Witan - Alchemy

thewitan.bandcamp.com/album/a...
00:00 - Shimmering Stream
05:05 - Alchemist's Tower
10:45 - Elixir
14:21 - Alignment
21:12 - Twilight Realm
26:03 - The Void Between
32:57 - Unseen
37:09 - Celestial Abyss
45:19 - The Shadow Vale
53:17 - Transmutation

[@leahwhite4667]

I am a simple guy. when there's an album I've never heard of, with no description, and a gorgeous cover, on my YT homepage... I click it.

[@thehumanwiII]

Hi twin

[@jonaslencinas]

el algoritmo tira buenas joyas

[@zzzremedy3831]

Wassup my reflections

[@sorrysirmygunisoneba]

Same, can’t say I regret it either

[@annettejo1492]

😊😊😊😊😊W😊😊

[@OneWayToPeaceOrthodoxy]

For those that dont know Witan or Witangenot was a council of Anglo-Saxon elders that would decide who would be the new king.

[@thefirst9500]

hey, thanks for the info.

[@ArisEmriis]

That's the absolute coolest fact I've learned in a while! I felt very drawn to this and glad I decided to listen and read comments.

[@TAWEEYZZ]

Not going to lie, I learned about witans through the last kingdom show.

[@niranjanpaul2176]

Nice council

[@JosephFuckinStalin]

​@@tylermoulton7294 How do you determine any divinity at all? We don't know that the divine is even real, so how could we prescribe that to a single person?

[@buffalosolider206]

W I Z A R D M O D E

[@ahmadbazzari8552]

The KZbin algorithm has done it again. This is incredible.

[@martinsteiner5228]

Sometimes it is a gift that keeps giving. ❤

[@StyleshStorm]

legit the KZbin algorithm on a combo chain lately.

[@LateralusMorales]

X2

[@metrotek5]

100% agree. It seems that YT knows me well, and eerily so.

[@Getnodrama]

It is just a math formula, YOU are the only one feeding it. And the artists are the only ones creating

[@tayp447]

This album art gives me some serious 80's dark fantasy vibes. Feels like soemthing from the Neverending Story

[@AjeetSingh-xq4yb]

It would make an amazing soundtrack for an old style RPG game.

[@pigeonking7962]

Thats because this album belongs in the dungeon synth genre! It is a great genre that has existed since the 80-90s but has recently taken off thanks to a lot of albums releasing, i really suggest exploring this genre as it has many subgenres that are amazing and deserve more attention

[@ella-sy8ks]

or labrynth

[@dvandeun]

​​@@pigeonking7962 much appreciated, wasn't aware. be so kind to leave us the name of one, maybe two, artists worth digging into.

[@budgezero805]

check out Quest Master @@dvandeun

[@senior_sakuga]

All those hours spent listening to Nobody's ambient playlists paid off with this orb pondering-core banger.

[@onnilattu9138]

Orb pondering-core lmaoo

[@cinderfox5217]

I also like Nobody’s playlists

[@gavinboyer4634]

Who's playlists?

[@cinderfox5217]

@@gavinboyer4634 it’s the name of a youtube channel that releases playlists, a lot of them give a very liminal vibe which is difficult to find if that’s what you’re looking for, I totally recommend nobody. The playlists are pretty solid

[@beij0]

No, Who's on first!@@gavinboyer4634

[@Kiu_8]

KZbin algorithm, I forgive you for all the times you’ve suggested me videos about stuff and people I don’t give a single fuck about, this suggestion you gave me during this sleepless night is excellent, I love what I’m listening to right now and I sure hope others get this in their recommended videos as well, so, you, online stranger who’s reason this right now, you’re in for a treat!

[@quetzalgd8679]

I HAVE MADE THE MOST MYSTICAL SANDWICH

[@TheFXofNewton]

Pardon, do you have any generic mustard?

[@hannaarain9087]

HAHAHA

[@AjeetSingh-xq4yb]

This is the part of youtube that I love the most. Random albums with beautiful, inspiring art and music that really takes you to a different place. This album sounds like it'd be the perfect RPG soundtrack.

