Rituals of Release is a concept album that celebrates the thrill of synth-driven experimentation.
It began as a series of collaborations, recorded while patching and tweaking our way through hardware synths. Some sessions revolved around synthesizer keyboards and modules; others delved into the labyrinth of a large modular system.
These tracks are the outcome of those sessions. They may be experienced as abstract studies in gesture and texture, visceral improvisations, or small pieces—each a direct encounter with raw, performance-driven synthetic sound, opening a window into the creative process.
As the project unfolded, the world around us shiſted to a darker place: war became routine, authoritarianism took hold, and freedom quietly eroded, while algorithms efficiently turned fear and desire into product.
At some point, our endeavors began to feel like little rituals we relied on to stay afloat. Each track became a snapshot of the apocalyptic mindset, a sonic vignette of a world already in collapse. Paic’s artwork captures these emotional and existential tensions, grounding the sound with its unsettling visual presence. In parallel, AI-generated poems add a layer of algorithmic angst to the unfolding narrative.
Woven from the fragments of it all, the album traces a deeper arc rooted in the classical concept of Eudaimonia—the pursuit of a flourishing life through distinct stages of growth. In this continuous cycle, what once was ruin becomes artifact, and what seemed an ending signals the possibility of something new.
If destruction is inevitable, then so is creation.
