Veteran producer Murat Buyuk crafts a haunting climate-change allegory with The Lost Season, an electronic pop opus that reinterprets Vivaldi’s Four Seasons through the lens of ecological anxiety. Scheduled for July 18, 2025, the album’s 12 tracks all built from a single modular synth patch with five voices and live drums, create a unified sonic ecosystem where synthetic textures and organic cello (performed by Buyuk’s daughter) mirror nature’s fragile balance.
The album’s conceptual rigor shines through its self-imposed constraints: Buyuk’s decision to use one modular setup throughout mirrors the scarcity themes he explores, while Dave Roger’s vocals anchor the abstraction in human urgency. Tracks oscillate between melancholic synthscapes and rhythmic urgency, mirroring the album’s central tension between despair and resilience.
A departure from Buyuk’s ghost-producing past (800+ tracks for others), this deeply personal work benefits from his recent shift to tactile, live modular performances—recorded in his cellar studio with club speakers for raw immediacy. The inclusion of his daughter’s cello—sometimes whispering, sometimes wailing—adds generational poignancy to the environmental narrative.
The Lost Season is a masterclass in restraint, urgency, and ecological storytelling from one of electronic music’s most quietly influential voices.
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