15th album release, available first on Bandcamp.
Colors is a deeply personal project, born from a fascination with the vastness of space and the poignant fragility of existence. This eight-track ambient/electronic concept album is my attempt to translate a specific narrative into sound: the story of a civilization facing its inevitable end as the brown dwarf it is orbiting is about to be victim of a cataclysmic cosmic event.
The album imagines a journey through the remnants of this lost world, illuminated only by the dying star's pale, spectral light. Each track represents a different facet of this experience – from the initial, ominous "Death of a Brown Dwarf" to the final, accepting "White Void." Along the way, you'll encounter soundscapes of desolation ("A Pale Blue Light", "In the Shades of Lavender"), fragmented memories ("Crimson Dawn", "The Lost Green Pastures"), and even disturbing visions ("Dreaming of an Orange", "The Devil in a Pink Dress with Polka Dots").
The music itself is built primarily from synthesized textures, drones, and manipulated sounds and a slightly deconstructed piano. I've incorporated elements of dark ambient, experimental noise, and even subtle hints of dark jazz and neo-classical music, all in service of creating a specific atmosphere. There's a deliberate use of deconstructed piano melodies throughout, acting as fragile echoes of a lost humanity.
While there's a narrative thread, Colors is ultimately meant to be an immersive and evocative experience. I hope it offers a space for contemplation on themes of loss, memory, and the grand, indifferent scale of the cosmos. I present it humbly, as one interpretation of a story told without words. I invite you to listen and find your own meaning within its silences and echoes.
The death of a brown dwarf star cast the landscape in a pale blue light, flickering weakly over the ruins of a once-vibrant city. Shades of lavender painted the sky, merging into the crimson dawn that heralded the end of time. Amidst the decay, a lone figure stood, dreaming of an orange that once grew in the lost green pastures now buried under layers of ash.
The streets were silent, empty, save for a fleeting vision of the devil in a pink dress with polka dots, dancing through the shadows. The last remnants of humanity’s world faded into the white void, leaving only the spectral colors to tell the story of what once was.
In the end, all that remained was the memories of Colors.
The Tracklist:
Death of a Brown Dwarf
The album opens with an overwhelmingly bleak and desolate soundscape. Primarily rooted in dark ambient and drone, the track utilizes synthesized strings and choral-like pads to establish a sense of impending doom. A distant, reverberant piano adds a fragile classicism, while low-frequency drones create a feeling of weight and cosmic oppression that builds into an epic, catastrophic peak.
The album opens with an overwhelmingly bleak and desolate soundscape. Primarily rooted in dark ambient and drone, the track utilizes synthesized strings and choral-like pads to establish a sense of impending doom. A distant, reverberant piano adds a fragile classicism, while low-frequency drones create a feeling of weight and cosmic oppression that builds into an epic, catastrophic peak.
A Pale Blue Light
A complex hybrid piece that bridges the gap between ambient and Dark Jazz. It begins with ethereal, shimmering synths and a slow, floating piano intro. The mood shifts dramatically as a rhythm section enters, featuring an improvisational piano and a distorted walking bassline. This injects a human sense of urgency and struggle before retreating into a final, somber acceptance.
A complex hybrid piece that bridges the gap between ambient and Dark Jazz. It begins with ethereal, shimmering synths and a slow, floating piano intro. The mood shifts dramatically as a rhythm section enters, featuring an improvisational piano and a distorted walking bassline. This injects a human sense of urgency and struggle before retreating into a final, somber acceptance.
In the Shades of Lavender
A meditative yet unsettling exploration of the "liminal space" between worlds. This track fuses deep, resonant drones with experimental noise and deconstructed jazz inflections. The use of a deconstructed felt piano and an unusual plucked-string texture creates a spiritual, trance-inducing effect that remains haunted by a persistent, eerie tension.
A meditative yet unsettling exploration of the "liminal space" between worlds. This track fuses deep, resonant drones with experimental noise and deconstructed jazz inflections. The use of a deconstructed felt piano and an unusual plucked-string texture creates a spiritual, trance-inducing effect that remains haunted by a persistent, eerie tension.
Crimson Dawn
A Neo-Classical movement that depicts the arrival of a devastating new era. Built on a foundation of slightly detuned cheap piano and synthesized strings, the track builds tension through classical harmonic structures. It captures a feeling of reverence and mourning, building into a grandiose, epic scale that mirrors the final collapse of a star.
A Neo-Classical movement that depicts the arrival of a devastating new era. Built on a foundation of slightly detuned cheap piano and synthesized strings, the track builds tension through classical harmonic structures. It captures a feeling of reverence and mourning, building into a grandiose, epic scale that mirrors the final collapse of a star.
Dreaming of an Orange
A visceral descent into Industrial Noise and Tribal-Primal rhythms. This track is an aggressive nightmare of machinery and chaos, featuring heavy distorted patterns and metallic clangs. It represents a fractured memory warped by destruction: the "Devil in a pink dress" dancing through the ruins. It is deliberately claustrophobic, intense, and challenging.
A visceral descent into Industrial Noise and Tribal-Primal rhythms. This track is an aggressive nightmare of machinery and chaos, featuring heavy distorted patterns and metallic clangs. It represents a fractured memory warped by destruction: the "Devil in a pink dress" dancing through the ruins. It is deliberately claustrophobic, intense, and challenging.
The Lost Green Pastures
A study in sonic decay and physical rot. This experimental ambient piece rooted in an uncommon time signature uses deconstructed piano and processed environmental sounds to evoke the absence of a once-vibrant world. The sound design mimics the feeling of something precious falling apart, leaving only the abstract remnants of a vanished paradise.
A study in sonic decay and physical rot. This experimental ambient piece rooted in an uncommon time signature uses deconstructed piano and processed environmental sounds to evoke the absence of a once-vibrant world. The sound design mimics the feeling of something precious falling apart, leaving only the abstract remnants of a vanished paradise.
The Devil in a Pink Dress with Polka Dots
A surrealist experiment in Dark Cabaret and Experimental Ambient. Dominated by prominent drones and subtle free-jazz shifts, the track’s most disturbing element is the use of manipulated, high-pitched childish voice samples. This juxtaposition of innocence and the uncanny creates a sense of absurd, creeping dread.
A surrealist experiment in Dark Cabaret and Experimental Ambient. Dominated by prominent drones and subtle free-jazz shifts, the track’s most disturbing element is the use of manipulated, high-pitched childish voice samples. This juxtaposition of innocence and the uncanny creates a sense of absurd, creeping dread.
White Void
The album’s conclusion: a transition from memory into oblivion. A simple, repetitive, and subtly deconstructed piano motif acts as the last echo of humanity. As deep drones and heavy reverb take over, the track moves from melancholy into a state of vast, empty transcendence, a release into the final void.
The album’s conclusion: a transition from memory into oblivion. A simple, repetitive, and subtly deconstructed piano motif acts as the last echo of humanity. As deep drones and heavy reverb take over, the track moves from melancholy into a state of vast, empty transcendence, a release into the final void.
