KHAR-SELIM, by anthos

KHAR-SELIM

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1.	exobotanist 02:00	info	buy track
2.	kharak system (cover) 02:36	info	buy track
3.	khar-selim i 05:39	lyrics	buy track
HOPELESSLY BROKEN SMALL AND EMPTY, TWISTED THIS SIDE OF THE SUN IS SO COLD RINGS OF DUST AROUND MY EYES I SAW THEM, I SAW THEM I SAW THEM PASS ME BY MY CIRCUITS SPEAKING ONLY JUST TO PASS THE TIME I SAW THEM, I SAW THEM I SAW THEM PASS ME BY A SORE AND SEETHING WRECK ADRIFT
4.	septagona 07:07		buy track
5.	tides of light 05:02		buy track
6.	khar-selim ii 03:33	lyrics	buy track
WHEN I HAD AWOKEN GROANING, TORN WIDE OPEN HOW I FELT THAT STILL IN MY SOUL SOLAR WINDS BLOWING COLD
7.	guidestone 02:43	info	buy track

about

KHAR-SELIM is a tribute album to the award-winning space RTS game from my childhood, homeworld (1999)

"One hundred years ago, a satellite detected an object under the sands of the Great Desert.
An ancient starship, buried in the sand.
Deep inside the ruin was a single stone that would change the course of our history forever. On the stone was etched a galactic map, and a single word more ancient than the clans themselves:
Hiigara;
Our home."

Homeworld is a game about hope and loss, struggle and freedom, and stealing the other guy's laser boat.

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However, as I was 5 years old when the game came out, I obviously couldn't afford it, let alone the computer you'd need to run those highly advanced graphics. Until I was 11 (by which time, the game source was free to good home), I was a little kid with an overactive imagination stuck playing the demo on the office computer. Each time, the game ending with the eerie sight of the Khar-Selim, untethered and under threat in this abyss, very much alone.

I've loved ambient music ever since, and the original soundtrack is a timeless favourite in my library.

In 2015, gearbox "remastered" the Homeworld games, and memories came flooding back.

I wanted to devote effort to what I believe are the most important tenets of ambient music as I understand it. Negative space, texture, contrast, colour and 3d space. Brian Eno suggests that ambient music should "accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting." Non-ambient, inspired pieces are also present.

Included in the download is an uncropped version of the album cover and a stripped down beta version of Khar-selim II and Guidestone, "angel moon", which eventually became their own tracks. Enjoy this bonus!

credits

released January 20, 2018

Thanks to Sam outdoors (out-doors.bandcamp.com) for support while creating this
Thanks to Eva (evawilliam.bandcamp.com) for my music lessons
Thank you Jono and Amy for being discerning beta listeners
and thank you to Miriam (you deserve your own line)

cover is original painting, "glowing slightly red"

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A concluded project.

A long journey, over in the blink of an eye.

Thanks for listening.

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