Icarus Wings by Ephemerid

Originally released in 2000

Ephemerid is a cinematic noir downtempo music project that began around 1999. Its sound unfolds in the space between ancient music and modern dream, drawing on global textures, slow-burn rhythms, and cinematic atmospheres.
Something of a musical scavenger, Ephemerid gathers sounds wherever they appear: real instruments, voices, and field recordings alongside hardware and software synthesizers, vintage trackers, and found digital tools. Freeware, abandoned plugins, obsolete gear, and fragments rescued from digital scrapheaps are patiently repurposed and shaped into immersive compositions. Nothing is fixed; everything is a potential instrument.
The music looks outward toward imagined cultures and distant places, and inward toward dusty nostalgia, memory, and soft digital decay. Echoes of early tracker compositions and sample-based experimentation remain embedded in the work, resurfacing as gentle glitches and textural artefacts that sit comfortably beside lush pads, slow trip-hop grooves, and breath-close vocals.
While rooted in older methods, Ephemerid continues to evolve. Modern production techniques, AI-assisted tools, and digital personas are welcomed as new collaborators—not as replacements for creativity, but as strange instruments in their own right, extensions of the same long tradition of bending technology toward atmosphere and emotion.
Ephemerid exists as a slow, continuous transmission: ethno-ambient, downtempo, and cinematic, shaped by reuse and intuition, listening both outward to the world and inward to the spaces where memory, rhythm, and imagination blur.

Ephemerid is atmospheric, other-worldly with sounds from all over the globe. Tribal and exotic, at times ethereal, sometimes eerie. Very dreamy & relaxing - rhythms have a soothing quality, yet are energizing enough to give a boost rather than a nudge into sleep. The warm highlights seem constantly to be on the move like reflections on water revealing immense dark shadows and hidden depths.