Velvet Sun Empire is the third chapter in the Anatolian Mirage saga, a luminous but dangerous empire where ritual power, mythic architecture and hypnotic groove merge beneath an endless burning sun.

Built on deep analog basslines, microtonal saz melodies, prophetic synth arpeggios and ceremonial percussion, the album expands the sonic mythology of Anatolian Mirage into a grand imperial landscape. Ancient serpents, monolithic palaces, mirrored ballrooms, and sacred processions form a world where beauty and power exist in fragile balance.

Each track unveils a new domain of the Velvet Empire: mechanical thrones, glass prophets, golden parades, silent temples and collapsing kingdoms. The atmosphere moves between seductive warmth and quiet tension, where every rhythm feels like a ritual and every melody carries the echo of forgotten dynasties.

Velvet Sun Empire is a civilization built on rhythm, myth, and burning light.

Thorn Feather Waltz

Varo -  Crystal Evening Lights [Indie Pop]

Still

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Get Away

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design by Nora de Mariaffi
recorded/mixed/mastered by Jake Nicoll

Play Doh

Written/Produced/Performed by Maxwell Young 
Artwork by Ch'lita
Additional Vocals by Ambré

Lyrics:
My hearts still aching
Angel, why we waiting?
Skin liberation
"Well can't we date then?"
Know that nobody really got my back
I'm feeling sick, out of breath
I’m loving the stress
Her lips on my neck
See the colour of her iris
Want to dive in
Take my time, sin
Predicting sinking all our time together
Confliction, we linking through the weather  

Everybody's tryna impress someone
I put my hands in the air like it's nothing
It's nothing new

You're putting all your penny’s on a shot in the dark
Just wanna blink to feel alive without crashing your car
It's all overrated
It's all overrated 
Imagine colours in sleep     
Lovers at peace 
I just want a world where I can wander nights forever with you

Can’t decide if you’re making up your mind
Are you really one for walking 
Leaving here without him
Leave him all alone
He don't have to know
Do you feel like a cliché
Making moves so risqué
Honey just try to have no fear
Have no fear

It’s still like that
You’re running back
Running back

Everybody's tryna impress someone
I put my hands in the air like it's nothing
It's nothing new

Feeling failure like it’s something you caught
Tryna to keep a secret but its in the way that you walk
whats your motivator?
Well i’ve been sick for the sun since 99  
Always feeling sporadic, is it visible in my eyes?

It’s all a loop
Live for dreams
Your television leaking
Only thing that fits me
Saint Laurent jeans
I’m just not happy from these things no more

If you wanna stop feeling so empty
Wanna stop feeling things are all out of reach
Go ask yourself if passions fell  
Wouldn't wanna go turning your back on real

Where your head at?
It’s raining on my bare back
People saying you're little unaware max
Social butterflies only try when inspired
Staying patient shooting stars in the sky

Everybody's tryna impress someone
I put my hands in the air like it's nothing
It's nothing new

All of that weight fell off my shoulder 
Still clutch pride in getting older
18 years, the doubt is torture
I just wanna feel

Daydreamer

No Social Butterfly

Birth of Knitface

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Why you never talk to me? 
Can’t you read my mind?  
It’s telling you to say something 
All the time 

I know that i’m uptight
silly things keep me up at night
I know i’ll be alright 
but is it worth putting up a fight?  I wanna sit and do nothing
and you wanna make me be something
and that’s alright
cause no one’s ever made me feel the way i do
for you

pretty girl with the pretty eyes
put her hand right on my thigh
probably thinks that i wanna know why
but i can hardly describe

the way that she made my head spin
she hit me like i’m a pedestrian
in the middle of the night
walking straight into her headlights
but she saved me from my tired life
maybe next time i will think twice
that’d be nice

I never thought she’d love me
she’s just way too cool
so when she came up to me
that day at school
i looked around to check and see 
if she was really talking to me
and she was staring directly 
into my eyes
i felt hypnotized by her gaze
i was intimidated by her face
everything was put into place
no more lofty dreams for me to chase
and she wanted me to my surprise 
the heart wants what it wants and it don’t lie
no it don’t lie

Co-written by: Agustin Ortiz 
Additional Vocals by: Agustin Ortiz, Jessica Walsh, Alex Varni & Grace Cardinale


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