RESTORED SYSTEM by UNK MANATU

RESTORED SYSTEM
This album comes from a period when the internal system had fallen out of coherence. The way back wasn’t through explanation or intention, but through sound. Ethiopian rhythmic and harmonic traditions offered a structure that behaves like a repair mechanism: circular, repetitive, self‑balancing. They don’t demand control, they invite return.

Improvisation became the only functional method. Stochastic behaviour, layered playing, and moment‑driven decisions gradually rebuilt internal order. The music isn’t a narrative, it’s a recalibration. A system re‑establishing contact with itself through vibration and pulse.

RESTORED SYSTEM reflects exactly what its title suggests: a field regaining stability through rhythm, participation, and the discipline of showing up to the moment. The structure emerged on its own. I simply followed until coherence returned.

If you wonder why there’s no vinyl or CD option:
This music doesn’t survive well in solid form.
It behaves like a field event — temporary, fluid, uninterested in becoming an object.
Vinyls and CDs would only freeze something meant to stay in motion.

The work lives as vibration: WAV, FLAC, nothing else.
If the universe ever insists on a physical form, it will appear.
Until then, the signal remains unfixed and uncommodified.

“I don’t compose; I synchronize. Music is a plasmatic field reorganizing perception, and improvisation is the universe thinking out loud. I’m simply the instrument where entropy chooses to become audible and stochasticity does most of the work. I just try not to interfere. Perception adjusts itself when you stop insisting on control.”