[@MoveitorLoseit2]

This kind of music and artwork make me wish I could leave this reality and go there, to that fantasy world depicted on the album.

[@juandager5220]

​@@MoveitorLoseit2Then come! We're waiting for you...

[@WoundedWabbajack]

​@@juandager5220 can I join too?

[@kobrakoa3316]

For real, it also hits something in my brain as if it was nostalgia and it's something I've been to before.@@MoveitorLoseit2

[@MoveitorLoseit2]

@@kobrakoa3316 Maybe we were in amazing realities like that in past lives (in other dimensions), and somehow we got stuck with this current matrix prison world (earth) reality, and we can't remember all of our past lives but some times feelings come back that we cannot remember where they come from. I really believe this.

[@dakoitcave817]

We are born to infinite worlds forever. And in one such dimension we live in a realm of wonder and awe. Of simple and fantastic. Of orbs and fire, of chariots and wooden ships. Of creatures both familiar and new. And here we stay, because we choose to, because it’s our real home. The one that beckons us to come back when we are away-tucked into the farthest recesses of our lucid dreams and yearning hearts…

[@thegreypilgrim2849]

That's beautiful! Where is it from?

[@jerrimenard3092]

I like this.

[@trillburr271]

I think he's right, i feel like i know this place​@@thegreypilgrim2849

[@dakoitcave817]

@@thegreypilgrim2849 I simply wrote it while listening.

[@jimboslam]

46:15 this track just makes me think back to childhood. What ~was~ once rural Georgia. Dew covered fields. The insane strobes of thousands of fireflies. Whippoorwills. Mourning doves. Picking up a stick instead of my phone and poking the dirt when me and my friends were bored. This track makes me feel some type of way.

[@bobgrainier]

wow, beautiful memories. your description is just as evocative as the music.

[@Brq.chchdzm]

[@zack9679]

Some type of way.... Love that. Im gunna have to culturally appropriate that one ✌️

[@EuanWhitehead]

Similar or me but we live in England on the Welsh border and near us there is am ancient bronze age hill Fort that's higher up than most hills in our area, going there and looking at the stars at night is encapsulated by this music.

[@jimboslam]

​@EuanWhitehead love thinking about that. Growing up in America there's nothing "ancient". It's still so new in the grand scale of things. But to have ancient ruins and locations to enjoy late in the evening sounds incredibly mystical.

[@hellknightmordred7655]

Celesital and cosmic. Hauntingly beautiful, I hope this gets a physical release.

[@nikitakellermann6012]

what is a "physical release" in 2023?

[@themotionless1]

@@nikitakellermann6012 a memorabilia

[@eng3d]

​@@nikitakellermann6012 a burning memory

[@nicho-uyx1287]

@@nikitakellermann6012 same as always, owning a physical copy of beauty in your dam hands..........

[@brandonvalentine2555]

Get a blank cassette or CD ✌️

[@kong4779]

Cold, silent, mysterious castle, a soul in a previous life in that distant planet as a god of the protoss, but also lived there for some time, I want to stay here alone to experience this wonderful feeling.This place is much quieter than Earth, with more planets to see and more life forms to communicate with

[@jackieparmz]

Boy, do I love my algorithm.

[@jomama9508]

☝️🤓☠️

[@Camelina-hf4yp]

Hulk fiction 😂😂😂😂

[@rawbinmo]

when u high af alone at night in the forest under the crisp and twinkling starry sky

[@trillburr271]

That's exactly the feelings i get from this

[@Mr.cualquiera]

I came here by chance. What is this absolute gem?

[@BLVCKSCORP]

Dungeon synth my friend, welcome, we've been expecting you.

[@tabhabbish6336]

You have reached the end of the internet. Welcome to dungeon synth. Put your mind at ease and breath easy. Journeys over

[@cactusdoodle8619]

@@BLVCKSCORP You'll have to be recorded before you're officially released. there are a few ways we can do this, and the choice is yours.

