🌬️ Rastelenk — An Album Built Around Breath

Rastelenk is an album conceived around breath.
We explored it from every possible angle.
Breath as heartbeat.
Breath as the center of the world.
The place where everything begins — but never returns to the same point.
A two-dimensional whirl in a universe of two thousand dimensions.

There are no constraints in this album.
It’s born from imagination, from the need to speak, to remember the stories of past generations —
to reclaim our identity
and begin to feel part of a greater whole.
Earthlings, proud to be.

So step into the cosmic whirl.
The tracks overlap, collide, disturb.
You might say: “This is too much, too many words.”  
But that’s the game —
to stress semantic language,
to stretch it to its roots,
to create a visual-olfactory contradiction
that unfolds our synesthetic nature,
our sensitive belonging to the Earth.

With love,
we dedicate this album to the rebirth of the planet —
to how it was before Christmas, before saints, before games.
To that moment of darkness
when everyone knew the light would come.
It was a forced loop.
It couldn’t stay dark forever.

That’s what our ancestors celebrated.
They celebrated the end of fear —
the end of fear of darkness, of the unknown.
Because the light was there.
One minute a day.
You just had to wait
one minute a day to see the light.

rain

# 🎸🐻 **DARK COUNTRY SPIRAL — The 7‑Voice Experiment** 🌀🔥

What happens when you take one single scream —  
one **A minor → D minor → F major → G major** loop —  
and you let it grow like a **spiral** instead of a circle?

You get this project.  
Seven prompts.  
Seven voices.  
Seven reflections of the same sound seen through **seven mirrors**.  
A loop that *looks* the same… but never is.

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## 🪕🌑 **Why Dark Country?**  
Because dark country lives in the cracks —  
in the slides, the bends, the gut‑string tension,  
in the places where “music theory” says  
*you’re not supposed to go*.

🎻 Cello in front  
🪕 Tenor banjo with gut strings  
🎸 Dobro on the left  
🥾 Stomp box in the center (spherical echo)  
🥁 Double‑kick drum machine  
🎹 Echo‑piano on the left  
🎺 Harmonica on the right  

All seven tracks use the **same scale**,  
but each one climbs **half a tone higher**,  
like a staircase folding into itself.

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## 🪞🪞🪞 **The Mirror of the Mirror of the Mirror**  
Art isn’t about “staying inside the lines”.  
Someone once decided music should fit on **five lines**.  
Someone else said **microtones don’t exist**  
because we “can’t hear them”.

But they *are* there.  
And without microtones, you don’t have the slide.  
Without the slide, you don’t have the voice.  
Without the voice, you don’t have the truth.

This album plays with that truth.  
It plays chess in three dimensions —  
where even **meaning** has its own reflections.

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## 🌀🐾 **A Logic of Chaos (but still Logic)**  
Life isn’t random.  
It’s chaotic, yes —  
but it has a rhythm, a direction, a strange coherence.  
This project follows that same rule:  
a spiral that rises,  
a loop that mutates,  
a voice that becomes seven voices.

Seven prompts.  
Seven mirrors.  
One scream turning into a universe.


eyes in the bit A side

Nebbia e Budello B side

groove in evoorg B side

Rebus Spiralico A side

bears in a forest A side

bears in a forest B side

eyes in the bit side

🇮🇹 ARTICOLO IN ITALIANO — versione definitiva
🎧 “esatta‑mente” — Collettivo Undersound
un dark country techno soft luk‑thung psichedelico… insomma, un casino bellissimo

🌬️ Tutto è iniziato con una sequenza di parole che sembravano una poesia astratta:
ama, logica, la mente, apertamente, esattamente, estremamente, fantasticamente, finalmente, seriamente.  
In realtà erano i titoli, disposti come una scala lidia, una scalinata luminosa verso un altrove.

🎸 Abbiamo registrato tutto sopra un riff ripetitivo, un’eco lontana di Settecentosettante riflessi, ma reso più ballabile, più terreno, più sporco di sabbia texana.
Abbiamo immaginato i Pantera in Texas senza distorsori: solo groove, vento caldo e polvere.
In parole povere: ci siamo divertiti un sacco.

🌊 Il momento più folle è stato creare la traccia del mare: una poesia specchiata, che letta in un verso o nell’altro mantiene lo stesso senso.
La traduzione era un labirinto, ma con la nostra AI di fiducia abbiamo trasformato l’ostacolo in un flusso ancora più morbido.

