alchemyk

Music

Singles and albums, newest first. Click on each to see more.

Album

open to harm

Harsh and dangerously honest album (or EP cause of only 5 tracks). After half a year of silence that followed moving to Berlin that was definitely huge update in sound and lyrical content. Songs backbones shifted from melodic and atmospheric to raw almost DnB wall of synth basses with tons of glitches and mad vocals ranging from desperate whining to crazy screams. Lyrically "open to harm" mostly stares at past trying to make sense of expired feelings to understand how to move forward in the new context of lifeRead more

Single

unironically

Arguably the craziest song i ever made. Filled up with raw anger. Continuing fresh direction started with previous single "rot", this song expresses sudden urge to confront everything and understanding simultaneously that it hurts me first of all. That thought was transformed into interesting metaphor of judge that "sentencing himself to torture" thinking he's judging others. Just like previous one "unironically" features Stylophone Theremin samples as well as if i remember correctly Electron Digitone synth and sounds a bit like metal without guitars. Oh yea and it's stuffed with raspy vocals and pure metal screams somewhere.Read more

Single

rot

Remarkable release after four months of silence - it introduces new era. Since that song i started writing lyrics myself (on 5 previous singles my wife was lyricist) and that was first song written in complete sobriety. Lyrics explores helplessness in front of understanding close people struggles because of inability to help even yourself in same situation. Small word play in title - "rot" means "red" in German and... rot in English. Ah and despite quite generic synth sound this song features sampled Stylophone Theremin.Read more

Single

fishbowl

Probably the most experimental song among alchemyk releases. Most of sounds in this song are heavily processed mouth harmonica samples i recorded when my childhood friend visited me in Lisbon. Surprisingly those samples turned into pretty roaring dark bass. The lyrical idea behind this song is super simple - frustration over feeling constantly incomplete. I considered this song least favorite but it unleashed crazy potential when i started to play it live. Check my Youtube, there should be live session with fishbowlRead more

Single

deep dive

That was actually first demo i wrote on Digitakt II. In this song synth sound won over guitar samples from first two singles - that's why it has more classic darksynth sounds. Vocals became more variable and dramatic - from soft singing in verses to chainsaw harmonies in choruses. As i'm writing this description 1.5 years after this song was released i find it way harder to describe senses - sounds like deep dive is about deepression and how help from close people feels painful in this state. Take a listen, i heard that good art is open for interpretation. Also this song features my wife on backing vocals.Read more