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Epic Cinematic Dubstep Remix with soprano vocalist - our thoughts go to you. Very excited to feature a remix by Anya Katerina. The instrumentation and synths are inspired by the epic or soundtrack genre, but the song leans heavily into pop or dubstep flavor. 

Lyrics:
Psychic visions
Appear when I'm at sea,
Far from home,
And only in my sleep.

I boat among the stars
Through my mental streams.
Supernova! Shooting-Star!
A Pit of Gravity...

But I'm not here -
I'm watching through the crystal glass,
The adamantine sphere.

But you're not here:
My scrying eyes can barely pierce
Through streaming dreams.

Credits: 
Vocals Recorded by Avalyn: https://soundcloud.com/icelantis
Remixed by Anya Katarina: https://soundcloud.com/anya-ak
Original by Joshua Epp: https://joshuaepp.bandcamp.com/track/distant-reverie-feat-avalyn

Album Credits:

Album Art by Rachel Leila
Photo by Gianluca Grisenti: https://www.pexels.com/photo/misty-flower-field-4210234/
Kells Font: https://www.fontspace.com/kells-font-f1911

Phantom

Distant Reverie (feat. Avalyn) [Anya Katarina Remix]

Distant Reverie [feat. Avalyn] (AK Remix)

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For anyone who likes the tune but needs a break from the lyrics.

Album Credits:

Album Art by Rachel Leila
Photo by Gianluca Grisenti: https://www.pexels.com/photo/misty-flower-field-4210234/
Kells Font: https://www.fontspace.com/kells-font-f1911

Fairy Tears

Fairy Tears (Instrumental)

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Epic melodic dubstep synth chords with earnest female vocals - Complex subject matter, but shows up frequently in classic art and literature. This song seeks to personify themes of wisdom, moral war, and justice. 

Lyrics:
Haunting call of the glooms
Restless hunts in the soul
loosing from earthly tombs
flitting towards Wisdom's pull

I see with eyes of coal
I feel with heart of gold
Pounce upon with verity
I seize the truth with certainty

I feel with eyes aglow
I kill with righteous blow
Seeking truth in brevity
I swoop anon in certainty

Evenfall comes so soon
Risen by Luna's call
Justice lit by the moon
Haunts the night, hunts the soul 

Credits: 
Vocals Recorded by Avalyn: https://soundcloud.com/icelantis

Album Credits:

Album Art by Rachel Leila
Photo by Gianluca Grisenti: https://www.pexels.com/photo/misty-flower-field-4210234/
Kells Font: https://www.fontspace.com/kells-font-f1911

Athene (feat. Avalyn)

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Uplifting Trance with weird arps and haunting melody - When incorporating "Sapphire" into the Phantom EP, I wrote this trance track as an alternative take or more grounded earth-bound look at the subject matter. Say a light that is light rather than a light that is darkness.

Album Credits:

Album Art by Rachel Leila
Photo by Gianluca Grisenti: https://www.pexels.com/photo/misty-flower-field-4210234/
Kells Font: https://www.fontspace.com/kells-font-f1911

Luna

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Mysterious space-themed trance - This was an older track written about 2 years ago. It's the last surviving holdover of an earlier EP concept revolving around precious gemstones. I asked Avalyn to help with some mysterious sounding vocal work. I used a vocoder and some delay to enhance the spookiness. It's... not meant to be comforting.

Lyrics:
Beyond the stone
Everlasting night
A glow all my own

The Sapphire Light

Beyond the world
Past dreadful fright
A glowing stone

The Sapphire Night

Credits:
Vocals Recorded by Avalyn: https://soundcloud.com/icelantis

Album Credits:

Album Art by Rachel Leila
Photo by Gianluca Grisenti: https://www.pexels.com/photo/misty-flower-field-4210234/
Kells Font: https://www.fontspace.com/kells-font-f1911

Sapphire (feat. Avalyn)

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Chill mournful trance break - I wrote the main melody with the organ and pan flute synths years back. When revisiting the project, I spent a long time finding the perfect vocal element to complete the song. Very grateful to librivox for their contributions to archival and to the public domain. I'd been inspired by other works to use the cheesy synth strings in the intro to draw people in, but I feel the composition and lyrics speak to a much weightier truth and feeling. I still consider this to be in the Trance genre (bpm, arpeggiated melodies) but this entire song is basically just the break portion without the 4 on 4 beat pattern.

Lyrics:
Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake...
Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim gray sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And anxious in its sleep.

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams...
Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim gray sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And anxious in its sleep.

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Taken from "The Stolen Child" by William Butler Yeats
Recording by Thomas Esson Ewing for Librivox.org

Album Credits:

Album Art by Rachel Leila
Photo by Gianluca Grisenti: https://www.pexels.com/photo/misty-flower-field-4210234/
Kells Font: https://www.fontspace.com/kells-font-f1911

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Uplifting Trance with a mysterious vibe - Phantom was the first track completed and provided the tone I wanted to set for the EP. I spent extra time on the break to try to evoke a misty, foggy meadow and let the reverb and long release of the lead create a sort of eerie feeling. The main melody was a pretty simple arp that provides an uplifting element to an otherwise melancholy subject.

Album Credits:

Album Art by Rachel Leila
Photo by Gianluca Grisenti: https://www.pexels.com/photo/misty-flower-field-4210234/
Kells Font: https://www.fontspace.com/kells-font-f1911

Can't find the original to link it, but I love this song. Was a ton of fun to remix - I hope you enjoy.

Paper Messages - Whenever It Rains (Joshua Epp Dance Bootleg)

Ecclesiastes 3:12-15
Trance and experimental electronic designed to explore consciousness and emotion.

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