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Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost

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Released
  
16 June 2005

Artist
  
Shpongle

Label
  
Twisted Records

Length
  
67:30

Release date
  
16 June 2005

Producers
  
Simon Posford, Raja Ram

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Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost (2005)
  
Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland (2009)

Genres
  
Ambient music, Psybient, Dub

Similar
  
Tales of the Inexpressible, Ineffable Mysteries from Shp, Are You Shpongled?, Museum of Consciousness, Remixed

Nothing Lasts... But Nothing is Lost is a 2005 album by Shpongle. It is the project's third and was announced as their last, though that plan later changed. Like the previous two albums, it features many live musicians and vocalists in combination with computer-generated sounds and spoken-word samples. Stylistically the album can be described as a fusion of world music, intelligent dance music, and psychedelic trance. It is dedicated to the memory of author and psychedelic researcher Terence McKenna, whose voice and ideas are used throughout the album. The tracks flow together continuously without any break.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Botanical Dimensions" – 4:37
  2. "Outer Shpongolia" – 2:33
  3. "Levitation Nation" – 3:40
  4. "Periscopes of Consciousness" – 1:54
  5. "Schmaltz Herring" – 2:21
  6. "Nothing Lasts..." – 4:28
  7. "Shnitzled in the Negev" – 4:18
  8. "...But Nothing is Lost" – 4:39
  9. "When Shall I Be Free?" – 4:37
  10. "The Stamen of the Shamen" – 4:11
  11. "Circuits of the Imagination" – 3:12
  12. "Linguistic Mystic" – 1:36
  13. "Mentalism" – 2:54
  14. "Invocation" – 2:40
  15. "Molecular Superstructure" – 4:47
  16. "Turn Up the Silence" – 3:22
  17. "Exhalation" – 2:16
  18. "Connoisseur of Hallucinations" – 3:31
  19. "The Nebbish Route" – 3:36
  20. "Falling Awake" – 1:50

According to Simon Posford, the album actually has 8 songs divided into 20 tracks. Each part symbolizes a phase in the dream sequence. The vinyl version of the album is separated into these 8 tracks, but the track listing is identical to that of the digital and CD versions.

Samples and allusions

  • Botanical Dimensions samples from the Richard Linklater film Waking Life.
  • Levitation Nation samples a 2003 song by the Brazilian samba school Beija-Flor de Nilópolis.
  • The title for Nothing Lasts comes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a translation of "Omnia mutantur, sed nihil interit"
  • Circuits of the Imagination contains a sample of the "bionic" sound effect from The Six Million Dollar Man.
  • The Nebbish Route song samples Ned Flanders from The Simpsons episode El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer).

    • Songs

    1Botanical Dimensions4:38
    2Outer Shpongolia2:33
    3Levitation Nation3:40

    References

    Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost Wikipedia
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