Name: Sparing starlight [naviarhaiku620] by Tuonela in haiku #620: some starlight / spared from being scooped up / four-handed net
Duration: 6 min 30 s
Description: Made for Naviar Records' 620th Haiku Challenge.

Man this is totally massive and epic power drone! I dig this stuff! Major brain fryyyyy

haiku #620: some starlight / spared from being scooped up / four-handed net

The Narcotic and the Sacred

This marks the fifth collaboration between myself and my good friend across the Atlantic, the talented US-based guitarist @jonathan_beckenstein. Enjoy!

The Pendulum Swings

movement no7

some variations from Francesco Paladino upon a base track by Marco Lucchi

Francesco Paladino & Marco Lucchi - wallpaper music n*1 [variations]

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Taffeta 253

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Little song for Kinsha haiku:
"Some starlight
spared from being scooped up
four-handed net."

The title “Llum recollida amb les mans" in my island language is like "Light gathered in the hands” trying to evoke the image of the haiku where light is harvested with a single gesture, as if it were a living substance. The literal translation of haiku takes on another meaning, and the words must be changed so that they have the same poetic meaning.

Llum recollida amb les mans(naviarhaiku620)

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
620
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku620-some-starlight/

2025-11-19

some starlight (Naviarhaiku 620)

20Nov25
https://naviarlab.tumblr.com/post/800654862684717056/naviarhaiku620-some-starlight
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some starlight [naviarhaiku620]

Fruit

This one started as a simple electric-guitar-and-bass progression, just a rough idea that wasn’t really going anywhere. This week I expanded it with several synth layers and some floating eBow lines.
Funny enough, the little gimmick in the middle section ended up giving the track its shape — a kind of slow, climatic crescendo that finally brought it to life.

I re-recorded that line as an intro today. The whole track is still a floating, meandering, blurry ambient groove, but there’s a certain beauty in that haze.

Inspired by this naviarhaiku620 poem:

some starlight
spared from being scooped up
four-handed net


Haiku by Kinsha
Picture by NASA


Some Starlight - naviarhaiku620

made for the naviar haiku challenge #620: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku620-some-starlight/

fishing at night (naviarhaiku620)

Made for Naviar Records' 620th Haiku Challenge.

Sparing starlight [naviarhaiku620]

Under pressure

First time participating in this naviarhaiku thing. https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku620-some-starlight/

No Stars Were Spared (naviarhaiku 620)

Dark ambient soundscapes for your pleasure, relax, chillout and enjoy.

DARK AMBIENT - OF MORTAL SUBSTANCE

They hid Redwake Station so deep in the mountains that even the mapmakers conveniently forgot it. Snow muffles everything around it, but the structure hums faintly beneath the frost, as if it never learned how to sleep. The upper tower leans like it’s listening for something in the treeline, while the house below sags under the weight of too many winters and too many secrets.

Red lanterns still burn along the walkway, a holdover from the early containment protocols. Their glow isn’t meant to guide visitors. It’s meant to warn whatever lies inside not to wander too far.

The researchers who once lived here were convinced they’d isolated a frequency older than human breath, a vibration hidden in the bedrock of the world. They called it the Deep Pulse. When played aloud, it rearranged thoughts, then memories, then will.

Redwake was built to study the phenomenon. Or maybe to quarantine it. The documents never agree.

What’s certain is this: one night the station sent a final transmission, a distorted tone that rattled across nearby settlements, followed by a single word rendered untranslatable by every modern system. After that, silence.

Now the lights glow again. The snow around the stilts is disturbed.

The Void Remembers. 

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Redwake Station Part 3 - Deep, Sci-fi, Nature Ambient [Sleep/Study/Relaxation]

Naviar is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental music and traditional Japanese poetry.

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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...

Sparing starlight [naviarhaiku620]

Tuonela

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