Label: Not Not Fun
Released 6/9/2023
Over a decade since its inception, Wave Temples continues to refine and refract the project's visionary mythopoetic exotica. Panama Shift presents a 20-track kaleidoscopic star map inspired by "the euphoric cults, both then and now, that come and go in the vast ritual of night." Bleached keys, devotional synth, and driftwood percussion align in minimalist vignettes shaded by tape hiss and field recordings of streams, waves, wind, and birds. Dedicated to the late Japanese-born American anthropologist Yosihiko H. Sinoto (whose portrait graces the cover), famed for his excavations throughout the Pacific and French Polynesia, the album embodies a similarly voyaging spirit: "chasing ancient mysteries... and rekindling with the esoteric journey of the human spirit." This is music of forgotten shores, sea air, and saltwater shrines, echoing in shells scattered across the altars of Atlantis.
Track listing:
- Oceana 4D
- Key Of Youth
- Old Bones
- Emerald Nights
- Banana Boat And The Kalo Sanctum
- Key Of Life
- Splendid Macaw And The Rotan Initiate
- By Fire Light And The Birds Of Night
- Mother Moon And The Mangrove Midnight
- Enigma Of Sator
- Zarzus And The Lotus Eaters
- Towers Above The Mist
- The Fountain Of Living Water
- In The Land Of Vision (Silk Winds)
- The Sower Sows The Wheel With Effort
- Mysteries Of The Wild Ones
- Temple Of The Shark Hunter
- Polyhedron Of Minos
- The Dance Of Pythia
- Unto The Harvest The Feast That’s Sown