Dying Tides: Beyond the Beyond EP

I made this record over winter and spring 2025-2026 during a weird time of change. This was mostly an experiment in perseverance and learning - putting final shapes onto ideas that had been to-ing and fro-ing over recent years, lying on hard drive after hard drive.

One day, I’ll write a blog article on some of the techniques I learnt, adapted, as well as heavily borrowed. Before the winter started, I spent about 6 months learning and adapting some systems to build a workflow that helped build the basis of these tracks. I even created some new tools when I hit dead ends of how to get sounds from inside my head and out of my speakers. You can download one of them, Orbit. There’s more to come…

The overall feel was heavily inspired by what I was reading at the time. Henry Vaughans Silex Scintillans, Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, and more recent writing about microhistory including the brilliant The Rising Down by Alexandra Harris - landscapes formed form muted interwoven lives across centuries underpinned by doctrine and ritual. These songs are my pictures of landscapes and place alive with the gravity of accumulated human experience, beyond just the scenery.

The cover art was created by Mark, AKA the wonderful Kid-ethic.