About

Primal Wound is the work of one person. No studio, no team, no label.

The music is made with the modern tools available to me. But every nature sound is real: the rain, the wind, the birdsong are true field recordings of the living world, never synthesised. They are woven into each piece on purpose, to help us reconnect, and feel the living things we belong to.

Every track has a soul; each one begins in a real feeling of mine, and carries the same wound the manifesto names. That wound does not always sound the same: it moves through melancholy, anger, sorrow, despair, sometimes something close to violence. The feeling beneath is constant; the form it takes never is.

The mixing is always done by hand, and that is deliberate: it is the core of the work, where the storytelling lives, and a piece is shaped, paced and given its arc.

The seasons

The music is organised into four seasons. They are not times of year; they are four ways into the same wound, four centres of gravity. Every track belongs to one.

• Roots: the primal and the ancient. The earth, the origin, the oldest parts of us.
• Horizons: scale and the sublime. The vastness of the world, and the size of what is being lost.
• Signals: the modern wound. The human, alone in the machine age.
• Weave: the experimental edge, built around one question. What does it mean to be alive?

A season sets the centre, not the walls. It is how the work stays coherent without becoming narrow.