Harsh drones and regret. But it's a relief.
Dayin
"Meditations on Forgetting" is the second Dayin release on Mahorka, after the extended cassette reissue "Warm Like Crystal Throats" in 2023. It was inspired by the unexpected and unstoppable process of memory loss. "Meditations on Forgetting" was created to honor the souls slipping away from the world they built for themselves. A transition that is equally scary and intriguing. One can only hope there are other, more beautiful and worthy realms beyond.
Released: 2/12/2025
When marshes become deserts the ruins of our hands will blossom again.
Released: 6/21/2024
Three years lay between Dayin’s latest release, “When Did You Stop Looking at the Sky'' and his 2019 Purlieu debut “Light Is Polluting the City”. While the project's music still lurks in similar, harsher drone ambient territories, it also aims to create a calmer, more introspective listening space. Inspired by personal memories and moments of contemplation, the new Dayin album doesn’t offer any audio escapism, nor does it try to recreate visual snapshots through sounds. Instead, it sketches imaginary skyscapes and the species and spirits who inhabit and enliven them. The music of Dayin is simultaneously raw, warm, minimalist, and dense. Its melodic and harmonic layers exist in a vacuum of delay and are often crushed under waves of distortion. “When Did You Stop Looking at the Sky” was written as the musical equivalent of keeping your eyes open even if they start hurting because if you blink, those sights that revealed themselves only so you might disappear. Stay awake at all costs.
Released: 1/23/2023
