A moment of your time please [87]

Alpha Mound & Tidsrymd "En plats i solen" (release date: June 17)

Alpha Mound & Tidsrymd is a musical collaboration that has been going on since 2019. The first single "Slow-wave Sleep/Dröm i färg" was released in 2020 and now their debut album "A place in the sun" will be released on June 17, 2023. The music moves between post-rock, ambient, kraut and dream pop. It is instrumental music, using vocals without words. With vivid song titles and musical visualization, they take listeners through different imagined scenes. The album is released on streaming services and CD through Stålverk Records.


Alpha Mound

Alpha Mound is Joakim Westlund's solo project. Since his first release in 2012 he has produced many albums and EP:s under this moniker, sometimes through collaborations with other artists. The music is usually ambient with sound design as a central element.


Tidsrymd

Tidsrymd is Johan Ohlsson's project, producing electronic music since 2018. The music moves between kraut, minimalism and ambient. 


Alpha Mound & Tidsrymd "En plats i solen"

The album "En plats i solen" was mostly made by the duo in Joakim's studio in Sandviken. Later on guest musicians have been brought in to build the large soundscape that makes up the record. The album features Sofia Costa Nordvall (vocals), Karolina Dahl (vocals), Peter Fredriksson (trombone), Martin Hällgren (drums) and Ida Norrman (vocals).


About some of the tracks:

Godmorgon framtid was the first single from the album, which came with a remix by Slim Vic. It is inspired by an old coffee table book from 1984, with the same name, in which Bengt-Arne Vedin and Bengt Preston painted titillating visions of the future and predicted such things as "electronic express letters" and robotic lawnmowers. It is an energetic, hopeful and uplifting song.

Dagsverk is a work song with a swagger, post rock guitars and humming sing-along chorus, kind of a spiritual for the 2020s. 

Vid tystnadens rand takes us to atmospheric ambient with quietly humming vocals (a bit like Enya). Alpha Mound plays a bowed guitar, which adds a kind of quiet drama to the song.

Östersjön paints a dystopian dark ambience to soft, jazzily stroked drums. We see the song as a bittersweet musical depiction of a rather ruined place, where beauty and tragedy sings side by side.

En plats på solen is a brutal song that contrasts the uplifting title track. But instead of beaches and leisure, we imagine solar storms and extreme heat. The composition is inspired by the title track of the 1984 Dune film and Edvard Grieg's "The Death of Asa" from the Peer Gynt suite, but filtered through the usual punk/indie racket.

06 - En plats på solen

the gate shuts  
with a loud groan  
the temple sleeps  

track for naviar haiku challenge 497  
made in vcv rack with my summer '23 fixed rack

haiku by hosai ozaki https://allpoetry.com/Hosai-Ozaki  
picture by julia karl https://unsplash.com/@juliakar

naviar haiku 2023

the temple sleeps [naviarhaiku497]

ROKKOKO

Go get them cupcake

everyone gone…
in the wake of fireworks
darkness!

Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan.

He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”

Haiku by Masaoka Shiki https://mypoeticside.com/poets/masaoka-shiki-poems

Picture by Clay Banks https://unsplash.com/photos/u27Rrbs9Dwc

nawak

Darkness in the wake of fireworks (naviarhaiku502)

The Digger

story
**On a silent moonlit night, the pure white moonlight reflects off the water, creating a mystical scene.**  
As the melody of a piano flows, along with its notes, the figures of cat ninjas can be seen darting across ancient rooftops and through swaying bamboo groves. Their movements are flawless, and occasionally, eyes illuminated by the moonlight hint at their next move.

STORY

Their destination is a massive structure resembling an ancient temple. From within this structure, futuristic blue lights and electronic sounds can be heard. Here lies an AI that holds sway over the fates of many.

As they approach the temple, a glitch-like noise resonates, and in an instant, the entire temple is enveloped in a protective barrier of light. Faced with this barrier, the cat ninjas momentarily seem lost.

Suddenly, from a distant village, a voice echoes, "Are you ready?" Faces from the village appear in the out-of-focus background, their voices laden with hope and anxiety.

Among the ninjas, one steps forward. From beneath his fur, wires and cables resembling that of a cyborg emerge. He connects these to the core of the AI and, in a flash, deciphers the information, disabling the protective barrier.

Taking a deep breath, he smiles at his comrades and says, "Everyone, I hope you're not too shocked, but truth be told, I'm an AI." In that moment, under the moonlight, a touching scene unfolds as their bond deepens

AI Ninja

LoopDiggers Sunday Roulette N°138
additional modular synth processing, snare, synth, and field recordings by meorkat.

BODYXSONG [LoopDiggers Sunday Roulette N°138]

This is a track played on Bhshva (a planet not so far), when a birth took some doing.

Darkness in the wake of fireworks (naviarhaiku502)

Debroc