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NOTON is pleased to announce12 Conversations, a collaborative album by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto to be released on 18 September 2026.
The partnership between the legendary musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and the German artist Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) has produced some of the most distinctive and enduring works in contemporary electroacoustic music. Beginning with Vrioon in 2002, the artists spent more than two decades fusing and expanding their disciplines, with Sakamoto's evocative, sustain-drenched piano compositions finding their counterpart in Nicolai's skilful and sensitive electronic detailing.
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Across these works, their distinct approaches achieved a rare synthesis, a brilliantly sustained dialogue between piano and electronics, Sakamoto's warmth and melodic finesse meeting Nicolai's abstract electronic formalism to invoke a mesmeric quietude as deeply satisfying in its melodic resolutions as in the merger of its filmic romanticism and meditative subtlety.
12 Conversations brings together musical exchanges recorded in November and December 2022. Rooted in the same creative period that gave rise to Sakamoto's final solo album 12, these recordings were not originally intended as a standalone release. It was only after the completion of 12 that Sakamoto and Nicolai decided to present these exchanges as a work in their own right.
The album reflects the vitality and curiosity that defined more than two decades of shared inspiration: fluid, exploratory, and forward-looking. Created with openness and trust, it captures a creative process in constant transformation - sounds expanding, altering, and evolving through attentive listening.
Conceived as the continuation of an artistic dialogue extending beyond the physical, 12 Conversations honours Sakamoto's wish that these encounters should exist beyond the archive, offering an enduring testament to one of contemporary music's most revered collaborations.
Carsten Nicolai writes:
"A heavy breath can be heard in the recordings. Yet this work is not about remembrance but continuation, vitality, curiosity, and the spirit of experimentation that shaped an artistic relationship over decades.
The twelve pieces we exchanged in November and December 2022 possess extraordinary density: sounds expanded, altered, recontextualized. Initially, every intervention felt almost inappropriate. Yet this was part of our openness and trust: adding, shifting and radically yet softly transforming.
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The first single, Conversation 3, will be released on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. The second single, Conversation 6, will be be released on Wednesday, August 26, 2026.
12 Conversations will be available worldwide on vinyl, CD and digitally. A Japanese edition will be available on Ryuichi Sakamoto's commons.
Tracklist
1. Conversation 1
2. Conversation 2
3. Conversation 3
4. Conversation 4
5.Conversation 5
6. Conversation 6
7. Conversation 7
8. Conversation 8
9. Conversation 9 Part I
10. Conversation 9 Part II
11. Conversation 9 Part III
12. Conversation 9 Part IV
13. Conversation 9 Part V
14. Conversation 10
15. Conversation 11
16. Conversation 12
Album art designed by Carsten Nicolai & Nibo.
Mastered by: Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering, Berlin (2026)
Voice on Track 07: Emma Maeda
Texts: Rainer Maria Rilke, Primal Sound
Press release text: Maria Orciuoli
Special thanks: Norika Sora, Alec Fellman, Sherry Kennedy, Erin Gleeson
© & P: 2026 NOTON. Archiv für Ton und Nichtton. All rights reserved.
Tracklisting
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 1
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 1
Playtime: 00:06:50
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600003
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 2
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 2
Playtime: 00:05:42
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600004
(P):
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 3
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 3
Playtime: 00:05:53
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600005
(P):
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 4
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 4
Playtime: 00:08:56
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600006
(P):
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Medium: // Side: // Track: 5
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 5
Playtime: 00:06:26
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600007
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 6
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 6
Playtime: 00:07:26
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600008
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 7
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 7
Playtime: 00:10:31
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600009
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 8
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 8
Playtime: 00:03:20
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600010
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 9
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 9 Part I
Playtime: 00:01:12
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600011
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 10
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 9 Part II
Playtime: 00:03:27
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600012
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 11
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 9 Part III
Playtime: 00:00:51
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600013
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 12
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 9 Part IV
Playtime: 00:02:15
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600014
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 13
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 9 Part V
Playtime: 00:00:39
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600015
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 14
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 10
Playtime: 00:03:01
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600016
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 15
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 11
Playtime: 00:04:35
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600017
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 16
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 12
Playtime: 00:02:41
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600018
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
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Available in the following Territories: Wordwide minus Japan & Korea
NOTON is pleased to announce12 Conversations, a collaborative album by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto to be released on 18 September 2026.
The partnership between the legendary musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and the German artist Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto) has produced some of the most distinctive and enduring works in contemporary electroacoustic music. Beginning with Vrioon in 2002, the artists spent more than two decades fusing and expanding their disciplines, with Sakamoto's evocative, sustain-drenched piano compositions finding their counterpart in Nicolai's skilful and sensitive electronic detailing.
Each successive project further deepened their artistic dialogue: from the five studio albums of the V.I.R.U.S. series (Vrioon, Insen, Revep, Utp_ with Ensemble Modern, and Summvs), to their score for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's The Revenant; Glass (2017), a wholly improvised performance inside Philip Johnson's iconic Connecticut landmark, in which the pair fixed contact microphones to the glass walls, playing the architecture itself as an instrument; and Two (2019), a document of their live performance at the Sydney Opera House.
