Discography of The Sunset Collective

The Sunset Collective is a plunderphonics and ambient group which has been making music since the summer of 2021. This band of sorts is headed by the author of A Trip Through the Wormhole, and as such there is lots of overlap between the stories, the music often reflecting the story, or the story changing to better fit the music. This page is dedicated to showing the full discography of the Sunset Collective in the proper, official order with the proper information being shown as well. This page will be split up into groups of the albums, and similarly to how it's done in this video, every album in an era will be mentioned but not every album mentioned there will be shown in that category.

## Everywhere away from fading lonely despair Era / 2021 Albums

This era focuses on albums released during the year of 2021. Most of the music made in this era revolves around Everywhere away from fading lonely despair, a work heavily based off of The Caretaker's *Everywhere at the end of time,* and by extension a couple of other derivative works based off of the same album. This group contains Everywhere away from fading lonely despair, All things forgotten, and The northern lights orchestra.

## Everywhere away from fading lonely despair

FadingSunset, down the road to nowhere (2021)

### Released

Stage 1 released August 10, 2021Stage 2 released August 14, 2021Stage 3 released August 22, 2021Stage 4 released August 26, 2021Stage 5 released September 10, 2021Stage 6 released November 13, 2021Stage 7 released December 11, 2021

### Producer

FadingSunset

Everywhere away from fading lonely despair is a 7-stage series of albums meant to portray the onset and effects of dementia. The project was started in late July of 2021, and it was completed on December 11, 2021. Although the recording process took over 5 months, most of the albums were released in the summer of 2021, the first three stages being released within ten days of each other, though this is mainly due to how the first three stages were formed.

In the beginning of production, there wasn't a specific order to which tracks would be made, and so a series of tracks were made for the first three stages, and a couple for later stages during the first week or so of production. After this though, work was done in a more linear form. The other albums were put on temporary hold for a couple of days while stage one was finalized. Fun fact: The first track in the album whose sample would become a common leitmotif in the album was the last song made for stage one.

The second and third stages did not take too long as about half of the work was already done in the first week of production, although a lot of the tracks still appear to be rushed and sloppy. For the first four stages, a lack of effort is apparent. Shortly after the third stage was finished, work begun on the fourth stage which would become the gateway to the post-awareness stages, where the music really starts to break down.

The technical challenge posted by trying to recreate the soundscapes, mood, and chaos of Everywhere at the end of time's post awareness stages was difficult, although the final product was rather interesting. The fourth stage is composed of almost entirely the songs of the previous three stages, some being very coherent and upfront in their appearance due to being loud and not additionally slowed down too much, while others blend into the background and are slowed down far more.

Due to various factors, the soundscapes of stage four stand out, partially due to the more lazy and rushed nature which somehow offers an interesting sound in many places, partially on accident, clearly visible in the accidental recording of breath and speech which appears several times throughout this part of the album. The general mood and soundscapes of this album are rather dark and a bit more low-key and atmospheric than other parts, in heavy contrast to a more and wild fifth stage.

Stage five[1] is where the breakdown becomes much more apparent, the music growing more and more chaotic as the fourth stage progressed. Stage five not only introduces a lot of new samples and sounds, the soundscape is also more full. In stage four, the interactions between sounds was more or less where a couple of main samples play one at a time over background drones. In stage five, segments are shorter and more noise is playing at once, in some moments more than others.

There are a few notable moments in stage five which would be considered awareness moments, such as the loud and heavily distorted part of J1 where one sample plays out along with heavy static. This part is in high contrast to the other 'awareness segment' in the album which occurs in L1. In L1's awareness moment, multiple vocal samples play over a piano. The voices blend together into a cacophony of noise, the only breaks from the voices are the background piano and somewhat of a callback to J1's awareness moment with the same sample appearing, however in this instance it is not slowed down. In both moments, they are opened by distorted white noise, in the second instance it is accompanied by a sample of a passing train. The use of distorted white noise like this can be traced back to the accidental recording of speech and breath in stage four, and this trend continues all the way to S1 in stage seven.

Stage five does have plenty of calmer moments though, such as the temporary bliss stage track which features a recording of a music box, and the later half of L1 once the vocal segment ends. These segments do not have many samples, and they play longer and more scarcely throughout these parts of the track. This balance of chaos and calm moments gives stage five an interesting flow, and allows the music to breathe more and feel like it's flowing. Stage five is also where more of the instances of layers starting and stopping without a clear structure is apparent. It is this lack of structure which supports such a chaotic sound and allows the music to breathe.

In stage six, the lack of structure and chaos come to a peak. Stage six is loud and much more chaotic than stage five, using more samples throughout and even sampling entire songs from previous stages. The first half of the album is very loud and chaotic, although it has a couple clearer moments throughout, which contrasts heavily to the calmer and more droning second half which uses far less samples.

The first song contains the most clarities and has more of a clear flow compared to the second, although the first seems to stand out more. The second is far more loud and uses more samples, one of which being a harsh loud static sample which is persistent throughout the entire song.