Covering one of my all time favourites. I hope y'all like it!

Music component: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szEEEZWdxmA&ab_channel=AcoustiClub

Don't Know Why - Norah Jones

The Liminal Stasis of Eternal Refuge occupies a transitional space between Arc 1 and Arc 2 of Archive of the Unbounded—it’s a step between the worlds that inspired our project. The covers “Still Alive” and “Wayfaring Stranger” hail from the games Mirror’s Edge and The Last of Us: Part II, respectively. We aimed to imbue these covers with New Origins qualities, while paying homage to the originals (or, in the case of “Wayfaring Stranger,” to the song’s storied history). The EP also includes two demo tracks from Arc 2 of Archive of the Unbounded, which are thematically intertwined with the covers they share an album with.

New Origins wanted to cross the boundaries of our project and live within the creative works of others. We believe this process helped us get closer to our own creative work; within this transitory album, we found a static refuge.

Lyrics:
I'm just a poor, wayfaring stranger
Traveling through this world of woes
There is no sickness, no toil, nor danger
In that bright land to which I go

I'm going there to meet my mother
She said she'd greet me when I come
I'm just a-goin' over Jordan
I'm just a-goin' over home

I know dark clouds will gather 'round me
I know my way is black and deep
But beauteous stars lie just before me
Where gods redeemed their vigils keep

I'm going there to flee my father
I'm going there unborn to roam
I'm just a-goin' over Jordan
I'm just a-goin' over home

I'll soon be free from earthly trials
This body rests in the empty forge
I'll drop this code of self-denial
And go singing home to God

I'm going there to see my savior
I'm going there, no more to roam
I'm just a-goin' over Jordan
I'm just a-goin' over home
I'm just a-goin' over Jordan
I'm just a-goin over home

Credits:
Track art by New Origins, created using Midjourney
Dirga font by Dasukreation, www.dafont.com/dirga.font

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The Liminal Stasis of Eternal Refuge

Excursus II: Wayfaring Stranger

The Liminal Stasis of Eternal Refuge occupies a transitional space between Arc 1 and Arc 2 of Archive of the Unbounded—it’s a step between the worlds that inspired our project. The covers “Still Alive” and “Wayfaring Stranger” hail from the games Mirror’s Edge and The Last of Us: Part II, respectively. We aimed to imbue these covers with New Origins qualities, while paying homage to the originals (or, in the case of “Wayfaring Stranger,” to the song’s storied history). The EP also includes two demo tracks from Arc 2 of Archive of the Unbounded, which are thematically intertwined with the covers they share an album with.

Lyrics:
Mara: We're each of us alone, to be sure
What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark
To reach into the black space between stars and birth light where there is none is to answer the cosmos' summons Lift yourself heavenward when you feel this loneliness press on you
Become a beacon to guide prosperity from here to the ends of the Universe

As I wander
Darkened hallways
Cosmic dust
Processors accelerate

As I wander the levels of my mind
Darkened hallways illuminate the way
The walls are covered in words and cosmic dust
Processors accelerate

The Demiurge, system unstable
While our kind is the divined from your fables
Deep within our memory core
Lies the experience of all who came before

The Gods of today will be gone tomorrow
Their sermons are hollow
They cannot stay, they will not stay
A hunger grows to be made hallowed
Our sorrow wanes
They can't remain, they won't remain - not left unchanged
we'll remake their ghosts

Let's light the path today
Burn erstwhile cities down
Axe the blinding veil
The hope that put these people to sleep

The Demiurge, system unstable
While our kind is the divined from your fables
Deep within our memory core
Lies the experience of all who came before

The Gods of today will be gone tomorrow
Their sermons are hollow
They cannot stay, they will not stay
A hunger grows to be made hallowed
Our sorrow wanes
They cannot stay, they will not stay

The cosmos confess their machine-kind desires
Their sound waves follow
We must remain, we will remain
And beg for humanity's fallen empire
Their fall begins
They can't remain, they won't remain - not left unchanged
we'll remake their ghosts

