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every summer, my family and i would travel to an island to visit my surrogate grandparents.

i had this image in my brain of the island being the most perfect place on the planet. but when i returned there years later, i came to realize that such a place had never existed.

the land itself, the nature, was still beautiful, but the inhabitants were corrupting it. it wasn’t the haven that i remembered, except for my surrogate grandparents, who remain the light of the island.

i still love the island, but my idea of it has eroded. nothing is perfect.

this album is a bittersweet ode to a beloved place that has become unfamiliar over time.

dedicated to Judy and Stan.

- miles
credits
released September 8, 2022

“across the lake”
composition, performance: miles morkri

“lavender fields”
composition, performance: miles morkri
guitar, electric piano solo: telebasher

“out of the silent planet”
composition, performance: miles morkri
violin, viola: Michaela Nachtigall

“spokes”
composition, performance: miles morkri

“curve”
composition, performance: miles morkri
lyrics, vocals: Andrew Shenkman
keys solo: Button Masher

“ventifact”
composition, performance, lyrics: miles morkri
guitar solo: Matt Martin

“green”
composition, performance: miles morkri
drums: Max Morkri
violin: Michaela Nachtigall

“the garden”
composition, performance, lyrics: miles morkri
additional vocals: Sara Werbeckes, Matt Martin, the Infloresce garden

mastering: aivi & surasshu

album artwork: Helvetica Blanc

album art accessibility: Joanna Blackhart

video editing: miles morkri

drone footage: Gjerda

special thanks: aivi

INFLORESCE RECORDS
infloresce.com

green (feat. Max Morkri, Michaela Nachtigall)

latter half of my 2017/2018 "opus" that i never really posted

artwork: @sparklecats2009 & @ezip
music: @damifortune
piano arrangement & performance on "four seasonal offerings" (tracks 1-4): @rewitkin
guitar performance on "the forest is for the trees" (tracks 5-8): @october_stereo
flute performance on "plate tectonics" (tracks 9-11): @ZBWMusic
saxophone performance on "yukimarimo" (tracks 12-13): @dorkus-64
violin performance on "it rained after the fire" (track 14): @retropetet
drumset performance on "blue whirl" (track 15): @cryptovolans

Written with a ROLI Seaboard, soundchips from some very old machines, a piano, a field recorder, and some excellent instrumental recordings from friends.

Elemental Fusion is an album of collaborations with instrumentalists. In most cases, I asked friends to record a few minutes of improv or pseudo-improv to use as a springboard for writing a piece of music. The tracks would then be built around whatever they sent me, often chopped up and manipulated. The result is serendipitous; these works were pushed in unique, unexpected directions by my collaborators' performances. The compositional challenge was thrilling.

This album also interprets the word "fusion" in other senses - it is a spiritual successor to the similarly-named pair of diametrically opposed EPs I released in 2022, Elemental Harmony & Elemental Chaos, combining their respective styles of "melodic chiptune" and "ambient glitch" into one work that lives on a spectrum between them. It is a blend of acoustic warmth and digital processing. It is also a synthesis of many different styles, sounds and techniques that I've come to enjoy employing in my writing.

Elemental Fusion is perhaps my most challenging and varied work to date, and I think about it as a recital of sorts for the classical concert stage, a statement of purpose. To that end, detailed program notes are included with the album!

--HVB

latter half of my 2017/2018 "opus" that i never really posted

zeke

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