"You've lost me", they said.
It sounds like a tragedy, but means they are clueless. It's not like the myth of Orpheus and his silent wife. She could not follow him any more, after he asked her to confirm, that she was indeed speeding out of that dark place.
And I say: "OK, thanks, bye, and, by the way, amen to that".
This album is a work of art. You will probably not dance to it. The music is not meant to sound good, or accomplished, but it is aiming for some sound notion of organic character.
Buy this album, or stream it, or forget about it, and its fate. Random things never happen for a reason.
Several of the tracks on "Kthxby" are based on sounds and improvisations that Maritune Art & Music made and posted as contributions to specific online communities of New Music composers and sound artists, for example the Sound-In group and the 60x60 concert events. Two of the tracks, the "Misty Island" titles, were originally made as independent student works for university courses in music technology.
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