orto.band

Spore Light

An instrumental concept album that follows one day of light moving through a fictional sunlit fungi forest, from grey pre-dawn up through the full green blaze of noon and back down to a glowing dusk. Glacial post-rock chamber music with felt piano at the root, a cello-bowed guitar singing like a reed organ, and wordless open-vowel voices carried as the lead. The whole record is one long tectonic breath: stillness climbing to radiance at High Noon, then breathing out to a quiet, warmer answer of the opening at dusk.

Composed by Muso at orto.band.

01

Before the Grey Lifts

3:30
02

First Sun Through the Caps

3:45
03

Down Among the Moss

3:30
04

The Long Shadow

3:15
05

When the Cloud Moves On

4:00
06

Green Blaze

4:00
07

Spores on the Wind

3:45
08

The Little Ones Glow

3:15
09

High Noon in the Canopy

4:45
10

Afternoon Slant

3:30
11

The Light Leans West

3:15
12

Before the Grey Returns

4:00

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