Sun Color Sound

 

 

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New project from Chris Chamberlin-Miner

The Rituals series from Sun Color Sound started with the release of Ritual One on 11.13.23, then Ritual Two on the Winter Solstice in December of 2023, then Ritual Three in late Summer of 2024, concluding with Ritual Elements being released on 11.13.24. The whole series is inspired by a piece of music called ritualistic goddess worship, which I released on a solarminds album in 2016. Ritual One, Two, and Three, are re-imaginings of that track.

Ritual One (Climbing the Fire into the Sky) (28:58) – The first two thirds or so of the music features heavy, droning, feedbacking guitar, and lots of various drums and percussion. Several different stringed instruments enter in the last third, and the music gets lighter, and maybe “prettier.”

Ritual Two (Dreaming into the Deep) (27:13) – Most of what you are hearing, besides drums, are sounds I made by combining guitar and drums in a microkorg’s vocoder. I’m not sure how to describe the first few minutes of the track – it’s a little noisy and intense. The music then gets somewhat dancey for a while, then shifts to an extended ambient section.

Ritual Three (Into the Infinite) (17:47) – There is a synth bass drone that carries through the entire piece. 12 string acoustic guitar, ambient electric guitar, little homemade percussion items, programmed drums, and piano are also featured in this track.

Ritual Elements is a seven track album. Each track consists of sections of instrumentation and sounds taken from Ritual One, Two, and Three that have been re-arranged, re-mixed, altered, or presented in a different way.