{"id":30811,"date":"2026-06-23T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/?post_type=product&#038;p=30811"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:03:00","slug":"arc00367","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/arc00367\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Rosenthal: The Width of Shadows (Digital)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2708109871\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless> <a href=\"https:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-width-of-shadows\">The Width of Shadows <\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"hideme\">\n1 Sunflow USHK92430801<br \/>\n2 Flare Equilibrium USHK92636702<br \/>\n3 The Visitor USHK92636703<br \/>\n4 Solar Silent Sound USHK92636704<br \/>\n5 Filament \u2190 not enough happens  USHK92636705<br \/>\n6 Angular Momentum, Vaulted Sky USHK92636706<br \/>\n7 The Width of Shadows  USHK92636707<br \/>\n8 Orbital Equilibrium USHK92636708<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"410\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z5u-hP_mQts?si=QmATDkf4Vl5QclZC\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><BR> <strong>Genres:<\/strong> Electronic, Drone, Ambient<\/p>\n<p><BR> <span style=\"color:#928eaa;\"><span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial Black,Gadget,sans-serif;\">Abstract whirlpools of multi-layered emotions move like shadows, flickering across the sonic darkness of time. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><BR><b>The Width of Shadows<\/b> is Projekt and Black Tape For A Blue Girl founder Sam Rosenthal&#8217;s first new album of solo electronic-ambient-drone music since 2015&rsquo;s <b>As Lonely As Dave Bowman: Monolith<\/b>. Originally conceived as a collection of orphaned tracks, it evolved into a cohesive album painting a minimalist atmosphere of dark corners, hidden solitude, rippling cosmic waves of shadows, and time-altered transmissions of barren feelings.<\/p>\n<p><BR> Starting with the anchor of two previously released tracks (the opener &#8220;Sunflow&#8221; from 2024 and the album&rsquo;s penultimate track &#8220;The Width of Shadows&rdquo; from 2002), Rosenthal went digging through the hamper of unrealized tracks from the last five years, dusting off once-started and then-forgotten ideas, radically reprocessing them to create the bulk of the 49-minute album.<\/p>\n<p><BR> Rosenthal reflects, &ldquo;Ambient music is a lot more like Abstract Expressionism than the Romantic Realism of my work in Black Tape For A Blue Girl. For a while now I&rsquo;ve been pretty down on making music because I annoy myself with my exacting need for perfection in the vocal music. After doing a few of the Nova Cat Purring Sounds albums, I decided to try a similar approach to ambient drone music: work quickly! Don&rsquo;t get bogged down by obsession. I searched the hard drive for tracks that were orphaned, gave them a fresh look, removed bits I didn&rsquo;t like, drastically rearranged and reprocessed them, and added new synth textures and processing. I didn&#8217;t restrict myself with loyalty to the piece&#8217;s initial ideas. These tracks are quite far from where I started; I used the music on the hard drive as raw material for composition. One of the things I like these days is that I don&rsquo;t document what notes or chords or sounds I&rsquo;m playing. I lay my parts onto the computer multi-track, edit, blur, reverb&#8230; then delete whatever needs to go until it has its own undertone and feeling. In this way, it combines the two ideas of AbEx: the spontaneity and gestural brushwork of Action, and the contemplative yet emotional drone of Color Field. I like how that&rsquo;s worked out here.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><BR> In a vast dimension of expansive, mysterious resonances, <b>The Width of Shadows<\/b> is an evocative experience of longing and spacious reflection. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Projekt release: June 26, 2026<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=https:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-width-of-shadows TARGET=BLANK><IMG SRC=\/store\/assets\/images\/Button-Bandcamp.png width=129><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[54,50,135,556,149,49,572],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-30811","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-all","product_cat-ambient","product_cat-darkambient","product_cat-digital","product_cat-drone","product_cat-electronic","product_cat-sam-rosenthal","pa_artist-sam-rosenthal","pa_format-digital","pa_label-projekt-archive","pa_release-year-1008","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","product-type-simple","border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/30811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=30811"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=30811"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=30811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}