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Phantasmagore (Demo, 2016)

by Tyst

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Blotta intet 15:19
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Herman 05:54
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Nature Boy 04:40
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In 2016 I started working toward a solo-project that I envisioned under the name of Tyst. Some of the material was released around the same time on a Soundcloud account that is since long lost to me. I spent a few years around 2018-2020 every now and then revisiting this and reworking the original material of these three pieces, adding and editing. I am no instrumentalist and the mix is a very sorry one, apologies to any hurt ears in the end of the first track. Most of what can be heard is composed of recordings of me using my body as a vessel for sound, manipulating and distorting my voice.

If any conceptual theme can be spoken of it is only thought of retroactively and to me a concoction of what 2016 had in store once I escaped Uppsala to various whereabouts in northern Sweden. Nightmares; intrusive hypnagogic states; withdrawals and OD:s; déjà vu, folie à deux et l’appel du vide; otherness; synchronicity; tulpamancy; creativity; desire, repulsion and paranoia; a free fall from grace; a loss of face and the early days of what has come to be a raging mad love for Nature. What I do remember is a quest to capture a sound-sensation, a twilight state, as it occurred to me as an audible phenomenon.

Certain aspects of 2016 and the period preceeding it came back to me in reoccurring nightmares, always on or around Spring equinox and so I think it is time I release this today, March 20th, 2024.

The album art is made in 2024 using material from 2016, with photography from an attempt at living alone in a remote cabin without electricity of running water. There are no real lyrics, and much of what was originally sung, when there are actual words, has been mashed up in the usual T.E.C style. The exception is the final track, Nature Boy, which is a cover of Eden Ahbez -- it being a homage to someone who taught me what Nature boys teach. I've long wanted to get that song off my chest. As to my own wording, the following is an excerpt of writing from the period that I apparently must have used in the original recordings.

/Ingrid

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"i write of and for the entity that whispers to me at night
he whispers through the cracks in the air
i whisper back and i suddenly realize we are speaking a language unknown to me
i know this to be the same language roaring at me from the sky in a dream i had years ago,
in which this roar was accompanied by a petrifying scream of a young woman dying in the valley below
in this dream i knew i must now go inside and lock the door for the nighttime streets of this hillside are no longer safe
thus i ran into a house.

i spoke of this dream with a man i had never spoken to before. we had been speaking for years.
i was anxious as i could not recall what this roaring voice from the sky had told me.
wise as he was unknowingly he spoke to me and said that perhaps it was only important that the voice had spoken.

along the line of synchronicities i end up residing in this house i in my dream had fled to, in my flight being nervous of having forgotten to close the outermost door behind me…

and in this house this unknown language has been spoken to me yet again.
he moves in closer and we speak silently, mutually in understanding that we do not.
i softly fall into a slumber

i write of and for the unknown that haunts me
the man whom i can not describe for i do not know him when he comes
i know him only when he is gone and when he is gone i can not describe him
nothing.

the nightmare where you wake up in your bed
followed by
a nightmare where you wake up in your bed
followed by
a nightmare where you wake up in your bed
followed by
a nightmare where you wake up in your head
followed by a dream certain dreamers dream

i wake up in my bed in a state of terror and there is a man sitting next to me
i am relieved, he is here to comfort me
he offers me a glass of water, i lift the glass to drink just when i realize he is poisoning me
i tell him
i need to piss
fleeing into the bathroom, conjuring an escape
i glance at him as i exit the room realizing he knows i know he knows and i know too but did not want to
locked in the bathroom i stare at the mirror and realize my jaw is a gaping wide skull. i move my face closer to my reflection and see my eyes are bleeding. with this i now know what does not want to be known.
it was not until i had once again awoken in my bed and started to ponder, that i realized this man was of the unknown - he had only not spoken"

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released March 20, 2024

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