Saturnine by Asha Patera

In 2021, when this album was released, I was on an extended hiatus from music - going on five years by this point, and I was under the impression that I was no longer a musician, that fire had left me and the desire to create was no more. In fact, I had sold most of my equipment, stopped playing instruments and barely even listening to music by this point. Looking back, I had become burnt out from the previous decade of gigs, recording, promoting and eternal treadmill of being a musician. So when I relocated and sold my gear, that was it, I was finished, and music was no longer a part of my life.

All that changed one day in February 2021. Completely out of the blue I found myself devising a tune in my head, and for the first time in years, opened up the DAW to realise the idea. That tune became 'Destroying Angel', a 10 minute drone ambient piece that just fell out of the sky, and I found myself feeling inspired for the first time in a long time.

Deciding to tentatively assemble a musical project and then identity, I sifted through my archives of ideas, bits and pieces and half finished tunes, and put this album together. Some of the material is quite old, some newer, but at the time I was happy to have a collection of material I felt I could put out and see where it took me. This began the now ongoing Asha Patera project, Asha for truth - whatever musical whim takes my interest is where the music will go, no restrictions on style, expectation or demand. The music has progressed over the course of the last few years, but this album still stands as a rebirth of sorts, and a new beginning - despite the lower production values on some of the tracks, that is somewhat their charm, and I still enjoy hearing these tunes today.

Asha Patera, 2024

A collection of dark ambient soundscapes and electronic atmospheres pulled together from my archives

Electronic soundscapes and moods. Ambient, Downtempo, Post-Rock and Electronica.

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