Name: Eclectic current – Along the edges of sound by Tuonela
Duration: 2 h

Thank you Ian❣️ It's a great honour and pleasure to be part of this group of artists. Your compilation is a unbelievable journey 💖

My Darkest Light

Bless the Maker and His water.
Bless the coming and going of Him.
May His passage cleanse the world.
May He keep the world for His people.

Maker

In the quaint suburban, preciously one square mile neighborhood of Willowbrook, a peculiar phenomenon unfolds beneath the facade of everyday life. Here, amidst the picket fences and neatly trimmed lawns, lies a secret known only to its inhabitants: the ability to walk through walls. It's a gift that defies logic, a quirk of reality that shapes the lives of those who call Willowbrook home.

Willowbrook

Dark Companion

Soprano saxes with bass-pedal flute and clarinet. 10 short pieces.

Ten Quartets

Snow*Omen/Velvet Something Superdark collaboration based on Henry  Purcell,  Dido and Aeneas: When I am laid in Earth (Dido's Lament). Music: Snow Omen @snow_omen (recording of a live performance, voice Y.A., electric guitar VSS). Added noise, mixing and production: VSS. All sounds Snow*Omen & VSS. Image: VSS.

When I am laid, am laid in earth, May my wrongs create
No trouble, no trouble in thy breast;
Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate.
Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.

Laid In Earth

Inspired by the Naviar Records haiku challenge #564 by Natsume Sōseki

Fog clears away:
the waterfall shows up
bit by bit.

This haiku made me think of a quote by artist Cecil Collins, 
“I see a shape complete in itself I search it with my mind and heart and then it begins to extend and I see in the half darkness that it is part of a colossal structure whose parts are covered in mists and darkness, sections appear and disappear; how many years has it taken me to realize that those mists, clouds, and darkness are in myself, and in the body given to me by the fatal powers of the world; that in Reality everything exists as a whole; a vision, a harmony, a joy.”

Cascade Rhythms [naviarhaiku 564]

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” ― Frank Zappa

Track list and start times:
00:00  Jeremy Dower – The Simpsons 8-bit
01:46  No Mates Ensemble - Water1
04:31  Olhon – Descent
07:20  Porya Hatami – Kani (Night)
14:27  The Col Nolan Soul Syndicate – Buckingham Palace
17:17  Rod Poole & James Grigsby – Nowhere So Blue 
26:24  Snowdrops – Ligne de mica
33:08  Hey String – Firefly
39:16  Night Note – Found In The Garage
44:30  Minoy – In Search Of Tarkovsky (excerpt)
51:55  Rosy Parlane – November 1997
56:47  Ivan Black – Dysprosium
1:03:02  Loo(p)cy – Iron Leaves And Electric Hearts
1:06:09  Loo(p)cy – Neptune
1:09:24  Loo(p)cy – Serenade of Sea Creatures
1:12:20  Loo(p)cy – The Long Bridge
1:15:09  Loo(p)cy – Underground Life
1:24:14  Loo(p)cy - Winter's Dance Visions
1:27:58  Michael Giles, Jamie Muir, David Cunningham – Ghost Dance
1:33:11  Klimperei – C'est Du Cinéma
1:38:14  Onasander, Ashtoreth & Gydja – Cosmic Wisdom
1:44:41  The Library of Babel – Cracked Mud
1:50:40  Voidborn Horde – Edge of Sound (naviarhaiku562)
1:55:20  Minoy  - Memory Undefined ( Dream As Truth) (excerpt)
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Eclectic current – Along the edges of sound

2025-01-21

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From a series of (almost) daily ocean glimpses. The music is composed to a video of the sea (photons captured fresh every day). You can experience the full video version here: https://youtu.be/qAlEk3NpOPA

Glimpse 1430 (Aug 31 2025)

UK creatives should listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4wBWiozyM

You must hear this: https://vimeo.com/52766051

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Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...

Eclectic current – Along the edges of sound

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