arbol. by Mild Sorrow Integrated

NYS#85

some of these songs were made very quickly, some others took months until i figured out how to finish them. i spent some time collecting bits from many old abandoned song ideas to reuse and recontextualize in these beats. i spent some time figuring out how to write melodies. some were born (or finished) from the fusion of 2 different beats into one. some are very new, some date as far back as 2019 when i wasn't even releasing music under this name.

i began working on this thing right after i released 'eye girl' with no agreements. as proud as i am of that EP, i honestly don't even feel like sitting down to listen to 13 minutes of alien bleep bloops anymore, nor sitting down to listen to 20 minute ambient tracks :p
i spent some time just thinking about what my favorite electronic music actually was in the first place to then have a clearer idea about what style i truly wanted to pursue. yes i love autechre, but over time i realized i'm more of a bogdan raczynski type of guy. or maybe my attention span is just shortening

then i set some goals for myself
1. to make my first non-ambient LP
2. to capture my love for melody, textures and, in general, the music that has captivated me the most lately
3. to incorporate some more acoustic sounds
4. not to depend so much on sampling for composing
5. to have enough material to make it longer than 30min. i was tired of only getting to make enough beats for EP-lenght projects lol
6. to just try to make the music i wanted to hear, as close as i could

it's funny because vibe-wise this sort of ended up being the polar opposite to the music i was dropping before. i don't really care about how weirdly this contrasts with my previous releases, i kinda came back to the mentality i had while making the tunes that would end up on 'eye kid', with their fast-paced and playful style, but neater and better produced, because eye kid was made when I was like 15-17 years old and anything that sounded whack i would fix by putting distortion on it lol

in the end i'm happy because this release, regardless of its quality or importance, is so far the one that most honestly represents myself, both musically and personally. many aspects of my current life are reflected on this music, i think. quarantine made the outside world feel weird and less real than the digital world sometimes, but also more vivid and priceless. a lot of stuff was changing for me while creating this music, and it still is while this album is coming out.

i didn't want to (nor could i) do some super ambitious perfect project or anything crazy, i just wanted to condense my personal taste for colorful glitch music into an lp. this is the most time i've ever spent working on an album and i only hope y'all find some of it cool

thanks for listening and supporting and reading and yeah

:)

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