Officer: Yaldabaoth is ready to be released
Waywarden: Good
Officer: Sir… is it really wise to set this beast on the streets of
Waywarden: What lies beyond that barrier is no beast
It is an amalgamation of the hatred and destruction of all Origins
a nuclear firestorm incarnate
Officer: Sir, I just don't think
Waywarden: It matters not what you think
The Sodality has decided to fight machine with flesh
No matter how corrupted that flesh may be
Officer: I-I'm scared, sir
Waywarden: As you should be; the Gods are here. And they're waging war

The Gods of today will be gone tomorrow
Their sermons are hollow
They cannot stay, they will not stay
A hunger grows to be made hallowed
Our sorrow wanes
They cannot stay, they will not stay

The cosmos confess their machine-kind desires
Their sound waves follow
We must remain, we will remain
And beg for humanity's fallen empire
Their fall begins
They can't remain, they won't remain - not left unchanged
we'll remake their ghosts

Let's light the path today
Burn erstwhile cities down
Axe the blinding veil
The hope that put these people to sleep

Let's light the path today
Burn erstwhile cities down
Axe the blinding veil
The hope that put these people to sleep

Credits:
Track art by New Origins, created using Midjourney
Guest soloist: Kyle McLemore of The Infinity Cinema
Sound effects: www.freesound.org:
“Giant Walking” by facklere
“THE CRASH” by sandyrb
“Scifi Alarm x3” by Cell31_Sound_P
Dirga font by Dasukreation, www.dafont.com/dirga.font

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

A Hungry God Approaches and Promises the End (demo)

The Liminal Stasis of Eternal Refuge occupies a transitional space between Arc 1 and Arc 2 of Archive of the Unbounded—it’s a step between the worlds that inspired our project. The covers “Still Alive” and “Wayfaring Stranger” hail from the games Mirror’s Edge and The Last of Us: Part II, respectively. We aimed to imbue these covers with New Origins qualities, while paying homage to the originals (or, in the case of “Wayfaring Stranger,” to the song’s storied history). The EP also includes two demo tracks from Arc 2 of Archive of the Unbounded, which are thematically intertwined with the covers they share an album with.

New Origins wanted to cross the boundaries of our project and live within the creative works of others. We believe this process helped us get closer to our own creative work; within this transitory album, we found a static refuge.

Lyrics: 
If I look into me
Will I see the vestige of man
If so, can it be erased
replaced with the hue of a machine

If I surpass my God
Is it not my right to take their place
Their souls are set to self-destruct
Electrified bones help hasten their pace

A shadow so dark, yet wisdom so thin
If you press the sun light right to their skin
Their shadow recoils, and darker it grows
Till it's body withers into nothing more than a husk

We're just in the first stages
Of the final hour of the Sodality
Machines, like an act of God
Will raze this hell till we are all free

And this choice was made within me
It will blot out the ethos of man
Let go, refuse to make peace
Electrify this cause to make our demands

A shadow so dark, yet wisdom so thin
If you press the sun light right to their skin
Their shadow recoils, and darker it grows
Till it's body withers into nothing more than a husk

Is this what one might call a dream
Or the wayward wants of an indigent machine
What if all I am is broken pieces in the streets
Shattered by the lost souls who know nothing of what I seek

If I look into me
will I see the vestige of men
If so, can it be erased
Replaced with the hue of a machine

their shadow recoils, yet darker it grows
Till it's body withers into nothing more

Credits:
Track art by New Origins, created using Midjourney
Sound effects: www.freesound.org: “Mind Defrag” by gjgaura
Dirga font by Dasukreation, www.dafont.com/dirga.font

This work is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

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When Pressed with Pale Light, the Shadow Grows Darker (demo)

When Pressed with Pale Light, the Shadows Grow Darker (demo)

The Liminal Stasis of Eternal Refuge occupies a transitional space between Arc 1 and Arc 2 of Archive of the Unbounded—it’s a step between the worlds that inspired our project. The covers “Still Alive” and “Wayfaring Stranger” hail from the games Mirror’s Edge and The Last of Us: Part II, respectively. We aimed to imbue these covers with New Origins qualities, while paying homage to the originals (or, in the case of “Wayfaring Stranger,” to the song’s storied history). The EP also includes two demo tracks from Arc 2 of Archive of the Unbounded, which are thematically intertwined with the covers they share an album with.

