@aleph_sound

’Ego Death’ examines the hero's journey, the death and rebirth of the self, with the psychedelic experience as the narrative mechanism. It’s also a story about how I was changing as a person, a chronicle of my vision, values, and aspirations as an artist during the time of writing.

I’ve been fortunate to have electronic music as a place of healing in my life, a safe space to escape into and explore. Diving into this project at the start of the global covid-19 pandemic when everything was shutting down and things felt so uncertain was a sort of coping mechanism. During the 8-10 months prior to that, I had been overcome by this feeling that I had something more I needed to tell and explore within my work, something that I had been struggling to find and understand. It wasn’t until the mandatory isolation of quarantine that I was able to really parse out and confront what I was feeling and luckily I was able to make it into something tangible. This project is the result of that process.

I think a final point I’d like to offer up is that regardless of where the story ends, there is always a place beyond it. I’ve always loved to think about the unwritten narratives that follow a story's conclusion, about what happens with the characters and places after everything is said and done. I hope that those who take the time to listen to this record will consider that side of things now that this part of my story has ended.

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ALEPH - PARTICLE OF ID

bass coming soon

https://hypeddit.com/johnnysmall

member of @subversecollective

friends:
@phuturecollective
@presentlylifted
@churchofsounddesign
@highpeakscollective
@innersus
@sub-terranean
@badluckclubsea

temple mixes: @templeofbacchus
-2:  @johnnysmall-2
resamples: @journeysteve
cover art by wavefunk - - @wavwavwavwav

everything is free to download on soundcloud and bandcamp <3

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ALEPH - PARTICLE OF ID

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