Nothing Lasts...But Nothing Is Lost
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Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost | ||
Studio album by Shpongle | ||
Released | June 16, 2005 | |
Recorded | ? | |
Genre | Psybient, IDM, Dub | |
Length | 67:30 | |
Label | Twisted Records | |
Producer(s) | Simon Posford and Raja Ram | |
Professional reviews | ||
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Shpongle chronology | ||
Are You Shpongled? (1999) |
Tales of the Inexpressible (2001) |
Nothing Lasts...But Nothing Is Lost (2005) |
Nothing Lasts... But Nothing is Lost is a 2005 album by Shpongle. It is the band's third studio album. Like the previous two albums, it features many live musicians and vocalists in combination with computer-generated sounds and spoken-word samples. Stylistically the album can be described as a fusion of world music, "intelligent dance music", and psychedelic trance. It is dedicated to the memory of author and psychedelic researcher Terrence McKenna, whose voice and ideas are used throughout the album.
[edit] Track listing
- "Botanical Dimensions" – 4:37 preview
- "Outer Shpongolia" – 2:33 preview
- "Levitation Nation" – 3:40 preview
- "Periscopes of Consciousness" – 1:54 preview
- "Schmaltz Herring" – 2:21 preview
- "Nothing Lasts..." – 4:28 preview
- "Schnitzled in the Negev" – 4:18 preview
- "...But Nothing Is Lost" – 4:39 preview
- "When Shall I Be Free?" – 4:37 preview
- "The Stamen of the Shamen" – 4:11 preview
- "Circuits of the Imagination" – 3:12 preview
- "Linguistic Mystic" – 1:36 preview
- "Mentalism" – 2:54 preview
- "Invocation" – 2:40 preview
- "Molecular Superstructure" – 4:47 preview
- "Turn Up the Silence" – 3:22 preview
- "Exhalation" – 2:16 preview
- "Connoisseur of Hallucinations" – 3:59 preview
- "The Nebbish Route" – 3:36 preview
- "Falling Awake" – 1:50 preview
[edit] Miscellanea
- According to Simon Posford[1], the album actually has 8 tracks divided into 20 parts. Each part symbolizes a phase in the dream sequence.
- The spoken word samples used in the track "Botanical Dimensions" were taken from the movie Waking Life.
- "The Nebbish Route" song samples Ned Flanders from the Simpsons episode El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)