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It all started late one night when Troubled Water and Bridge had a chat that got recorded as a tryptic of watery songs.   This is the only version of SPLASH as a continuous listen, the way it was meant to be!

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SPLASH

altar of sound

Eric Pan

// Station A // Overview

Travel Poems is music for explorers. Step aboard here, to embark – together we'll roam city and sea and stars.

This is the complete LP for Travel Poems . Chapter 2 . The night sea in pure form, uniquely as one continuous journey.

As of this pressing, there are 3 chapters of Travel Poems, each a distinct story.

// Station B // Waypoints

The air is made of music.

Atoms play, particles dance, ripe notes fall from shaking trees. Wherever we go, melodies appear — soundtracks begin performing themselves.

This collection of Travel Poems was composed around the world, recorded on dozens of pianos, each song carrying, bottled, the essence of a place in a peculiar moment. Each song is a postcard.

Every postcard comes from somewhere. Just as important, the recipient of a postcard is, however faintly and briefly, transported to the location+mind coordinates of its authorship.

So it might seem.

// Station C // Track Notes

0:00 de Lune Mécanique
1:52 Loss
3:28 The Storm Heaves in the Distance
8:16 Oak Island
11:22 Teufelssee Tower
17:19 Fine Day to Risk It All
20:46 On Old Delancey
22:35 Noguchi Beach
28:22 Turtle on the Moon
31:34 Epilogue

01 – de Lune Mécanique

dear Claire, the day is unwound, like the springs of a clock, slowing to a stop. Your words pass through me when I see a sky filled with clouds, those really big ones, when they are the size of gods and it seems impossible that they might dissipate, but of course they do, the moment we stop noticing. I wish to cultivate that magic ... the ability to traverse into another realm, under the illusion of disappearance.

This song comes from memories of the first caretaker.

Solo Fender Rhodes by Eric Pan, recorded in Cemetery  Friedhof Lilienthalstraße, Berlin, Germany.

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Eircom / Silencyo / Leandros.Ntounis / Rhapsodize / FractalStudios

02 – Loss

Claire, you once said that life is not complicated, but impossible to understand. I feel it now. I know this is mourning and yet I’ve no idea how to mourn. I don’t know if I even existed in the same universe as she did. You know, these libraries of shared memories, I can roam the hallways endlessly. They’re transcendent. So when I also die, this architecture still stands. Sunlight pools on the courtyard stones, and streams through the wood window frames. The garden sprouts with flowers anew even without witness.

This song comes from the universal constant.

Solo piano by Eric Pan, recorded in Greenwich Village, New York.

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Lgarrett / Vampirella17 / Glaneur de sons / Leosalom / Northern87

03 – The Storm Heaves in the Distance

Claire, is there anything so exciting as an approaching conflagration? I invite you to join me: burrow NOW through this postcard, following the twists and spins of this very personalized, one-of-a-kind wormhole I have hand-crafted for you (just say “yes” to wending your way through time and space™), and let’s climb above the McKibben Lofts to watch the incoming fury together (popcorn included).

This song comes from the angel protectorate.

Recorded at TRIXX Studios, Berlin, with Eric Pan (Fender Rhodes), Nir Sabag (drums), and Hugo Reydet (bass).

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Juskiddink / Therabidfrog / FlatHill / YleArkisto / Yoyodaman234 / SpliceSound / InspectorJ

04 – Oak Island

Claire, this is going to drive you crazy, so be it (ha). I want you to tell me more about that kiss you shared with a stranger who rode up on her bike near the Williamsburg bridge. Aren’t there any extra details you have been keeping secret, or that you can remember in a flash when prompted spontaneously, oh for example, now?? It’s such a crucial parable for our times I think. The hero we need, etc. Hello from Ometepe where the water is divine.

This song comes from conspiratorial love and its hidden excitements.

Recorded at Douglass Studios, Brooklyn, with Eric Pan (piano), Sebastian Chiriboga (drums), and Dean Torrey (bass).

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: TheWorkingBamboo / CasaAsiaSons

05 – Teufelssee Tower

Claire my sweet, I have been blessed with extraordinary luck. One part of it is knowing you are somewhere, ear bent in kindness and infinite wisdom, my lifeline even amid the most absurd times. The other part is — guess who just played a pipe organ from 1435? I can’t even believe that is a possible year that once was like a “thing”. Just imagine walking down the street and getting cross at some young adult punks who grew up in the 1420s.

This song comes from the deep, infinite wellspring of irreverence.

Solo piano by Eric Pan, recorded in Valais, Switzerland.

