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The Third Eye

by ephemerals

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Poly 02:53
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Blur 03:12
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Coral 04:43
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Electricity 03:25
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Float 04:30
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Avatar 04:19
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Origin 03:15
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Rising 04:24
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Thiefin 03:08
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Homebody 03:12
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Instagram 05:09

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The fourth album from ephemerals, ‘the third eye’ sees them build and develop the work they started on their Alice Coltrane inspired record – ‘egg tooth’ as they continue their ever-evolving musical journey.

Fusing styles including spiritual jazz, psychedelia, and spoken word, to convey an identity that is unmistakably their own. The core of the work is built from the honest and incisive compositions of Hillman Mondegreen combined with the unmistakably emotive vocal delivery of singer Wolfgang Valbrun.

Experimenting with recording and mixing techniques to illustrate the artistic concepts behind the songs has been key in the overall character of the record. Hard panning is used to group together specific sounds and instruments to the left and right to convey masculine and feminine sides within the track as within the individual.

For songwriter Hillman Mondegreen, the LP is a deeply personal and conceptual body of work using ambiguous harmony to discuss gender identity, polychords to demonstrate the power of being between the gender binaries, and modal changes to remove the homeliness that you find in traditional major/minor songs, speaking to the alienation of being transgender.

Although drawn from Hillman’s personal experiences the writing is always universal, and singer Wolfgang Valbrun relates the pieces to his own experiences of a young black man leaving the USA to live in a new country where even language had to be re-learned to discover where he fit in in this new world.

The band has evolved exponentially over the course of four albums, and they continuously push beyond the boundaries of traditional genre ideas and traverse unexplored musical territories.

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released January 10, 2020

Release artwork photography by Maciek Jasik.

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Hello, we're Ephemerals. We self-released our first album "Nothin Is Easy" in 2013. The follow up "Chasin Ghosts" came out in 2015 and our third "Egg Tooth" was released on 21st April 2017. Our fourth is out early 2020 and we'll be touring Europe (including new cities!!!) in Feb 2020 so we hope to see you there x Thanks for the support always x ... more

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