SATNAV - every•thing•a•part
The Big Oil Recording Company
- 1Sky Burial
- 2Concrete Rainbow / arco-íris de concreto
- 3Floe Wichu
- 4In One World, We Were Two Towers on Opposite Shores, Facing Each Other for 3,000 Years
- 5every•thing•a•part
- 6r u alpha waving at me??
- 7Stim Sim
- 8(A) Soft Round Kind (Thing)
OIL058
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Open edition
Debut album from Big Oil label founder Sebastian Zieler / SATNAV. With detailed sound design, pop-inspired harmony and high-contrast sonic imagery, every•thing•a•part is a series of lamentations and love songs for nature. It's is a climate grief concept album, where thinking machines remember and mourn the loss of a world once living.
Composed with spontaneity and meticulously produced, the album mixes folk and pop melody with avant-garde electronic experimentation. SATNAV describes the process as "painting with an imaginary palette”. From the trance-inflected ecstatic longing of Sky Burial to the cumbia-nugaze of Concrete Rainbow / arco-íris de concreto, the album weaves in and out of euphoric highs and stark despair with compositions that feel like sound paintings in vivid, shifting colours. In One World, We Were Two Towers on Opposite Shores, Facing Each Other for 3,000 Years is mythic, time-collapsing storytelling (a multiversal ‘what if’), while title track every•thing•a•part is a psychonautical ode to interconnectedness. Floe Wichu, originally released on Petrola 80’s 2020 Expand compilation, is the ocean remembered, first by thinking machines that experienced it teeming with life, then by generations with no first-hand memory. It was the first track composed for the album and became its blueprint. r u alpha waving at me?? is a goodnight story for all animals, read aloud in 1’s and 0’s, while Stim Sim is about the importance of imagining better worlds: “Raise a ladder to the heavens / Smuggle mana across the REM border”. (A) Soft Round Kind (Thing) closes the album in catharsis, flickering gently like the embers of a digital ship burial.
Composed with spontaneity and meticulously produced, the album mixes folk and pop melody with avant-garde electronic experimentation. SATNAV describes the process as "painting with an imaginary palette”. From the trance-inflected ecstatic longing of Sky Burial to the cumbia-nugaze of Concrete Rainbow / arco-íris de concreto, the album weaves in and out of euphoric highs and stark despair with compositions that feel like sound paintings in vivid, shifting colours. In One World, We Were Two Towers on Opposite Shores, Facing Each Other for 3,000 Years is mythic, time-collapsing storytelling (a multiversal ‘what if’), while title track every•thing•a•part is a psychonautical ode to interconnectedness. Floe Wichu, originally released on Petrola 80’s 2020 Expand compilation, is the ocean remembered, first by thinking machines that experienced it teeming with life, then by generations with no first-hand memory. It was the first track composed for the album and became its blueprint. r u alpha waving at me?? is a goodnight story for all animals, read aloud in 1’s and 0’s, while Stim Sim is about the importance of imagining better worlds: “Raise a ladder to the heavens / Smuggle mana across the REM border”. (A) Soft Round Kind (Thing) closes the album in catharsis, flickering gently like the embers of a digital ship burial.
