Album: 'Solar Sessions: a charity album and zine' Directory: solar-sessions Date: September 21, 2018 Date Added: September 16, 2023 URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0JVq5p3x9EhKw0WcSRnGcDgFXWJ-DvsO Cover Artists: - Circlejourney Color: '#aa6d94' Groups: - Beyond Wallpaper Artists: - Circlejourney Wallpaper Style: 'opacity: 0.85;' Cover Art File Extension: png Track Art File Extension: png Commentary: |- Handshake Collaborations: Jam-packed with art, writing, and tunes inspired by our solar system, “Solar Sessions: a charity album and zine” is our biggest collaborative project yet, and we’re so excited to share it with you! Join Handshake Collaborations in raising money for the Evergreen Satellite Food Bank with our biggest project yet! Pay what you want to get thirteen tracks, sixteen works of art, and ten short stories and poems all inspired by our solar system and beyond. If you’re a fan of the starry, ambient, glitchy, bizarre, and beautiful great unknown, you won’t want to miss out. Organized by [[artist:helena-ruth|Helena Ruth]] and [[artist:psithurist|Jo Latta]]. Based on an idea by [[artist:poisonedelite|PoisonedElite]]. # Additional Files: # - Title: Digital Zine # Files: # - Solar Sessions low-res digital zine.pdf # - Title: Full art # Files: # - art files go here --- Track: Sun ☉ Chariot Originally Released As: track:chariot-time-and-tide Duration: '4:45' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLpLycFnFNc - https://soundcloud.com/circlejourney/sun-chariot Cover Artists: - the_polyblank Commentary: |- Circlejourney: The sun is remarkably multivalent symbol across historical, cultural and scientific realms, carrying almost as many meanings as there have been groups of people to study it. Ancient agricultural communities knew the sun was the source of all life and livelihood; millennia later, scientists confirmed it when they learned of the role of photons in driving photosynthesis in plants. Numerous groups across history have held it at the centre of their rituals and imaginings about the nature of the universe, depicting it as a god, a monster, or a chariot of fire. It was initially difficult to decide which angle to approach the music from in order to best capture the sun in all its importance and wonder. Eventually, I settled on a style that combined its mythic and scientific connotations through a combination of orchestral and synth instruments. The title of Chariot refers, naturally, to Helios, the figure from Greek myth whose chariot is said to pull the sun across the sky. In both structure and harmony, this track draws heavily upon Reel Around the Sun, the music of the opening sequence from the Riverdance suite, which celebrates the sun's benevolence as a bringer of light and life. Synths, glitching effects and bitcrushing signify the other half of our relationship with the sun: as a destructive, disruptive force, drowning out satellite transmissions, drying crops, irradiating the earth. The piece is eventually topped off with drums and an electric guitar ostinato, transforming its initial exuberance into a fiery aggression.
When I signed up to make a track for the sun, my first thought was, “how do I musically interpret a celestial body with so much significance and so many meanings?” and I think what I ended up making is a track about that significance. The earth revolves around the sun in more ways than one–it’s the source of life, the powerhouse of the planet, and several cultures hold it at the centre of their cosmogenic mythos. The track is a celebration of it! (And also heavily inspired by Reel Around the Sun.) --- Track: Mercury ☿ Artists: - Whimsy Duration: '3:46' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yMVJKhICsQ Cover Artists: - Apex Altra --- Track: Venus ♀ Beauty Mark Artists: - psithurist Duration: '5:14' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J29MaZhPwIo - https://soundcloud.com/psithurist/beauty-mark Cover Artists: - Symon Coy Lyrics: |- Beauty mark I watched you move across the sky last night I reached my hand out but try as I might You just felt like you weren't the kind to hold Work of art I want to know the colours of your light I'll dream a thousand 'till I get it right So I can read the story you have told I Don't Know How You Can Walk So Slow Where I've Ran From Bird of prey You came to take me at the break of dawn Coerced my eyes towards your graceful scorn And let me fall with nothing left to see Ecstasy There wasn't any of you left for me And I don't mind but maybe there could be A kinder ending --- Track: Earth ♁ Directory: earth Suffix Directory: true Artists: - psithurist Duration: '4:45' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF5QvGLfLpA - https://soundcloud.com/psithurist/earth Cover Artists: - LunaGlitch --- Track: Moon ☾ Lunar Love Song Artists: - Blue Lennox Duration: '5:07' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTIlaI4cv1Y - https://open.spotify.com/track/4PVjcB5sqr6dQEuC7F7arI Cover Artists: - glimsprout --- Track: Mars ♂ prejudice Artists: - adrasteiya Duration: '3:12' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87VfvNaBNVA Cover Artists: - Cryomancerlex Commentary: |- adrasteiya: Despite his bright colors and relative proximity to the sun, Mars is actually very very cold.
Not in nature, but in physical temperature.
Oh, what I would give to meet Mars in person. To fly like a rocket and escape this planet.
