Photay - Off-Piste by Astro Nautico published on 2017-08-11T14:28:47Z Nature documentaries of the 1970s used synthesizer music to score messages about species endangerment and environmental disaster prevention. Electronic instrumentation was in itself an ominous warning of the reckless advancement of technology and an effort to audition a utopian harmony between people and machines and nature. Photay’s debut full-length Onism inherits the same historical tension in an age of climate change and social media addiction. It is also a reflection of personal conditions, a meditation on place, community, and its creator’s own embodied history. The word ‘onism,’ invented by John Koenig, means the frustration of being stuck in just one body that inhabits only one place at a time. To grasp onism is to be apprised of how little of the world you have experienced, are experiencing, or will ever experience. Photay (Evan Shornstein) composed Onism in the heart of Brooklyn and shrouded by the silence of national parks or on trips home to the woodlands of the Hudson Valley in between touring the urban centers of foreign countries. Scattered but connected, Onism’s music is a constellation that rips across the night sky of time, charting an emotional reality defined by sadness and joy, dread and wonder. Genre Pop Comment by offcolor HOW 2021-04-06T02:24:43Z Comment by baggytony Ur music helped me get past things in my life 2021-01-06T20:56:14Z Comment by chill_fowlancer do not tune dis 2021-01-02T09:42:55Z Comment by James Packard si 2019-05-03T04:37:18Z Comment by Twodogs aMAZING VIBE! 2018-05-21T16:39:32Z Comment by Twodogs Oh WOW! 2018-05-21T16:38:48Z Comment by M.C. ASTRO strange and dope! 2017-11-10T03:24:59Z Comment by XQ Sister literally astounding 2017-11-08T20:20:23Z Comment by Touchy Subject This is a stunning real piece of work mate 2017-11-08T19:53:45Z Comment by Arthur Golyka Tyteca this is unique 2017-08-12T19:15:51Z