Two well known Belgian artists of the dark ambient scene - Peter Verwimp (Ashtoreth) and Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe (Penumbral Aethyr) - present us with new immersive ritual works.

For this collaborative album, the artists were inspired by the link between a number of mythological creatures from several ancient cultures and their emotional representations. Like Boreas, the rough and cruel God of wind, cold and darkness; Nephthys, Goddess of birth and the underworld; Ptah, the original creator God in ancient Enneadic cosmogony and Naiad, the water elemental of the earth. As such she can summon and control all water in her immediate environment and manifest herself from that source. Water is linked to the emotions and therefore they chose Naiad as the fitting moniker for their album.

These recordings are steeped in deeply felt emotions and meditations on both personal and general reflections about the state of the world and our place within it. The duo composed these pieces using only hardware, electro-acoustics, voices and field recordings.

Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve with art by Christel Morvan (Nesisart).