This release started with a handmade instrument I built out of pure instinct. No plan, just the need to make something. That sound shaped everything that came after.
I was deep into records like The Glow Pt. 2 by The Microphones and Seeking Darkness by Huremic, and I think that inspired me to let things stay loose, fragile, and a bit unpredictable (DIY style).
The middle section, Something Is Not Quite There — it goes through phases. I wanted it to feel like passing through stages.
The tracks move through different states. Fade opens quietly with a recorder/duct flute piece, then things turn inward, drift apart, and slowly come back together. Separation, Drift, and Merge really mark that shift (think of le rite de passage).
I didn’t expect people to connect with it so deeply.
Roadkill wrote: “If you do solitary walks, this is the perfect soundtrack. Or maybe it’s you, the listener, who serves as the soundtrack. You’re not following this music… this music follows you and gets to you. Sitting at home, it slowly paints a landscape around you. It sounds like a prayer and invocation, hopeful and solemn, sometimes gloomy and menacing, sometimes with unexpected relief and clarity of thought. A very interesting experience, hypnotic and mysterious! Favorite track: Something Is Not Quite There.”
K-LIMOV said: “A very original and hypnotic project!”
ok-pin shared: “About Drilltone Wisdom it felt very personal to me, like it connects with what I’m living right now. I imagined myself alone in a dark forest at night playing a guitar, like the sound was calling out something hidden, like facing the negative voices in my head instead of avoiding them. At the beginning it felt slow and unsure, like I wasn’t ready to face that side, but as it went on it felt more like I decided to confront it, and when those voices came it wasn’t physical but more like whispers trying to bring me down, and what I really liked is that the ending didn’t feel like a clear win, more like an ongoing battle, which made it feel real to me. Thanks for sharing your work, it really made me feel something.”
Seeing these reactions honestly surprised me. It’s wild to realize that something so personal could touch others in such different and vivid ways.