🌀 Ascoltando l’album si capisce subito: è un rebus quantico‑sonoro, un sistema che non collassa mai in un’unica interpretazione.

💡 Viviamo nel paradigma dello stato di Schrödinger: tutti sospesi, nessuno si apre la scatola.
La complessità non risiede nella semplicità del pensiero, ma nella semplice azione che non cerca conseguenze, solo sviluppi.
È così che questo album si pone.

Non vuole spiegare, vuole attivare.
Non vuole rassicurare, vuole vibrare.
Non vuole dire “ecco il significato”, ma “ecco cosa succede se ti muovi”.

🔬 Questo album è un esperimento: tu lo ascolti, lui ti ascolta, e nel mezzo nasce qualcosa che non c’era.
Un piccolo collasso quantico.
Ma danzabile.
🇬🇧  — English Version
🎧 "esatta‑mente” — Collettivo Undersound
a dark‑country‑techno soft luk‑thung psychedelic… beautiful chaos

✨ It all began with a string of Italian words that looked like an abstract poem:
ama, logica, la mente, apertamente, esattamente, estremamente, fantasticamente, finalmente, seriamente.  
Instead of translating them literally, we shaped them into Lydian‑mood titles, each one a small portal of suspended light.

🎸 Everything was recorded over a repetitive riff — a distant echo of Settecentosettante riflessi — reshaped into something more danceable, more earthy, more Texas‑dusty.
We imagined Pantera in Texas with no distortion: just groove, heat, and grit.
In other words: we had a ridiculous amount of fun.

🌊 One of the wildest moments was creating the sea track: a mirrored poem, readable in both directions with the same meaning.
The translation was a maze, but with our trusted AI we turned the obstacle into an even smoother flow.

🌀 When you listen to the album, you feel it immediately: it’s a quantum‑sonic riddle, a system that refuses to collapse into a single interpretation.

💡 We live inside the paradigm of Schrödinger’s state: everyone suspended, nobody opening the box.
Complexity doesn’t live in simple thoughts, but in simple actions — actions that don’t seek consequences, only developments.
That’s exactly how this album positions itself.

It doesn’t want to explain — it wants to activate.
Not to reassure, but to vibrate.
Not to say “here’s the meaning,” but “here’s what can happen if you move.”

🔬 This album behaves like an experiment: you listen to it, it listens back, and something new appears in the middle.
A tiny quantum collapse.
But danceable.

estrema-mente

🎙️ Microtonal Vocal Composition — Production Notes
🌫️ Vocal Microtones & Breath Architecture

The entire track is built from microtonal vocal gestures, whispered overtones, and breath‑based phrasing.
Every melodic line starts from the voice alone, using subtle shifts in pitch, harmonics, and resonance to create a living blueprint for the instruments.
🎛️ Rackarrack & GOTT Signal Sculpting

The raw vocal takes were routed through Rackarrack and the GOTT chain to generate:

    ghost‑harmonics

    duet‑like echoes

    micro‑delays that behave like second voices

    spectral distortion that opens the sound into a spiral

These effects weren’t used as decoration — they acted as co‑composers, shaping the emotional contour of the track.
📦 Compression as Translation

Because the vocal microtones were extremely subtle, the signal had to be compressed to make the overtone structure readable.
Compression here wasn’t a fix — it was a translator, allowing the system to understand the fragile architecture of breath and harmonics.
🎸 Suno‑Generated Instruments

Once the vocal blueprint was ready, Suno prompts were used to generate each instrumental line:

    🎸 Guitar following the microtonal contour

    🎵 Bass locked to the breath‑rhythm

    🥁 Stomp & percussive accents shaped around the overtone pulses

Each instrument was created individually, guided by the vocal micro‑architecture rather than by a traditional chord progression.
🌪️ A Spiral, Not a Structure

The final piece is not built like a standard song.
It’s a spiral — open, breathing, and constantly shifting — where the voice leads and every instrument follows its micro‑movements with millimetric precision.

sky high mantra

“After all these years I realized something simple: if I had started vibrating with my music earlier — just vibrating, nothing else — I would have lived even more unpredictable, incredible experiences than the ones I already have. So I told myself: why not now? After all… I’m not that bad. LOL.”

rain

Undersound Label

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