Mizmor

Mizmor

Mnemonic: Ambient Mosaic

Profound Lore

In April of this year, Mizmor mastermind A.L.N. released something new—Alluvion, the Mizmor and Hell collaboration (Gilead Media). Now in June, A.L.N. brings you something old… or rather, renewed. Mnemonic:Ambient Mosaic is comprised of ten of A.L.N.’s earliest recordings, transformed into nostalgic drone-scapes. The artist has been making solo music under multiple monikers consistently since age thirteen and the recordings selected for this record date back almost as far.“To create Mnemonic, I unearthed a selection of old recordings from both The Zarconiac and my eponymous hymns (2011) and repurposed them into ambient tracks, just like I did with the Mizmor song “Pareidolia” (Wit’s End, 2022). I realized that there were many lamentful melodies in my old songs that I still love, despite the lo-fi quality. The idea was to create a nostalgic soundscape of inverted hymns, allowing the listener to explore the sounds of my past, obscured though they may be.” Drafts of these songs were originally published to Mizmor’s Patreon (currently inactive), one each month of the year 2024. The twelve songs were then edited down into the ten that comprise this LP.About the aforementioned hymns, A.L.N. explains, “In my time as a Christian (2010-2012), I created an EP of original hymns. The life of this project was short and catalogued simply under my given name. I can count the number of people who have heard these songs on one hand. These were worship songs, but not in the traditional sense. These songs were full of melancholy, pleas of...

Mizmor

Prosaic

Profound Lore

Mizmor, is a one-man heavy music exploration that began in 2012 as a way of dealing with the mental and spiritual anguish mastermind A.L.N. feels as a person. More specifically, the content behind the project is that of the existential / primal and innate musings about cause, purpose, and self. It is the search for light and truth, or the fact that there is none. It comes from an embittered, burned, confused, and broken heart. It is the fight for survival when reason and foundation has turned to nothingness. It is the crashing down of towers of falsehood and the freedom that comes through a certain kind of grief. Ultimately, Mizmor is the manifestation of a long-felt depression which doesn’t have an end in sight. In A.L.N.’s own words behind the new Mizmor album Prosaic: “The idea behind Prosaic was to make an intentionally less conceptual, more slice-of-life record. I wanted to make an album that was less precious and obsessed-over, more honest and real; less grandiose and more human. I found it an interesting challenge to find the line between ‘you can do better’ and ‘you’re beating a dead horse.’ I tried to make my process more efficient and even fun at times. I simply wanted to share, but if that meant exacting all-out perfectionism, I wasn’t going to make a record. Right now I’m interested in making less self-indulgent music. The themes are the absurdity / futility / purpose / meaning of work, mindfulness / consciousness / living...