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Artist: Ꚙna Perssꙮn's Dying Air Amidst The Haunts Of Orcoastras
Title: ...And Above The Mists... (Requiem Mass)
Written August 9th 02021, the day we uploaded this as a private album clearly expecting to make it a public release shortly thereafter:
A journey with the dead
We have about 35 more compositions to complete and upload before we take a break from music and write a novel.
You know, plans, the only thing standing between a life well lived and a death self inflicted.
Our First Requiem, Requiem For..., is slowly being realized by human beings, which feels somewhat anachronistic, but, hey, we've never been stylistically constrained before, so why start now?
Our Second Requiem looks to be brutally long, and may take years (like our opera, Kestrel, it will live alongside the novel, tentatively titled A Gentle Critique Of Art In The 22nd Century.)
Our Third Requiem (like the work that precedes it) flew together like demons congregating around a condemned soul in Hell. Fitting, given that we transcribed field recordings from the dying room of a family member to craft it. Every note you here is born of her final 24 hours. How hard could composition be when born of conflicted pain interpreted by algorithms?
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Written on the actual day of public release March 29th 02022:
Almost eight months ago we finished composing this album. Truthfully, we don't recall that. We don't recall uploading these first 9 hours. We have a few items in our private albums, usually things we are listening to and sharing with collaborators before official release or albums on other labels we aren't sharing on our page but want to be able to hear on our site for convenience.
That this album was private for so long confuses us. It is unlike us to walk away from a project midstream, or to forget about a project completely.
Since the death this album eulogizes, however, there have been four more substantial family/life losses for The MVM. It was a hard Winter.
We feel we may mourn for quite some time, some things will certainly never be the same, some losses can never be replaced, some leave permanent scars, some leave a dark emptiness that slowly fills with ugliness and pain. It feels eternal, but almost certainly isn't.
The score for this album is 24 hours long. The composition is in Ableton completed, waiting to be exported and uploaded.
We feel, however, that this album is complete as is. We uploaded it as is. We titled it and wrote the original text. It feels today as if this work in its unfinished state is more complete than if it were to be completed, it better represents the emotions of the Requiem, of loss, of death; and perhaps more specifically of death during pandemic, when we have lost so many without the opportunity to say goodbye, to physically touch, to gather and mourn and cry and remember and tell stories as a family, as a tribe, as a community. In trying to survive the pandemic as an industrial machine made of flesh, we continued our 12,000 year long evisceration of what animates the flesh, be it soul, spirit, what have you.
This Requiem is unfinished like tens of millions of acts of mourning over the past two years.
credits
released August 9, 2021
Dedicated to Death
Composed by Homo Hubris
Performed by Ꚙna Perssꙮn's Dying Air Amidst The Haunts Of Orcoastras being:
Alisaard Artaud Bass
Aram Cardiff Bass
Aubec, Earl of Malador Bass
Blink Bass
Caspar Last Bass
Corum Jhaelen Irsei Bass
Goldberg Burroughs Bass
Konrad Arflane Bass
Lord Erekosë Bass
Michael Kane Bass
NꙨ Moon Bass
Once A Day Bass
Rush That Speaks Bass
Sewn Up Bass
Grobbendonk Bass
BlꙬming Moon Bassoon
Budding MꙬn Bassoon
Chira White Bassoon
Ermizhad Mieville Bassoon
Honoria Cornelius Bassoon
Houd Toop Bassoon
Tabitha Stephens Bassoon
Zhinsinura Jest Bassoon
Franz C. Muscidae Buzzing
Shahi Manish Celesta
Alice Didion Cello
Alivale Harari Cello
Arkady Gilliam Cello
Brian Cello
Brom Monahan Cello
Cixin Jones Cello
Colinda Dovero Cello
Conrad Mongolfier Cello
Denys Winterset Cello
Gabrielle Palin Cello
Magna Black Cello
