If this music is successful, no one will ever hear it in it's entirety...
One hour of sonic codeine designed to put the listener to sleep. Recorded in the depths of winter, only late at night by candle-light (which are its ideal listening conditions).
I enjoy falling asleep to music but it is often difficult to find music that suits that purpose. Some music starts off mellow and then builds up, or features some sort of hard contrasts that wake you up. Even the silence between songs can be jarring. Some music is too mellow, with too much space to let other household noise through. Some music is irritatingly repetitive, while other music can be distractingly irregular. This piece attempts to avoid all of these wakeful pitfalls, engaging the mind just enough to pull it away from other thoughts, sending it slowly and softly away from mental terra firma. Ambiguous tonalities inhabit dense, dreamy textures, pulling against each other and slowly dissolving.
It is my hope that you will not hear much of this album...
Samples taken from NASA's Space Sounds series (recordings made by the Voyager space probes as they passed by various planets and moons on their way out of our solar system. Jupiter and The Rings of Uranus are heard here). Also sampled is "Neptune," from Gustav Holst's 1914 orchestral suite, "The Planets"
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I just listened through the first time and truly love the whole work! The textures of the music are dynamic enough to hold me and at the same time the pieces are perfect for meditation, contemplation, inner exploration. Mikeljon Nikolich
The long-running NYC group's full-length debut explores the various guises of minimalism in music, from Krautrock to post-rock. Bandcamp New & Notable May 16, 2019