fave listenings of this month

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in the pic: Anna von Hausswolff

"musica assoluta" (agosto 2025)

Topographic Meadows

Polyend tracker programmed from my score.

Adagio - Polyend

A Compendium of Beasts Volume 4

Beware the Claws of Palug

Composer and Harpist Anne Vanschothorst’s music has been described as innovative, minimal, lyrical, cinematic, and touching yet intense. The same rings true in THAT I DID ALWAYS LOVE, the artist’s musical ode to the great American poet Emily Dickinson. Featuring seven of the poet’s works set to music, Vanschothorst fosters an intimate listening space where two art forms reach a soothing synthesis, amplifying the elegance of Dickinson’s texts with the graceful nature of the harp, a perfect pairing. linktr.ee/thatididalwayslove

05 There's a certain slant of light ft. Annie Einan (voice)

Live improvisation - hardware synths. No AI but pure RHI

In what century?

Marco Lucchi : synthesizer and tape

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playing with
https://soundcloud.com/agnosturaelwar/in-what-century

Carnac

A Shadow of All Night Falling: A Dark Allegory

It came from the west,
spreading like a dark vapor 
in the sky, covering the sun.

The world turned dark,
shrouded in starless night.
In the glow of cells,

shadows moved in frantic
despair not knowing what to do
or where to go—

in the end of times.

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Valhjim: Guitars, Sax, Synthesizers, Samplers
Martin Miers: Drums

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© 2025 Valhjim. All rights reserved. Original music by Valhjim.



A Shadow of All Night Falling — A Dark Allegory - Valhjim w/Martin Miers

The Stream
Valhjim

Stream in motion, flowing in rhythm,
crests wavering in the light
Myriad worlds unfold, 
within/without: as above, 

so below.

I move in the Stream
I am the Stream

Creator of Worlds
without end

Om Bhavam Namah
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Valhjim: Guitars, Synthesizers, Samplers.

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© 2025 Valhjim. All rights reserved. Original music by Valhjim.

The Stream

"Crystal Garden"
valhjim

Wander through a surrealistic garden where colors and textures shift to touch of eye and hand. Stroll through pathways of sound and note-clusters of neon music fruits delight the ear and the listener's taste in this musical ouvre by Valhjim. 
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valhjim: synthesizers and samplers.

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© 2025 Valhjim. All rights reserved. Original music by Valhjim.

Crystal Garden

"Alisha Wandering in the Misty Grove"
Valhjim


She wanders through garden and grove
long-haired and barefooted, bathed in mist,
along the pathways she drew long ago.

She inhales each scent of flower and herb.
She touches the earth—moist and feminine. 
Her flesh remembers

the days of yore—children's shapes 
behind the roses and that boy 
with the auburn hair and toothsome
 
smile, how her heart raced when he came 
near—how their stories intertwined.

Then,  one day. . . . the sun went down 
with a moan that echoed 

through the mist.

She sighed and drew a deep breath.
The trees in the grove knew. 
They whispered the stories
nestled in her memory—

"All those years ago," 
they whispered

She sighed into the lingering mist 
as tree and rose gently swayed

till her heart gave up.

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Valhjim: guitar, synthesizers, samplers.

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© 2025 Valhjim. All rights reserved. Original music by Valhjim.

Alisha Wandering in the Misty Grove

"They Play in the Clouds"
Valhjim

An orchestral ambiance piece with a touch of jazz, "They Play in the Clouds" suggests imagery of blue skies, streaming cloud formations, and ethereal vocalizations harmonizing in the breeze. The winds blow causing the clouds to stream along, capriciously whirling and twirling like eddies on a lazy stream. A saxophone improvises over the soundscape, whispering its jazzy notes in the wind.
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Valhjim: synthesizers, samplers.

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© 2025 Valhjim. All rights reserved. Original music by Valhjim.

They Play in the Clouds

"Origyn"
Valhjim

Birdsong in the trees. As the sun sets,
mild light spreads gently in the glade.

Ethereal choirs caress the air—
they open another realm in the space 

of the mind: Origyn. 

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(C)2025 Valhjim  Music and poetry by Jim Valero (all rights reserved).

Origyn

Valhjim is a music composer with an eclectic approach to different genres: rock, pop, folk, New Age, and experimental electronic music. Greatly driven by imagination and poetic imagery, he combines multiple instrumental textures to fire the imagination of his listeners. 

His more experimental ambience and electronic music is built with layers of suggestive sound textures, rhythms, and melodic lines that stir the imagination into suggestive imagery and worlds unseen, true architectures of sound that open up limitless spaces to explore. Often Valhjim's melodies sail through genre thresholds, crossing over from one genre to another, from neo classcal to electronic, or from jazz to rock or new age.