia

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