[@ar-visions]

alchemical gold

[@queengodiva7776]

@@BLVCKSCORPDungeon Synth wow adding that to my music vocabulary lol it reminds me of 90’s game music and anime 😮

[@RomeoVictor1]

This is most definitely a sign. Today of repetitious occasional days, I’m trying to align my manifestations to becoming an airline pilot. I still have a long way to go and a lot of decisions to make but listening to this seems like the perfect potion at this very moment. I’ll remember this moment when I finally make it! ✈

[@lady.shawn1111]

blessings to your journey ✨

[@Blortoblorto]

🤢

[@Musingsonthelawofattraction]

Good luck!!

[@aurum8766]

Me too, same dream,same objective!

[@RomeoVictor1]

@@aurum8766 Let’s be pilots!! ✈ I’m getting pretty close to start my training. Best of luck!

[@mOS3s__]

To the future music adventurer enjoying this wonderful album, leave a like when the algorithm leads you here. Beautiful ❤

[@aufgeweckt]

I am Number 39.

[@londongatewood3419]

i am #50

[@boomer1212]

#62

[@troywright359]

To the future adventurer: please do not beg for likes Thank you

[@mOS3s__]

Leave a like for Troy too, he's upset. Thank you. ❤

[@johnadkins5918]

I was guided here by the universal algorithm and stayed for the soulful peace that this piece of art imbues within the fabric of my mind. ❤

[@willytomino]

yea fasho yeah

[@troywright359]

the algorithim is man made....it hails not from outside of space and time

[@nc1906]

Yeah I was just looking for the bathroom.

[@tylermoulton7294]

@@troywright359 if all is connected is like you to prove to me humans are not getting information from realms unseen

[@odysseychl4925]

Whatever you say buddy

[@baardau]

That cover art is one of the most magical things I have ever seen.

[@thefirst9500]

Amazing music and somehow the best youtube comment section I've ever seen.

[@TheFXofNewton]

Good vibes only!

[@QuestforQuestions]

I feel among kindred spirits! Beautiful!

[@tamie341]

Fart fart scary faces! Turned dat shii dark in a sec

[@dalmohernandes3178]

when I saw this on my front page I knew I had to click on it

[@loadout3]

i came starving and left beyond satiated

[@alnikur87]

Обложка вызывает чувство, что как будто она оформлена для книги сказок из начала 20 века. Потрясающе красиво!

[@cameronstrathdee1772]

The Star Father has shown us the path.

[@TheFXofNewton]

It is written in the stars above.

[@troywright359]

Zant from the Twilight Realm seeks an audience with you.

[@thelastpersonyoudexpecttoe4681]

Once again, the Algorithm has blessed us all with something truly special.

[@SwordofDay]

This feels like a kinda nostalgia that was never there. Like something forgotten, but beautiful once found again- though you never had it in the first place.i know this makes no sense, but it's the only way I can think to describe it Otherworldly and Amazing.

[@rawrizord]

Hiraeth, maybe

[@PattersonJones]

No this makes perfect sense

[@aahxzen]

That's how I would describe Boards of Canada

[@conjurdubs]

Hauntology

[@CerealKiller669]

like a dream, that never happened

[@pablodioneylariosmena5710]

The Energy of this music is awesome, i felt how find philosophal stone.

[@PerishSong94]

This one definitely needs to be listened 10+ times to be fully appreciated. I've listened to it only 2 times and I already know that I'm going to love this in a couple of weeks.

[@Lenny.262]

This is beautiful. The very act of listening to this _is_ alchemy. Transforming your leaden thoughts into golden ones. Pure bliss.

[@yamamorph]

this album is a JOURNEY

[@emobloom]

And you're high 👍

[@tamie341]

​@@emobloomno u.

[@catsystemcorp]

Good stuff! And interesting to see how suddenly everybody discovers this video!

[@izzoo91]

Hey how are you doing?

[@SendU2Jesus]

There are 75,000 of us searching

[@crotalusatrox7931]

A Shimmering Stream flows down from the Alchemist's Tower, an Elixir providing an Alignment between the Twilight Realm thru The Void Between Unseen from the Celestial to The Shadow Vale receiving my Transmutation.

