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In the Shadow of Narcopolis
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A trip to the place where nightmares are made.
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New Age, Ambient, Pastoral, Electronic, Cosmic, kosmische
I've been making musical noises since the late 70s. What comes out is sometimes experimental or dance, but mostly it's New Age / Spiritual/ Ambient/ cosmic electronic music. I tend to work on themes, they are not particularly important for a listener but they help me retain some kind of focus. "The Lost Harvest" is mostly about reflecting outer landscapes within, and projecting inner states onto the world. It's also about the loss of a generation and a way of life as a result of the First World War. It's about the love of the young soldiers had for their homeland. "Dreamers" is about sleep, dreaming and memories, those things that are just out of reach of our consciousness. "Strange Stars" took a step back to a more electronic form, exploring inner and outer space. I also have an ongoing relationship with www.ambientmusicgarden.com to release music for therapy (not available on soundclick)
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Genre
Electronic Ambient
Charts
Peak #391
Peak in subgenre #35
Author
Mark Griffiths
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Mark Griffiths
Uploaded
November 11, 2007
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MP3
MP3 4.5 MB 320 kbps 4:52
Story behind the song
The whole “Dreamers” series is about, sleep, dreams, and those things that lie just beyond our perception. This track takes a gothic lens, borrowing heavily from HP Lovecraft. The story behind “In the Shadow of Narcopolis” involves a Victorian explorer who is plagued by outlandish nightmares. To satisfy his curiosity and perhaps find some relief he travels to a strange city in the middle of a desert. There he discovers that his nightmares are generated by some ancient race that sleep within the walls and the city breathes out these malign thoughts to the world of men. Unfortunately, although the grotesque dreamers are asleep the city itself is not. It captures and entombs the explorer so that he now dreams forever within the city of Narcopolis.
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