Wave Temples - Panama Shift

Not Not Fun

£23.38

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: NNF395
Barcode: 5060168044303
Release Date: 05 May 2023
Genre: Ambient/Electronic

Over a decade since its inception, Wave Temples continues to refine and refract the project’s visionary mythopoetic exotica. Panama Shift presents a 20-track kaleidoscopic star map inspired by “the euphoric cults, both then and now, that come and go in the vast ritual of night.” Bleached keys, devotional synth, and driftwood percussion align in minimalist vignettes shaded by tape hiss and field recordings of streams, waves, wind, and birds.

Dedicated to the late Japanese-born American anthropologist Yosihiko H. Sinoto (whose portrait graces the cover), famed for his excavations throughout the Pacific and French Polynesia, the album embodies a similarly voyaging spirit: “chasing ancient mysteries… and rekindling with the esoteric journey of the human spirit.” This is music of forgotten shores, sea air, and saltwater shrines, echoing in shells scattered across the altars of Atlantis.

Tracklisting
A
1. Oceana 4D
2. Key of Youth
3. Old Bones
4. Emerald Nights
5. Banana Boat and the Kalo Sanctum
6. Key of Life (feat. Justice A. Gonzalez)
7. Splendid Macaw and the Rotan Initiative
8. By Firelight in the Dead of Night
9. Mother Moon and the Mangrove Midnight
10. Enigma of Sator B
11. Zarzus and the Lotus Eaters (Smugglers Bay)
12. Towers Above the Mist
13. The Fountains of Living Water
14. In the Land of Vision (SilkWinds)
15. The Sower Sows the Wheel with Effort
16. Mysteries From the Wild Ones
17. Temple of the Shark Hunter
18. Polyhedron of Minos
19. The Dance of Pythia
20. Unto the Harvest the Feast that’s Sown