The Spectral Light - Moonsinger

A remix of "Ice Moving, Wind Booming, Quarry Lake", "Wind Harp, Walltown Crags", "Hydrophone Dropped into Horsetail Ponds", and "Water Boatman Stridulation, Horsetail Ponds", tracks by :zoviet*france: included in the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix Project: https://soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-remixes

A Stridulation Of French Forests Pours From The Mouth Of The Empty Grave

A stridulation of French forests pours from the mouth of the empty grave

‘Ur’ is a collaboration between Ashtoreth / Marko Neuman / Stratosphere and Pilgrimage to Pleroma

A joint meditation on nature as an unbridled and primordial, creative, formative force

Out on Consouling Sounds 24th of June 2022

Phobos & Deimos CD

I've always loved the prayer quality of Main Man, and somehow I thought I could do that justice.

I recorded a lot of vocals first, exactly as I remembered them.

And not having a lot of access to my instruments right now (see "No Room") I opted for a guitar track I had laying around. Just 2 notes. What 2 notes? I have no idea! (Footnote, I'm guessing G and E, that's the notes I played later on the synth as a sort of support)

And so, the guitar at a totally different rhythm from the original Main Man, I had to space apart the vocals, and also I thought I wanted computer vocals again, but it's so funny, I can't get the newer better vocals with my newer better computer, so I have to settle for these older sounding and pretty much unpredictable ones.

The funny thing is I *say* I want to work with limitations, but I always think I know what that means in advance and I never do, and then I wind up with something like this crazy track, which is no particular key in no particular rhythm, has mangled vocals and I guess is half prayer, half shit-crazy transmission from your crazy uncle.

Oh well. Thanks Marc Bolan, thanks friends everywhere.

Main Man

Another one done almost entirely in the car in an hour and a half

The 3rd verse was recorded the next morning

I've been trying to use that percussion for months- it's from a machine Maddie Fix has, delightful analog foxtrot and other settings. 

This song turned out grouchier than I initially intended. Originally it was about staring at simple things- bottles, etc and letting that be what moved you, but it became about misanthropy. Oh well, it always seems to go there, doesn't it?

This song unfortunately maligns Bahrain, a country I have no beef with.

Grandma Bahrain

Deep Fade Mix I - Fading

Sarah Davachi - Alas, Departing
X-TG - My Only Child
Julie Covington - My Silks and Fine Array
Coil - White Rainbow
Fovea Hex - A Hymn to Sulpher
Wolves in the Throne Room - Dea Artio
PJ Harvey - 66 Promises
Mark Lanegan - No Easy Action (Live, Sing Backwards and Weep)
Trieste - Eternal Crawl
Einsturzende Neubauten - Kein Bestandeil Sein (To Be No Part Of It)
Youmna Saba - Ritha'
Low - White Horses, Dancing and Blood, Disappearing
Cosy Fanni Tutti - The Secret Touch
Anita Lane - A Prison in the Desert
Jarboe - Illusory
The Pointer Sisters - I Love How You Love Me
Lycia - The Soil is Dead
Chelsea Wolfe - Survive, Color of Blood
The Everly Brothers - All I Have to Do is Dream
Tashaki Miyai - All I Have to Do is Dream
JK Flesh - My Fucking Exit
The Soft Moon - Try, Being

Deep Fade Mix I - Fading

This one, after the last song which was very clearly in either G or Gb, was me playing and trying to understand KEY a little bit better. 

I found this old riff I played a long time ago, realized it was a lovely gentle thing but not somber enough for me. After deciding it was in D major, I realized it sounded like an uplifting ending to something. 

So thinking that, I thought it should start in D minor, and as such, I started playing around with D minor chords (Dm Bb Gm F Am C, I think) . From there, some of these riffs came about, and it sounded/felt like walking on pebbles to me, a pebbly shore. Orkney, in Scotland, where I've never been and only know via my friend Tim Miller, whose podcast saved my pandemic. He wrote long poems about this ancient place, and longs to return to there. I opened his book and started marking it up, and trying to find some lyrics.

From there, well, here you go. This is for Tim, and features about 1/4 - 1/3 his words. 



ORKNEY


Shoulders of land
Circles of stone
Teeth of the tide
From eons ago




Can you move 
Elder one
In your hands
In your lungs



Families of stone
Lining the road
Huddled for warmth
From starlight ago



Can you move 
Elder one
In your hands
In your lungs




I'm just a body
I know what my needs are
Warmth and sorrow
And someone to touch 
in the darkness
in the darkness





Duck your head down
Come underground
Under the stones
Sit yourself down


Can you move
Elder one
In your hands
In your lungs


Circles of stone
From starlight ago
Where I sat with you
Where I dreamed of you


Pick up the stone
Hold it
To your face
In your lungs


Just the ocean
And the cliffs
Let them hold you

Where I sat with you
Where I dreamed of you

Orkney

When the Moon is Risen

PRIMITIVE KNOT 'Thee Opener Of The Way' CD/tape/digital

6 DOOM II

Remix of "A Warm Place" from Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994).

The Cold Creeps In (A Warm Place - NIN remix)

The Floating World is Amanda, and often Grey Malkin. Albums have appeared on Cyclic Law, Dark Holler, Reverb Worship, Barl Fire. 

The Wood Beyond the World and The Apparition out now on Cyclic Law
http://www.cycliclaw.com

We Hunted (Reverb Worship 2014)
https://thefloatingworld.bandcamp.com/album/we-hunted

Unda (Barl Fire in 2005)
https://thefloatingworld.bandcamp.com/album/unda

River of Flowers (Foxglove/Digitalis in 2006)
https://thefloatingworld.bandcamp.com/album/river-of-flowers

When the Moon is Risen

The Floating World.

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