Bandcamp: https://cyclicaldreams.bandcam…s-cyd-0158
Cold Spring Notes is a small notebook of inner states from the cold and somewhat otherworldly spring of 2025. In Ukraine this season unfolded against the backdrop of a long war and unusually frozen weather, turning spring itself into a strange liminal space between stillness and uncertainty.
In the quiet intervals between missile and kamikaze drone attacks, we searched for places where the world could briefly return to silence – lakes, birds, old watermills. In those moments nature seemed to enter into a quiet dialogue with synthesizers, reverbs, delays, and our small collection of old Carpathian instruments made of wood and clay.
These recordings are simply Cold Spring Notes.
Yet contemplation of the outer landscape slowly opens a doorway to a deeper mystery. Cold Spring also becomes a dimension of inner reality, where the seemingly fixed world of perception dissolves into the fluid movement of an undivided stream of consciousness – a land of an eternal liminal season, the quiet eternity of awakening.
The music moves between hazy drones shaped from field recordings, fragments of Berlin School electronics, and melodic ambient passages. But genres and names are not our concern. For us, sound is only a language through which the subtle movements of inner space can take form and enter into a silent dialogue with the listener.
And so we leave the listener with the flow of the music and a short poem written by Maria in the spring of 1994, at the beginning of a similarly cold spring:
“The wind carries the sky.
It never repeats.
It disappears
to be born again.
And every moment beneath it
waits in silent wonder –
to flash once,
then fade.”
Instruments: Nord Lead A1r, Moog Subharmonicon, Behringer ARP 2600 / Pro-VS mini / JT-4000 micro, Doepfer Dark Time & Korg SQ1/ SQ64 sequencers, Zoom LiveTrak L6, Alesis Midiverb II, Strymon Cloudburst Reverb, Strymon Timeline Delay, BOSS Giga Delay DD-20, Vitalizer MK2-T, Zoom H4n Pro recorder for field recordings (the creak of the Water Mill from the village of Lybokhora, late 19th century, Shevchenkivskyi Hai / singing of grasshoppers)
credits
released May 22, 2026
Artwork: Cyclical Dreams
Photography: Amp Puttipong
fb: amp.puttipong
Cold Spring Notes is a small notebook of inner states from the cold and somewhat otherworldly spring of 2025. In Ukraine this season unfolded against the backdrop of a long war and unusually frozen weather, turning spring itself into a strange liminal space between stillness and uncertainty.
In the quiet intervals between missile and kamikaze drone attacks, we searched for places where the world could briefly return to silence – lakes, birds, old watermills. In those moments nature seemed to enter into a quiet dialogue with synthesizers, reverbs, delays, and our small collection of old Carpathian instruments made of wood and clay.
These recordings are simply Cold Spring Notes.
Yet contemplation of the outer landscape slowly opens a doorway to a deeper mystery. Cold Spring also becomes a dimension of inner reality, where the seemingly fixed world of perception dissolves into the fluid movement of an undivided stream of consciousness – a land of an eternal liminal season, the quiet eternity of awakening.
The music moves between hazy drones shaped from field recordings, fragments of Berlin School electronics, and melodic ambient passages. But genres and names are not our concern. For us, sound is only a language through which the subtle movements of inner space can take form and enter into a silent dialogue with the listener.
And so we leave the listener with the flow of the music and a short poem written by Maria in the spring of 1994, at the beginning of a similarly cold spring:
“The wind carries the sky.
It never repeats.
It disappears
to be born again.
And every moment beneath it
waits in silent wonder –
to flash once,
then fade.”
Instruments: Nord Lead A1r, Moog Subharmonicon, Behringer ARP 2600 / Pro-VS mini / JT-4000 micro, Doepfer Dark Time & Korg SQ1/ SQ64 sequencers, Zoom LiveTrak L6, Alesis Midiverb II, Strymon Cloudburst Reverb, Strymon Timeline Delay, BOSS Giga Delay DD-20, Vitalizer MK2-T, Zoom H4n Pro recorder for field recordings (the creak of the Water Mill from the village of Lybokhora, late 19th century, Shevchenkivskyi Hai / singing of grasshoppers)
credits
released May 22, 2026
Artwork: Cyclical Dreams
Photography: Amp Puttipong
fb: amp.puttipong