The album moves from undulating rhythms and samples derived from satanic possession and religious fervour, to organs and the drone – drone-like compositions usually attributed to Bolus.
This album is a compilation of home, studio and live performance recordings, with a home-made Lunetta synthesizer, sound effects and feedback loops.
The Beacon EP is a hark back to Bolus’s 2014 EP “perceived redness of an evening sky” and the track “Pump”, utilizing rhythmic drones and sequenced soundscapes and culminating in a more percussive departure from his usual sound in the final track “Gottingen”.
Sarmata is an analysis of emotional concepts that do not give in to any intuitive format of explanation.
The album is dedicated to the Swiss scientist Hans Jenny and his work in the field of Cymatics. The visual aspects of sounds that can be revealed through the movement of matter inspired me to try and recreate these experiments. Trying out cymatics led to a certain understanding which sounds create patterns and which parameters influence these patterns. These sounds were not necessarily harmonious in the sense of Western music theory, however, they have proven to be a fascinating asset in my sound archive.
I was standing between epochs of humans’ growing, between periods of flowers’ maturity. I was trying to hear a sound of stopped time while I was standing between humans and flowers.
A sense of ashes, coming from the burning memories, which are transformed into shape of soundwaves. The cold vibrations resemble the observation of lonely spaces created around people, a discoloured view of wallmarks around the mist-filled mind corridors.
Take a pipette and drip a drop of water on your own palm. Transparent drop, full of invisible organisms, chemical elements, and personifications. Looking at the drop, thoughts are spinning. With the other hand rub the drop until the drop penetrates the skin and disappears. Hands need lots of water, but it’s enough for this time. Look at the lake…
Qualia is ‘an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to us: the way things seem to us’, such as the perceived redness of an evening sky – it cannot be put into words. These compositions are an attempt to describe a space in the artist’s mind, a three dimensional region of emotion and feeling influenced by a fleeting yet intense period of saudade – an indescribable longing for something one never had.
Dreamlike walk through inner depths, as if you were walking on thick ice surrounded by misty void and could wake up any second. The sounds reflect a journey through grief, anxiety, finding peace in solitude.
a slow burning collage of dreams
a broad stream of consciousness
a barefoot walk through the treetops
a feedback loop from trains that never came
a broken tape recording of boreal lights
a heartache that never seems to go out
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The topic of this EP is the state of being, the shifts in thinking and the question of identity, when the country you were born in does no longer exist on the political map of the world. Thoughts on this topic were gathered from various Lithuanian artists in order to compose this EP, which was initially a performance for a group exhibition “I Was Born in a Country That No Longer Exists” presented in 2017, in Duisburg, Germany.
“Conservation Of Angular Momentum” is a touching album full of cinematic ambient sounds. The main attention is paid to the extensive, sublime atmospheres. Convulsing melodies and sound effects in the background do not let the listener fall into a monotonic mood, on the contrary, it evokes a spacious palette of listener’s musical senses.
I follow subtle seismic ambient vibrations that immerse me in a deep state in-between the world of dreams and the dream about distant worlds covered in a fog of colours.
Album talking about nine lives, about worlds and planets, the mysticism of number nine, the completeness of the single-digit numbers.
