Life Sidereal is a journey to a world in orbit around a distant star. In the course of such a voyage, feelings of profound isolation and vulnerability are balanced with feelings of absolute awe and cosmic-scale reciprocity. Of course, the caravan is very comfortable, and everything possible has been done to make this temporary habitat accommodating - it really feels like a little slice of Earth, wandering off on its own, complete with every 24th century convenience and every balanced, functioning ecosystem one could hope for - but those on board are well aware that it will be many years before they see another sunset. All those glistening city lights and beacons scattered amongst the Saturnian moons are well worth seeing as one passes them, but soon they will seem more remote than they do from Earth. In the enormous gulf of darkness between the stars, the mysteries of the universe unfold, unveiled, all around the traveler, and millions of jewel-like points of light shine in every direction throughout the very cradle of all creation, but due to the relativistic effects of moving at very high speeds, one must (at least temporarily) lose all meaningful contact with everyone they’ve ever known outside the caravan.
The Sun may recede to become a mere pinpoint of light if one were to travel far enough, and though it may sound illogical, even in the act of creating such a vast gulf between oneself and one’s source, the observer who looks upon their home star system from the outside may find themselves confronted by unprecedented surges of self-recognition - whether or not they feel compelled to return. However large the distance our worldlines may ever trace across space and time, they remain inextricably connected by a continuous thread to their point of origin.
Life Sidereal also represents Erothyme’s journey, under the aegis of Bluetech, into the world of analogue & modular synthesis, and the effort to integrate these explorations with the more (personally) familiar worlds of digital music production, field-recording based sound design, and conventional instrumentation. This album was recorded and produced between 2020 and 2023, a time during which living and working in a room full of blinking machines felt a bit like interstellar travel to many of us. Numerous stars were gazed upon during the production of this album. Only a few were visited.
Released March 15, 2024
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