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Solastalgia

by Cedar Dreamer

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Dave Aftandilian Haunting and harrowing, hallucinatory yet grounded, this dark ambient ode to the green drones deep and pained, resonating with terrible loss and longing. What can replace the tree that sheltered so many lives? Who can repair the wounds of our Mother Earth, her skin cruelly torn by plows and backhoes, her body poisoned by a thousand chemicals? And how dare we blame the wild animals we cage to sate our filthy appetites for visiting a pandemic upon us? We deserve far worse, and shall receive it.
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1.
Solastalgia 11:15
sing to me, of all you love sing to me, of all you've lost so that we may find the strength to carry on
2.
Hiraeth 10:28
3.
Saudade 11:34
if dissolution is our fate and all we love is bound to fade all certainties slip away what will you make of what remains?
4.
Dawning 11:04

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Solastalgia is a new word to describe a familiar sensation: the psychological effects of living through environmental upheaval and loss. Brought into being throughout a period of intense personal anguish, Solastalgia is the darkest and most cohesive Cedar Dreamer offering to date. Slow building loops lead to crescendos of euphoric trance. Dark ambient minimalism interplays with scintillating choral harmonies. The 4 movements contained herein were created almost entirely by voice and acoustic instruments, without electric guitars or keyboard synths. By returning to the grounding properties of voice and breath, Solastalgia captures an intimate journey along the healing path.

The creation of this work was a bitter but necessary medicine, and it is now offered here in the spirit of the Gift.

A Deluxe CD edition is now available from Glass Throat Recordings - glassthroatrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/solastalgia

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released December 4, 2020

All music and photography by Cedar Dreamer.

Mastered by Sammy Fielding at Ancient Owl Audio.

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Cedar Dreamer Olympia, Washington

Synthesizing the numinous voices of the Wild since 2014.

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