The Darkness

The Darkness, Part 2

Doomsday Clock

B.R. Revisited

Lyrics: "Sheep in Fog", Poem by Sylvia Plath

Dark Water

Part 1 of the 6-part series "Polaris", music inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name:
https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/polaris

"Into the north window of my chamber glows the Pole Star with uncanny light. All through the long hellish hours of blackness it shines there. And in the autumn of the year, when the winds from the north curse and whine, and the red-leaved trees of the swamp mutter things to one another in the small hours of the morning under the horned waning moon, I sit by the casement and watch that star..."
Beginning of the short-story POLARIS by H. P. Lovecraft, 1920

Polaris 1 - The Star

Part 2 of the 6-part series "Polaris", music inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name:
https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/polaris

"And it was under a horned waning moon that I saw the city for the first time. Still and somnolent did it lie, on a strange plateau in a hollow betwixt strange peaks. Of ghastly marble were its walls and its towers, its columns, domes, and pavements..."
From H. P. Lovecraft's short story POLARIS (1920)

Polaris 2 - Olathoe

Hurt Stoned Out (Kinda NIN/Cash Cover)

I don't see you
You don't see me

I don't hear you
You don't hear me

I don't touch you
You don't touch me

I can't feel you
You can't feel me

I can't kill you
You can't kill me

I'm alone
And you're alone

I am home
And you are home

We're together
Here forever

We're together 
Here forever

Forever Again

Forever

Part 3 of the 6-part series "Polaris", music inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name:
https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/polaris

"But as I stood in the tower's topmost chamber, I beheld the horned waning moon, red and sinister (...) and through an opening in the roof glittered the the pale Pole Star (...) soothing me to traitorous somnolence with a damnable rhythmical promise which it repeated over and over:
Slumber, watcher, till the spheres/ Six and twenty thousand years/
Have revolv'd, and I return/ To the spot where now I burn.
Other stars anon shall rise/ To the axis of the skies;
Stars that soothe and stars that bless/ With a sweet forgetfulness:
Only when my round is o'er/ Shall the past disturb thy door."
From H. P. Lovecraft's short story POLARIS (1920)

Polaris 3 - Slumber, Watcher

Part 4 of the 6-part series "Polaris", music inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name:
https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/polaris

"My head, heavy and reeling, drooped to my breast, and when next I looked up it was in a dream, with the Pole Star grinning at me through a window from over the horrible swaying trees of a dream swamp. And I am still dreaming."
From H. P. Lovecraft's short story POLARIS (1920)

Polaris 4 - The Everlasting Dream

"My world, my Earth, is a ruin ... You can see the old cities still everywhere. The bones and bricks go to dust, but the little pieces of plastic never do - they never adapt." 
From: The Dispossessed, novel by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)

Bones And Bricks

"There are no forests left on my Earth. The air ist grey, the sky is grey, it is always hot. It is habitable, it is still habitable (...) We Terrans made a desert."
From: The Dispossessed, novel by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)

Wonderful (Wasted) World

Part 6 of the 6-part series "Polaris", music inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name:
https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/polaris

I never wake
I never open my eyes to reality
to cruel to see

I'm home again
home where I belong
deep inside of me

There is no fear
there is no pain
there is no longing
there's no shame

And the dream
is just beginning...

Polaris 6 - End Is Beginning

Part 5 of the 6-part series "Polaris", music inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name:
https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/polaris

"The Pole Star, evil and monstrous, leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey..."
From H.P. Lovecraft's short story POLARIS (1920)

Polaris 5 - Trapped

The Sea said "Come" to the Brook,
The Brook said "Let me grow!"
The Sea said "Then you will be a Sea - 
I want a Brook, Come now!"

Part of the series "Far Sea Pieces" by VSS:
https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/far-sea-pieces

Lyrics: Poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1896)
Music: VSS, Image VSS: Anonymous graffiti on the bank of Panke, a brook running through Berlin, 2021

The Sea Said Come

Immersive Soundscape, featuring a Track by SnowOmen @snow_omen (Improvisation Nr. 1 for two Guitars). Field Recording: Gulls and Swans at Urban Hafen, Kreuzberg, Berlin.

Part of the series "Far Sea Pieces" by VSS: https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/far-sea-pieces

(Music/ Lyrics/ Field Recording: VSS; Image VSS: Anonymous graffiti on the bank of Panke, a brook running through Berlin, 2021)

Above/Below

And as I went down
to the bottom of the sea
I looked up
and saw my face
in the mirror over me
beneath the waves

And as I safely returned
to the shore
I looked back
and saw myself
amongst the waves
evermore

Part of the series "Far Sea Pieces" by VSS: https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/far-sea-pieces


(Music/ Lyrics/ Field Recording: VSS: Image VSS: Reflection of graffitis and papers sticking on the bank of Panke, a brook running through Berlin, 2021)

Mirror

Dark urban ambient scenery built with an improvisation on fretless 4-string cb-guitar, field-recording: water running in pipes

(Music, Field Recording: VSS; Image VSS: Kottbusser Tor, Berlin, as seen in a car side mirror)

January

Only a dreamy evening drone... mellow piano in the background: someone's playing somewhere in the house during the recording...

(Music VSS, Image VSS)

Snow Outside

Field recording: Kottbusser Tor subway station, Berlin, on a late Monday afternoon in January 2024
(Music/ Field Recording/ Image: VSS)

Underground

Dark urban ambient soundscape combining improvisation on 3-string cb-guitar, analogue bass synthesizer and Berlin Subway field recording.

(Music/ Field Recording: VSS; Image VSS: Graffiti at Gesundbrunnen-Station, Berlin, Oct.2022)

Subterrestrial

This is the sound of the future
This is the sound of the past

Where do we go when the world ends
What do we do if it lasts

Will you hold me in the darkness
Will you kiss me in the cold

So little time left for changes
So many stories untold

Only one train to tomorrow
Only one track in the night

Got no time got no ticket
Drifting slowly out sight

Will you hold me in the darkness
Will you kiss me in the cold

So little time left for changes
So many stories untold...

 

(Music/ Lyrics/ Field Recording: VSS; Image VSS: Kottbusser Tor Subway-Station, Berlin)

Night

(for Y. A.)


There are these mornings
I open my eyes 
just to cry

There are these moments
right before dawn
when I die

There are the days
all I can say is
let it rain

There are the nights
I pray to sleep
not to wake
not again

But then there's you
there's only you
who makes me feel

Yes there is you
there's only you
makes me wonder

An I'm not
going under...


(Music/ Lyrics/ Object Recording (Tin Toy): VSS; Image VSS: Kottbusser Tor Subway-Station, Berlin)

Tears

"Tears" Subway-Remix https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/tears
Featuring an improvisation by SnowOmen: Glasswork - Improvisation for water, four hands, eight glasses and one table (excerpt): https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen/glasswork-nr-2
Music VSS & SnowOmen; Remix VSS; Lyrics VSS; Field Recordings VSS: On the escalators/ In the shower; Image VSS: Kottbusser Tor Subway-Station, Berlin

There are these mornings
I open my eyes 
just to cry

There are these moments
right before dawn
when I die

There are the days
all I can say is
let it rain

There are the nights
I pray to sleep
not to wake
not again

But then there's you
there's only you
who makes me feel

Yes there is you
there's only you
makes me wonder

An I'm not
going under...

Morning

Experimental dark ambient approach to "Gloomy Sunday". Original composition "Szomorú vasárnap" by R. Seress, 1933. Field Recording: Kottbusser Tor Subway Station, Berlin.

Sunday

(Dark) Ambient - Post Rock - Experimental

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