Journey, by Alter Natural

Journey

by Alter Natural

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1.	Prelude (Landing) 01:25	buy track
2.	Temple of Dawn 03:47	buy track
3.	Light Speed 08:34	buy track
4.	Quantum Garden 02:24	buy track
5.	Swamp Racer 08:52	buy track
6.	Artefact 1 00:58	buy track
7.	Crimson Desert 08:35	buy track
8.	Underworld 06:43	buy track
9.	Artefact 2 01:08	buy track
10.	The Blessing 02:06	buy track
11.	Shapeshifter 07:11	buy track
12.	Bridges in the Sky 05:17	buy track
13.	The Enchanted Trail 08:42	buy track
14.	Artefact 3 01:08	buy track
15.	Bliss 06:23	buy track

about

'Journey' is the culmination of one-and-a-half years of musical exploration, interdisciplinary creativity, and my ever-lasting strive to express sublimity and beauty through music and art.

This debut album lays out both a journey of my personal musical development, as well as a narrative journey through a surreal and vibrant world. The tracks are (mostly) ordered chronologically from the earliest works to the most recent, outlining the refinement of my musical ideas and technical abilities in digital music production as the album progresses. Meanwhile, the seamless, soundscape flow and variation of track intensity and style suggests the ups and downs of a long expedition - a journey - through a vast range of environments, both surreal and naturalistic.

What may be quickly apparent is also the appearance of some un-intelligible spoken text throughout the 'prelude' and 'artefact' interludes. These are passages spoken in 'Heminag', the constructed language from a collaborative world-building project I have been involved in since 2020. I wanted to combine that project together with this album as a means of adding a unique aesthetic character and lore to the music. As such, these spoken passages abstractly feed into the narrative journey, representing some kind of gradual revelation or transformation of a mysterious travelling being.

No translations of the texts are provided here - however, these are not necessary to understand the narrative of the album. The musical journey is where the essential story lies, and as such, I invite you as a listener to come to your own conclusions and imagine what this journey is about. Likewise, I hope you find some kind of meaningful connection to this music, whether it is simply the exciting energy from the driving grooves, or some profound beauty in the overall atmosphere of the album.

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A limited CD release may also be available in the near future, so keep your eyes out for more updates. Cheers!

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released December 22, 2021

Written and produced by Alter Natural

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Alter Natural New Zealand

a.k.a. Nathan Carter. Sonic Artist / Composer / Producer, based in Wellington, NZ.

Creator of surreal sound worlds and multi-dimensional grooves, striving to express sublimity through music.

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