Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream. This is 21 minutes of epic odyssey... of the symphotronic-Balkan-spiced-triphop-meets-steampunk-glitchfolk variety... and several remixes of different parts of the title tracks. Very psychedelic.  Downloads available at soundsliketree.com

River Through An Open Door

Nest Of Wishes is an unbounded series of free-floating, wildly divergent musical offerings.  Tracks are released one-at-a-time, each accompanied by a blog post.  Visit http://soundsliketree.com/category/blog/nest-of-wishes/ to explore.

Nest Of Wishes

Love Becomes You

We hold a flame still ashamed of its light. 
Its flickering dreams just quiver and hide. 
All the same, could it lead the way through every divide... 
Illuminating this impossible mind? 

Live today as the last of your kind. 
The hour is here, the road mystified. 
Seek the trail that wanders far out of this time. 
We get lost and confused then become what we find. 

Full wind in the sail, all flows we ride 
fall from fingers of stars, and everything shines. 
Throw it all in the face of The Lie. 
There's nobody here and neither am I. 

Just a cold, old broken shell passing the time 
could get lost in the noise, as it begs you flail alongside. 
O but hold to the thread of belief that the light still abides 
in invisible hues...  
This flame never dies.


Released March 5, 2021 
Real guitars: Scott Ferreter 
Everything else: Eric Oberthaler (eO)

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Aflame

Here you have a remix I made from Subaqueous's track Invoking (off the album Immerge).  It's included along with 13 other wonderful tracks on his new record, Revision, which is itself comprised entirely of remixes.  Please visit http://subaqueous.bandcamp.com to hear the whole record and grab it!

Subaqueous - Invoking (eO Remix)

This is fantasmic, future-world hyper-fusion.
A spectrum-spanning, psychedelicious kaleidoscope of somethingness.
Get download at http://eomusic.bandcamp.com

Underglow - Three

This is fantasmic, future-world hyper-fusion.
A spectrum-spanning, psychedelicious kaleidoscope of somethingness.
Get the download at http://eomusic.bandcamp.com


Underglow - One

This is fantasmic, future-world hyper-fusion.
A spectrum-spanning, psychedelicious kaleidoscope of somethingness.
Get the download at http://eomusic.bandcamp.com

Underglow - Two

Underglow (continuous mix: one~two~three)

A twenty minute version of Only Light.

Kyrstyn Pixton: voice
eO: voice, other sounds, production, composition, mixing, mastering

Link to original version: https://eomusic.bandcamp.com/track/only-light-nest-of-wishes-3

Link to full "Nest Of Wishes" EP:  https://eomusic.bandcamp.com/album/nest-of-wishes-vol-1



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Only Light - Rebirth Mix (feat. Kyrstyn Pixton)

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Midnight (eO / Coldplay)

oh, go to sleep little girl
you'll catch your curlies on the trees
night night little boy
those roots are gonna wrap you 'round your knees
oh it's a copious world
and life's a sparkle in the breeze
and in a copious world
you've still got to live those days you seize

knock knock little bird
you've dropped your feathers in a pile
oh no little worm
no one else is gonna squirm your mile
‘cause in a copious world
we're always going out of style
oh, what a copious world
we only share it for a very little while

at home
in a barrel down the falls
a lullabye has found you
you wander alone
an echo down the hall
until the tune becomes you

hang on little weed
don't let them tell you what you are
up up little tree
your tangled fingers in the stars
such a copious world
an overflowing basket of bizarre
my cornacopious world
you are the loveliest by far 

at home
in a barrel down the falls
a lullabye has found you
you wander alone
an echo down the hall
until the tune becomes you


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A Copious World (with Kyrstyn Pixton)

Ayla Nereo - From The Ground Up (eO & Kyrstyn Remix)

DOWNLOAD HERE: http://eomusic.bandcamp.com/album/river-through-an-open-door


eO - River Through an Open Door - 02 Nethers - Dubstep Twilight Mix

DOWNLOAD HERE: <a href="http://eomusic.bandcamp.com/album/river-through-an-open-door">http://eomusic.bandcamp.com/album/river-through-an-open-door</a>



eO - River Through an Open Door - 03 Ages Overboard

Composed, Performed and Produced by Eric Oberthaler

Featuring the following 8Dio libraries:
Adagio and Agitato Strings
Qanun, Santur, and Lyre

This composition received 1st Prize for the 8Dio 2015 "Stand-Out" Contest.

