At long last, "Luminous Exile" is here! This album is the culmination of *so much* I don't even know where to begin except to say THANK YOU for listening and connecting in this way. Finding receptive minds is incredibly difficult for this type of music - it doesn't fit neatly into any genre and maybe that's part of the reason I needed to make it: too energetic to be ambient, too electronic for post-rock, too ethereal for prog, too structured for psychedelia, too dark for new age, too heavy for chillout. It’s unpeggable!

The title really comes from a fascination with self-awareness and how incredible and fantastically rare it must be in the universe. And it’s not just a gift - it’s a gift and a burden. When we look to the heavens we can feel at once a primitive fascination and overwhelming sense of vastness and insignificance - but this loneliness is irrational because we have each other - we have *so much* to embrace…

The forthcoming album "Luminous Exile" releases 2-June and has a bit of everything - electronica, chillwave, ambient, prog, soundtrack, post-rock and guest artists. I'm proud to say the gorgeous cover art was hand-drawn by a talented human - and it's got a bit of everything too...

(Music is from the opening prelude)

"Blue Shift" is the lead single on the new album and it's full of warm blue sky and ocean energy. A lot of the new album gets deep into existential and melancholic vibes so it was important to lead things off in a positive way that firmly embraces the extraordinary world we have.

The full video for "Ever" is now live - packed with existential imagery, metaphors and motifs, flashbacks, a cathartic journey to the sea, and an ending open to interpretation - all in 5 minutes! It’s a very familiar human story of rising from dark places and discovering meaning through connections to the past.

“Signal To Sands” continues the theme of searching - for outside life, for another Earth, another home - the concept of a forthcoming 2023 album begun with 'Outlier One' and resolved with 'Together'. Overall it's a contemplation on the fascination and devotion we might also foster for our existing home, the puzzling persistence of loneliness in a place so teeming with life, and the equally mysterious sensation that sometimes we're not alone when it appears that we are.

“Together” is an epic, emotional 8-minute ride inspired by waking from one of those stunningly realistic dreams about being reunited with a loved one who has passed - ghostly and melancholic on one hand, profound and energizing on the other - and hopefully reflected that way in the eerie guitar and synth textures. A rare track that just poured out and basically wrote itself. Direct influences include David Helpling, Mike Oldfield, Ulrich Schnauss, Erik Wøllo, and Carbon Based Lifeforms.

The full video for Outlier One is now live! If there were ever a track I’ve produced that was meant for video, this is it. The concept is that self-aware life is an extraordinary anomaly in the visible universe- and despite our relentless combing through data for signs, we are probably the miracle we’re looking for. WE are the Outliers.

For the video I wanted to show just how fascinating and frankly terrifying the idea of self-aware life is - what would it be like to observe our own species on earth as an outsider? Or to crudely assemble TV broadcast signals that have traveled from earth for light years? In the end, though, we can find simple meaning to our existence, and it’s not at all terrifying.

The genre of BETAGEIST is tricky to place but this trailer-style ad hints at what to expect.

Video for FAR GREATER by KRISLOACE