Airsongs is the second full-length journey in a four-part elemental series that began with The Elemental Concoction — an experimental project built entirely from original field recordings of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. This time, the focus is singular: air itself. Wind, breath, pressure, resonance — the movement of the unseen.

Across eight tracks, Airsongs explores the wide spectrum of airborne sound, from high-altitude whirlwinds to subterranean rumbles. Tones, textures, and rhythms are sourced from air-based recordings — modulated, stretched and layered. There are no lyrics, no instruments in the traditional sense. Just the raw material of air, transformed into atmospheric techno, ambient soundscapes, and experimental compositions.

The result is a deeply immersive collection. Some pieces are meditative and introspective, like Deep Breath or Whistling Winds, while others — like Dune Swirl or Whirlwind — drive forward with pulsing urgency. You’ll find playful currents in Cloud Sprites, heavy resonance in Rolling Thunder, and an unexpected uplift in the closing track Leaf Shadows.

At times it feels like weather, at others like memory — but always elemental. Airsongs is an ode to motion, to emptiness, to breath itself. A soundtrack for those moments when the world is shaped not by what we see, but by what moves through it.

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Airsongs: Album

Moving at a quick 160 bpm and clocking in at 6 minutes and 59 seconds, Cloud Sprites borrows textures from elsewhere in Airsongs but reshapes them into something playful and strange. A squeaky, jazzy motif flits through the track — like a Moog’s mischievous cousin — chirping and skipping across the stereo field as if it’s singing a secret song to itself.

At times, the track loses itself in the mist — soft, ethereal swells fill the space — but the sprite always finds its way back, popping up in the foreground with bright, unpredictable energy. A deeper bass sprite joins the fun midway through, throbbing with enthusiasm before slowly fading back into vapor. It’s a windy daydream with a mischievous pulse — full of sonic hide and seek.

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Cloud Sprites

Airsongs: Cloud Sprites

Slow, introspective, and ambient at its core — but beneath the calm lies a hidden pulse at 160 bpm. Deep Breath moves in long, spacious waves: swelling, cresting, and falling like air drawn deep into the lungs. Triplet drums ripple subtly through the mix, often blurred by reverb until they dissolve into texture rather than rhythm. At just 5 minutes and 22 seconds, it feels like a meditation — paced for breathing — yet it’s punctuated by brief flares of excitement, shimmering with spiritual overtones. A quiet reverie with a secret momentum.

Deep Breath

Airsongs: Deep Breath

The most overtly techno-infused track on Airsongs, Dune Swirl hits with a driving 160 bpm beat right just as you start to get comfortable — firm, grounded, almost reassuring. But around it, chaos gathers. Scratchy, abrasive wind textures crash in from the edges, drawn from the same sonic world as Whirlwind but twisted into something darker. Themes resurface — stabs, swells — but this time they feel frayed and unstable.

At 6 minutes and 39 seconds, it’s a tightly coiled storm. Moments of clarity arrive when the chaos drops out and the beat stands alone, offering a false sense of safety. Then the winds return, jagged and unpredictable. The breath at the end — the hallmark of these Airsongs — is there, but it doesn’t get to finish. It cuts off, abruptly, like a gust caught mid-sigh.

Dune Swirl

Airsongs: Dune Swirl

Though it shares the 160 bpm undercurrent of its companions, Mountain Breeze feels sharper, more urgent — like wind funneling down from snow-dusted peaks. A single heavy beat anchors the track in place, while the rest is a flurry of motion: icy gusts, swirling reverb trails, and sudden rushes of sound that come at you and then vanish into the altitude. As it unfolds over 6 minutes and 31 seconds, a rhythm begins to take shape — as if someone has tamed the breeze and started to steer it. Eventually, the pattern softens. The momentum eases, and the track descends gently into a familiar long exhale — a quiet return from the mountain’s edge.

Mountain Breeze

Airsongs: Mountain Breeze

Built from a single 20-minute field recording of a thunderstorm passing over your home, Rolling Thunder captures that suspended feeling of being right in the storm’s heart. The track begins quietly — distant rumbles scattered like footsteps on the edge of something vast. As the thunder grows more frequent, a strange, breathy motif begins to emerge — a sound reminiscent of a melodic aqualung, guiding us through the swirling pressure.

At 145 bpm (though it feels slower), the pace is patient, deliberate. The breathing quickens as the storm intensifies, then slows again as the thunder rolls away, releasing the tension. Spanning 9 minutes and 58 seconds, the piece ends as gently as it began — the echo of a distant crash in a cavern, then nothing but a soft hum of static wind. No jolts. No drama. Just the solemn rhythm of charged air moving on.

Rolling Thunder

Airsongs: Rolling Thunder

A high-altitude rush of air with nowhere to collide — just pure, open flow. Eddies twist and scatter through invisible space, forming swirl patterns that repeat, fade, and return in hypnotic pulses. Clocking in at 160 bpm and stretching over 10 minutes and 36 seconds, this track is a heady, invigorating ride — fresh and alive with movement. It surges forward with a sense of freedom and urgency, only to settle at the end in a long, calming out-breath, deconstructed. 

This is a  journey of whirling soundscapes, made using elements of the wind.

Whirlwind

Airsongs: Whirlwind

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Airsongs: Cloud Sprites

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