At Last Through Thinning Veils

DOWNLOAD HERE: <a href="http://eomusic.bandcamp.com/album/river-through-an-open-door">http://eomusic.bandcamp.com/album/river-through-an-open-door</a>


eO - River Through An Open Door - 04 Lilt - Smiling Flowers Mix

eO - River Through An Open Door - 05 Strange Design - Etchings Mix

DOWNLOAD HERE: <a href="http://eomusic.bandcamp.com/album/river-through-an-open-door">http://eomusic.bandcamp.com/album/river-through-an-open-door</a>


eO - River Through An Open Door - 06 Lilt - Hypno Bass Mix

eO - River Through An Open Door - 07 Sussurus - Liminal Ambience

A 21-minute, technorchestral, Balkan-spiced-triphop-meets-steampunk psychedelic odyssey. This is the title track of the album which also contains 6 tangential remixes derived from chunks of this larger work. This track is a journey - make the appropriate preparations, sit back, and enjoy the ride.
DOWNLOAD: The record is available at <a href="http://soundsliketree.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">soundsliketree.com</a>.
Featuring:
Dina Maccabee - violin <a href="http://myspace.com/dinamaccabeeband" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">myspace.com/dinamaccabeeband</a>
Kyrstyn Pixton - vocals, percussion <a href="http://kyrstynsong.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kyrstynsong.com</a>
Peter Jaques - clarinet <a href="http://huzzam.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">huzzam.com</a>
Ryan Francesconi - tambura, bouzouki <a href="http://are-f.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">are-f.com</a>
EO - vocals, trumpet, keyboards, computers
Produced, Composed, Mixed, and Mastered by EO (Eric Oberthaler)
Cover Art by EO 



River Through An Open Door (full symphotronic poem)

A diversionary post-dubstep romp through the gardens of synesthesia, regarding fragmented time with head askew. Award-winning track from the OMG-1 Contest held by Spectrasonics and the Bob Moog Foundation.

eO - Good Heavens

Marya Stark- Harp, Vocals, Lyrics, Composition 
Eric Oberthaler (eO)- Orchestration, Production, Mixing, Mastering 
Nicole Erfan (Parvana Photography)- Photo, Concept, Muse 
Jesse Autumn- Harp

Lyrics:
music box upon my step 
did i find one midnight hour 
wondering what song it might bear 
silence there and nothing more 
so i sat and waited still 
on my porch and gazed afar 
searching for a wish fulfilled 
a sign of you upon my door

then a voice did call me hence 
to the woods beyond my gate 
dare i tread this opulence 
carry me to our sweet place 
i’ve not been there since our youth 
since the time our love commenced 
since the night of our last kiss 
the last time i saw your face

in my room id cry and fight 
wondering where your soul had gone 
did i dream you here this night 
for brighter stars my heart did long 
as i followed on that path 
every step a blossom grew 
led by tenderness of song 
until I stood there and i knew

music box, i held so tight 
closed my eyes and open slow 
from the dark came butterflies 
carrying this song you blew 
dreams of all our golden days 
all the places we’d explored 
all the times id kissed your face 
all the tears i’ve cried and more

wings did wash these tears away 
washed the sadness from my soul 
magic knew me well that day 
and there i stay forever more 
where the trees give audience 
and the stars rain down their prayer 
and when i open now this box 
pours from it this song i heard 
and i believe in love again

Music Box (Marya Stark and eO)

Warm analog monophonic lead squirms through glitch-folk pizzicato twang wonderland.  Bumpy, sparkly.

eO - River Dragons (Confluminesence Mix)

This the first part of a two-part suite of tracks - composed for and released as part of a quartet of simultaneously-dropped EPs from new a new label:
https://ecstaticdancerecords.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/ecstaticdancerecords

Ecstatic Dance Records, a new net label out of Portland, Oregon, is excited to announce the release of its first four EPs on November 15th, 2018. Ecstatic Dance Records was founded by Isaac Cotec and Peter Weinstein to serve DJs, dancers, and music lovers across the global Ecstatic Dance community and beyond. The label’s mission is to produce a wide variety of music with attention to the "phases" of the Ecstatic Dance Journey as identified by Peter and Isaac: Arrival, Buildup, Peak, Cruise, Landing, and Integration.

