metra.vestlud - Ashes That Made The Shape Of My Dreams (Not Not Fun, 2025)

The latest by Russian sound chemist Artem Dultsev aka Metra.Vestlud began in a “collective hallucination” induced by early parenthood. Disorienting tides of dramatic change were channeled via extended synthesis sessions centered on timbre and simplicity, joy and tears, “fires lit in a space for the new.” The results are precision renderings of remote longing, adrift in the smoke of a second life.

Ashes That Made the Shape of My Dreams extends and obscures the Atlantean 4th world fusions of 2021's infinity symbol tape on Kofla. Utilizing an Arturia MicroFreak with Wavetable, the album’s 10 tracks triangulate warmth, melancholy, and an intimate inner cosmos across solar wind sung songs from a past life only now remembered.

Dedicated to Lyuba and Miron.

Review of Bandcam Daily: https://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/metra-vestlud-ashes-that-made-the-shape-of-my-dreams-review

Listen to online: https://band.link/ashes_that_made
Cover art: Darya Granskaya

Label: Not Not Fun, 2025