For the past couple of years an alarmingly high percentage of my friends and relatives have broken up their long relationships, got divorced, left their spouses and kids or have been left to a similar effect.

I'm not sure whether it's because of midlife crisis or lower willingness to keep trying compared to previous generations, but dating or married, straight or gay, kids or no kids, relationship crisis among people I care about has been self-evident.


One of the logical consequences of this is that I have about as many friends who are single as I used to when in my teens. I have a theory that almost no people in the world end up with their one and only love. It's highly unlikely as most of people find their partners at work, school or the same city. What's the chance your true love lives even on the same continent?

There are people who are happily single. But these men and women were in long relationships and if they're not anymore, they miss it and try to find someone new. But to start from zero again when you're in your thirties, forties or even fifties is more challenging than when you're a kid.

Sometimes I try to hook up my single friends and sometimes I surprisingly succeed, because to grow up in life means also to appreciate qualities one didn't use to appreciate when young, which is one of the minor advantages of aging I guess.

I believe if I put all my not-so-voluntarily single friends together, some new relationships would come into existence. And even if those were not romantic ones, they would have a huge value as new friendships, sympathies or at least mutually advantageous deals, so to speak.

I've never been a huge fan of music compilations because I always prefer conceptual approach from beginning to end. An album has to tell a story, otherwise I'm not that interested, immersed, fascinated.

But a couple of months ago I told to myself, by combining what I described above with listening to a few great compilations, that it's a matter of good curation and one can meaningfully combine tracks from different periods and even genres in a similar way one can merge perhaps seemingly heterogenous groups of people – and something wonderful may happen.

During the three years of making music as Binaural Space I have composed a couple of singles. My first release was actually one (which later made it on my first album, Encounters). Some of those singles I released myself, some were released on other labels' comps and some have never been released at all (or perhaps just as short video snippets on twitter or so).

Opposed to people singles, music singles (in my world as I'm not a hitmaker) never get deserved attention. Albums perform a bit better. So I suddenly got excited by the idea to accept the challenge to tastefully and meaningfully combine some of my singles, released before or not, to change their context and to tell a new story – to make an album full of such tracks, an Album Made of Singles.

This is the album and I cannot be happier with it actually, which fills me with joy. Four of the tracks were released before by myself, short versions of two of them were released on comps you may or may not have heard and two of them were never released before. Each of them has its own story, often very important and dear to my heart, but they all together form yet another, bigger story and it's upon you to give it a meaning – I won't give you any clues.

I hope you'll enjoy this album, unexpected to both you and me, tremendously. Let me know as I'm always interested in your thoughts.

Have a great time with this new 50-minute-long story and take care of yourselves.

Binaural Space, June 17, 2021