Ilanth Kropotkin Cello
Kid(d) Cello
Lady Gradesmor Cello
Lewis Carroll Cello
Martin Chapman Cello
Mrs. Ameila Underwood Cello
Oshbek-Uy Proudhon Cello
Roland duFrancia Cello
Shaleen Monteverdi Cello
Teeplee Cello
Xena Cleese Cello
Mistress Christia Choir Mistress
Bishop Castle Clarinet
George Wilkes Clarinet
Gilbert Slater Clarinet
Hardy Idle Clarinet
Lord Jagged Clarinet
Oonagh von Bek Clarinet
Russell Innes Clarinet
Sentimental Witches Composer
Eugene Debs Conceptualist
Alter Koshar Dancer
Ꚙna Perssꙮn Director
Kirana Fawwaz E-Flat Clarinet
Umpata Numan E-Flat Clarinet
Alan Powys English Horn
Idelba Irving English Horn
Steelhorn English Horn
Lyncie Welch English Horn
Ditto Wheeler English Horn
Verna Krause Flute
Juno Myrmidon Flute
Life Sentence Flute
Artos the Celt Flute
Bao Xinhua Flute
Duke Dorian Hawkmoon von Köln Flute
John Daker Flute
Kung Jianguo Flute
Madame Sururi Flute
Sabrina Spellman Flute
Zhu "Tuanjie-kexue" Isao Flute
Ryan Sensible French Horn
Shi Fandi French Horn
Deadlock French Horn
Blackblood French Horn
Mongrol French Horn
Hammerstein French Horn
Joe Pineapples French Horn
Kali Thorstenson Harp
Pan Xichun Harp
Rose von Bek Harp
Sam Oakenhurst Harp
Asquiol of Pompeii Horns
Badim Clausen Horns
Devi Lucas Horns
Euan Sampson Horns
Freya Thorstenson Horns
Iolinda Vanian Horns
Jochi Murdach Horns
Li Pao Horns
My Lady Charlotina Horns
Queen Ilian of Garathorm Horns
Samantha Stephens Horns
Ship Faustini Horns
Vol Nonik Lyricist
Eugene Debs Muse
John Dee's soul entrapped in an amber homunculi Muse
Roger Penrose Muse
The Ghost Of Athanasius Kircher Muse
The Muse Kelliope Muse
Bhakta Wilson Oboe
Hu Die Oboe
Ismail ibn Mani al-Dir Oboe
Lord Mongrove Oboe
Maxim Arturovitch "Pyat" Pyatnitski Oboe
Mejink-La-Kos Scabies Oboe
Thoth White Oboe
Selim the Third Oboe
The Kerala of Travancore Oboe
Werther de Goethe Oboe
Bai McCay Percussion
Endora ℵ0'>3ῥῶ Percussion
Franik Herbert Percussion
Kiyoaki Crowley Percussion
Kuwo Bokhari Percussion
Oone the Dreamthief Percussion
Peng-ti Niven Percussion
Prince Flamadin Percussion
Clea Rhasok Piano
Iwa McChrystal Piano
Mona Jukes Piano
Bekti Vassar Piano
Budur Radwan Piccolo
Sojan Shieldbearer Piccolo
Ernest Wheldrake Poet/Lyricist
Petra vonPetra Soprano
Ghardas Valabasian Stones, All manner of Stones
Ulrich Rudric Renark Otto von Bek-Krasny Synthesizer
Busho Fromwest Timpani
Keeper of the Wampum Timpani
Ulric vꚚn Bek Timpani
Baal Black Timpani
Duke of Queens Trombone
Iagogeh, the One Who Hears Trombone
Pournachas Jemisin Trombone
Rhalina and Medhbh Trombone
Straight Arrow Trombone
Zigzag Trombone
Bold Bardash Trumpet
Brannart Morphail Trumpet
Eric Beck Trumpet
Gurni Gurnisson Trumpet
I-Li Sontag Trumpet
Kyu JAMMs Trumpet
Oona von Bek Trumpet
Zheng He Trumpet
Shen Adichi Tuba
The Iron Orchid Tuba
Tubal Caine Tuba
Halo Jones Tuba
Rodice Andelia Olsun Tuba
Brinna Childresse-Lao Tuba
Swifty Frisko Tuba
Clara Pandy Tuba
Alerik Solnit Viola
Bihari Rilke Viola
Bistami Marshall Viola
Bistami Singleton Viola
Serena ℵ0'>3ῥῶ Viola
Clen of Clen-Gar Viola
Cronarch Vinge Viola
Hogg Viola
Insef Clarke Viola
Jack Karaquazian Viola
Katima Hyde Viola
Kokila Beckett Viola
Kya Coello Viola
M'v Okom Sebpt O'Riley Viola
Miss Mavis Ming Viola
Odysseus Norton Viola
Oladahn Althusser Viola
Psin Borges Viola
Shardul Gygax Viola
Zaneeta Kheel Viola
Bahram al-Bokhara Violin
Bao Ssu Violin
Butterfly Violin
Catherine Cornelius Violin
Clovis Marca Violin
Gordon Ꙫgg Violin
I-Chin Tibet Violin
Ibn Ezra Violin
Ibrahim ibn Hasam al-Lanzhou Violin
Iwang Peake Violin
Jaspar Colinadous Violin
Jehamia Cohnahlias Violin
Jermays the Crooked Violin
Jerry Cornelius Violin
Jerry Cornell Violin
Jhary-a-Conel Friedman Violin
Jherek Carnelian Violin
Kang Tongbi Violin
Karl Glogauer Violin
Khalid Ali Abu al-Samarqandi Violin
Kheim Tarkovsky Violin
Libussa Cartagena y Mendoza-Chilperic Violin
Lord Jagged of Canaria Violin
Manfred von Bek Violin
Mouse Violin
Pao Stapledon Violin
Peng Cage Violin
Queen Eloarde Violin
Roger Violin
Said Darya Violin
Sayyed Abdul Aziz Khan Violin
Shih Lem Violin
Zunli Hsieh Violin
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