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Friendly Fairground Phantom

from The Observer by Adam Johan Bergren

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Imagine: the night was New Moon dark that can almost be cut, where the soft glow of distant light is swallowed by haze within inches of its source.

Setting: the old fairgrounds at the edge of thick woods, with brambles lining the tents at one end, and a wide river circling the other as an inky black form babbling in the dark. The midway is covered in crushed paper cups and littered with discarded food, where corvids scavenge the remains tossed aside by the now absent humans.

A young person named Sonix has been left behind at these grounds, forgotten in the excitement of the carnival. They wake up, finding no human forms in the almost opaque air hanging over the midway. Meanwhile, at a far end of the grounds, there is a tent over which hangs a hand-painted muticoloured sign reading "SYNTHESIS" (incidentally, this sign had been painted by the mysterious psychedelic clown painter named Psynesthene).

Feeling utterly alone and abandoned, Sonix starts to walk toward the SYNTHESIS tent, where faint sounds could be heard, carried to their ears along with the rustling of the wind and the calls of nocturnal birds. As Sonix approached the tent, the sound quieted down. They froze, holding their breath in the dark night, just outside the door. Eventually, the sounds began again, and Sonix looked into the tent. What they found was a grotesque and gigantic figure, over seven feet tall, and with a whispy cloud of mist around their form at a giant wall of electronic modules. The Phantom SYNTH Carny leered back at Sonix as the volume of glitchy sounds began to deafen the night.

A 106 bpm, G (locrian) track.

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from The Observer, released October 6, 2022

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Adam Johan Bergren Edmonton, Alberta

I make abstract and conceptual psychedelic electronic music! Often science themed metaphors with cinematic elements.

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