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Owl / Thatjeffcarter / Staikov / DisasterServices / Genghis attenborough / Freesoundjon01 / Pulswelle / Klankbeeld

06 – Fine Day to Risk It All

Claire, your letters came in a bundle all at once, for which I bear fault due to my confusing forwarding address situation. I’m nowhere near the University of Latvia anymore. I have been living underground as part of a “sleep experiment”, a community of people with alarmingly different histories. It’s as idyllic as life can be without any access to sunlight. Did I say the crowd is absolutely delightful? I need to get out of here.

This song comes from one’s personal fight for freedom.

Recorded at TRIXX Studios, Berlin, with Eric Pan (piano), Nir Sabag (drums), and Hugo Reydet (bass).

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Martypinso / Venaportae / MDRivet

07 – On Old Delancey

Claire, there is a pair of orange blossoms here in Seville, that are so vibrant, standing next to them transported me to one magical spring afternoon when you and I ate ginormous gelatos while biking dangerous speeds down through Manhattan to Red Hook. Of course you remember I abandoned you at the concert later that night (I’m still sorryyy, though isn’t it wild what drama we invented on the reg) BUT! do you also remember the music? Those were the most gorgeous out-of-tune folk songs I ever heard or will ever hear in my life.

This song comes from a love unbound by time.

Solo piano by Eric Pan, recorded in Valais, Switzerland.

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Tams_kp / Ecfike

08 – Noguchi Beach

Claire, I am writing to you from a treehouse near a hydroelectric dam, on the edge of Montana lilting to the Canadian north. Have you found a cure for your restlessness? I have recently discovered that I am most capable of improvising when at peace, and somehow it works the other way too: noodling around on a musical instrument, or in a well-stocked kitchen, delivers me into calm like fine mists upon a rainforest. When the polyphony of life is hard to endure, let go? I’m so awkward in the role of advice-giver. But I’m sending you pine needles anyway and they can speak for me from here on out.

This song comes from constant rediscovery.

Solo Fender Rhodes by Eric Pan, recorded in Saint Malo, France.

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Q.K. / Dobroide / LukeIRL / Benboncan / LG / InspectorJ / Soundskeep / Leady

09 – Turtle on the Moon

Claire, when you paint, do you ever feel you are being painted? Like any sense of channeling or interpreting or in some way working in the context of a greater force. When we first breached the clouds on this flight, I could see the setting sun and full moon on opposite sides of the plane, bringing me in visceral contact with the cosmic oneness. You might tell me it’s a trick of the brain, or just a component of the powerful stories we tell ourselves. (Your voice rings clearly in my head, I only saw you six hours ago.) But for a moment I was in the center of creation, and let me tell you: though we don’t realize it, we are actually always there.

This song comes from the sense of limitless possibility.

Solo piano by Eric Pan, recorded in Steinway Hall, 57th Street, New York.

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Loopbasedmusic / _﻿_O

10 – Epilogue

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Manuel Calurano / Rmutt / Andy_Gardner

// Station D // Collector Perks

This is a 1/1 Catalog NFT album (minted uniquely as one continuous track) composed, performed, and pressed by Eric Pan (pandelic.eth).

Every owner of a pandelic.eth Catalog NFT also receives unlimited, “golden ticket” download access to Eric's entire published music catalog, in resolutions up to MP3 V0 and lossless WAV. As of this pressing, this includes the following:

+ Travel Poems . Chapter 1 . Secret towns (LP)
+ Travel Poems . Chapter 2 . The night sea (LP)
+ Travel Poems . Chapter 3 . There is no path back (LP)
+ Lullabies of the Pleiades (EP)
+ goodnight margaret wise brown (single)
+ the year the shipwreck became beautiful (single)
+ Extras: full-resolution cover art, liner notes, music videos

Every collector with golden-ticket status also has access to Eric Pan’s future music+extras as they become published. Collectors ready to redeem downloads can email gm@ericpan.org at any time for access, as well as in case of any questions.

More expansive and exclusive perks will be unveiled over time.

// Station E // Co-conspirators and Credits

Trilogy album recorded in countries across four continents by Eric Pan and Brian Trahan
Mixed by Brian Trahan in New York and Berlin
Mastered by Ruairi O’Flaherty in Los Angeles
Restated and categorized credits for found-sound collaborators at https://travelpoems.com
Album artwork by Krys Unverzagt
Released under Falling Sea

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Travel Poems . Chapter 2 . The night sea

Green Ring

my song from hedsTAPE 08

original sample from Medasin

visuals by deffie

heds.io

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Green Ring (from hedsTAPE 08)

pearson

music and artwork prodcued by me: circa late 2017/2018

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Dutchyyy

"Chill Gawd, Chill" - Produced by Dutchyyy

The title track from the infamous  2hr Tape  "Chill Gawd, Chill" 