Across these works, their distinct approaches achieved a rare synthesis, a brilliantly sustained dialogue between piano and electronics, Sakamoto's warmth and melodic finesse meeting Nicolai's abstract electronic formalism to invoke a mesmeric quietude as deeply satisfying in its melodic resolutions as in the merger of its filmic romanticism and meditative subtlety.
12 Conversations brings together musical exchanges recorded in November and December 2022. Rooted in the same creative period that gave rise to Sakamoto's final solo album 12, these recordings were not originally intended as a standalone release. It was only after the completion of 12 that Sakamoto and Nicolai decided to present these exchanges as a work in their own right.
The album reflects the vitality and curiosity that defined more than two decades of shared inspiration: fluid, exploratory, and forward-looking. Created with openness and trust, it captures a creative process in constant transformation - sounds expanding, altering, and evolving through attentive listening.
Conceived as the continuation of an artistic dialogue extending beyond the physical, 12 Conversations honours Sakamoto's wish that these encounters should exist beyond the archive, offering an enduring testament to one of contemporary music's most revered collaborations.
Carsten Nicolai writes:
"A heavy breath can be heard in the recordings. Yet this work is not about remembrance but continuation, vitality, curiosity, and the spirit of experimentation that shaped an artistic relationship over decades.
The twelve pieces we exchanged in November and December 2022 possess extraordinary density: sounds expanded, altered, recontextualized. Initially, every intervention felt almost inappropriate. Yet this was part of our openness and trust: adding, shifting and radically yet softly transforming.
Even in these final exchanges, plans for future projects continued to take shape, mindful of finite yet firmly believing in the power of new ideas. We chose the name Conversations, which has become a space of memory and vision, where past, present and future intertwine.
For a long time, releasing this music seemed impossible. The loss felt too sudden, and the emotional connection too profound. As time passed, it became clear that these twelve musical encounters should have life outside the archive. To honor Ryuichi's wish, these pieces are now being released as the continuation of a dialogue that extends beyond the physical."
The first single, Conversation 3, will be released on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. The second single, Conversation 6, will be be released on Wednesday, August 26, 2026.
12 Conversations will be available worldwide on vinyl, CD and digitally. A Japanese edition will be available on Ryuichi Sakamoto's commons.
Tracklist
1. Conversation 1
2. Conversation 2
3. Conversation 3
4. Conversation 4
5.Conversation 5
6. Conversation 6
7. Conversation 7
8. Conversation 8
9. Conversation 9 Part I
10. Conversation 9 Part II
11. Conversation 9 Part III
12. Conversation 9 Part IV
13. Conversation 9 Part V
14. Conversation 10
15. Conversation 11
16. Conversation 12
Album art designed by Carsten Nicolai & Nibo.
Mastered by: Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering, Berlin (2026)
Voice on Track 07: Emma Maeda
Texts: Rainer Maria Rilke, Primal Sound
Press release text: Maria Orciuoli
Special thanks: Norika Sora, Alec Fellman, Sherry Kennedy, Erin Gleeson
© & P: 2026 NOTON. Archiv für Ton und Nichtton. All rights reserved.
Tracklisting
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 1
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 1
Playtime: 00:06:50
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600003
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 2
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 2
Playtime: 00:05:42
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600004
(P):
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 3
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 3
Playtime: 00:05:53
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600005
(P):
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 4
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 4
Playtime: 00:08:56
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600006
(P):
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 5
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 5
Playtime: 00:06:26
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600007
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 6
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 6
Playtime: 00:07:26
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600008
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 7
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 7
Playtime: 00:10:31
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600009
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 8
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 8
Playtime: 00:03:20
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600010
(P):
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
---------------------------------------------------------
Medium: // Side: // Track: 9
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 9 Part I
Playtime: 00:01:12
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600011
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Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 9 Part II
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Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
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Medium: // Side: // Track: 11
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 9 Part III
Playtime: 00:00:51
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Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
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Medium: // Side: // Track: 12
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 9 Part IV
Playtime: 00:02:15
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600014
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Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
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Medium: // Side: // Track: 13
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 9 Part V
Playtime: 00:00:39
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600015
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Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
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Medium: // Side: // Track: 14
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 10
Playtime: 00:03:01
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600016
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Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
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Medium: // Side: // Track: 15
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 11
Playtime: 00:04:35
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600017
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Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
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Medium: // Side: // Track: 16
Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto
Title: Conversation 12
Playtime: 00:02:41
Explicit Lyrics: No
ISRC: DE1N62600018
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Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai
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Label:Warp
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Vinyl re-press of the third album by Broadcast, originally released in 2005.
