And that matters.Ĭity Of Dawn’s Anoesis continues Damien Duque’s musical journey in a significant and meaningful way. Astonishingly ‘Divided By Darkness’ is Spirit Adrift’s heaviest and most accessible album to date and will stand as the apex of Heavy Metal songcraft in 2019. It may mean something different to the creator as it does to the listener, but it pulls from life experience. Songs like “Whispers Aross The Sea”, “A Soft Lament”, or the album closer “For My Parents” all emanate emotional heft and a connectivity that goes beyond improvisatonal electronics. Sea of Darkness by Ponnie, released 11 October 2021 The quietness around me is too loud to be ignored But when I step outside everything turns into noise Living with this lack of connection feels like drifting in a sea of darkness Solitude is what I need in a crowd of blindness But my soul yearns for company wrapped in this incompleteness Even with a clear direction A piece of floating wood can never escape from a sense of loneliness No debris left in the past entirely dead in my heart Yet. Though the songs seem to become whatever the listener needs the work here has a deep meaning to City Of Dawn. You can tell this is a very personal musical journey for Damien Duque. Artists like Future Museums, Shortwave Broadcaster, and Jonas Munk are each doing their share to bring ambient/new age music in the forefront of moderin electronic music, and City Of Dawn is doing their part as well. Songs like “Amorphous”, “Landforms”, and “Meadows and the Sea” build slowly in front of the listener, sharing a kind of sonic warmth that invites one to come inside and sit awhile. Over the course of 12 slow-moving songs, City Of Dawn pulls you into their world. In psychology, a theoretical condition in which there is feeling without understanding.” The album is also inspired by Damien Duque’s experience of “conditions living on the autism spectrum and the existential nature itself.” Using heavily effected guitar lines, City Of Dawn builds halls of existential noise cavernous sound walls that pull the listener in to explore unexplained feelings and unplug from the noise of the world. The definition of Anoesis is this: “The state of mind consisting of pure sensation or emotion without cognitive content. These are concepts that City of Dawn offers a broad canvas for us to explore with this beautiful ambient-drone composition. We can never step in the same river twice. Everything coming into contact changes us and we change it. The theme that City of Dawn explores on “Amorphous” is the constant change and flux of life and the impossibility of being one person forever. On “Amorphous” by the McAllen, Texas based ambient artist, City of Dawn focuses their attention to clean guitar lines fluttering through the glorious haze of a deep ambient backbone. Dedicated & inspired by my conditions living on the autism spectrum and the existential nature itself. In psychology, a theoretical condition in which there is feeling without understanding. Anoesis is the state of mind consisting of pure sensation or emotion without cognitive content.