Orchestra of Glittering Roses, by Strange Mountain II

Orchestra of Glittering Roses

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1.	Like Mirror Holograms, The Turning Tides of Time 04:32	buy track
2.	Orchestra of Glittering Roses 03:36	buy track
3.	Kosumosu 05:24	buy track
4.	Pleasure Currents 01:43	buy track
5.	Silver Roses Blooming 05:05	buy track
6.	As We Turn Into Snow 02:03	buy track
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Throughout 2017-2018, I worked on a multitude of recordings in search of trying to find a new way of communicating emotions through Strange Mountain music. The II is symbolic of finally going through this door. I wanted to take back the value of nostalgia as something real, something personal - something I think I evoked vividly through the earliest SM recordings. I realized that this meant facing the crossroads of the time present and past. Not only to stray way from the cheapening of memories as a "80s/90s kid" gimmick but facing the realities of time, cherishing the present while acknowledging our personal history as human instead of pieces of pop culture anecdotes. For once it felt acceptable to use symbolism in the practices of creation, and as such I began utilizing the process of sampling and looping - something I rarely did in SM prior - and finding pieces from different sources that somehow fit and spoke to each other, harmonizing to create something that looked ahead with optimism. This meant using a combination processed samples of two sources: one "contemporary" and one "old", preferably from the era I was a young child during.

What you are hearing are processed pieces of things that include significant sounds of the late 80s / very early 90s era - Japanese mecha robot / classic anime theme songs, instrumental sections of indonesian pop hits, etc - against samples from the past 5 years - my daughter's violin playing, pieces of my own music, other's musical movements - shifting and intertwining with each other. Making sure they ere harmonious was somehow less an issue than I had imagined. It feels right and somehow joyful in its own way even if it glimmers with melancholy memories. I hope this feeling translates.

Recorded at home, Serpong, Indonesia at the tail end of 2018
For Ingrid, Anio, Devo
Art: commons
Design: Leo Romanick

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released September 18, 2019

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Strange Mountain is Marcel Thee (Sajama Cut, Roman Catholic Skulls, The House of Faith and Mirrors, The Knife Club, Nakatomi Plaza, and solo) from Jakarta, Indonesia

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