How Fleeting, How Futile

by Murmurous

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1.	Vita brevis 05:06	buy track
2.	Once radiant 06:01	buy track
3.	Buried by time and dust 04:38	buy track
4.	Transitory 07:14	buy track
5.	All that remains 04:28	buy track
6.	Defunct 04:36	buy track
7.	Between nothingness and eternity 04:22	buy track
8.	Brittle beings 06:10	buy track
9.	Fragmentation 05:24	buy track
10.	Towards eternal equilibrium 06:59	buy track

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The theme of HOW FLEETING, HOW FUTILE is DECAY. In each track a melody, which once may have radiated its rich sonorities, is now obscured. Drowned in decay, sunken into oblivion, buried by time and dust.

The listener is invited to discover the remnants of the melody within the denseness of the drone.

The defunct melody can be seen as a metaphor for your own impending departure from this earthly realm. How much longer before you yourself will sink into amorphous oblivion?

How futile! How fleeting are our lives!

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released December 7, 2017

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Murmurous Amsterdam, Netherlands

The desire for alienation and detachment from the real world is the main focus of the Dutch drone project Murmurous.

Modus operandi: to position abstract, lo-fi and distorted sonorities within a flowing, breathing drone texture.

Inspiration (though by no means duplication): Maeror Tri, Bad Sector, William Basinski and Tim Hecker. ... more

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