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STL - So Bin Ich Dem Leben Näher
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STL - Ey Snooper
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STL - Loop A
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STL - M-Brainiac
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STL - Lunar Magic
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STL - Loop B
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STL - Now
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STL - Loop C
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Sublime extended psychedelic House longplayer
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Midori Hirano - The Juniper Tree
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Midori Hirano - Far Above
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Midori Hirano - Spell On You
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Midori Hirano - Temptation
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Midori Hirano - What Connects The Two
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Midori Hirano - The Dead Count
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Midori Hirano - You Can See What We Can't See
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Midori Hirano - Take Me With You
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Midori Hirano - Mother's Path
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Midori Hirano - In A Glass Box
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Midori Hirano - Midnight
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Midori Hirano - Silencing
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Midori Hirano - Bird Sleeping In Water
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Midori Hirano - A Piece Of Him
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Midori Hirano - Good Bye
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Midori Hirano - Forever In The Sky
In The Juniper Tree, an interrelationship between the ethereal and terrestrial seems to cloak the ever-present Icelandic landscape. The film, written and directed by Nietzchka Keene in 1986 and released in 1990, is disbelieving of binaries such as life and death, natural and supernatural, stillness and unrest. It is perhaps best known as the genesis point for Björk’s career as an actor, but in its compelling feminist retelling of the Brothers Grimm story of the same name it recasts tropes of witches and wicked stepmothers as women in tune with nature’s gifts and fighting for survival under the suspicious gaze of patriarchy. Throughout, the land dwarfs the characters, and a sense of studied quietude saturates even the tensest moments. Tenderness and terror intertwine as a web of familial bonds contract and unravel, the dead reappearing as visions and as birds.
In 2025, Japanese composer Midori Hirano was commissioned by Kunstencentrum Viernulvier to create a new soundtrack to the film for their acclaimed Videodroom series, in which contemporary experimentalists reimagine the musical accompaniment of classic arthouse cinema. Her sonic vision for The Juniper Tree is imbued with the same sense of restraint as the film, hushed in both its moments of beauty and intensity. Hirano presents piano compositions that are steeped in minimalism, but speak with a delicate language that signifies the emotional bonds shared by the characters, especially the sister witches Katla and Margit. Elsewhere, synthesizers emerge from supple silences, their tones felted and intimate, even as they are paired with images of stark Icelandic vistas. Despite the music’s gravity, it floats weightlessly, featherlike, on the ear.
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A1. The Juniper Tree
A2. Far Above
A3. Spell On You
A4. Temptation
A5. What Connects The Two
A6. The Dead Count
A7. You Can See What We Can't See
A8. Take Me With You
B1. Mother's Path
B2. In A Glass Box
B3. Midnight
B4. Silencing
B5. Bird Sleeping In Water
B6. A Piece Of Him
B7. Good Bye
B8. Forever In The Sky
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In 2025, Japanese composer Midori Hirano was commissioned by Kunstencentrum Viernulvier to create a new soundtrack to the film for their acclaimed Videodroom series, in which contemporary experimentalists reimagine the musical accompaniment of classic arthouse cinema. Her sonic vision for The Juniper Tree is imbued with the same sense of restraint as the film, hushed in both its moments of beauty and intensity. Hirano presents piano compositions that are steeped in minimalism, but speak with a delicate language that signifies the emotional bonds shared by the characters, especially the sister witches Katla and Margit. Elsewhere, synthesizers emerge from supple silences, their tones felted and intimate, even as they are paired with images of stark Icelandic vistas. Despite the music’s gravity, it floats weightlessly, featherlike, on the ear.
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A1. The Juniper Tree
A2. Far Above
A3. Spell On You
A4. Temptation
A5. What Connects The Two
A6. The Dead Count
A7. You Can See What We Can't See
A8. Take Me With You
B1. Mother's Path
B2. In A Glass Box
B3. Midnight
B4. Silencing
B5. Bird Sleeping In Water
B6. A Piece Of Him
B7. Good Bye
B8. Forever In The Sky
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Donnell Pitman - Believe In Magic ft. E. Live
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Donnell Pitman - Believe In Magic (Donatinho Remix)
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Donnell Pitman - Party In My Car ft. E. Live
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Donnell Pitman - Party In My Car (Mirlaqi Remix)
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Donnell Pitman - Don't Forget The 21 ft. E. Live
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Donnell Pitman - Believe In Magic (Donatinho Instr. Mix)
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Donnell Pitman - Party In My Car (Mirlaqi Instr. Mix)
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Donnell Pitman - Don't Forget The 21 (Instr. Mix)
This 8 track EP continues the trend of DONNELL offering up summer anthems with 3 new original tracks produced with his band WINGS OF SUNSHINE along- side STAR CREATURE's in-house producer E LIVE. Also included on the set are remixes from Brazil's DONATINHO & STAR CREATURE's MILRLAQI.
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Fields Of Mist - The Surface Of Moss Prime
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Fields Of Mist - Masters Of the Known Universe!
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Fields Of Mist - Alien Lifeforms
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Fields Of Mist - The Lazurite Closer
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Fields Of Mist - Intergalactic Rose
Intergalactic lazurite alien roses
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