Some artists compose music and others channel something more timeless and elemental. Coding—through his project NuN’s Chaostry—is one of the latter. With ‘Tioweh,’ the latest release from visionary label Mindses Music, he invites us into a world where ancestral breath meets interstellar echo and forgotten chants from the icy tundras of Northern Siberia flow into ambient waves that feel suspended somewhere beyond the stars. This isn’t just ambient music. It’s an offering. A slow-burning ritual. A conversation between the earth beneath our feet and the cosmos above. Coding doesn’t just produce; he listens to history, ritual, silence—and from that, he builds immersive worlds with soul.
Rooted in the spiritual legacy of the Nganasan people—the northernmost Indigenous culture of Eurasia—Tioweh draws on authentic vocal recordings of shamanic and narrative chants, honoring their powerful traditions of trance, elemental cosmology, and sonic communion. Each track is a step through the veil, blurring the boundary between inner reflection and cosmic vastness.
Let’s take this journey track by track:
The album opens with the hum of the unknown. “initation” is a breath into another dimension. Sparse textures drift like Arctic fog, and a low drone anchors the piece like ancient earth beneath snow. Faint chants—sampled from Nganasan shamanic rites—emerge like spirits called into presence. The production here is intimate yet expansive, balancing reverb-soaked whispers with grounded, earthy timbres. It feels like the beginning of something sacred, a crossing over.
“Yorsh, the last one” holds a sense of melancholy and reverence. Named after Yorsh, possibly referencing one of the last known Nganasan shamans, the track pulses with ancestral weight. The instrumentation is sparse but precise—resonant gongs, deep field-like hums, and vocal fragments stretched and dissolved into ghostly echoes. There’s storytelling here, even without words. Coding crafts a soundscape that mourns but also honors; it’s as much a eulogy as it is a continuation of legacy.
Named after the epic oral traditions of the Yakut people (culturally linked across the Siberian landscape), “olonkho” bursts with rhythmic mysticism. The textures are layered—wooden percussion tapping like bones on drum skin, droning strings, whispering voices that feel at once distant and close. Coding’s mastery lies in contrast: organic elements weave seamlessly into his ambient matrix, never losing their rawness, never polished into sterility. This track feels ceremonial—an invocation through story and song.
As previously noted in early feedback, this track is a luminous gem. “floating with air” indeed floats—it lifts you. Airy synths spiral like breath in cold sky, while soft percussive motifs ripple like wind across tundra grass. Coding’s sense of space is exemplary: everything breathes. The mixing allows each texture room to resonate, crafting a dreamlike weightlessness. It’s meditative yet kinetic, the kind of music that opens heart and mind simultaneously.
Titled “journey through the gate,” this is the album’s threshold moment. Sonically, it feels like entering something larger than oneself. Low rumbles suggest movement through earth or memory; shimmering overtones rise like light seen from deep water. Vocals become more abstract here, transmuted into tones and rhythm rather than language. There’s a ceremonial pacing in the arrangement, deliberate and deep. The production is enveloping—Coding sculpts sound like fog—thick in presence, translucent in detail.
The closing piece, “complutor,” feels like emergence. A farewell and an arrival. The title, mysterious and futuristic, hints at blending the spiritual with the scientific—a concept at the heart of Mindses Music. The sonic palette glows with digital warmth and ancient shadow. Chimes, reverberated pads, delicate melodies that sound like stars blinking in a dark sky. It’s both a return and a departure—earthbound ritual reimagined in zero gravity.
Coding, through “Tioweh,” reveals himself not just as a sound designer or producer—but as a sonic archivist and visionary. His attention to source material, respect for Indigenous tradition, and ability to layer those roots into meditative, futuristic soundscapes set him apart in today’s ambient music sphere. This is spiritual artistry—patient, reverent, and daring. With this LP, Coding doesn’t offer easy answers. He offers portals.
