Clifford.jpeg - Gray Amber / Marine Snow Reprise (Bonus Track) | Whalesong (2026) скачать в хорошем качестве

Clifford.jpeg - Gray Amber / Marine Snow Reprise (Bonus Track) | Whalesong (2026)

PURCHASE HERE: thomaszitkevitz.bandcamp.com/album/whalesong Composed and performed by Clifford.jpeg Produced by Thomas Zitkevitz Also known as VI: Aether. Continuing the trend set by One Day Older, Whalesong is another experimental release for me, expanding on the second half of the former album to be my first full release in the ambient genre. The choice to explore ambient music came from the rut I was in following the completion of the Ravaged by Storms soundtrack in September 2025. I found myself unable to write new material for a time, which is pretty normal for me, I usually have a month or two of inactivity between release batches, but this one was especially long and nasty. Eventually I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t my compositions that were lacking, but my sound design. The timbre of my music had grown samey, so I exploded outward in a new direction. While my same set of pads and keyboards as always, I treated the synths less as instruments in my repertoire, but more as living, breathing creatures, and let them express themselves in lengthy, drawn-out compositions. The premise for the album came to me when listening to recordings of whale cries. It reminded me of the strange, alien, beautiful and fragile state of life in its entirety. And that is a concept worthy of an album in my opinion. Whalesong is written to accompany four different parts of life in order, birth, survival, death, and rebirth/legacy. The score itself is electronic and sweeping, with less of a concrete melody and concepts instead slowly expanding and reaching quiet climaxes, simulating the grand, ever-shifting yet constant ocean. I also incorporated some acoustic aspects into this would-be purely electronic album. The first 30 seconds and last 5 minutes of the album are recorded on fretless electric bass and are supposed to sound like the calls of whales, and I brought on a guest guitarist and drummer for two of the pieces here. Thanks for the help guys, you helped make this release something special.