The Black Sea Workbook

by Solemnoire

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M A B This album goes beyond electronica. These sublime soundscapes support the minds voyage to many unexpected, remote and inspiring internal places. I found this album to become even better with repetitive listening. Also I am fascinated in how it manages to slow down the subjective experience of time. Definitely looking forward to the next release. Thank you!

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1.	View To A Distant Shoreline 06:16	buy track
2.	Plankton Shimmer 07:07	buy track
3.	Abandoned Campfires (Aerial View) 05:50	buy track
4.	Under A Disapproving Sun 04:25	buy track
5.	Improbable Cloud 05:23	buy track
6.	Forgotten Coast 06:32	buy track
7.	Uncertain Landscape 05:49	buy track
8.	Seaweed Tango 04:44	buy track
9.	Silent Flower 05:04	buy track
10.	Fragments Of A Beautiful Day 05:05	buy track

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Solemnoire's "The Black Sea Workbook" is an intimate experience of distance and longing. Inspired by a magic summer in Varna, it conjures up the vision of a primordial world, an imagined Black Sea as it might have been millions of years ago.

Ten tracks pull you into a kaleidoscopic daydream of ancient continents overgrown with tropical green, pristine landscapes of austere beauty, and the deep body of an ocean pregnant with life. A sense of personal revelation fills you as you travel through moments of majesty, melancholy and wonder.

It is your world and your discovery. You who gazes toward distant shorelines, walks under a disapproving sun, imagines the dance of marine lifeforms, and trembles at the traces of prehuman activity. You who is permeated by a sense of longing, for the comfort of a remote world unmoved by human concerns.

And as your journey unfolds, the music never strays far. It stays close to you, like a trusted friend.

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released February 12, 2017

Solemnoire's musical debts are not hidden: Xela's wonderful album "For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights"; Ulrich Schnauss' poignantly beautiful melancholy; Boards of Canada's wistful dreaminess and, faintly in the background, the breakbeat and jungle culture of the 90s.

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Solemnoire Zürich, Switzerland

"Solemnoire" is Alex Gamma, one half of the band "Audio Lotion", whose cool and vibey electronica has been sweetening the air waves since 1998.

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