artist: DesuExSounds https://soundcloud.com/freej-255201882
album: Figments (NR015)
release date: 10th September 2021
duration: 39 minutes
edition: digital + CD

How we recall, 
how Emotions imprint in us, 
the sound of mother Nature, 
the big City, 
our Loneliness, 
our struggles, 
the Voice that soothe our pain, 
the Voice that fuels our Dreams, 
to conquer the Past and reach 
for the Summit, 
Our best. 
to Sail, 
with Hope, 
into the Unknown. 


Figments is an introspective journey depicted through ethereal soundscapes: personal experiences that define us yet result from intimate contemplation that little has to do with objective experience. 

In concert, mind and surroundings create a new world, where the boundaries between reality and abstraction seem feeble, non-existent. Field recordings make way for subtle ambient layers: a metaphor of the world being absorbed and reinterpreted by our consciousness. What’s left is a path made of memory, experience, feelings that become the compass that guides us through the intricacies of life. 

Like waves, perpetual melodies break through the veil of reality and force us to look within, question ourselves and what defines us. 

Figments is a celebration of the inner voice, the one that can shape reality so that we can live within its boundaries while being truly, unquestionably ourselves. 

About the artist: 

A "homegrown" of Naviar's community, Constantin Blu, aka DesuExSounds, started producing ambient and soundscapes by picking up the Naviar's Haiku challenge almost four years ago to explore and develop creativity through music as a tool for self-knowledge and interaction. Previously just a passion, Constantin has co-authored musical projects for dance and theatre in the Bucharest scene with friends who have a special home town in common: Onesti. "Figments" is the first ambient solo album that coagulates this journey, reflects the personal bond, and draws inspiration from Naviar's artistic ethos.

Figments

DesuExSounds - Figments (teaser)

Atmos 1

from 2023 album *MUSIC FROM MY VULVA* (tbr)
this side: 
Wheels Ov Cornucopia
other side:
https://soundcloud.com/myrhyum/lyergenei-scream-ov-orgasm

Wheels Ov Cornucopia (Confusion Comes n Goes...)

Have you ever looked up at a star, seeing it flicker colorfully, vividly inspiring you with an image? I definitely know I did: The first time it happened when I was quite small, exploring every phenomenon around me - I took a good look at a star and because of the possible nebula hiding its full spark, making it flicker, I thought to myself: "These may not be mere stars, but perhaps some fancy space bars" As their light was never the same color, but ranging from yellow to red, blue and even violet.
That mood stuck with me ever since - I wonder if one day, one dream I would see that place in outer space I ever wanted to embrace.

This tune improvisation is a homage to that memory - a blend of nostalgia and need to be with the cosmic buddies from the bar that no one on earth have ever been to before. 

Happy 2024!

Image from Citizen Sleeper - an amazing visual novel I recommend checking out if you're in love with space fiction and feeling cared for in a scary futuristic world.

Warm Space

And now this is the concluding track 10, "Stay with Me", in my just completed album "New Beginning" (2024): composed in Garage Band iOS in the late evening of 3 March 2024 and arranged, mixed and recorded in Logic Pro in the late evening of 4 March 2024, with final arrangement and mix in Logic Pro in the late evening of 5 March 2024, by Alex M, then posted on SoundCloud on 7 March 2024 (together with the album as a whole).

The album artwork cover, also used as the cover of each constituent track, was created in PowerPoint and annotated in Mac OS Preview on 19 July 2023 (and 5 January 2024, changing the year from 2023 to 2024 in the brackets of the album title).

Duration: 3:19 minutes
Tempo: 124 bpm
Time Signature: 4/4
Key Signature: Bb

Digital instruments used, in the order of composing and recording:

1. Piano - Boesendorfer Grand Piano
2. Bass - P-Bass
3. Keyboard - Alchemy Synth - Mallets - Spacetime Keys (Breathy)
4. Drums - Electronic - Simmons SDS-V
5. Synthesizer - Strings - String Decay
6. Cinematic - Textures - Tranquility
7. Synthesizer - Sound Effects - Thunderous Ambience
8. Cinematic - Ambient Drone - Twilight Splendor

Stay with Me

A flash of light on a moonlit night! A sharp blade that cuts through prey. That's KATANA!

KATANA (Samurai Sword)

This week's podcast features music made by Naviar's community inspired by
Takahama Kyoshi’s poem “A distant mountain / Seen in the sunlight: / A desolate field”

Tracklist:

Adrian Lane - Seen In The Sunlight
Stan Magendanz - A distant mountain
LazenbeeIndustries - desolate field
mikey_a - Distant Mountain Seen
noble-earths – Distance
Night Note - A Distant Mountain

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku529-a-distant-mountain/ 

Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Alessio Soggetti
voice reciting the poem: Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #309 – A distant mountain – Wednesday 6th March 2024

This ep track has been released on bandcamp today April 2-2024 at:https://burythejar.bandcamp.com/album/approach-abstract-ep
Once in the Abstract, things are not what they seemed to be in the here and now. Recycled thoughts that didn't materialize into actions, now do. Thoughts are a Statistic!

Approach Abstract EP

space wizard

with samples from:
https://soundcloud.com/cecilia-special/no-more-wars-accas-special-cecilia
https://soundcloud.com/specialececilia

thank you Cecilia

All Nations - ReverbNation (w/ Special Cecilia)

Closure

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

To join the Haiku challenge, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

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