REMINA - STRATA (Official Full Album Stream)

00:00 - Aeon Rains
06:21 - Obsidian
12:45 - Dying Sun
19:11 - Icarus Signal
24:45 - The Endless City
31:50 - Ilos
36:00 - Back in Time

Cosmic Doom featuring Heike Langhans (ex-Draconian, ex-ISON, :LOR3L3I:, Light Field Reverie) and Mike Lamb (Sojourner, Light Field Reverie).

STRATA is our debut album, released 11/11/2022 on Avantgarde Music.

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Heike Langhans - Vocals, Lyrics & Synth
Mike Lamb - Guitar, Drums, Bass & Synth

Written & recorded by Mike Lamb & Heike Langhans

Produced, mixed & mastered by Mike Lamb at Ghost Bird Studios in Düren, Germany

Artwork, layout & design by Heike Langhans

© Ghost Bird Studios (All Rights Reserved)

[ghost.bird.studios]

1. Aeon Rains

Make way for to me fall
I'm too far from orbit now
The silence is so deafening
No way to save you from
What's hidden from our view
And it's nothing more than stars
That are meant to align

The weight on my heart
Is taking me under now
For sounding the call
Run
Weather the storm
This will be over when
It comes for us all

Make way for to me fall
I'm too close to the end of it all
Just waiting for a light to guide me home
When every star aligns
Nothing lives forever
It's fated for the ocean to be my grave

The moment I crashed
Into silent waters
In my wake
Unearthing every shipwreck
I know
There's no safe harbor here

Under the waves
In a deluge of souls
I saw the beacon
The moment I caught a glimpse
Of my dying reflection in your eyes

The light in me is waning
I became the amber sky
All the lives I had to wager
So I could finally die
The world beneath us tremors
When It calls you from below
With your eyes upon your maker
It beckons you home

2. Obsidian

I see you
Here in my final breath
Calamity calls me
To a final sunrise
But you must go on
Before the atmosphere collapses
You let go of my hand...

You must go on

Into a sea of stars
Dying to be reborn
An ocean of endless mirrors
The light that never dissolves

Waves of aether
Collapse beneath us
To call me to the void
We're out of time
So leave this world behind
And brace for impact
I let go of your hand...

Here
I am weightless
Immersed in obsidian streams
Here
All is silent

The signal that never reached you
The harbinger of death
The final frontier compels you
Into the endless night

Waves of aether
Collapse beneath us
To call me to the void
We're out of time
So leave this world behind
And brace for impact
I let go of your hand

3. Dying Sun

A new world
Gleaming in the distance
The memories of your journey here
Have all dissolved into the aether

All alone
You leapt into the future
To seek what can't be found
The promise
That some things never end

You reach for debris
Of your withering reverie
In the absence of celestial entanglement
That renders you real
You remember your fate...

The dying sun
The remnants of an unrelenting exodus
A world undone
The fatal force of gravity

And all that we left is the silence
In place of a star
Somewhere the promise of light
Reaches into the dark

A beacon of hope in your heart

A crimson circle around the dying sun
Your eyes fixed on somewhere far beyond
The veil of long-dead light

We'll ascend from the raging seas
Where we were
We'll live on in the collective dream

You'll surrender yourself
To the moments that you should have taken
And you'll remember the end of the sunset
That left you forsaken

4. Icarus Signal

Long before the waning sunrise
Our mission is compromised
By a signal from nowhere
An omen from Icarus I
In the shadows of Mercury

Upon the shore
The mesmer and ardor of a brilliant ocean
(of fire)
A nuclear core
A weapon suspended in golden armor
(of light)

Set the controls
For a faultless collision
Realign the shields
And don't move 'til we're hidden
A calculated risk
Now a critical condition
But two last hopes are better than one

Hold your breath
Count the seconds to impact
Detonate
On your way to reignite the Sun

And it's always the reoccuring dream
Where I'm falling to my irreversible destiny
And we promised the Sun will never sleep
In the cinder I leave
In my bittersweet legacy

Hold your breath
Count the seconds to impact
Detonate
On my way to reignite the Sun

5. The Endless City

Lost in a place
Defined by numbers
Surrounded by pillars that reach for the sky
An endless city that runs away from time

I breach the stratosphere
On telomeres of circuitry
And under these colorless skies
Where nothing survives
I'll deliver you
If we make it out of here alive

...and the days are longer
...and the nights are colder
...and the way is undetermined
But I know it's far...

From the world that I remember
And I feel the essence of me
Becoming obsolete
In this digital anatomy
Losing what it means to feel

This coding
Inside me
I'm someone else
This undeciphered binary

On this staircase to nowhere
I traverse your machines
To find The Net Terminal Gene
Beyond the hollow of Jupiter
I've walked a thousand years
To bring you this pivotal key

A never-ending doorway
To nothing as it seems
No sign of your safeguards
In this labyrinth of derelict dreams

These fragments of data
That belong to more than you
It's the sequence that will save us all
From a future we didn't choose

...and the systems falter
...and the rust dissolves
...and the end is further than death
But I stay here...