To be earthbound no longer. --- Track: Asteroid Belt ❊ Polymorphic Virus Artists: - Robogauntlet Duration: '3:58' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5O8Cp8tFaY Cover Artists: - snufkings Commentary: |- Robogauntlet: The initial idea was for the music track to represent several leading themes for each of the biggest asteroids in the belt, to symbolize the mass and chaos. But during the composing it evolved into this story of a Polymorphic Virus, which was a pretty fun and interesting idea to explore whilst associating it with our asteroid belt - a huge uncontrolled mass in space. The music track starts off the story with mysterious horn-like instruments, partnered with noise, as if the virus is "sleeping" until it gets a chance to spread itself. The second part of the track, more heavy and upbeat, represents the process where the virus corrupts and feeds off of everything it can reach in order to live and thrive. The noisy percussion and panning lead synths eventually culminate and slow down, meaning the virus eventually kills itself off after an attempt to spread out of its area of origin, and continues to exist only within asteroid belt, in the waiting and calm state. snufkings: For the asteroid belt visual art, I was heavily inspired by medieval art during the Black Plague. The person in a black cloak represents the virus, while the person next to them represents a star, and in general all lifeforms since it is said that it’s the Sun that provides energy for all living creatures. The virus is seen beckoning the star, while the star hesitates because it can’t recognize what it is (as the virus has many different forms and is constantly mutating). The plague doctors’ colors are based on the planets of the solar system, to represent where the asteroid belt is in our solar system. They don’t seem to be affected because the virus cannot spread outside the asteroid belt. --- Track: Jupiter ♃ my queen in veils Artists: - Helena Ruth Duration: '4:13' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhtbJqdnIXg - https://open.spotify.com/track/4t26SAiLAtIE57nAVsb8bT Cover Artists: - Catarina Pulli Lyrics: |- Every hour that I drive, add on another hour And down, it floats, the light A faucet flowing under It's another world, it's the otherworld It's the air, stirred, honeyed waters It's the neon lights, the sodium lights Great saucers, pouring under This is the sea of what should not be This is the fog of sweet eternity My queen in veils (Something called out on that) She hails (Quiet night) At one (Can you hear it?) You see (Can you hear it?) Jupiter, sing (Something called out through that) And swell (silent light) Envelop (Can you hear it?) Me (Can you hear it?) Every hour that I drive, add on another hour And I'm swimming through the light Through hazy waves broke under It's another world, it's the other world It's the storm, yet, lacking thunder It's the neon lights, the sodium light Great crowns of fire and umber And this is the sea of sweet eternity (Four stories high, her spine, tall, stiff with spite) A ship that won't sail, through pale, sight split from me (Copper alight, she sighs, she lifts her pipe) Jupiter's haze, her days (And called me from the other side) (Down from her lips) Envelop me (The drifts, of mist alight) (I heard it, I heard it) My queen in veils, she hails (She called me from the other side) (King of the sky) How sweet she sings (I heard it, I heard it) (Veiled high, she robs this night blind) Commentary: |- Helena Ruth: in the witching hour, a vision, she overpowered me. --- Track: Europa ⚮ noli mentī iuppiter Directory: europa-noli-menti-iuppiter Artists: - Helena Ruth Contributors: - psithurist (bass) Duration: '2:31' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAruIxapbyA - https://open.spotify.com/track/4t26SAiLAtIE57nAVsb8bT Cover Artists: - Alannah Journeay Lyrics: |- Sigh, sigh, storm of the eye caught in the light, hot heart of the sky Lie, lie, Iuppiter fine Dust on the wind is the fog in my mind Life in the rough, breed in the tough Sleep in the deep, dragon sweet, it's enough Blood in the freeze, light on the breeze The knife in the teeth of my mind, not at ease Sigh, sigh, heart of the lie See, I don't believe that your name means your mind Lie, lie, Iuppiter I'd Christen you mine if I knew we'd survive Lie, lie, lie, taken far, far, far (Life in the rough, breed in the tough) What's more bizarre, the truth, or the farce? (Sleep in the deep, dragon sweet, it's enough) Lie, lie, lie, like that heart over sea (Blood in the freeze, light on the breeze) A name stole from thee, a soul meant for me (The knife in the teeth of my mind, not at ease) Sigh, sigh, heart of the sky Caught in the light, hot tear from an eye Lie, lie, see, Iuppiter I Claim the divine like it's always been mine --- Track: Saturn ♄ Mission to Saturn Artists: - Pascal van den Bos Duration: '3:33' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUB5EnVn6p4 - https://potatoboss.bandcamp.com/track/saturn-mission-to-saturn-solar-sessions - https://soundcloud.com/potato-jams-94172520/saturn-mission-to-saturn-solar-sessions Cover Artists: - cute-anonyme --- Track: Uranus ♅ Frostbitten Clouds Artists: - PoisonedElite Duration: '3:12' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB3gJDx5RQE - https://soundcloud.com/poisonedelite/uranus-frostbitten-clouds Cover Artists: - Kamoria Art Commentary: |- PoisonedElite: Nearly at the end of the albums availability I'm uploading my song for Solar Sessions! I am so thankful to have been apart of this amazing album! :> --- Track: Neptune ♆ The Siren's Call Artists: - Blue Lennox Duration: '2:16' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhLM7xsKe-k - https://open.spotify.com/track/0Ou6yJaZg1Zoqf4ds76iW8 Cover Artists: - Saron Penrose --- Track: Pluto ♇ Artists: - SerialSymphony Duration: '2:55' URLs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xASjHPMqsw Cover Artists: - briarpatcharts