Individual songs, though the mainstay of release structure in modern music, are rarely allotted with enough substance to transfer an ideal. The album evolved out of the suite and eventually became a condensed form of opera, yet is a bare minimum of space and time needed to convey a full idea. Even if your song is multi-faceted and extensive in length, the condensing of a singular idea must be seen from not a singular view point lest it’s potential for impact become lessened. Most artists present music as either individual song fragments or albums and collections of a larger scope. My music is told in multi-album arcs on a yet again more macro scale. Where the albums function as songs on larger albums referred to as “Omnibuses”. Individual albums serve both their own idiosyncratic purposes as singular artistic statements, and as zoomed out song style aesthetic placeholders for a larger scale Omnibus containing all of their collective aesthetics as a whole statement.
Each album explores its’ own specific ideals in such a way that they need not cross into each other’s realms. Yet as the project came together I realized that planning the names and covers of the projects well in advance provided a cohesive judgement of how those records sounds should be. The aesthetic did not dictate the sounds directly, as in some cases the albums were attempted to be recorded sequentially only to have tape six come out as tape seven due to the nature of the larger Omnibus. So there were many factors that went into the assemblage of both the individual albums and the first Omnibus I released completely over the course of 2019.
The first collection of albums colloquially referred to as Flood, contains 120 songs, all written recorded and released this year. There were well over 200 other tracks that were left behind for fear that they would lessen the impact of the cohesion of the Omnibus as a whole, yet there are hours upon hours of sound to still be dissected.
This stunning, beautiful project from Fujian duo Southeast of Rain 东南有雨 blends field recordings with rippling notes from the pipa. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 8, 2021
St Celfer returns with tracks culled from a series of live shows, each one a showcase for his inventive experimentalism. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 26, 2023
Seattle’s St Celfer returns with four more boundary-breaking electronic compositions sparked with sudden bursts of melody. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 6, 2022
Visionist showcases vocals for the first time on his Mute debut, featuring collabs with members of Circuit des Yeux, Black Midi and more. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 5, 2021
Every sound here is made using Megan Mitchell's voice, even though the music often sounds more like Earth’s vibrations than a human singing. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 28, 2023
Written in response to the climate crisis, “Leviathan” is a brooding and beautifully unsettling batch of dark ambient songs. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 16, 2023