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"Don't over think it" / "Utility"

***By collecting this record, you will unlock the full 39 track album from being exclusive to Bandcamp & Cassette only, and finally make it available on all streaming platforms.  Which will make you a superhero in eyes of everyone who's been asking for this to become a reality since it originally dropped in 2015***

***While we all know that "Music is the Utility" the Collector of this 1/1 will receive one of my personal copies of the sold out final pressing of the 120 minute "Chill Gawd, Chill" Cassette Tape and a box of Authentic (Original) Satyary a "Nag Champa" Incense (100 grams) , From Bengaluru, India w/ the Custom "Chill Gawd, Chill" Sticker on it.***

***Collector will also receive a 1TB Samsung SSD drive which will have a zip of the original Ableton Live (ALS) Project File / Session with all the samples and stems from when this track was originally made and exported on February 4th, 2015.  The SSD will also be loaded up with the "Dutchyyy VS The Algorithms" Master Vault which is over 120GB of my nearly my full released & unreleased discography (1996-present) as well as a folder of videos, photos,  previous live streams from Twitch, Youtube & IG. @PeacePeaceGawd ***

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Album Title:  "Chill Gawd, Chill" 
Runtime: 120 minutes
Release Date: February 5th, 2015 

Tracklist:

SIDE A

1. The A-Side 01:55
2. Turning Point (f/ Chester Watson) 02:15
3. Como El Hielo 04:48
4. Sunday Chops 03:23
5. Fat Night Session (f/ NiceGuyxVinny) 02:14
6. EIRYNGHT (f/ OriJanus) 03:38
7. The Boogie & The Search 02:38
8. His Orchestra (f/ Ben Jamin) 04:12
9. AllMost 01:48
10. Untitled in April (f/ Vik) 01:55
11. Hero Hair 02:28
12. MyStylesLike... 01:41
13. That Uh Make You Say... 01:29
14. DeadAss 02:22
15. Nah B 02:26
16. The Hardest 03:46
17. AnotherLilCrumble 02:35
18. The Scramble 05:52
19. Evolution of a Shrug 06:27
20. Lamb's Bread (f/ Sleepy Eyes & AshTreJinkins) 03:54

SIDE B

21. The B-Side 01:53
22. Chill Gawd, Chill 03:07
23. Just Be Yourself 03:33
24. In Headphones, at your party 02:17
25. Aini 02:29
26. Broken Circadian 01:32
27. The Eraser (Part I) 03:42
28. The Eraser (Part II) 03:57
29. Dedicado 04:15
30. Medutayshun (f/ Ahwlee) 02:22
31. Astral Travl'n 03:43
32. Simplemente 03:38
33. SuprNatrl 03:53
34. Ridiculous! 04:28
35. ShameOnYu 04:52
36. Star In The East (f/ Kaelin Ellis) 02:58
37. Rik's Jawn 04:54
38. WoneChuGoAway 01:47
39.  OneforShoes 01:58

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill

Backstory: 
Before we time travel to the beginning, Let's start this at the very end.
"Chill Gawd, Chill" was the last song created for the album.  When I say last, I mean it did not even exist 48 hrs prior to the album being released .  The title track was created in Upstate NY at Sam's Point Nature Preserve on Feb 4th, 2014 the day prior to the Album being stealth released and immediately selling out on Feb 5th 2015.  
"Chill Gawd, Chill" held Bandcamp's top selling HipHop Cassette and Digital release for 2 weeks straight long after all copies were sold out. Before we get into how and why this particular track was made, let's time travel back to 2012 and visit my tiny apartment in San Pedro, CA. overlooking the Port of Los Angeles where this album first began.

Since this backstory will be revisited in detail in the near future when I mint the song "Medutayshun" (f/ Ahwlee) I'll Just summarize the important part.  My friend Kronika / Angel of Soulection introduced me to a produced named "Ahwlee".  We vibed and clicked pretty fast and he would come stay at my apartment and we would both be making beats in headphones on separate laptops,  Him on Ableton and me on FL Studio.  Long Story Short,  after multiple visits of him making entire albums in Ableton Live  while I was still working on One beat in FL Studio,  I finally asked him to teach me Ableton.  The next morning (May 16th 2012), We put that teaching into practice and collaborated on our first track. Him on drums, synths and me on chops. We knocked this track out in a matter of minutes, and exported the track.  He packed up his laptop and headed home and as soon as he left, I immediately uploaded the track to Soundcloud ( https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/ahwleexdutchy-meduhtayshun ) and history was made.  While I didn't know at the time,  this would become the first track created for "Chill Gawd, Chill".

