Dead Man In The Sand by Lunt published on 2023-01-13T07:05:49Z 'Remember We Were Waiting For The Snow' is a series of "sound poems" offering variations on the feeling of "solastalgia": our anxiety, our concern about the disappearance of certain natural phenomena due to climate change. How to imagine a world without snow when a whole part of life in the Nordic countries is structured around rituals linked to the arrival of winter. The silence of nature is not that of a world without birds; muffled footsteps in the snow are not an icy hell without an echo. This album was written before Žils Deless-Vēliņš moved to Latvia 5 years ago during improvisation sessions spanning 3 days. Some titles are part of the Latvian vocabulary such as Lasteka (name designating the peaks of ice descending from the roofs) or Auseklis (the eastern star guiding in the winter night), as well as the reference to the Daugava, the main river of Latvia where people spontaneously come to fish when its ground is frozen. We recognize here the references to Neil Young or the tenderness of Jim O'rourke's instrumental folk albums. Genre Ambient