Fractal Tentacles by NAOBA

The setting is an industrial/abandoned area of the city, uninviting and cold. There is a feeling like a catastrophe occurred and there was an evacuation. The wind blows pieces of things, and the girl (me, in the case of the dream) walks slowly alone, stepping without a real direction in mind. She is dressed in clean clothes, has a slight glow to her, and seems untouched by the situation, she comes into the scene and is obvious that she is contrasted and abstracted from the rest of the entourage.

She finds herself inside one of the broken down buildings, it is dark, rubbled. Looks around and in one far corner there is a dim light in the middle of one of the walls. She approaches slowly to see it. The image closes up on a round fish bowl -- there is a creature inside of it, it is where the very dim light is coming from. (In the dream, it was a very shocking image of a an over-sized octopus in a very tight round fish bowl. It seemed that he was abandoned there as a youngster and later on grew too big for his container. The feeling was repulsion, outrage, at how another being's life can be a commodity to humans' petty desires). In the video representation, the octopus can be portrayed in a different manner rather than all crunched up in a very grotesque way like in the dream, keeping in mind that it shall need to be represented as miserable, alone, and battered. He cries.

The second movement begins with the need to change the situation, a deep humane impulse. It is the peak of the succession where the girl makes a larger body of water appear. It is as if she has magical powers (just like in dreams) and she is able to manifest her will. Grabbing the unfortunate octopus bowl with both hands, she pours him over into the new pool......

The introduction of the third movement suspends the listener - it represents the creature finding himself confused in an expanded territory, wider and more comfortable than he could have ever imagined. It is a newness at first difficult to grasp and accept. An unexpected change of his destiny. Overwhelming to him.

The girl steps back and watches from a distance.
When he finally makes sense of the situation he slowly expands his long tentacles and stretches them for the first time in his whole life. It is a new found freedom he had never experienced ever before.
The girl smiles and a tear falls down her face.

His tentacles unfolded and now keep unfolding further, they become fractals - unfolding into infinity.

The body of water the girl once created now grows with the fractals in it. The setting, once decayed and turbid becomes pure water, ocean, fractals. The scene fills up with fractals... and slowly that mass of fractals is the creature that swims away into the horizon, now shining its full-fledge light, fading slowly as it disappears in the distance.
The octopus lets out a cry of gratitude and the music ends.

A sonic offering bridging ancient rhythms and future soundscapes. Rooted in deep jungle textures, ceremonial chants, and organic instrumentation, NAOBA fuses sacred earth frequencies with hypnotic bass, ethereal vocals, and psy-infused grooves. A ritual of sound and spirit, inviting you into movement, stillness, and transcendence—sound as ceremony, music a portal to the unseen.

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