For the following week I would make a few more beats in FL Studio (which ended up on my album "Blue Screen of Deaf) and I was getting frustrated with how long everything took compared to Ableton.  Ahwlee came back over on my birthday (May 23rd 2012) with the intention of installing Ableton onto my laptop.   I decided to close a chapter in my life and made my very beat in FL Studio titled "Just Be Yourself" (which was the first track from the album I minted on Catalog that @StvdioNoveau /  @snvault  just collected which unlocked the title track of "Chill Gawd, Chill" to be minted for a chance to unlock the album to DSP's) - https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-just-be-yourself-

To bring us back on track,  Ceremoniously closing the chapter and giving FL Studio a proper send off was like being reborn.  I immediately dove into Ableton Live and started cranking out music I loved at a rapid rate.  Going from FL Studio to Ableton was like taking ankle weights and chains off.   I was having so much fun, and I was able to execute ideas very very quickly.  Over the next 2 years, I made a lot of music, collabed with alot of my friends and every song was done in 15minutes to an hour max.  Fast forward to mid 2013, while living in a new apartment in Hawthorne, A ridiculous chain of events would happen that would create a new Arc for how I approached music.  Times were heavy, my heart was broken so the music became more intentional.   After a nasty breakup and nearly tossing my laptop out of the window, my friend Kaelin Ellis called me to calm me down and convinced me to take all that pain and anger and channel it into making music.  After we hung up,  I created "The Firelighter" which became the first track created for what was meant to be my next album "The Uproot". After that night,  There was a different energy attached to what I was creating.  Shortly after, I lost my job at Warner Brothers, got evicted from my apartment and was painfully ejected from Los Angeles.  After a short return back home to Tampa, FL I moved to Upstate NY and went through a little more pain before finally achieving peace on a secluded mountain where my spirit, outlook and sound would evolve.  (you can read more about that back story here - https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/set-your-intentions )  The Reality is,  I had so much new music I was excited to release which became the albums "The Uproot" & "Traversal" which I wanted to release as a double album telling a full very intentional story. 
but I was sitting on so much unreleased music that I made while in Los Angeles and it felt weird releasing this super heavy double album while all this other unreleased music that represented a whole Arc of life where I was just having fun was still in limbo.  So I started sorting all of that music and decided to release the older music first on cassette.  I realized I had too many songs to fit on a 90 minute Tape,  So I decided to press a 120 minute Cassette.  At the last minute, I lost a few tracks due to corrupted  Ableton projects so I filled in the gaps by pulling 4 songs from "The Uproot" which I regret.  At the time, I was able to justify it in my mind because, everything else was so old and didn't really represent where I was currently at musically so I added "The Scramble" / "Evolution of a Shrug" / "Lamb's Bread" / & "OneForShoes" to fill out the cassette.  This choice would eventually come back to haunt me and become the catalyst of years of hoarding music due to releasing music out of order from when it was created which seems silly but Chronological documentation has always been something I value.    

To wrap this up where we first began in this story,  It was the day before I planned to release the album I titled "Chill Gawd, Chill"  An album I titled in response to everyone asking non stop when I would drop a new album. I've been burning "Nag Champa" incense ritualistically since the mid 90's.  Nearly every beat on that album was created with smoke drifting in the air,  I got all of my friends in Los Angeles hooked on burning Nag Champa and the album also represented a period in my life where I was super chill and didn't approach music with too much intent or heaviness so I had my friend DJ (PeaceOutPremiere) to Design the cover artwork and stickers,  and attached stickers to boxes of Nag Champa to mail out with the tapes but something was missing.  The album needed one final track, created with intent to convey the overall vibe of the album.  The entire album was full of sample chops,  but while I was on the mountain, I also started making music under the alias "Sonofziggy" which was no samples,  just one take, live recorded long form sessions of me blindly playing keys and instruments.  So for the final track,  I wanted to sample myself,  So I played some keys,  Then I chopped up my own recording like I would any other sample, laid some drums,  Played some more keys, bass and synths and Bounced out a song live in one take, and thus was born the title track to the 2 hour tape "Chill Gawd, Chill"

The next day, I quietly dropped the album on Bandcamp with pre-orders for the Cassette. It sold out immediately and was Bandcamp's best selling Cassette. Due to high demand and fomo, I was pressured into doing a second pressing of Cassette w/ Nag Champa which dropped on my birthday, May 23rd 2016. Once again, it sold out immediately and was Bandcamp's best selling cassette for 2 weeks in a row. Obviously, my most popular / successful instrumental album as Dutchyyy (fka Dutchy) the demand to upload this to streaming was unbearable. To this Day, "Chill Gawd, Chill" remains only available on bandcamp. In fall of 2020, I did one final pressing of the two hour tape w/ Nag Champa. It was the last time I will press "this version" of the cassette

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