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I started writing ‘idyll’ with one intention—to create a peaceful, gentle place, much like Southern California's rolling green hills in their fleeting spring. I gathered nature sounds from various meaningful locations (Ojai, LA hiking trails, my bedroom window) and began working them into each song. I most often started with my mid-90's Mexican Strat and sound on sound guitar and vocal loops using Strymon, Empress, and Chase Bliss pedals. All of the songs on idyll were written between late October of 2020-early January of 2021 just after finishing a collaborative album, ’The Other Side of Darkness’ with my project, awakened souls alongside prolific ambient musician 36 (out now on Past Inside the Present). I hope you find your own peaceful place within this collection of songs.
-Cynthia

As marine eyes, Los Angeles based Cynthia Bernard blends ambient, shoegaze, drone, field recordings & dream pop + folk—writing from a narrative place born in the present moment yet interwoven with lessons from her past.

She finds herself regularly lost and found exploring the healing qualities of sound and cementing important moments she has experienced while welcoming stillness in nature.

1. awakened souls
2. Instagram
3. bsky.app
4. Past Inside the Present