Nanimo nai wakusei means "empty planets" in Japanese and is an apt description for key elements of Tim Salden's
music as Osoroshisa. It reflects the width of uninhabited and lonesome worlds and how time becomes a secondary
factor on an empty planet that lacks any point of reference for perceiving its continuous passage. In the broader
sense, it may also refer to isolated persons living in a solar system of their own, without a way of taking notice of
other worlds apart from theirs and where chains of events have gradually been replaced by a constant train of thoughts.
Accordingly, the music is located between drone and dark ambient without being particularly representative of either
genre and evolves slowly, with recurrent figures weaved into persistent drones and subtle changes in modulation rather
than thematic variation and progression.
Kasei ("fire star", Mars) as opener starts with a boomy drone of indecisive ninth and fourth intervals that lead to a choir like sequence. There is a distant similarity to the shoegazing sound of My Bloody Valentine, minus the rhythm section and vocals and recorded hundreds of metres away in the main concourse of a major railway station. In Dosei ("earth star", Saturn), a scifi movie soundtrack atmosphere is prevailing, perhaps due to the prominent use of vintage analogue synth sounds. Kinsei ("gold star", Venus), by far the gloomiest tune, pictures the hostility of overheated deserts with impenetrable tone clusters that barely lighten up towards the end. At first glance, Suisei ("water star", Mercury) - as closing tune of the album - seems to offer an resolution with emphatic swelling of ninth intervals, but too soon the faint glimpse of sunlight has to give room to gloomy darkness again, underlining the eremite's fate to return to the beginning.
Olliver Wichmann
Preview audio:
If you see a blank space here and wonder what it might be good for, then Flash support is disabled or not installed
for your browser. Do not worry about that, for our site is perfectly usable without Flash. It is just the player that
will not work ;-).
You are allowed to download this Petcord release free of charge and use it for any
noncommercial purpose that does not involve modifying the work or incorporating it
into another. You may share it with your friends in filesharing networks, have as much copies
on any media as you like or add it to your noncommercial netradio playlist, as long as
you abide by the terms and conditions defined by the following
Creative Commons licence:
If you do want to use our release in commercial projects or incorporate parts of it into your own noncommercial work, please contact us and we can discuss about conditions for granting a permission, of course provided the artist agrees to it.
The release is available as both single mp3 download and entire package including artwork. Some browsers may automatically play the file rather than offering a dialogue what to do with the latter, so in this case downloads may not be that straight forward. In case your favourite browser happens to exhibit exactly that behaviour, simply right click the link, and then a context menu should appear that offers something like "Save as" or "Save location as".
| 1. | Kasei | 20 min 51 sec | 48'870 KByte | mp3, 320 kps CBR |
| 2. | Dosei | 7 min 21 sec | 17'230 KByte | mp3, 320 kps CBR |
| 3. | Kinsei | 15 min 21 sec | 35'980 KByte | mp3, 320 kps CBR |
| 4. | Suisei | 10 min 33 sec | 24'730 KByte | mp3, 320 kps CBR |
| Artwork | Cover art for prints | 781 KByte | 24x12 cm & 11.8x14.8 cm at 300 dpi | |
| Everything | Entire release plus artwork | 122 MByte | zip archive |
Music © 2009 Tim Salden and the Petcord netlabel.
Cover art © 2009 Synflict and the Petcord netlabel.