Winter Resort Music, by Stellarays

Winter Resort Music

by Stellarays

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1.	Sun Deck 02:32	buy track
2.	Ski Documentary Theme 03:04	buy track
3.	Futuristic Toboggan 02:05	buy track
4.	Déjeuner Palpitant Avec Le Moniteur 03:59	buy track
5.	Cocktail Alpino 02:39	buy track
6.	Night Talks at the Resort 02:58	buy track
7.	Téléski Solaire 03:18	buy track
8.	Winter of Love 02:35	buy track
9.	VHS Avalanche Film Crew 02:29	buy track
10.	Snow Sports Biomechanics 02:12	buy track
11.	Fun At The Cable Car 02:41	buy track
12.	The Chalet Cafeteria 02:46	buy track
13.	Tropical Ice 02:15	buy track
14.	Thin Ice Skating 05:36	buy track

about

The inspiration for winter Resort Music is derived from a childhood passion for Winter Sports. It's all about the spooky synths, mainlining radiophonic electronics, subconscious TV memories and an awe about what these athletes could do on the slopes when you were living in the suburbs.

Can anyone forget the glowing figure-skaters, dancing into the public consciousness? The perfect beauty that melted girl's and boy's hearts around the world. Sunday afternoons spent watching guys flying on long jumps into the endless white cosmos. Never really sure what was happening, but just thinking "I want to be in the chalets with these people, hitting the glühwein. An alien, unreachable world where fabulous people were doing fabulous things.

Portugal's Stellarays were also watching and have distilled these memories into a gloriously authentic reimagination of how those memories still reside within us. Winter Resort Music is such a potent memory bomb which takes what we know and enhances it in order to make it better. A prism of nostalgia that speaks to the purity of the whiteout.

This wonderfully handsome release with artwork by Castles in Space mainstay, Nick Taylor is a perfect artefact of library music, beautifully put together by Bruno, Centeio and Corinna.

It pains my heart to report that this is a posthumous release for dear Bruno, who we lost last year at the ridiculously unjust age of fifty.
Safe travels, my friend. May your slopes be finely manicured as you head down the cresta runs to the great frozen lakes. Salut!

Colin Morrison
Castles in Space
January 2024

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released November 29, 2023

Recorded by Bruno, Centeio and Corinna during the Winter Season of 2020-21.
Mixed by Stellarays at EPM, Portugal.
Mix assistont: Daniel Moreira.
Mastered by Antony Ryan at RedRedPaw, Denmark.
Artwork by Nick Taylor spectral-studio.co.uk
Bruno: synths, sampling, programming, flutes, guitar, bouzouki.
Centeio: synths, electric piano, organ, drums, bass, vocals, metallophones.
Corinna: synths, electric piano.
Synth bass on track B5 by Luís Santos.

Thanks to all the personnel and Colin Morrison.

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