Bygones, by S. van der Toorn

Bygones

by S. van der Toorn

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	1.	Bygone #1 01:38
	2.	Bygone #2 02:41
	3.	Bygone #3 02:34
	4.	Bygone #4 02:37
	5.	Bygone #5 01:53
	6.	Bygone #6 02:00
	7.	Bygone #7 01:21
	8.	Bygone #8 01:57
	9.	Bygone #9 02:18
	10.	Bygone #10 01:21

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There’s a theory that replaces our memory - the location of our memories - from our brain to ‘all body cells’. Everything we’ve observed and witnessed in our lives, is also recorded and saved to the cells in our body. As a micro microfilm. And we even pass some memories on to our children.
S. van der Toorn's ‘Bygones’ provides that microfilm with feelings. Melancholic. Dark. Sad. While some music brings you back to a specific period, moment, place or person, these instrumental patches, relentless pin pricks, do something different. They won’t bring back specific memories, but rather the feeling of melancholy and pain that is locked in the past. Things you have no control of, that you will do absolutely differently in a next life. Like a movie soundtrack of feelings, emotions. The third layer of your memories, next to image and sound. Creator S. van der Toorn named his songs ‘Bygones’, a word that refers to the past. ‘It is music that exists for a while and then evaporates’. Maybe the songs won’t get stuck in your head, like a catchy pop tune, but they do stick pins in the scar tissue of your memory. And that feeling does not evaporate. The image of the self-chastising monk from Umberto Eco's ‘The Name of The Rose’ pops up for a sec. Because as much as I want to listen these Bygones - and I will listen again - I know it's going to hurt.

- Paul Dezentjé

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released September 4, 2020

Written, recorded, mixed and mastered by S. van der Toorn
Vocals on Bygone #6 by Dax Niesten
Artwork by Dax Niesten

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