Love Becomes You - Part 1

This the second part of a two-part suite of tracks - composed for and released as part of a quartet of simultaneously-dropped EPs from new a new label:
https://ecstaticdancerecords.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/ecstaticdancerecords

Ecstatic Dance Records, a new net label out of Portland, Oregon, is excited to announce the release of its first four EPs on November 15th, 2018. Ecstatic Dance Records was founded by Isaac Cotec and Peter Weinstein to serve DJs, dancers, and music lovers across the global Ecstatic Dance community and beyond. The label’s mission is to produce a wide variety of music with attention to the "phases" of the Ecstatic Dance Journey as identified by Peter and Isaac: Arrival, Buildup, Peak, Cruise, Landing, and Integration.

The first EPs are compilations for the Ecstatic Dance phases Arrival, Buildup, Peak, and Cruise. The all-star lineup for these EPs includes: Kaminanda, Dysphemic, Subaqueous, KR3TURE, Temple Step Project, Illuminertia, Evan Fraser, SugarBeats, Silk Drop, eO, High Step Society, DJ Taz Rashid, Momentology, Yogi Prateado, Living Roots, and Tikki Masala. The EPs will be distributed to scores of online channels, including Spotify, Beatport, Pandora, Rhapsody, Tidal, iTunes, Amazon, and JunoDownload. The best way to support these artists is to buy the EPs directly at Bandcamp, via “Name Your Own Price”: ecstaticdancerecords.bandcamp.com

Love Becomes You - Part 2

A conjuring of in-between-seeds space.  Past and future intermingled.

Seedfall (Nest Of Wishes #1)

All is now. 

Still breathing, broke open 
In the starlight of your ocean. 
By all your measures, alive. 

No limit, no holding - 
We’re in freefall, transforming. 
All our lovers combine. 

You there – can you feel me? 
I’m out here, and it’s still me. 
Come reach out your hand to me. 

Forgive you, believe you, 
Live on, in and through you…


from Nest Of Wishes, released 19 November 2012 
Produced, Composed, Mixed, and Mastered by eO (Eric Oberthaler) 

Freefall (Nest Of Wishes #2)

Love, the only beauty.  You, the only light.

from Nest Of Wishes, released 24 December 2012 
Produced, Composed, Mixed, and Mastered by eO (Eric Oberthaler)

eO - Only Light - Nest of Wishes (#3) (feat. Kyrstyn Pixton)

eO remixes of Brass Menazeri and other Balkan Brass favorites, etc ... this set was played on 2/1/13 at The New Parish in Oakland, CA at Brass Menazeri's *final show* 

eO Balkan Brass Remix DJ set at Brass Menazeri Final Show - New Parish, Oakland 2/1/13

This piece was composed for my dear uncle, Ken Hatt, the husband of my father's sister, Susan.  Ken passed away in December, 2012.  He glowed.  He was deeply kind and curious, and I remember him with a big smile on his face.  Satie's Gymnopédie #1 was one of his favorite pieces, and I wrote this fantasy for him a few weeks before he passed.  I wanted to write music *from inside* the beautifully simple sound world that the original piece creates.  I played the piece today at a memorial service for him in Victoria, B.C.

To download this track (for free), please visit:
http://eomusic.bandcamp.com/track/fantasy-on-gymnop-die-1-satie-eo

Fantasy on Gymnopédie #1 (Satie/eO)

Troels Folmann of 8dio.com asked me to make a track using their new dubstep sample library.  I figured now was probably as good a time as any to try to make an actual dubstep track.  Staying within genres is challenging for me, and with this track I decided to make it even more restrictive by only using samples from that one library... plus 8dio's Adagio Violins.  This is what I came up with.  Enjoy!

Beasts Of Elysium (eO - soundsliketree.com)

This is a quadraphonic (4 channel) recording encoded into a stereo file.  It can be listened to through normal stereo or monophonic systems, but for the full effect please visit this site to learn more....
https://quark.cykik.com

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