A melody that I've had for quite a while. This version was composed as an outro to the film 'Imago'

Photograph: okulenz (instagram)

Vintur

Image: Remedios Varo
La llamada (The Call) (1961)

Lyrics:

Oh the fire it burns
The ember returns
Melting away
Immolation discerns
For you

The fruit is bittersweet
While the flames bite at your feet
Blinded by this heat
Wills defeat

The sun in your reflection
A natural interjection
Vision recedes
And nothing sees

A place without a name
A word without a frame
Going to be
The mystery

Immolation

Live Piano Improvisation. Theres nothing quite like entering into a stream of consciousness in music, without any expectation of what will come next. A musical descent into the unknown.

Into the Unknown - Live Improvisation 08.08.21

Breath By Breath

Glass

This melody was born last year during the end of March when everything felt totally surreal, insane on a global scale. For me it symbolises how when shit really hits the fan, you notice those rare little moments of serenity all the more, and that becomes a fuel, a source of inspiration.

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A Moment's Solace

A highly improvised piece. I wanted to capture the spontaneous feel that comes with creating melodies, phrases, in the moment. The minimalistic pattern at the beginning was the seed and from there the journey begins. The name 'Didessa' comes from Didessa River in Ethiopia, as the music for me had the feeling of something neverending, wild, yet continually flowing. I also felt drawn to the landscapes there while I was creating this piece.

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Didessa Fantasy

Texture 92

Moongaze Railways

Mirrors

Kirrila

Shamala

Lyrics:

Oh desert sun
head grows weary
legs grow numb
waves of sand
rolling by
in this barren land

Oh desert sun
head grows weary
legs grow numb
not a cloud left in the sky
and somehow
i've managed to get by

A river of sweat rolls across my neck
while the sunlight
boils my blood
scattered fixtures of dying wind
release these choking lungs

Waves of light
breathe
out of the desert sun

Weightless
to the bone

Desolate yet infinite
dead and yet alive
a vast and barren wasteland
still bursting with some life

Head is spinning while a snake slithers by
i've got nothing to lose
and never have I felt so alive

The pendulum of the sun
swings again and again
the song of a single footstep
the shifting of sand

In this emptiness
the insignificant
comes to light

Shadows dance
while these waves of heat
are blown
straight from the lungs
of this luminous
desert sun

Tobias Leigh

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