Spell of Remembrance, by Nicolas Snyder

Video for Veil of Forgetting, Mother. Directed and shot by Emma Baiada, Hierophant Films

Spell of Remembrance

by Nicolas Snyder

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Lost Tribe Sound Nicolas Snyder's 'Spell of Rememberance' is a jack-in-the-box of woozy eclectic sound. Turn the crank and you never know what's going to pop next, soft cozy synth textures, bold chunks of rhythm and a cascade of unusual acoustic instrumentation. All is stitched together extremely well to the point that it overcomes the limitations of mere sound collage, transcending into a new fantastical musical language all its own. I'd say fans of the Books, Toán, Origamibiro should find this fascinating.

Natasha Hassan haunting yet ethereal. enjoyed the range between the delicate and dramatic textures. overall impressive listen

Nigel L. Gorgeous drones, brass, woodwinds, strings. Spatial bliss and poignant sonic poetry. An absolute pleasure to listen to from start to finish. Favorite track: Spell of Remembrance.

Mervin Wong This is an intimate wonder that tugs the strings of affect and clears the mind.

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12" LP, on 180g black vinyl. Includes a gorgeous insert printed on Munken Pure Cream paper which includes poems written by Nicolas Snyder for each track.

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Recycled clear frosted cassette with special shell print. Each cassette is bound by a translucent OBI strip, embossed with the Evening Chants logo. Limited to 200 copies.

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1.	Veil of Forgetting, Mother 03:18 video	buy track
2.	Fresh Memory 03:20	buy track
3.	Toll Bell 03:24	buy track
4.	Pollinator 02:02	buy track
5.	Spell of Remembrance 03:32	buy track
6.	Merchant 04:26	buy track
7.	Perfect Craft 03:00	buy track
8.	Achord 01:38	buy track
9.	Beekeeper, Lover 01:23	buy track
10.	Neem Treatment 02:07	buy track
11.	Walking, Knowing 03:58	buy track
12.	Dream Annotation 06:42	buy track

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Organic textures, intricate field recordings and cinematic tendencies collide on Los Angeles-based sound artist and composer’s first release on Evening Chants: a spiritual pilgrimage through universal memories, crafted in dialogue with the Earth, pink skies and lives forgotten.

Los Angeles composer and producer Nicolas Snyder’s second album, Spell of Remembrance, is a spiritual embrace of spontaneity, searching for spaces of dreamlike mutation. Following the deliberate spatial stasis of his 2020 full-length, Temporary Places, Nicolas Snyder’s first release on Evening Chants presents ambient music with an active, percussive sensibility, crackling with life via unpredictable amalgamations of field recordings, found sound, and manipulated palettes of earthy instrumentation, traversing woodwinds, dulcimers, harps and more.

Crafted via stream-of-consciousness approaches, Spell of Remembrance’s twelve serpentine tracks morph in an elegant, ever-constant flux – simultaneously meticulous in their through-composed nature, while breathing with a delicate cinematic impulse, assisted by Snyder’s background in film and sound design. Snyder’s assemblages come via both self-collected sources and serendipitous encounters: from scavenged 1960s horn recordings forgotten in abandoned tape reels, to the producer’s self-dubbed “thups” – samples and rhythmic derivations from Snyder’s field recordings of nature.

Snyder’s spiritual concerns deeply influence these processes of assembly. Evoking and uniting images of forgotten lives and cosmic memories, the album’s transformative flow mirrors his concept of transcendental experiences, reconciled as singular wholes across individual lifetimes. But though in part also informed by the composer’s nostalgia and childhood experiences, Snyder’s second album reaches far beyond personal recollection – seeking to touch upon universal experiences that transcend individual memories, while also examining the liminal spaces that lie between accessing them. Presented in dialogue with both the earth and lives forgotten alike, Spell Of Remembrance is a spiritually resonant journey through universal memory, in search of summoning something far greater – the recollection of one’s personal divinity.
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About Nicolas Snyder

Nicolas Snyder is a Los Angeles-based composer, filmmaker, and sound artist. Synthesising currents of organic texture, field recordings, digital manipulations and scavenged found sound with cinematic instincts and narrative sweep, Snyder’s compositions are intricate ambient studies that swirl with unpredictability and timbral invention. Drawing upon personal spiritualities and interactions with the natural world, his work explores the spaces between universal constants and transcendental experiences, informed by nostalgic longing for past memories and a desire to reconnect with lives forgotten and unseen.

By day, he works in film and corporate sound design. Previous sound-based collaborations include works with independent filmmaker Jonathan Djob Nkondo, Netflix documentaries by Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville, and Showtime's documentary on Rick Rubin, ‘Shangri-La’. His personal projects include the 2020 album ‘Temporary Places’, and ‘Classical Expansions’, an ambient experiment in deconstructing recordings of classical music. Spell of Remembrance marks his first full-length release and debut on Evening Chants.
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released September 30, 2022

Produced by Nicolas Snyder
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
Words by JX Soo
Released on Evening Chants

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