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DEMO - Trichinosis
🕑 Added 2025-04-04 00:31:24 +0000 UTCThere’s a traditional instrument in Bali called a Rindik, a bamboo xylophone with a dry, percussive tone. When Roniit and I were living there we bought one and I set up some mics, to make a sampler out of it.
I wrote this piece with it during the EXUVIUM writing period. I feel like it brought a sort of primal weight to the rest of the album — ritualistic, almost. It was on there as an interlude in the first draft, and I had planned to continue writing and expand it, but in the end the soul of the track just didn’t quite carry the narrative forward in the way I wanted. The album was already a body in the process of shedding, and this felt more like a pause than a furthering of the depth of the wound.
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Ethan Cheatham
lol you are not wrong
Lee
It endlessly fascinates me how versatile Exuvium and the music made during its creation is, speaking in terms of how it has such a specific and broad feeling at the same time. I can’t really articulate what I mean except through imagery: parts of it feel like the Cologne Cathedral, gothic and intricate and stone, a grandiose display of craftsmanship that looms with an authoritative and and divine energy. This way of seeing it probably comes from the biblical references, Latin chanting, etc., the “destroy divine destroy,” that kind of stuff. But Exuvium also equally fits a more mechanical, modern, jagged image. It’s like a blade. It’s dark and sharp and constructed. The little ticking and winding sounds and things in Exuvium (the song) exemplify this. Then there’s this completely different energy we have here, of an unleashed ancient primal self; I see this a bit in Smoke and Water (the middle section in particular), but this track totally embraces it. It definitely feels more “wild, pulsing jungle,” which is very very different from the vibes I mentioned earlier, but the funny thing is that somehow all of these energies fit so seamlessly into the world of Exuvium. It truly can be and is everything and anything. It’s just so interesting how much it changes shape and yet it all is authentic and so perfectly Exuvium. Exuvium itself is so vast of a concept that it encompasses all of them and more seamlessly.
Xan van Rooyen
Absolutely love this music by the way!
