Alunea Track Listing:
1. A Precipice. A Door.
2. Reunion
3. Seed of the Night
4. Speak Silence
5. Truth to Form
6. Edge of Forever
7. We Could Fold the Stars
8. Below Sun & SoilThe eight sonically and lyrically immersive songs on Alunea have set yet another high-water mark for KARDASHEV. Known as the progenitors of the “deathgaze” genre, that descriptor is evolving as the band continually explores and pushes boundaries. “Words you could use to describe our music are ’atmospheric, progressive, emotional, dynamic, and contrast,” explains drummer Sean Lang. “Our music attempts to sonically portray the emotions of anger and sorrow which creates a palpable but natural dynamic contrast.”“Alunea has much more experimentation when compared to previous releases,” adds Garrett. “It‘s a very proggy album.”Music has always been a universal language, but KARDASHEV creates their own lyrical language, adding depth and meaning. “I‘ve loved tinkering with languages since I was a little kid,” says Garrett. “I‘m not an expert when it comes to constructed languages, often referred to as ’conlangs,‘ but I find language to be a really interesting aspect of humanity.”
“I was dabbling in the beginnings of the language of Alunea years before we added it to our record The Almanac,” he continues. “I would sit at my desk at work – a call center at the time – and make up interesting grammatical rules to pass the time. One of my favorites was having the length of a vowel add plurality to a word. I didn‘t create that concept, but it was fun to play with. Years later when Nico and our previous bassist suggested I bring my interest in conlangs to our music, the vowel length concept was what I started with. It all grew from there.”
The new album and band also seek to forge a worldwide connection, as Mirolla explains, “Alunea to me serves this idea of culture that we often see as ’us and them‘ perspectives; it’s a fictitious language, from a fictitious story somewhere in the super future, and I give it the time to hear it, learn it, understand why it works the way it does. I’d just hope that others take a similar perspective when hearing real languages and learning about real cultures that are all around us, and full of depth, history, and meaning. I hope that people slow down and try to understand the depth we’ve put into Alunea and then project their experience into the world around them.”
KARDASHEV:
Nico Mirolla – guitars
Mark Garrett – vocals
Alex Rieth – bass
Sean Lang – drums
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