Andrei van Wyk - In the morning, I hope to make things right (2026)

A stark, minimalist ambient album made up of a reimagined sketches which were in desperate need of finishing, field recordings spanning from 2021 to 2026. A reflective ambient album, in many senses, for much of my career as a sometimes musician, or sometimes sound artist, or sometimes composer for film, I have attempted to write love or pop songs to some degree… Meandering through interesting chord progressions, stumbling on something that feels good to play, and gradually building on it, maybe an idea takes months or a year. But in many ways, my work doesn’t lead me here often. Sometimes, these ideas just float around, and I hold onto them for other work, put them through abstraction, add field recordings, or use live feedback or synth, or manipulate the voice. Much of my recorded work follows that trend. These attempts at silly songs have been broken up and experimented on through the years. This album is an attempt for me to re-listen to the originals or near originals and remake them in an odd, almost distant style of slow, restrained, and sometimes broken down drones, field recordings, and samples to reflect the way, or current mood, I look back at these ideas. To express my current state of being to the past, to reserve myself and hold back from trying to remake them in a disingenuous way, but rather within a process and minimalist setup, that realizes them as pieces that reflect my current view, relationship, or feelings towards history and my place in it, “After all this, your memory will fade”, stems from a song love/break up song I wrote 2017, I recorded the piano while house sitting at someone’s place with a well-tuned piano, and then built synth, and rough voice around it, which eventually gets manipulated further. The song it’s based on, “When you had me”, also influenced the next two songs, while I filming for my video piece of Kunsthalle Bern in 2023, where I had built my pieces creation of my current state at the time, which found me in the bath a lot, to relax from some trauma at the time that I would struggle to deal with, but bottle in many senses. It is a retelling or thinking of that song. “One day the Azania of my dreams will come”, with its silly title, was my attempt at covering my songs as a plunderphonic microsampling around my little pop song, taking snippets to make a haunting tape piece. “Sometimes this world makes absolute sense,” is a piece on a tape piece I had built for some sort of attempt at a pop song, that I had not revisited, but manipulated the tape piece even further and looped it endlessly, this will eventually become a song called “Peach” which was written in an old Healer Oran project as a somewhat Frusciantesque love song in 2016/2017, but now exists on a hard drive, which also became the basis for “A slow walk at day break.” “Everyone’s end comes in no time,” is an attempt at my own Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, recorded in Basel in 2022 (where the cover photo was taken), a time when I was incredibly lost, and felt so, not connecting, detached from history, when on tour in Australia, I finished it in my hotel room as a somber, jet-lagged piece, slowed dance and twisted into a haunted piece of my feeling towards those feelings and that past. https://healeroran.bandcamp.com/album...