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Festina Lente: Make Haste, Slowly

by Acid42

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1.
Day in the Year 03:19
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2.
Capricious 03:13
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3.
Lost Horizon 05:26
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4.
Amidst the Y the X are Kings 06:57
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5.
Greatest Common Factor 03:05
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6.
Welcome to Malaise 04:58
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Summer of 88 03:45
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The Porpoise of It All 05:13
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9.
Into Nebula 67Q 05:29
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What happens when you mix two contradictory forces? Gravity and flight? Positive and negative ions? Speed and inertia? You end up with a result that is way more interesting than one or the other. It is, after all, the tension between Earth and Moon that creates the beautiful rhythm of the tides.

Festina Lente is 9 tracks of dense, sometimes symphonic, synthwave or retrowave. But it is also electronic dance music. Or space-focused instrumentals, that lean heavily into galactic beats.

THE TITLE
Festina Lente, is Latin for "Make haste, slowly," and is a classical oxymoron bringing together two contradictory statements. Which is what the album does. Throughout the 9 tracks, the music seeks to bring together two opposing sentiments: grief and joy, hope and despair, organic and manufactured, electronic and orchestral, outer space and inner void.

THE MOOD
Every journey begins with a single step. Every album is a response to the previous release -- in this case, the grief-ridden Requiescat In Pace, which dealt with my father's passing. Festina Lente then is my way of turning away from the dark and focusing on what light is left around us. And inspired by the mundane limitations of a life lived within a global pandemic, I tried to make music that would transport me -- and hopefully every listener -- beyond our globe, to other planets and other realities.

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released September 28, 2021

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Synthwave that smells like the past. Ethnotronic downtempo that reeks of the future. Enhanced with percussion and Philippine nutrients for a complete sensory experience.

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