Solbore’s Organic Ambient Single “We Forget” and Its Deeply Resonant Music Video Evoke a Sense of the Long Cycles of Human Civilization

Solbore’s release of the ambient single “We Forget” (from the November 3, 2023 album Never Alone, Often Lonely) found the composer collaborating with Michael Gasco (Badieh, Orontes) who filmed the music video in the Iranian province of Khorasan Razavi where one finds Iran’s second-largest city Mashhad where you can find countless ruins of abandoned villages, some for decades due to modernization or lack of water. The juxtaposition of urban landscapes with those left behind and shots of nearby nature pairs well with a track that weaves together synth drones, Afghan rabab from Lachlan R. (Hashshashin) and choral contributions from Becki Whitton (Aphir). But it all evokes the grandeur of the visuals and how human civilizations will build collective settlements in various locales that serve a purpose at a time that can become forgotten and no longer rendered sustainable with the march of development and changes in the environment. The use of organic sounds as they come and as processed to lend a circular dynamic with the flowing of abstract tones suggests the cyclical nature of human engagement with our surroundings and large patterns we don’t or refuse to recognize even when the impacts are obvious to anyone without an investment into the status quo imposed on perceived human need. The song communicates a sense of long time the way the Mayans and other civilizations considered a long calendar through recognizing trends that often seem beyond the perception of many people steeped in the cognitive framing of the exigencies of modern economic systems. The title of the song speaks to this disconnect with simple poetry. Watch the video for “We Forget” on YouTube and listen to more Solbore on Spotify linked below.