Vestiges of the crumbled bridge

by Alex January

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	1.	I - Elegy 07:52
	2.	II - Ponte Rotto 08:11
	3.	III - Images of the Psychopomp 08:16
	4.	IV - Dreaming the Psychopomp's dream 21:06
	5.	V - Threnody 17:59

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These tracks were recorded in November 2021, upon my return from Rome, a trip that I had made in order to scatter my mother's ashes.

I cannot say that I believe in souls, though I do believe in the life of the mind, therefore in spirits.
But what does it mean to let go of someone ? What is it exactly that we let go of and what is it that we keep ?
And that which we let go of, where does it go ?
Such are the questions that permeated the soil in which this music has germinated.

A sonic voyage of the dead called for navigating between opposite worlds, by superimposing the voices of the deceased and the mourner, by employing tonal and micro-tonal vocabulary with both descriptive and abstract approaches, amidst "natural" and "unnatural" acoustic phenomena.....

On a more technical note, this music was born out of my early experiments with two Serge CGS panels that I've recently acquired.
I added elements from other modular and hardwired synths, more oscillators here, additional filters there, for polyphonic pads and such...
But at its core it's all Serge. And electric guitar.

Alex January, 2/2/2022

To the city of Rome (ca. 753 BC– )
To Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988)
To Elena, my mother (1946–2017)

Photograph taken by Alex January at Baths of Diocletian, Rome, November 2021

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