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Continuum

by Meridian Arc

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1.
Time Ever Collapsing 03:30
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2.
A Process In Decline 05:19
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3.
Distant Memory 05:13
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4.
Continuum 04:05
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5.
Into Forever 03:25
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6.
Gaze Upon Eternity 04:47
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7.
Erasure 01:56
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about

For the past decade, Meridian Arc has been a vehicle for Andrew Crawshaw to explore the liminal reaches where analog circuitry teeters from metronomic perfection into free-form textural soundbaths and percolating blissed-out abstraction. While equally rooted in the classic sounds of vintage synths and the modern frequencies of a labyrinthine Eurorack, Meridian Arc glides into astral unknowns while tethered to the terra firma of time-worn and readily available technology. But on his fourth album Continuum, Crawshaw’s solo venture into astral spaces was sidelined by the gravity of mortality. Diagnosed with a congenital heart issue, Crawshaw was rushed into emergency surgery and subjected to a lengthy convalescence. Though as is often the case when art is made in life-or-death situations, this potentially debilitating development provided new clarity on the direction for his latest masterwork.

Rather than locking into cycles of repetition, Continuum takes a linear approach, employing patterns not as hypnotic sonic mantras but as pathways into new spaces. Though presented as seven songs, Continuum is really one journey across a myriad of terrains, a progression from point A to point B taken at a pace that allows the listener to take in the full grandeur of the landscape. Loose arrangements had been mapped out prior to Crawshaw’s surgery, but with the foundation of those structures now revealed to be fallible, it became imperative to reveal the frailty at the literal heart of Meridian Arc. Melodic leads were taken as single takes to reinforce the human component of the music. Vacillating between the sinister and the sublime, Continuum touches upon the spectrum of our lived experiences, moving forward as the mechanization of fate churns along its ordained course while its subject pushes and pulls at its tempo in hopes of altering its trajectory.

And perhaps there is something to be said about the salvation of technology, its ability to battle our mortal fears by enforcing structure upon organic chaos, and the subjugation we risk by putting so much stake in the tools we create. And perhaps there is a crucial reminder that all the self-imposed geometry and detailed schematics won’t necessarily save us. But by wresting control back from the binary world we’ve made, we have an opportunity to take our imaginings to new heights, to loosen the tether to the familiar and push beyond the known reaches, and to chart the distance between the extremes of near incapacitation to ascendent triumph.

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released October 31, 2025

Instruments used on this recording :

Arturia Matrixbrute
Behringer 2600
Elektron Analog Four
Elektron Octatrack
Erica Synths Syntrx
Korg Polysix
Korg Monopoly
Mellotron M4000D Mini
Moog Matriarch
Moog Mother-32
Sequential Prophet 600

Effects:

Chase Bliss Mood
Chase Bliss Generation Loss
Chase Bliss CXM-1978
Meris LVX
Moog Moogerfooger Clusterflux
Mutron Bi-Phase II
Black Hole Symmetry
Roland Space Echo RE-301 & RE-101

Written and Recorded August - October 2023 by Andrew Crawshaw at MotoSonic Sound Studio

Mixed and Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios July / August 2025

Design and Layout by Andrew Crawshaw for Broken Press
Front and Back Cover Artwork by Ramon Keimig
Inserts by Ramon Keimig, Andrew Crawshaw and Danielle Skredsvig

All music © Meridian Arc 2025 under exclusive license to SFI Recordings
IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY FRIEND AND COMPANION JUNE
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Meridian Arc guides you through the celestial dimensions of beyond our space and time through the textural waves of sound and distant planetary pulses. Cosmic excursions that bend the spectrum of colors to create a bridge to sonic temples in the galaxy far far away. ... more

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