Purgatory

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1.	The Core 02:38	buy track
2.	Rogue 04:01	buy track
3.	Inertia 03:17	buy track
4.	Ellipses 04:35	buy track
5.	Still Life Sky 07:30	buy track
6.	Primordial 05:02	buy track
7.	On a Lone Island 06:02	buy track
8.	Wind in Our Fire 05:29	buy track

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Produced entirely within the pandemic, Purgatory is a dive into my unused sounds that piled up over the years. With nothing but time and hours of unused guitars, synths, loops, field recordings, and computer drones, the album was created thematically first and executed with a catalog of source material that was engineered to evoke the themes.

Intended to explore a space between heaven and hell, pleasure and pain, stasis and anti-stasis, limbo and inertia, claustrophobia and isolation, the latest installment of Dao’s discography meditates on these themes through the project’s spiritual lens. It hopes to evoke life’s transience, time’s relativity, death, and the afterlife. It became a celestial journey that ruminates on the evolving states of being, our inability to escape them, and the fleeting and cyclical nature of all things.

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released July 6, 2021

All guitars, synths, electronics, field recordings, engineering, recording, and mixing by Ryan Beitler

mastering by Erol Ulug

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Dao California

Dao is the spiritually thematic project of Ryan Beitler, who uses dark ambient, drone, and metal to explore the light and darkness in everything.

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