[@fireofhyperion]

What praise can I give that has not already been showered throughout the Comments? Why should I do so at all, being that it is redundant? Because I want to. This is absolutely, irrefragably, wonderful.

[@mohammedalhabsi9627]

It's a coincidence, but it could be an energy and attraction to discover this album. Distinctive voices and melodies. I write my comment while I am still listening and I do not wish it to end

[@joaniediamond8714]

Recommended by a friend...really helping my overwrought nervous system....so healing

[@orlandocontrerascastro9472]

Greetings from Venezuela, South America.

[@Adam_Ballard_Abomboom]

KZbin really is hitting with all their music recommendations lately. Gotta love it

[@rahelgoldbaum]

Especially connecting with Celestial Abyss! Thank you algorithm for blessing me with this exceptional piece of art and thank you Witan for releasing it into this messy world. Would love to cross paths with these sounds again in a mystical motion picture. Stay connected!

[@K1einemaus]

This makes me feel like I'm trapped in the fairy realm, walking through a misty meadow somewhere in the forest but there is no time or space. The mist slowly consumes me and everything around me. The only thing I can see now is the starry sky above and slowly I'm becoming one with the universe.

[@gretabarbarossa]

Decided to listen because of the references to Alchemy, stayed for the terrific sound! Could definitely turn anything into gold. 🔥

[@Tubbs777]

Thank you KZbin, sometimes I really hate you but today I thank you.

[@TheFXofNewton]

💜

[@TzadikTheManic]

Ah I love dungeon synth as well as dark ambient & all sorts of ethereal musics. This just popped up, and @ 1 min in I’m prepared for the journey 🖤

[@TheFXofNewton]

How was it?

[@autumnwinter3639]

Z

[@TzadikTheManic]

@@TheFXofNewtonActually it put me in a rather particular head~space that recalls some of my favorite music by the late genius Jon Hassell. Not stylistically, I’m only referring to the feeling. Can’t really explain it.

[@TzadikTheManic]

⁠@@TheFXofNewtonSince you inquired, how about you what was your experience/take on this album?

[@AfroUnk]

Reminds me of Hearts Of Space, my dad had a bunch of the episodes recorded on cassette tapes. The start of my fascination with music began with that radio show, and with music like this. This album is truly, undeniably beautiful…I can’t believe people still create masterpiece synth like this…

[@zhrgmz]

Gracias algoritmo por esta gran recopilación; es tan curioso el album que me genera una intigra y hace que reflexione.

[@kekbalion]

From Algorithm's womb, Witan is chaos birthed, the sonic offspring of senses unearthed. This album came in my ears.

[@ziwi402]

🧎‍♀️

[@kaywop7582]

what the fuck was this comment bro 😂

[@alxandercontreras]

This album came 😩💦

[@chase5673]

looks like an eternal beggining, also the middle and the end of a legendary journey

[@kazes]

I arrived here because of a suggestion while listening to Brian Eno and Fred Again's album.

[@TheFXofNewton]

So an improvement, nice.

[@PaulC-Drums]

I love finding an album of this type that is made with such specific personality. This is wonderful, thank you for making it!

[@LuliLulu]

It feels like the universe is telling me something but I don’t know what it is… 😌

[@papakias3922]

Go on a journey I guess

[@EgyptFoxy]

"Awaken to your Divinity, you are not a person in a world...the world is actually a mirror of your consciousness".

[@christian5256]

"Stop scrolling youtube comments and go to sleep"

[@TheFXofNewton]

How much is the fish?

[@JosephFuckinStalin]

Why? Does that universe talk to anyone?

[@user-cb8ek7tp2g]

Как же я люблю подобную музыку!❤

[@Andy2kk]

My Desert. My Arrakis. My Dune.

[@batmospheric]

During my first listen was reading The Guns of Avalon. Now I’m addicted to the atmosphere of that setup and will be revisiting this album for the rest of my journey through the Amber chronicles. Thank you KZbin algorithm and Witan

[@jpfizzle1]

1:50 those bright shimmering synths brighten my day

[@shaunrevell5594]

This hits all the sweet spots for me. One of those very special pieces of music that ignites something within that can rarely be awoken. The cover art is also perfect. Grateful to have found this today.

