The Garden of Earthly Lights, by Mess_Montage

The Garden of Earthly Lights

by Mess_Montage

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1.	Harvesting the Sun 03:29	buy track
2.	Flower Bird Wind Moon 05:20	buy track
3.	Out in The Fields 05:35	buy track
4.	End of The Digital Days 04:30	buy track
5.	Dreams 04:48	buy track
6.	Visions Divine 03:44	buy track
7.	The New Beginning 03:17	buy track
8.	The Garden of Earthly Lights 06:08	buy track
9.	Farewell to Nature 07:05	buy track

about

The Garden of Earthly Lights is an album inviting you to take a journey towards reconnecting to lost self, to your spirit.
There is a Japanese concept - ‘Kachou Fuugetsu’, translating as Flower Bird Wind Moon, which opens up an idea of discovering yourself through experiencing nature. Walk through the forest, appreciate the nature and while doing so, reconnect with your self, overcome clouds of uncertainties created by multiple losses and traumas, learn about yourself.
And this is what the album is about. Grab your headphones and take a 40 minute walk. Slow down. Listen and observe. Discover. You will slowly start to feel the animated spirit of the world around you.

This 40 minute sonic world was born in 2018 in Tbilisi, in my old studio, when my close friend L.M. came over and while having a casual conversation, played a tiny 2 second, phrase on piano. I had Teenage Engineering OP-1 in my hand and for some reason the lo-fi mic recording was on. Few days later, jamming in my studio, creating ambiences,
atmospheres and textures, phrase suddenly turned itself into a unique world of its own. I listened to it for a long time, trying to enhance it and turn it into a self-feeding world of its own.

The album went through sweat, blood, tears, love and happiness. It was lost together with my stolen laptop (and revived from memory), it travelled with me to Rome, to Helsinki, to the sea and the mountains of Georgia, to RBMA 2018 in Berlin, where I recorded string sections and many many more. it was finished in Berlin in 2021 in the forest of Rheberge.

The cover of the album was created using AI(neural networks). During my travels, I was taking pictures of abandoned churches, nature, birds, landscapes, all closely connected to the sound layers in the the album. Through that picture, algorithm generated a texture, which contains it all - strings, synths, saxophones, choirs, birds, animals, archetypal sounds.

It took me 3 years to understand the world I was creating, I am happy to share it with you!

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credits

released November 12, 2021

Artwork concept by mess_montage
AI Implementation by Tornike Karchkha
Mastered by Andrea Porcu

(Tracks 1, 7) Saxophone by Lasha Sakvarelidze.
Track 8. (The Garden of Earthly Lights)
Strings recorded at Red Bull Music Academy 2018, Funkhaus. Directed by August Rosenbaum

Thanks to Levan Maisuradze for playing a tiny snippet on piano that triggered the album.

Shimmering Moods Records 2021
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