orson welles - i know what it is to be young - 1984  أورسون ويلز

🔥 Embers of the Forgotten 🔥

In a world long silenced by war and whispered legacy, "Embers of the Forgotten" breathes myth back into memory. This dark fantasy concept album fuses cinematic folk, ritual ambient, and gothic symphonics into a sweeping saga of fading oaths, hollow thrones, and ancestral rage. Each track unfolds like a lost chapter, steeped in chantwork, spectral strings, and cavernous echoes.

Through its haunting soundscapes and lyrical incantations, the album traverses forgotten battlegrounds, broken bloodlines, and cosmic trials. It beckons listeners to confront the remnants of power—who deserves to wield it, and what sacrifices remain in the ash.

🔗 Themes woven throughout:

The decay of dynasties

Memory as ritual

Fire as rebirth and judgment

The duality of silence vs legacy

The gods we shape through grief

This album doesn’t ask to be heard—it demands witness.

Ashes in Bloom

Embers of the Forgotten

“Tome of Stars” is a 100 sonnet journey, equal parts art, therapy journal, and exorcism, both a celebration and an elegy, a single narrative arc tracing the birth and death of a relationship. All poetry by Stargazer. The verse and accompanying synthetic art and music are public domain, CC0, with no restrictions on use. Nothing is monetized. See below for links on how to access the print, PDF, audio, ePub, video, and music files. Website: tomeofstars.net

The opening section of “Tome of Stars”, titled “Item 1: Anthesis”, comprises 21 poems that chronicle the emergence and flowering of a romantic relationship, structured around the botanical metaphor of anthesis, the period during which a flower blooms. 

“Refraction” narrates a charged and intimate encounter that unfolded within the sterile, cerebral environment of a laboratory. The sonnet captures a moment when performative distancing to maintain a professional facade gives way to physical and emotional surrender. Set against the backdrop of a scientific experiment, the poem juxtaposes the cold apparatus of inquiry with the latent warmth and magnetism of two bodies and minds drawn together. Themes of restraint, transformation, and revelation emerge, as internal heat breaches outward calm, culminating in an impulsive gesture of desire and the mutual acknowledgment of a deeper, unspoken bond.

***********
Lyrics

Staid statues spoke in ciphers, side by side.With scholarship a shield, we froze, disguised.Platonic masks were worn, but failed to hideThe incalescence of our breathless sighs.

We journeyed to jeweled temples where warmth spills,And sunbeams arc through gemstones’ ardent art.Dim worlds below dissolved, their madness stilled,While dormant embers flickered through our hearts.

Your gaze met mine—a drive too wild to tame.All thoughts removed, just motion and desire.I pulled you near and stoked our secret flame,Two flesh consumed in passion’s binding fire.

And in that private place, beyond all lies,You gifted me the stars born from your eyes. 

***********

Internet Archive
Book of sonnets:
https://archive.org/details/tome-of-stars/

Music:
Item 1, Anthesis: https://archive.org/details/Anthesis/
Item 2, Senescence: https://archive.org/details/senescence_tomeofstars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://archive.org/details/Sporogenesis_TomeOfStars/
Item 4, Anemochory: https://archive.org/details/Anemochory_TomeOfStars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://archive.org/details/Quixotosis_TomeOfStars
Item 6, Scripture: https://archive.org/details/Scripture_TomeOfStars

Bandcamp:

Item 1, Anthesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anthesis-item-1-of-tome-of-stars
Item 2, Senescence: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/senescence-item-2-of-tome-of-stars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/sporogenesis-item-3-of-tome-of-stars
Item 4, Anemochory: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anemochory-item-4-of-tome-of-stars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/quixotosis-item-5-of-tome-of-stars
Item 6, Scripture: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/scripture-item-6-of-tome-of-stars

Refraction

Una noche más - Yasmin Levy & Yiannis Kotsiras

The Bridge Of Music Memory

Solenzara

Ennio Morricone's Chi Mai (meaning Who Ever in Italian, although it looks Asian to me :)

Live video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHHPlqwxZA8

He composed this in 1971 for an Italian movie called Maddalena, and reused it in 1981 for the beautiful final scene of the French movie Le Professionnel starring Jean-Paul Belmondo who insisted on using this music. It was also reused in some other movies and TV series and is famous in French pop culture thanks to a memorable dog food TV ad for Royal Canin, where the music is used while a dog is running in slow motion.

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2, using a Bösendorfer sampled grand piano with some echo, and strings I control with an expression pedal, well, try to control.

Ashes in Bloom

Xiao BaiMalz

Related tracks