This is the condensed version of original debut Whirltwine album Soul Scenery from 2010.
I wasn't very satisfied with it already after the release of the second album Pearly Beams
which I consider to be my first truly great album I am satisfied with still today.

For this reason I completely re-recorded two tracks "Sea Shell" and "Soul Scenery" for
my third album Oneness which I both really liked and felt their big potential,
but the original Soul Scenery versions are very flat and badly recorded.
One of the reasons is that these tracks really required to be recorded on acoustic guitar
that they were written on as well, but at the time of recording Soul Scenery I didn't have
any good microphone and I was recording only my electric guitar directly from computer with
line-in input. On the Oneness album I also finished these two tracks to the form that
I am finally really satisfied with.

Now the original recordings only take up space on the original album and I almost never listen
to them anymore except when I very rarely listen to the full album. There are also two more tracks
that I usually don't listen to or skip nowadays when I revisit the original Soul Scenery
album and these are "The Glazy Skies" and "Thoughtful". Both are not bad, but very average
and they don't have anything special that would draw me to listen to them again unlike all
the other songs from original Soul Scenery that despite their very low production quality
have something beatifully raw, dirty and experimental in them which I still like a lot to this day.

So I decided for 10th anniversary of Soul Scenery album to create this condensed version
with omission of these four tracks and also with one more heavily changed track Ragged Stripes.
Ragged Stripes has very nice finale, but the majority of track is badly recorded and falls
to the similar category like "The Glazy Skies" and "Thoughtful" for me, that it just isn't very
interesting to revisit anymore. So I cutted the finale out of the track and put it at the end
of unused Soul Scenery track "Song #4" which I always liked a lot, but I somehow never
finished it. "Song #4" was originally also longer. I omitted about minute and half from the beginning.
The transition between these two cutted parts flows perfectly. The track is no longer too long for
what it represents like original Ragged Stripes was so the final combined track is something
I finally really like as whole and it definitely deserves its place on this condensed version
of Soul Scenery. I changed the title to Ragged Stripes (Finale) as the finale is what inspired
this whole idea.

The final adjustment is clearing out the tracks from some not very pleasing audible cracks
here and there. For example when the Glassy Grass starts out fully after the quiet intro,
but there were many more and now they are mostly cleared on this version.

This nine track half hour condensed version of Soul Scenery is finally an album I enjoy
and have desire to listen to from start to finish. I am happy that it reached this form that
stands much better near the other albums following it like Pearly Beams and Oneness in terms of
the flow, no filler and unique character of each song that has its proper meaningful place
and home on the given album.

By Empty Room

Bamboo

Glassy Grass

Trembling

Mea Reflection

Ragged Stripes (Finale)

Floating

Rough Ball

The Meatus Of Sound

I started playing piano in 1998, but I got connected with music on much deeper level when I started playing guitar in 2007 when I was 16 years old.

This was mainly thanks to my amazing teacher Robo who is very open-minded and inspired me to improvise and compose music, which quickly turned into one of my biggest passions.

Currently the Whirltwine project is retired and I continue to make new music under the name of my new project Hear The Colors which is much more mature and flashed out both sonically and musically. Therefore in the 2022 I also publicly released the debut self titled album on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music for the first time.

For more information visit: https://hearthecolors.com

Trembling

Whirltwine

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