Nothing Lasts...But Nothing Is Lost

Infobox Album | Name = Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost
Type = Album
Artist = Shpongle

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Released = June 16 2005
Recorded =
Genre = Psybient, IDM
Length = 67:30
Label = Twisted Records
Producer = Simon Posford and Raja Ram
Reviews =
* [http://www.ethnotechno.com Ethnotechno] Rating|5|5 [http://www.ethnotechno.com/shpongle_nothinglasts.php link]
Last album = "Tales of the Inexpressible"
(2001)
This album = "Nothing Lasts...But Nothing Is Lost"
(2005)
Next album = |

"Nothing Lasts... But Nothing is Lost" is a 2005 album by Shpongle. It is the project's third, and supposedly last, studio album (though info on a fourth album prove this is not the case). Like the previous two albums, it features many live musicians and vocalists in combination with computer-generated sounds and spoken-word samples. Stylistically the album can be described as a fusion of world music, "intelligent dance music", and psychedelic trance. It is dedicated to the memory of author and psychedelic researcher Terence McKenna, whose voice and ideas are used throughout the album. All the songs are actually linked together, so the whole album is just a continuous flow of different music that connects with each other; if the album is played from beginning to end, the listener can hear that all the songs follow one another with no break in the middle.

Track listing

# "Botanical Dimensions" – 4:37
# "Outer Shpongolia" – 2:33
# "Levitation Nation" – 3:40
# "Periscopes of Consciousness" – 1:54
# "Schmaltz Herring" – 2:21
# "Nothing Lasts..." – 4:28
# "Shnitzled in the Negev" – 4:18
# "...But Nothing Is Lost" – 4:39
# "When Shall I Be Free?" – 4:37
# "The Stamen of the Shamen" – 4:11
# "Circuits of the Imagination" – 3:12
# "Linguistic Mystic" – 1:36
# "Mentalism" – 2:54
# "Invocation" – 2:40
# "Molecular Superstructure" – 4:47
# "Turn Up the Silence" – 3:22
# "Exhalation" – 2:16
# "Connoisseur of Hallucinations" – 3:59
# "The Nebbish Route" – 3:36
# "Falling Awake" – 1:50

Miscellanea

* According to Simon Posford [ [http://www.shpongle.com/hallucinogen/interviews-hallucinogen_site2005.htm] Dead link|date=August 2008] , the album actually has 8 tracks divided into 20 parts. Each part symbolizes a phase in the dream sequence.
* The first track off the album, "Botanical Dimensions", samples from the Richard Linklater film "Waking Life".
* "The Nebbish Route" song samples Ned Flanders from "The Simpsons" episode "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)".
* "Levitation Nation" samples a 2003 Portuguese song by the Brazilian samba school Beija-Flor de Nilópolis.
* The title for "Nothing Lasts" comes from the philosophical poetry of William Blake - all flows.

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