waves from another star
By neon liminal on January 18, 2026 8:36 pm
This one came together more easily than expected (something I am always suspicious of). Fourth track in my tape explorations (third for WB), I decided to take a "tape" approach to arrangement, by recording two live improvised tracks of two pianos, bouncing the recordings and then slicing them up like tape to create a melodic arrangement. This is absolutely nothing novel, but it was interesting trying to pull a "new" melody from the pieces of improvised material.
Repetition, both intentional and not so much, became a motif - I mean, that's the nature of looping, I guess - but it brought some of the artifacts of the sounds I was working with into a more prominent place, which became their own rhythm and ebb and flow, hence the theme of "waves" here. (full disclosure, on certain headphones this annoyed the shit out of me on mastering, but most listens were fine, so let me know if it also annoys the shit out of you! It might be something I go back to address for the EP)
The story of a cabin by the shore of a frozen ocean continues, it seems. This feels like a more dissonant note for the suite, slightly ungrounded, a moment of uncertainty under an alien winter sky.
One more track to go then on to new things!
Also random, but it has slipped my mind these past two weeks - some of you might remember The Message from WB 2024, my little vocal space-cowboy-post-rock song, and 2025 saw this track fully realized and finished and finally released this past December. It's probably one of the most complex and ambitious tracks I've ever written (with guest guitar by the ever talented jwh, and definitely ties into the narrative on every one of my space-music albums, including upcoming Snow for Europa, so give it a listen if you wanna hear me crooning:
and finally updated my profile lol
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well done!