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Pythian Drift: The Craft

by Latlaus Sky

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Moonlander Latlaus Sky's first installment of the Pythian Drift story is a truly epic Ambient Sci-Fi journey that will stick with you long after you've finished listening to it.. Favorite track: The Ashen Spirits on the Surface of Mercury.
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Skïto Nicklas What an incredible ambient album. The background narrative and overall concept bring a lot of depth to an already captivating record, and the cover art perfectly encapsulates the experience. Favorite track: Prologue.
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Prologue 02:19
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Triton, swim 04:39
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Europa 01:51
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The Wheel 06:24

about

This album has roots in my early years of visiting the observatory in Sunriver, Oregon with my Dad. I looked through the telescopes and saw the moons of Jupiter with my own eyes. It slowly came to me that it would actually be possible to stand on those moons. The ice on Europa is real; it would hold you up. And if stood there and looked out, the sky would be filled with the swirling storms of Jupiter's upper clouds. The orange god would be surrounded by the blackness of space itself.

Though these thoughts can inspire, they begin to chill your bones as you move farther away from the sun. Temperatures plunge. There is no air to breathe. Radiation is immense. Standing upon Neptune's moon Triton, the sun would begin to resemble the rest of the stars as you faded into the nothing.

Voyager II took one of the only clear images we have of Neptune. I don't believe we were meant to see that kind of image. Unaided, our eyes are only prepared to see the sun, the moon, and the stars. Looking into the blue clouds of the last planet you cannot help but think of the black halo of space that surrounds the planet and extends forever.

I cannot un-see those images. They have become a part of human consciousness. They are the dawn of an unnamed religion. They are more powerful and more fearsome than the old God. In a sense, they are the very face of God. And perhaps we were not meant to see such things.

This album was my feeble attempt to make peace with the blackness. The immense cold that surrounds and beckons us all. Our past and our future.

The album closes with an image of standing amidst Pluto’s Norgay Mountains. These peaks extend 20,000 feet of solid ice into thin atmosphere. Evening comes early in the mountains. There is no Earth. On this final planet we face the decision of looking back toward Earth or moving onward into the dark.
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This album is the first in a series. Pythia's influence will continue to affect Dr. Chandra and those on Earth. Later this year it will be followed by Pythian Drift: The Black Hole Suite.

credits

released January 14, 2019

July 30th 2590,

Returning to their base in the Leviathan Plains, clorantine miners on Neptune’s moon, Triton, noticed a faint blue glow out their portside window.

Tracing the light source, they found a small black craft frozen near the entrance to a lava cave. Rubidium dating puts the craft’s age at roughly 3.9 billion years old.

Dr. Amala Chandra has begun a dialogue with the craft’s inhabitant. It is able to communicate through subjective neural radiation recoil. In essence, it can both read one’s mind and transmit directly into consciousness itself.

Sub-neural scans of Dr. Chandra have allowed us to reconstruct the images imparted to her by the craft. They are often accompanied by a music that Dr. Ch can feel but not hear. Our neural scanning systems have attempted record and reproduce her experiences.

The following are the images and sounds that have been reconstructed so far…

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