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#87 - Meltdown

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1.	If We Go To Hell, We'll Take A Blanket 06:33	lyrics
The title is a quote from the city of Jacobabad in Pakistan, where it was above 100F for 51 days straight in March.
2.	The Danakil Depression 09:07	lyrics
The Danakil Desert is in Afar Triangle, Ethiopia and averages around 100F all year long, with 70F being the lowest temperature ever recorded! The Depression is a geological feature resulting from the divergence of three tectonic plates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danakil_Depression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danakil_Desert
3.	Time Is Irrelevant In The Desert 06:45
4.	Mercury Rising 02:59
5.	Two Trillion Degrees Of Separation 19:18	lyrics
At one point (2010), the hottest man made temperature was 2 trillion degrees Celsius; this is now said to be 5.5 trillion! https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/15/3244513/cern-scientist-hottest-man-made-temperature
6.	Oodnadatta 06:35	lyrics
50.7 °C (123.3 F) was measured here in January 1960 and there is a sign in the town stating "The driest town, the driest state of the driest Continent". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oodnadatta
7.	Walk Through The Valley Of Death 05:41	lyrics
In July 1913 a temperature of 134 °F (56.7 °C) at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, the highest ambient air temperature ever recorded on the surface of the Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley
8.	When It Has All Gone 03:00	lyrics
Bringing back the refrain from The Danakil Depression for this closing piano piece...

about

Released on the last day of Summer, the hottest on record for a lot of areas in the world, and with that in mind, here is OWL87 'Meltdown'.

An hour long multi-style experimental, electroacoustic, loud and quiet concept album made over the last 14 years, intended as a thematic follow up to OWL46 'Hibernation', which was about dealing with bitter Winter darkness, both physically and mentally, and the catharsis of getting through those dark times.

'Meltdown' takes that theme to the opposite extremes of severe heat intertwined with mental breakdown and almost literally the feeling of your brain melting away through overheating with stress, anxiety, depression, the world around you and figuring out ways to keep cool.

In making this album, I took a closer look at what people, this planet and indeed this universe can facilitate and endure.

Thank you to those who join me in this journey.

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released September 23, 2022

Made between April 2008 and August 7th 2022, with bass, piano, guitar, synth, voice, makeshift percussive implements, Reaper, Wavepad, Fruity Loops, Soundforge, my phone and Zoom recorders, various effects pedals, plug-ins and distortions.

A few sections or ideas on this album are repurposed from unreleased Incandescence and Cerebral Constriction tracks dating back over a decade, or unused compilation tracks, but the vast majority of the work on this album has been done from January 2022 onwards.

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Special thank you to Taylor Hardy (aka Grandpa Grim on here) for planting the seed of the Hibernation follow up idea, back in October 2021, and also for one of the best reviews my music (solo or in bands) has ever had on that album.

If you wish to (re)acquaint yourself with 'Hibernation', then here it is:
theowl.bandcamp.com/album/46-hibernation

Photos for the cover, thank you and titles taken by me in Kunčice pod Ondřejníken, Czech Republic. Photos used on the individual tracks found on the internet. All are included in the download as well.

Video for 'Gone': www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0X342u7MLM
Video for 'Time': www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYUonpj8JGQ
Video for the full album using drone footage over deserts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcmPcV9IrHQ

Thank you for joining me on this precisely one hour long journey.

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The Owl Orlová, Czechia

A/V experiments since first DIY tape in 1994

Many bands and projects until The Owl was born in 2018

The Owls were formed in December 2021.

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