On this staircase to nowhere
I traverse your machines
To find The Net Terminal Gene
Beyond the hollow of Jupiter
I've walked a thousand years
To bring you this pivotal key

...and the days are longer
...and the nights are colder
...and the way is undetermined
But I stay the course for the both of us

6. Ilos

I lay my hands on the dirt
Feeling every part of me disperse
I oscillate and dissipate to nothing

I lift my head from the surface
A moment felt in every universe
Sending every instance
Of reality back to me

In the streams of downward inertia
The shards and shattered remains of
A haunted station
The only home that I know
The sentinel that brought me to your world
To salvage this burning collateral
Vault of creation
The only specter of hope

I'm crushed by the weight of my own bones
The air that I breathe is heavy as
Flowing matter
My sentience scattered
Through winds that carry me
Places I've never seen

I'm struck by the visions
Of linear lines
I see the horizon
For the first time
Flowing matter
My sentience scattered
Gravity can you keep me
From coming undone

In the streams of downward inertia
The shards and shattered remains of
A haunted station
The only home that I know
The sentinel that brought me to your world
To salvage this burning collateral
Vault of creation
The only specter of hope

7. Back in Time

I erase the lines
Of every fable I've forgotten
That comes at a price

I unweave the solemn thread
The silver tapestry of decisions
That sunders every chance
To make it right

One by one
Another memory gone
I fall asleep to the rhythm
I count in reverse from oblivion
Only to find myself
Back in time

The ghost of you
That follows me through
A room of broken mirrors
All these missing pieces
Vestiges of exiled terrors

The vivid dream
That locked me in
A hall of collapsing pillars
A cascade of collisions
Catastrophe of all my errors

One by one
Another memory gone
I fall asleep to the rhythm
I count in reverse from oblivion
Only to find myself
Back in time

Was this your design?
Perpetual sequences that synchronise
A circle of lies
Your perfect illusion of paradise
But the choice is mine
And now I want you to take me
Back in time

One by one
Another memory gone
I fall asleep to the rhythm
I count in reverse from oblivion
Only to find myself
Back in time

One by one
Another memory gone
I fall asleep to the rhythm
I count in reverse from oblivion

Five...
Four...
Three...
Two...
One.

[SafetNeziri]

Everything Heike Langhans touches turns into a masterpiece .Love her haunting voice.

[streetrodder]

Heike is the Standard by which I judge vocalists by. No one has come close yet. She has the innate ability to transport me into another world. Angelic is the one word that I can use to describe her. Mikes musical skill is just the icing on the cake. Bravo for such an ethereal experience :) 10/10 for me. I can listen to this over and over and never tire of it.

[mikesikatema]

Aeon Rains is my favorite song in this album

[FirasZag]

if you don't have enough money to travel to space, this album will take you even further!
excellent work guys.

[discretsarz]

That voice, really you are a solar siren 🤟

[_ANDREA-]

Congratulations Heike and Mike. You have something that is as Important as it is Beautiful. I have no other words ...🌑💜

[uzcgntv]

She is a flower, made of steel, all of her works are magical.

[elpepo]

You know that this is something special, when is capable of touching right into your soul. An incredible, mesmerizing and deeply emotional record. Thank you.

[mbfreitas]

REMINA ♥ Greetings from Brasil !!! Heike ♥

[stevemuzak]

Brilliant! Easily one of the best albums in 2022.

[mariarosabuffoni]

Beautiful! Thanks for this great album!😊

[voxn]

Thank you Mike and Heike for not letting a pandemic bury this work. Truly monumental and mesmerizing.

[TheMortalBeast]

This music is your personal space. A cosmic size space. I needed this so much in our horrible world of war, loss, tears and violence - to escape, dissolve, disappear for a while. Thank you for this Mike and Heike, and please take good care of yourselves.

[-J-I-M-]

Amazing work and beautiful sad sound, directly to my fav playlist 🖤

[JohnvonButler]

I'm still digesting the beautiful landscapes that this record gave me. I listened to it three times, and each time it feels different. Every time he gets better. Heike, Mike, thank you very much! It's very rewarding to be a fan of work like this, and to see how dedicated and talented you are. Thank you, and come to Brazil 🇧🇷

[robpritchard]

Simply sublime. Great work as always Mike and Heike 👌

[CharlesSoulzOfficial]

I love Heike’s voice. Reminds me Aleah (R.I.P.) sometimes.

[KokaridasDimitrios]

Her voice sounds like siren in my mind, I feel like Odysseus on the mast🥰😍
Tremendous work from both artists.
I feel blessed hearing it.
It is like dreaming and at the same time you realize that you are awake.
Her voice stops the time.
Heike, hearing you, is almost impossible, not falling in love with you.

[joperhop]

Is a fantastic album! love every song. Both did an awesome job!