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The Green Decay

by Everyday Dust

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Moss 10:16
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Colossus 08:12
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Roots 13:47
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Originally released by Sparkwood Records on limited cassette:
sparkwoodrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-green-decay

"Step into this overgrown, densely green world where the moss has taken over. The lush splendour that once was is a ghostly memory encased in damp and darkness. Rotting trees with gnarled branches loom in the shadows. Sprawling and crooked roots jut out of the earth like claws reaching forth. The streams that once fed the root system are now stagnant pools of dark green matter, producing spores and feeding back into the sprawling chaos. This is The Green Decay. "


“Decidedly eerie and compelling” - Ramsey Campbell

“Just like The Principality of Dustland, it yearns for stories to be told alongside it.”
- Elan Samuel, Igloo Magazine

“Muffled, horn-like tones, woozy synthesizers, and shuddering organs ooze forth like grotesque convulsions from the forest's center..” - - -
- Textura

“The Green Decay is daring, inventive, even daunting… Carefully implemented field recordings, musical percussion, and meticulously crafted sound design tie each track together to form a thematic story into the cyclic process of growth and decay in nature.” -
- Utu Lautturi, Heathen Harvest

“It’s a carefully crafted soundscape and although it created a feeling of dread and darkness, the creativity and amazing use of synth sounds cut through that layer of emotion.” -
- Adriana Ciccone, Echoes and Dust

Some words from Everyday Dust:

"This album started out as my musical interpretation of moss, and originally had a more minimal and ‘scientific’ quality. However, the creative direction of the album changed considerably after reading the collection of short stories The Inhabitant Of The Lake and Less Welcome Tenants by Ramsey Campbell. The atmospheres evoked in his descriptions of the forests and lakes and the horror within was captivating. I drew a parallel between the moss-inspired sound canvas I was developing and the dark forests described in his stories.

During the making of this album I explored the strangest darkest corners of the forests and lakes that surround my home. I documented the moss, lichen, tree roots and foliage for visual inspiration, as well as making field recordings - some of which are woven into the music you hear. Somewhere in the back of my mind those eldritch tales of horror resonated. I was reminded of a phenomenon described in one of Campbell’s stories… The Green Decay."

Everyday Dust MMXVI.

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released October 31, 2016

Written, arranged, produced and performed by Everyday Dust.

Mastered by Everyday Dust and K. Solheim

Cover art by Everyday Dust
Design and cassette inlay by K. Solheim.
Photographs by Everyday Dust & K. Solheim.

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Everyday Dust UK

Everyday Dust is an electronic musician based in Scotland, who uses synthesizers, tape machines and transformed sounds to create his unique narrative-driven music.


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