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Album · TMB-004

Signal Fires

Released
May 15, 2026
Tracks
10
Runtime
36:26

This is a front-end template, so playback is simulated — the progress bar and times run on a clock, not a master recording. The one exception is Signal Fires, which plays a short, fully synthesised WebAudio phrase that drives the visualizer live. No external audio is ever loaded.

Tracklist

  1. Opening Frequency

    An overture built from a single re-pitched breath.

    2:12

  2. Signal Fires Live

    The title track — the one wired to the live, opt-in audio in this player.

    4:04

  3. Lighthouse

    Bass synthesised from a sampled exhale.

    3:41

  4. Carry the Staticfeat. Noor

    Featuring Noor; written in a single take.

    3:18

  5. Northbound

    Strings by The Halden Quartet.

    4:16

  6. Hollow / Whole

    A diptych — two halves of the same melody.

    3:07

  7. Paper Radios

    Drum machine run through a guitar amp.

    3:29

  8. The Distance Betweenfeat. Adé Sol

    Featuring Adé Sol.

    4:33

  9. Embers

    Voice and a single piano, untreated.

    2:45

  10. We Are Still Here

    Recorded live with the touring band.

    5:01

Liner notes

Signal Fires was written across eighteen months between a coastal studio and a borrowed apartment in the city, mostly at night. It began as a question — what do we still send to one another when the words run out — and became a record about distance, and the small lights we keep burning so someone far away knows we are still here.

Almost every sound on the album started as a voice. Choirs were re-pitched into pads; a single breath became the bass on “Lighthouse.” We wanted the electronics to feel like they had a pulse, like there was a person inside the machine, so we built the low end out of heartbeats and let the synths breathe rather than lock to a grid.

It is, finally, a hopeful record. The fires in the title are warnings and they are also welcomes. We made it to be heard loud, in the dark, with someone.

Selected lyrics

Excerpts from a few tracks — illustrative writing for the template.

  • Light a line of fires down the coast,

    so the dark has somewhere it can't go —

    if you can see them, then you'll know

    I'm still here, I'm still here, I'm still here.

Credits

Written & produced by
TIMBRE
Co-production
Mara Vel
Mixing
Idris Okonkwo
Mastering
Sound of the Hollow
Strings arranged by
The Halden Quartet
Cover concept
Studio Faraday