[@evanglts2054]

Closing our eyes while listening to this album makes us feel like we're falling into the stars.

[@chooloopatoast8983]

This sounds like it would go well with underwater landscapes

[@justinwescott8125]

This is straight-up ambient. The only reason people are calling it dungeon synth is because there's a picture of a castle. It's REALLY GOOD, but the fact is, these days you can slap a medieval album cover on any ambient work, and the comments will say, "omg I love dungeon synth!"

[@anima6035]

Its described as dungeon synth on their bandcamp

[@jjs8426]

Sounds like a dungeon synth if you asked me, but my standard for evaluating dungeon synth is Burzum so lots of things sound like dungeon synth to me

[@Atricapilla]

Hi Fi Dungeon Synth maybe...

[@Atricapilla]

But yes, it reminds me a little of some of the music David Helpling and Jon Jenkins made. It's more on the ambient side

[@anotherland2462]

yo dawg, this is straight up ambient, gnaw mean?

[@mht5875]

What a beautiful record cover! I feel like I should be outside, sleeping under the open sky with the stars shining

[@henriOnimura30]

Eu amo demais esse estilo de música, eu me sinto em uma dimensão a bilhões de anos luz, totalmente mergulhado no desconhecido e fascinante cosmos, muito obrigado 🙏

[@lukan983]

tmb mano, amo qnd o youtube me recomenda

[@JackieAlbano]

🌌

[@aera644]

Br😮😮

[@kaickdossantosxavier1285]

Ainda mais nesse tempo de chuva

[@rokibeeskiroodroki9018]

First time I’ve been able to peacefully sleep to an album in years

[@AlexanderPochertPiano]

Try Kaiho (2017) from the band Kauan.

[@rokibeeskiroodroki9018]

@@AlexanderPochertPiano will do

[@Adam-yo3bt]

Tetsu inoue and Pete namlook the invisible landscape Buckethead and shin terai (lightyears / unison) A forgotten realm burzum Kingdom come ambient site bill laswell Agrippa / corpse pose divination There you go, bro. You'll never need anything else tbh

[@tutubism]

If you're into 70s new age/ambient recordings that is more melodic & has acoustic elements I think these are worth checking out too: • Vangelis - _L'apocalypse Des Animaux_ (1973) • Ashra - _"New Age Of Earth"_ (1976)

[@SonicKiwi123]

Amazing work, many people who attempt to make this sort of music end up sounding somewhat boring and generic, this album has a certain vibe to it that just says you put a lot of actual thought into every little detail about the design of every individual sound and they way they all play off each other. Not boring at all and absolutely beautiful in a sublime sort of way.

[@ninjoker2666]

The sky shines with a glorifying beauty, that of which turns silver into gold.

[@pigeonking7962]

If you guys loved this album i suggest exploring the Dungeon Synth genre which has hundreds of albums like this constantly releasing!

[@pajamawilliams9847]

Everything i wanted. Thanks for the trip.

[@BigM1998]

I feel like I can finally sleep now. But I also want to stay awake and listen for as long as it lasts. Absolutely beautiful.

[@litiviousspartus4611]

Love the illustration and the music..

[@telapathicninja]

this was perfect for my indoor whimsical snow day, many thanks

[@tawos6631]

Excelente! A capa também é muito linda.

[@hugosouza1993]

Celestial Abyss at 37:16 is simply not from this world, brings thins mystery and fabulous aura, it's so astonishing and even a bit of scary to hear this

[@GreatAwakening78]

WOW! this is extraordinary. Reminds me of The Labyrinth. You should check out Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal. It is revealing more than we know.

[@tutubism]

Crinj, pretentious & sometimes concerning comments section aside, this is good music. I am once again, blessed by the YT algorithm to see another derivative of ambient music on my home page

[@xXTheFEZGamerXx]

this is giving mad thief gold vibes and I couldn't be happier

[@EmilyBarrettt]

I'm having such a garbage day and this really boosted my morale to get reading for class. Thank you Witan.

