Sun Vessel
Sun Vessel creates a captivating and otherworldly sonic experience, Blending haunting and melodic neo folk with ethereal textures as he takes you on a sonic voyage into the unknown.
Published December 11 2024
Can you tell us about how Sun Vessel got started and what inspires you to create music?
The circumstances in which Sun Vessel began were rather monastic. It was Winter time (June) in the year 2021 and I found myself in a position where I had a lot of time, space, and quiet. I had already been playing around with musical ideas about a month or two before, and decided to just jump in and begin writing lyrics as well.
The first song that I had finished was actually an electronic instrument-based song called "Calling Forth" that was unreleased for about 2 years, which I had decided to resurrect for a collaboration with Atlantean Blood. The second song I made was called "We'll Find Our Way", which I came up with while sitting down with the acoustic guitar and trying some more organic and folk-based instrumentation, and I ended up publishing that one first. I stuck to that general style predominantly from then on.
As to what inspires the creation of the music, I have found that music as a medium has been the most fluid and natural way of artistic expression for myself personally.
Who are some of your musical influences?
Stuff from the classic Neo-folksphere, as well as the more "paleo" folk artists like Nick Drake. Ambient and electronic influences also factor in, such as the Berlin school type sounds a la Tangerine Dream. I'm very inspired by traditional folk songs as well, and classical music like Debussy, Rachmaninov and Wagner. Some of the classic post-punk stuff as well. Those are just some of the things I can think of, off the top of my head. One of my biggest inspirations of all is actually just silence.
Your album artwork and lyrical themes make references to runes and paganism. To what extent does paganism influence Sun Vessel?
Religion, and spirituality in general, plays a massive part in Sun Vessel. Paganism, being the very root of our cultural and spiritual heritage, is very important to me personally as well as to the project.
Can you tell us about the inspiration behind your latest album, A Seed Fallen To Earth? Can you describe the significance of the album title and cover art?
Much like the album previous to it, Etched In Eternity, it came about in circumstances that were constantly changing and felt quite desperate, and so the need to channel energy into something worthwhile was my main source of fuel for it. To ground the nervous energy, transmute it and give it a home felt more like a "must" than a "I guess I could do that".
Also much like the previous album, the topics covered in the songs came very naturally and without much force, other than the force it took to concentrate the energy to create them. The title is an allusion to our very condition, we are like seeds that fall to the ground and sprout, growing into trees that in turn produce their own seeds that drop to the earth and continue the cycle. It also refers to the concept of being "thrown" into this existence and quite often times feeling like strangers in it, like it's "separate" to us, which is all the more applicable nowadays with the increasing alienation that has grown to predominate modern life.
The cover illustration is something I drew myself, it very much plays into what I have already mentioned, but I could perhaps add that it principly implies that we reap what we sow, and the concept of karma.
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