An exercise in restraint.
Dedicated to Novaya Zemlya and to the prospect of traversing its forbidden terrain on my own one day.

Influenced by Soporus, Celer, Loscil, Heathered Pearls, Former Selves, Biosphere, Eluvium, Geotic, Infinite Body, William Basinski, and Tim Hecker (among others).

Cover photo by Anton Shalin.
[ panoramio.com/photo/97736034 ] – dead link as of November 2016
Typeset and design by yours truly.

Dedicated to Panoramio: A wonderful portal through which seemingly endless eye-opening hours of virtual globetrotting were digitally travelogued. Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.

Not dedicated to Google. Fuck you.

Also posted on Soundcloud:
[ soundcloud.com/mnchls/always-elsewhere ]

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Update from 2020-21:
Think this could very well be the first ambient composition where everything really clicked together. An appropriate synthesis of the above influences without entirely ripping any of them off (that I can tell at least). The prominent high-pitched ringing tones were meant to simulate tinnitus, a (still permanent) condition my mother had developed at the time. My way of approximating what that might sound and feel like for her. Generative empathy, in processed-soundform. I also still deeply, deeply miss Panoramio. Nothing ever quite like it.