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Bitterness Is Best Declined as a Companion

by Jashiin

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...for always there was a wicked smile to salt soft words, those he often gave as they sought flight to find the heart of another 04:21
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...to drift up as a final reminder, a last gift; I watched as he very gently laid it aside on the dry dusty summer earth 05:21
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..."shall we walk?" and unanswered you paced on leaving me stumbling three steps adrift, each one a caught breath, each a definition of hope 03:11
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...there was no anger in the abruptness of his departure I thought later, no mountain assaulted, nor honour ridiculed or even denied 04:15
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...looking downward at evening she saw that star-like line of blended twilights of old lost summer evenings sweeping over the fields 10:09
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The explosive growth of AI in 2022 and 2023 inspired the concept of this album, in which the electronic music layers behave like a living entity: learning to imitate the sounds of the world, to transform them, and to recreate them.

The last track's title is from Lord Dunsany's "The King of Elfland's Daughter": in the story, as the "star-like line" travels across the land, it transforms fields and villages into parts of a magical realm, and they no longer belong to this earth.

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released December 4, 2023

Composed, performed, and recorded by Jashiin except tracks 3 (trumpet played by M.te) and 4 (field recordings by frankelmedico, cjentus21, soupods, and craigsmith @ freesound).

Titles by Ian Greenwood except track 5 (title from Lord Dunsany).

Mixing and mastering by Metehan Köktürk. Some recording equipment loaned by Amy Salsgiver.

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Jashiin İstanbul, Turkey

Composer based in Istanbul, Turkey.

This account is for electronic music only. Music in notation is available at the website below.

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