Title track from forthcoming LP Lucideranged, Stellar Void's Debut LP due for release December 1st

Samuel Foster: Vocals, Synthesizers, Sequencing, Drum Machine, Production, Mixing

Bryce Shelton: Lead Guitar

Leila Abdul-Rauff: Rhythm Guitar 

lyrics:
lucideranged

fractured at the center
void now rushing in
tide breaks away the shore and
don’t know who I am

there is no more you or me
we think with the same mind
breaking all defensive line
confusion in our eyes

you are my broken mirror
reflection of the lie
try to pull it together
fate you can't deny


there is no more you or me
we think with the same mind
worshiping our shadow
we've come to crucify

lucideranged
feels no pain
(until...)

I am you as you are me
and we are all now one
this blood we shed our severed head
our mockery be done

lucideranged
feel your pain

Lucideranged

Collaboration between Stellar Void and Leila Abdul-Rauf.  From forthcoming LUCIDERANGED Lp.

The Concealed Person

Strategy of Tension (Version)

Ruff Mixes

Strategy of Tension Spirit of '22

this is the first real Stellar Void track, and most representative of what's to come - featuring myself (that is Sam) on drums, synthesizers and vocals with Bryce Shelton adding guitar.

No Action Required

No Action Required (mix in progress)

...something pretty.  Naive music, like a puppy or child at play, the simplicity and power of pure enjoyment stopping thought dead in its tracks.  "There are many solid seeming barriers that a mere child could topple, but not one has the courage to push."  Homage to Rodelius, Ciani, Budd viaVelvet Underground, Peter Hook and Eno.

Lumi (Naive Music)- Mix 3

Using my looper to make a quick, pop structured, new age piece.  This song grew out of another more brooding song with vocals I'm currently working on.  Image: first light spectrum of the nearby star Sirius from the ESA's MATISSE instrument

Plover (Loop Exercize)

composition for mini-moog, loops, zills and frame drum.  The song title derives from the color of moonlight on fresh powdered snow... clip art from Emil Bisttram - Oversoul (1941)...

Amethyst Moon

...practice space improv from June 2019 which will form the foundation track for a opening piece on the first official Stellar Void release, "Pleasant Trembling Fear" scheduled for later this year

Pleasant Trembling Fear (Improvised Loop)

Live sequence manipulation from 2019.  One take.  Minimalist exercise using the mini-moog to sound like an ensemble.

Parallel Lives 1

In studio quickie loop exercise.  Tribute to Harold Budd (in my own way).  

A little rough around the edges...

Clip Art - Bridget Riley "Cataract"

Magnetic Parlay

Stellar Void... discovering new aural terrain in the negative space between worlds, embracing silence of the mind and using music as a means to bridge the gap between foreground and background perception... phase shifting between the waking and  hypnagogic states... sound as symbol returned from an inward katabasis spanning all time and space: once in the void, you may never want to come back...

While not a band or really a 'solo project' - Stellar Void is an ongoing collaboration between Samuel Foster and various inspired musicians.  If known at all, Sam is best known for his work on the cryptic US Black Metal classic "Dead as Dreams" by Weakling.  He also performed in the Bay Area Progressive Thrash band Saros before abandoning Metal to form the psychedelic heavy rock band Hollow Mirrors and flamenco / middle eastern band  La Ruya in collaboration with noted Flamenco dancer Melissa Cruz.  In La Ruya the focus rested on the meeting between Flamenco guitar and the Oud (the guitar of the Mid East and prototype from which both classical lute and guitar were fashioned), not to mention the intense percussion and dance integration inherent in Flamenco.   

Both Hollow Mirrors and La Ruya ceased activity in 2013.

During the musical hiatus of 2014 - 2018, Sam focused on learning modular synthesizer,  further study of world and eastern percussion, western esoteric thought (Crowley, Spare, Jung, RA Wilson) in conjunction with Dada and Surrealism (Ernst, Bellmer, Groz), photography and a deep exploration of the the wild spaces near the Bay Area and beyond (La Ventana, the Eastern Sierras, Cascades and so on).   

Stellar Void brings all of this together in its own unique amalgam - unexplored tonalities, symbolic terrain and a emphasis on the Void - non ego, wherein all things are truly possible.

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