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Unquestionably Syme Will Be Vaporized, Winston Thought Again

one step ahead

A thoughtful "fuck off" to haters everywhere

Bandcamp

Sally Farther

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 570

washing up the mountain
a colourless rain of autumn
waters unseen

Ueda Akinari was a Japanese author of the Edo period. His interest in folklore and the supernatural resulted in two masterpieces of Japanese literature, the ghost story collections Ugetsu Monogatari ("Tales of Rain and the Moon") and Harusame Monogatari ("Tales of Spring Rain").

Haiku by Ueda Akinari

Picture by Nathan Anderson

Pieces Of A Grey Sky

Pieces Of A Grey Sky (naviarhaiku570)

https://www.beatport.com/artist/xfa/589219

MMXXIIIIIIIVKNDLNGCT

3xOsc (bass), FLEX (lead, pad, rythmic backing) and RX11 (drum samples)

Seventh Wave

Hitting Different

falling

Well, here's something very different for me - Here's a light and quirky acoustic #folk / #singersongwriter version of my sad song called 'Promises', with the amazing 3VSound (Ava Suzanne) on vocals.

I wanted the simplest (and hopefully most effective) string arrangement and quirky counterpoint vocals, and I think I got it. :-)
This track is out for a nervous spin to see if anyone likes it.
 
Updated and released in Jan 2025.

I'll Try Till I Die

Promises - feat. 3V3Sound (Acoustic Version)

UNHAPPINESS

Superficially meditative and 'ambient', but conjuring alternating emotions of relaxation and tension, darkness and light.

Paramedic Jukebox Club

The Hierophant In The Room

A Joyful jaunty handpan tune evoking the joy of a sunny May afternoon. This tune bounces through melodic shifts and different time signatures to create a fun little celebration of spring! 

Spring Hope

COLOSSLOTH 'The Harmony Knife' CD

The fifth album from industrial / esoteric electronic alchemist Colossloth is a concept album based on the writings of professor Ted Kaczynski AKA the Unabomber. It is not about his terror campaign against the industrial society and the rise of technology - but his manifesto "Industrial Society And Its Future" and in particular the elements of "The Power Process".

"With "The Harmony Knife", Colossloth is cutting through to the bone and sinew of Man's chronic, species-specific dissatisfaction, and the causes thereof. He is laying bare humankind's inability to solve its own, self-created problems, to meet its basic needs, and to achieve even those goals clearly within its reach. 

What is the fundamental nature of the human condition? Is it one of misery and failure in the face of blissful possibility? Is it the contrary unwillingness to accept that we can become fully realised and contented beings through the success of actualised, idiosyncratic, and often basic goals? 

In defining and describing The Power Process, the twisted mind of Ted Kaczynski saw mankind's primal need to struggle for a goal, however small, as necessary for a meaningful life. Indeed, without this elemental piece of the evolutionary struggle, he saw terminal atrophy as the inevitable result. 

With "The Harmony Knife", Colossloth seizes these ideas and sonically extrapolates the implications of humankind's failure to satisfy even our most rudimentary needs. He creates an auditory landscape examining our repeated inability to focus our efforts on fundamental goals to ensure even a measure of happiness or contentment. Humanity's inability to live rather than merely exist" (Jake Shell).
 
• CD in matt-laminate digipak - out 28th Feb 2025.

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr347cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/the-harmony-knife

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/colossloth-the-harmony-knife

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr347cd

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COLOSSLOTH LIVE:

27th Feb: Drink Moor Beer, Bristol
- with Satøri, Acts Of Worship, T.G. Edwards, Lost And Found Society
• Tix: https://hdfst.uk/e120385
• https://www.facebook.com/events/1105058410891768

28th Feb: Centrala, Birmingham
- with  Satøri, Lucifer Sky
• Tix: £10 OTD
• https://www.facebook.com/events/1530889474240832

1st March: Eagle Inn, Salford
- with  Satøri, She The Throne, Abrasion Addict, Sloughed, Sub Unit
• Tix: https://ra.co/events/2072220
• https://www.facebook.com/events/965926258745723

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https://colossloth.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/colossloth
https://soundcloud.com/colossloth
https://twitter.com/colossloth
https://coldspring.co.uk/Colossloth


COLOSSLOTH The Harmony Knife (excerpt)

Can we be saved (lo-fi)

experimental/free improvisation, prepared electric guitar, trumpet, electronics

parameter K

2025-08-25-225334945_26082025.m4a

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