[@kaptainkoffee9074]

Absolutely beautiful work. I've been looking for a sound that would fit abandoned Vaults for my Fallout campaign. This is perfect.

[@mykemigga1911]

Started Old World Blues DLC with this soundtrack 👁

[@grigger7000]

Oh you bet your ass I’m playing this when my players encounter the magical caverns in my D&D campaign. It’s beautiful.

[@blightedgrounds]

This would be incredible to play in the background of a nice, long, juicy D&D session 🔥

[@getshorty7549]

I think I'm in love

[@juliapradc]

listening to this while reading the odyssey is like being welcomed into paradise

[@floristheavens]

Alchemist’s Tower is so good. Almost sounds as if it’s beginning and ending simultaneously all throughout. Beautiful album in its entirety

[@troywright359]

it is the best song here, and better than many other dungeon synth tracks that have 100ks more views.

[@mx7859]

1) I adore this from beginning to end 2) How do random synth guys keep getting their albums to pierce their algorithm on youtube? lol tell me your secrets

[@jonathansimkins4448]

Great album and great cover art 👏

[@Theophonis]

This is something truly magical. Absolutely entranced with this album.

[@vonjunzt4130]

yes Witan, you've got it. This is right between the ambient new age stuff I love on Sounds of the Dawn channel and the more ambient stuff on Dungeon Synth Archives. I had to double check that this wasn't something from Sounds of the Dawn. 👑

[@mikeskibo7298]

Ghoosebumps every time! This melody unleashes fantasies, thoughts and memories so deep within

[@lukan983]

studying to enter college. i want to be a computer scientist. everyone, please wish me the best 🙏🙏✨

[@user-uy6np5uq2g]

Волос твоих я чувствую диханье,никто так не волнует ,как они ,они мое и скорбное вздиханье,отрезаной ,поглумленой любви ,любви души и тела ,и духа ,что витал везде,когда я думал ,что за мука меня не покидает и зачем я существую ,когда все прелести земли ,мне опостили и не надо думать,что я не видел в том своей вини,ну ведь один ,хотя би кто то откликнется на зов моей души ,которая не знала счастья ,а только помнила ,уви ,растрачение годи ,растрачен смисл прошедших дней и только Бог Мой озадачил меня,сказав ищи весь смисл Ти в Ней ,в простой душе,что под вуаллю не прячет боли всей в глазах,что шепчет тихо так ,что заглушает вранье и стид твоих гитар.....

[@skyfish3826]

This is very beautiful. Ethereal with whispering notes behind it all. It seems to lead the listener toward space, celestial mysteries. Captivated by the album art and further engrossed by the music.

[@jennalee5967]

Authentic music meant to touch your soul !

[@luugo86]

Very immersive, does not out-pace itself.

[@thomas.vanderzwan]

An album I keep returning to. Hats off.

[@joaniediamond8714]

This seems unique.... the more I listen...full.of spacious understanding...

[@TheRuggiuMONchannel]

God bless this comment section

[@ankhlxrd]

I don’t know why, but it reminds me.. to my childhood.. I love these space, mysterious, universum synth sound! Very special album ✨

[@Sternertime]

Excellent orb pondering music

[@HassanCodA-Xod8hm]

We are about to break on through and Turn ourselves into Pure Gold. 👄

[@ElectricDeLion]

Obscure-chill synths to cast spells/ponder the orb to

[@yodoleheehoo90]

I was drawn to the beautiful artwork of the cover album, I can not believe how nostalgic it feels when I look at it, how mystical, mysterious, and eerie it goes with the music in my ears. Thank you for this amazing upload, I found yet another hidden gem!!

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[@selfproclaimedcowboy8587]

So ambient and celestial, I listened to this last night before I slept. I imagined a very vibrant scene in my head, I didn’t think of anything that existed but it was very beautiful and a very interesting place to think of

[@sevenchambers]

This deserves way more popularity.