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Museleon

I knew that I wanted to create a piece of music based on the idea of the Psychopomp, the "guide of souls”. Their primary function is to escort souls to the afterlife, but can also serve as a guide through the various transitions of life. This has long been a role of the shaman, with the ability to travel to the spirit realms and offer help to those in need. The psychopomp isn’t a judge of the deceased, but simply provides safe passage and are often depicted as creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions and folklore.

In Welsh mythology the psychopomp Arawn was the Lord of the Underworld (Annwn). Arawn rode with his white, red-eared hounds, the Cwn Annwn or Hounds of Annwn, through the skies in autumn, winter, and early spring, hunting their quarry - the souls of the damned, chasing them back to Annwn.

I have created a piece which uses a traditional Cardigan saying about Arawn - Hir yw'r dydd a hir yw'r nos, a hir yw aros Arawn
Long is the day and long is the night, and long is the waiting of Arawn

After 17 years as an electronic musician under another guise, I finally decided to create a side project, Museleon, in December 2016, which allows me to break away from some of the conventions that I use elsewhere, and to experiment more with sound. I’ve always been interested in how sound can morph into beautiful complex patterns of noise with the minimal use of tech and processing. It’s the ‘small sounds’, anomalies, mistakes and the sounds ‘between’ that catch my ear. With a lo-fi sensibility and low level processing, it never ceases to amaze me how sounds change and morph into something else, often in a surprising way. Museleon tracks are experiments in sound and are best listened to via headphones and often require “deep listening”.

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from SHAMANIC & PAGAN SOUNDS, released November 1, 2017

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