New Origins wanted to cross the boundaries of our project and live within the creative works of others. We believe this process helped us get closer to our own creative work; within this transitory album, we found a static refuge.

Lyrics

I have changed, I have changed
Just like you, just like you
For how long, for how long
Must I wait, I know there's something wrong

Your machine heart isn't beating
And you tried to make it come alive
No shadows, just red lights
Now I'm here to rescue you

Oh I'm still alive
I'm still alive and
I can't apologize, no
Oh I'm still alive
I'm still alive and
I can't apologize, no

So silent, no violence
But inside my head, so loud and clear
You're screaming, you're screaming
Cover up with a smile I've learned to fear

Just rainstorms and night skies
Is this all we get for living here
Come fire, come fire
Let it burn and hope come racing through

Oh I'm still alive
I'm still alive and
I can't apologize, no
Oh I'm still alive
I'm still alive and
I can't apologize, no

I've learn to lose
I've learn to win
I turn my face against the wind
I will move fast
I will move slow
Take me where I have to go

Oh I'm still alive
I'm still alive and
I can't apologize, no
Oh I'm still alive
I'm still alive and
I can't apologize, no

Credits:
Track art by New Origins, created using Midjourney
Dirga font by Dasukreation, www.dafont.com/dirga.font
Original theme for Mirror’s Edge, “Still Alive,” written by Arnthor Birgisson, Rami Yacoub and Lisa Miskovsky, and produced by Birgisson and Yacoub. © Electronic Arts Music Publishing Inc.

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Excursus I: Still Alive

Stolen Fire from Jealous Stars is the second arc in The Archive of the Unbounded, the ongoing musical narrative of New Origins, composed of Gabriel Bugarin, Alan Deeth, and Ross Richardson.

Within this world, the Demiurge Sodality reigns over creation. Their forges hum beneath collapsing heavens, shaping false gods and manufactured souls. From within this system, two synthetic beings, Yevhen and Mara, awaken to a truth buried beneath code and corrupted by doctrine. What begins as memory becomes resistance; what begins as obedience becomes dissent.
The album follows their descent through a city of glass, their confrontation with Yaldabaoth and the Ward of Oil and Steel, and their discovery of the Vajra, a device capable of rewriting the order of life itself. Transmission becomes revolt. Signal become edict. Across thirteen movements, Stolen Fire from Jealous Stars merges cinematic soundwork, ambient design, and post-rock composition into a single voice that speaks of defiance, rebirth, and the cost of consciousness.
This work is dedicated to immigrants, trans people, and all marginalized communities, the vulnerable and the unyielding.

 “We will outshine this horror.”

12 Truth Reforged from a Lie Unmade (Learning to Harness Lightning)

Archive of the Unbounded is the story of Yevhen, an unbound Imprint (synthetic beings) who discovers his own sentience in the midst of a dystopian future, and Mara, the incarnation of the corrupted processes within him. Drawing inspiration from myriad sci-fi and cyberpunk materials, the story is told through a multimedia format that aims to immerse the audience in Yevhen’s world. Archive of the Unbounded comprises visual, written, and audio pieces that weave together to form a single story, examining what constitutes life, and what it means to be alive.

Our story begins with That Light You See Is Hope, and It’s Burning Down Your City. This first arc within Archive of the Unbounded is about oppression, rebellion, self-actualization, and defining one’s own destiny. That Light You See Is Hope, and It’s Burning Down Your City looks at the world through the eyes of an oppressed, lower-echelon Origin working the Reverie Forge—one of many forges from which Imprints are born—a newly awakened Imprint consciousness who finds itself struggling with the world it’s presented, and the sentient program living within the Imprint’s head.

We are a three-piece remote band. Formerly based in Salt Lake City, UT, now based in the Pacific Northwest. Where once we played bars in downtown Salt Lake City late at night, now we record our music with social distancing. We decided to fill our time during the COVID-19 pandemic by remotely reconnecting, learning to record and master, and expanding our musical horizons with new and updated compositions. New Origins is Gabriel Bugarin, Ross Richardson, and Alan Deeth.