Waking Up With The World On Fire – MAKI | NATALIS GROUP

WAKING UP WITH THE
WORLD ON FIRE

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‘Waking Up With The World On Fire’
Each song generates a phantom, to another place and time, an emotional response with no boundary between imagination and what is heard.

The ‘World On Fire’ music does not identify with any one particular music genre, although it’s roots evolved from Darkwave and World Beat, with post-industrial adaptations of classical stringed and ethnic instruments, such as ‘Dead Can Dance’, ‘Switchblade Symphony’, ‘Brian Eno’.

What makes ‘Waking Up With The World On Fire’ more unique is it abandons known human language, allowing the human voice to be that mystical, lyrical conte’ drawn against ancient rhythms and night dreams.

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” Maki, the man behind the epically intriguing album, ‘Waking Up With The World On Fire’, formulates a riveting symbiosis between New Age musicality, Darkwave and world-music influences, cinematic musings, and mythical meditations. His music is beautifully crafted, fully emotional, spiritually entrancing, intimately moving, seducing, majestic, enveloping and alluring. “

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Seven tracks of layered mysticism, harmonic resonance, and foundational orchestration that evokes a human expression of awe-inspiring vastness which stretches the very fabric of imagination.

Maki has the workings of a mastermind.

‘Waking Up With The World On Fire’ is decidedly textural, atmospheric and cerebral, a creative constant in the field of communicative contemporary instrumental music. Maki captures moments that achieve sublime sonic poetry.

‘Waking Up With The World On Fire’ is truly majestic, grandiose, slowly unfolding and extremely cinematic. This album is sequenced start to finish for a specific emotional effect.

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As chapters in a book it connect us all together on a wavelength that hits the human heart, soul and mind

Maki’s Waking Up With The World On Fire takes on a profound spiritual sense. With its mesmerizing swirl of pulsing strings,whooshing keys and rumbling percussion the album possesses an impressive sonic sheen, yet it feels pared down to it’s core essentials – tone and texture

From the moment “Polypropylene” opens the proceedings, this album is truly majestic — grandiose, slowly unfolding, and extremely cinematic, like the soundtrack to an epic film.It conjures up images of deep space, the regions between the galaxies, where no matter exist, while “Nylon” brings to mind the distant nebula where stars are born.

Waking Up With The World On Fire is hinting at the universe inside us.

It really hooked me mentally, spiritually and musically, and the album has since become a true favorite. This album possesses the sounds and voices that can indeed carry you to places you have never been.

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Album Liner Notes

Waking Up With The World On Fire .. music that speaks to you across human generations. Your ears will carry new and unobstructed neural pathways into your mind. Just close your eyes and create a new world as you listen.

When Maki returned to making music after a long absence, he sought in ‘World On Fire’ a human voice acting as an instrument along side the violin, double bass, orchestra, guitar and ancient drums. The search was a foot.

Francesca is that master impressionist able to sing a melody that can feel centuries old and yet breathing in the here and now. She solos on the two featured songs ‘Polyproylene’ and ‘Zephylin’. What is most delightful is the way she bends and holds on to notes, playful and serious at the same time.

The curious often ask ‘why the songs have chemical names?’ As explained by Maki, “organic music and organic chemistry are in the same location in your brain.”.

About The Artist

I use ambisonic plugins to place certain music parts into spacial coordinates. These are rendered in quad. The stereo workflow continues with those stem tracks having additional eq and proximity and verb and remix. It can get all so intense keeping the music reaching inside your ears as it tells its story. That’s the fun of it.

When I compose, I close my eyes, focus on what is my third eye, open up to every sound, rhythm, beat, the way an instrument vibrates. A vision will seep past my defenses and pretensions. It doesn’t happen every time. When it does it seems to come together all by itself. I’m along for the ride.

They are the insights into what can be. At times they make decisions for themselves. I would not compare it to automatic writing or taking dictation from an other worldly persona. It’s a natural talent every human being innately has. I just tap into it. You can too.