Late Night Synths And Strings

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Midra

Luhya

The Fifth Hand

Intro

Once upon a circle, longer than our lives,
The heavens turned the compass, the ages still arrive.
Aquarius rising, Pisces drifts away—
We count not just the moments, but a 26,000-day.

(whispered, layered voices)
“Precession bends the axis,
Light recalls its tune,
Every age remembers
Where the sky will bloom.”

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Verse 1 – The Turning Sky

The North Star shifts, the ecliptic leans,
A spiral clock beneath our dreams.
Egypt built to Orion’s belt,
Stonehenge felt what ancients felt.

T_{\text{Great Year}} \approx 25,772 \; \text{years}
The number folds like sacred rhyme,
Human memory bound to time.

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Chorus 1

The Great Year turns, the zodiac sings,
Civilizations rise on celestial strings.
From Leo’s fire to Aquarius near,
We are the children of the Great Year.

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Verse 2 – Ages of Man

Pisces carved the cross and dove,
Aquarius pours the water of love.
Virgo birthed the fields of grain,
Aries marched with swords of flame.

The sky’s equation, tilted slow,
A cycle every soul must know.

\theta(t) = \theta_0 + \omega t, \quad
\omega = \frac{2\pi}{25,772 \; \text{yrs}}

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Chorus 2

The Great Year hums, a rhythm so vast,
We live in the moment, but we’re shaped by the past.
Stars are the teachers, their lessons are clear,
Truth is recited in the Great Year.

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Bridge – The Hidden Aberration

Atlantis drowned when cycles turned,
Empires fell as lessons burned.
The wheel of ages hides the key,
Aberrations map our destiny.

(echo chant)
“Count the heavens, count the tears—
Truth returns in 26,000 years.”

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Final Chorus

The Great Year breathes, and we belong,
Every age rewrites its song.
Not by chance, but by design—
Time reflects a greater mind.

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Outro

One breath, one spin, one arc so clear,
We are the echoes of the Great Year.

The Great Year

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For Now I Am Winter

Arnalds: For Now I Am Winter (Kiasmos Remix)

Originally conceived as a Royal Ballet-commissioned collaboration between composer Max Richter, choreographer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie, Max Richter’s gorgeous score to ‘infra’ is deservedly given life of its own in this album-length release from FatCat’s instrumental/orchestral imprint 130701 Records.

The initial setting for ‘infra’ was as a ballet - written in autumn 2008 and premiered in November of the same year at The Royal Opera House in London – although here Richter’s score is given the full scope of a standalone new album. Expanded and extended from the original piece, ‘infra’ comprises music written for piano, electronics and string quintet, including the full performance score as well as material that has subsequently developed from the construction of the album – more a continued reference to the ballet than as a “studio album” in the strictest sense. The composition resonates with Max’s characteristic musical voice – majestic, involved textures; fluent and sweeping melodies; an enigmatic and inherently intellectual understanding of harmonic complexities that compels and mesmerizes.

Richter’s work on the ballet came initially from McGregor’s invitiation, a request for 25 minutes of music for his piece, inspired by T.S. Elliot’s ‘The Wasteland’ and named after the Latin term for ‘below’. This eventually became more collaborative as the project developed – Wayne would ask for Max to extend or alter certain passages of music in accordance with his own amendments to his choreography and concept, whilst logging the whole process for a BBC documentary (broadcast, along with the ballet in full, on BBC2 in November 2008). The dance performance was backed with digital images created by Julian Opie – observational scenes of street life, haunting and curiously balletic despite being of the everyday – and Max’s score is an appropriately close reference to the traveling theme:

“I started thinking about making a piece on the theme of journeys. Like a road movie. Or a traveler’s notebook. Or like the second unit in a film - when the scene has been played, and the image cuts away to the landscape going by. This started me thinking about Schubert's devastating and haunting "Winterreise" (Winter Journey), so I used some melodic material from Schubert as a found object in parts of my new piece.“

The recording of ‘infra’ took place in one day at London’s AIR Studios – recorded onto 2” tape, engineered by Nick Wollage and overseen by Max - before a return to the mixing studio (Max’s StudioKino and Trixx in Berlin) for Max’s typically intricate and lengthy process of crafting completed pieces from the recordings.

Infra

Infra 3

The Blame Game

The Debut Album "Nothing Is Still", out now on Ninja Tune.
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Nothing Is Still

Movements (Chapter III)

Ólafur Arnalds is a BAFTA-winning multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. Ólafur Arnalds mixes strings and piano with loops and beats crossing over from ambient/electronic to pop.

Arnalds: For Now I Am Winter (Kiasmos Remix)

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