While working at an excavation site in Eastern Europe one summer afternoon, I chanced upon a scroll lying in the ruins of a medieval town. It contained a written account of a peasant uprising that took place in the region about seven hundred years ago. At the bottom of the scroll was a primitive musical composition, written in medieval notation.

After playing the music on a piano at the university that evening, I sensed a weird change within myself and the room. I could've sworn some kind of an apparition was present there with me, had I believed in the supernatural at the time. I was not yet aware that the disastrous events that were to come would almost ruin my life completely.

I share with you the two audio files that were e-mailed to me on the following morning by someone named Kmet. They're part of a larger collection of files I received from Kmet throughout the last year. I now know playing them cast a powerful spell, a spell that nearly made me lose my mind…

released July 29, 2020

Sound engineering: Oliver Smith at Maelstrom Brink Studio

Artwork: BIBVIO