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Released 6/15/2018.
Duration: 4:45.

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Also released as:

• (20189/21/2018; about 3 months, 6 days later) Sun ☉ Chariot (Solar Sessions: a charity album and zine)

Artist commentary:

Circlejourney:

This track will be released on a future Handshake Collaborations album.

Circlejourney: (booklet commentary)

Speaking of Celtic-inspired new age music…

Chariot is about the sun. The title references the god Helios, and the track itself is a riff on the structure and style of Reel Around the Sun, one of my favourite works of music, with a spacey touch introduced by the glitching.

The art was initially created not for Chariot, but for a different track that was meant to be on this album, but which I am unable to release. I think the subject matters are similar enough that the image still fits. (I like making music about space, surprise surprise.)

For those to whom this makes sense: Chariot is technically in the D-sharp Aeolian dominant scale, but I like to think of it as being in D-sharp minor with the tonic triad always being borrowed from D-sharp major.

CREDITS

This track will be featured on an upcoming charity album by Handshake Collaborations, with extended commentary. Handshake Collaborations is a group of artists, musicians and writers from around the world creating stuff together!

SPECIAL THANKS

Helena Ruth and the people at Handshake Collaborations for agreeing to let me feature this on Time and Tide before their album’s release.