Shade Terrarium by Endurance

Music to heal imaginary persons.
Composed with self-motivational tape loops, field recordings effects, DSI Tetra, and OP-1.
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released May 15, 2018


PRESS:
microphones in the trees
"Endurance was a recent discovery for me and now its tapes are on my heavy-rotation-shelf, simply because of the feeling of endlessness they bring. Whichever release I listen to, it leaves me with the this infinite feeling of longing to something which cannot be reached – yet knowing that the process of reaching it is everything I truly want from life. "Music to heal imaginary persons" – states release page and guess that's the kind of healing this music does. Not just peace of mind or relaxation, but a reminder about that aspiration. When forgotten, it leaves routine only. But just one hint and once again this feeling grows, the inevitability of looking outside the picture. It may sound kind of sad, giving the connotations of such words as "longing". But same happens when I'm alone with nature, somewhere deep in the woods or on the sea shore (and this tape is wonderfully filled with natural sounds here and there) – sense of disunity with nature on some very basic level, impossibility of simply be, like grass, like water, knowing nothing but days and nights... This feeling that since I'm human being, I'm condemned to think, to interact, to know more than any animal needs... And to seek for even more. Okay yes, it is kinda sad. Yet, it is a gift, a purpose, an ability to dwell in many places simultaneously – right here, in my mind, in my idea of me in my mind, in my imagination, in probabilities and variants which never happen in the real world... Like the music here. It reflects the world, yet it creates another one. And the more attentive you are to it, the more detailed and real in becomes. Your personal music-induced reality. And it brings something which never happened in nature, in artist's life or imagination, even in you. Newness is everything we want, somewhere deep inside knowing that it is eternal return to the place where nothing ever happened. Maybe that's what Shade Terrarium stands for."
http://calmintrees.blogspot.com/2018/05/constellation-tatsu-spring-batch.html
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Cassette Gods:
"The crown jewel of Constellation Tatsu’s Spring ’18 batch, for me, was Endurance’s “Shade Terrarium”, which pairs a polar perfect along with Chihei Hatakeyama’s “Scene”. While CH’s humble, droning swells always prove hypnotically stoic and timeless, Endurance’s offering takes those moody seas of e-bowed guitar ambiance and slow-motion thrashes them mercilessly about with myriad doctored field recordings, indefatigable xylophone choruses from every decibel level, an emotional dynamism ranging from mania to melancholy to outright malaise, and an overarching depressive impatience that comes part & parcel with the isolation and darkness of any effectively oppressive Shade Terrarium. This is by no means a “feel good” release, but rather a blindingly brilliant, poignant capturing of our affected dispositions as we slip from Hecate’s suggestion into a much needed vernal shrug."
https://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2018/06/endurance-shade-terrarium-c52.html
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Tiny Mix Tapes
"Endurance’s contribution to the batch, Shade Terrarium, continues that narcotic, late night/early morning vibe. “Sonata Primar” is what some might peg as simply “background music,” but the soft keys and quiet field recordings call to mind the feeling of a camping trip I took last summer, where even at night, despite the tranquil isolation of our campsite, the natural world provided a wealth of sounds all night long."
https://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/constellation-tatsu-takes-us-void-and-beyond-drops-spring-batch-today

Endurance is Joshua Stefane. Born in Ontario, Canada, now based in Nara, Japan. He works as a bioethics researcher and translator and spends most of his remaining time writing science-fiction and composing music.

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