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Listen to Indigo Pulse
A track-by-track entry point into Indigo Pulse: contemporary modal jazz shaped by odd meters, nocturnal textures, and melodic restraint.
These Are Odd Times
Indigo Pulse
9 tracks, 39 minutes. Released May 13, 2026.
Tracks
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01
Seventh Step
04:28
A kinetic opener built on a 7/8 pulse that feels like a city crossing against the light. Tenor sax, Rhodes, upright bass, and an intimate alto vocal turn rhythmic imbalance into forward motion, making the uneven meter feel less like a puzzle than a restless urban walk.
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02
The Moment Is Here
03:22
A graceful vocal-jazz departure song, steeped in bittersweet memory rather than melodrama. Brushed drums, piano, guitar, and sorrowful tenor sax frame the quiet emotional weight of leaving one life behind while carrying its fragments into the next.
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03
Your Shadow in Every Window
04:04
A late-night jazz ballad reduced to its essentials: breath, guitar, bass, brushes, and the ache of absence. Its slow Bb-minor atmosphere and spacious phrasing make the song feel like walking past rain-dark windows where memory keeps appearing in reflection.
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04
Blue Lullaby
03:43
A bossa-leaning modal reverie with oceanic sway and a quietly exotic harmonic color. Fretless nylon-string guitar, Rhodes, brushed drums, upright bass, and subtle Middle Eastern percussion give the track a drifting, blue-lit tenderness without losing its jazz-club intimacy.
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05
Maybe Love Moves Like This
04:25
A minimalist 5/4 love song where the pauses matter as much as the melody. Set in the small ritual of a café encounter, the track lets silence, Rhodes, light guitar, and tenor sax create a fragile emotional suspension: love as something almost too quiet to name.
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06
Digital Sanctuary
05:39
A darkly satirical modal-jazz noir piece in 10/8, turning online escape into a seductive late-night labyrinth. Acoustic guitar, Rhodes, muted brass colors, and a raspy close vocal build from smoky intimacy into sharper social commentary without breaking the cool surface.
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07
Love Will Win
04:38
The album’s most openly hopeful statement, carried by a restrained bossa-jazz groove and warm nylon-string guitar. Rather than becoming an anthem, it stays reflective and humane, letting its message of endurance arrive through soft phrasing, suspended chords, and understated lift.
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08
One Short of a Dozen
04:21
A playful 11/8 nightclub miniature with Balkan-tinged momentum and dry wit. The odd meter becomes part of the joke: cups, donuts, missing beats, and crooked counts all tumble through sax replies, piano fragments, and a groove that feels off-kilter in exactly the right way.
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09
Same Small Ritual
05:13
A smoky 9/8 closing ballad built around repetition, restraint, and unresolved feeling. Muted trumpet, warm electric piano, brushes, and low-register vocal delivery trace a weekly barroom encounter where nothing dramatic happens — which is precisely why it lingers.