Longital’s new album The Land Runs Down Its Own Bank flows like a river – intimate, deep, and free. Songs of joy, transience, and silence carry the listener along their own bank toward the essence.
The album The Country Runs Down Its Own Shore by Longital is a poetic journey through the inner landscape of the self and the outer landscape of the world. Rooted in Slovak lyrics yet made accessible through English translations, the songs open space for intimate reflections on joy, impermanence, and silence. The band weaves together delicate acoustic sounds, electronic layers, and a distinctive voice to create music that is both fragile and powerful. Each song flows like a river, carrying the listener along its own bank while joining a larger stream of shared experience. This album is an invitation to pause, to listen within, and to return to what truly matters.
My joy My Joy is an intimate song about our relationship to joy, which cannot be possessed or controlled. Joy is constant and unshaken, while we are the ones who keep running away and finding our way back. The music carries both gentleness and inner strength, inviting us to return to the simplicity of being.
The album The country runs down its own shore by Longital is a poetic journey through the inner landscape of man and the outer landscape of the world. The texts, firmly anchored in Slovak, open up space for intimate questions of being, joy and transience, while the English translations allow a glimpse into this world even for listeners beyond the borders. The band's music combines subtle fragility with the power of sound - from acoustic instruments to electronic layers to a unique voice. Each song is like a river that carries the listener along its own bank, but at the same time flows into a larger flow of shared experience. The album is an invitation to stop, to listen internally and to return to what is essential.
Songs:
1. Come to Me
A song about the moment when we grow tired of the world and everything it offers. It invites us into silence, where nothing more is needed and where courage appears to look beyond fear.
2. To Get Close
A musical meditation on what first evokes fear but eventually attracts us. The song speaks of acceptance, merging, and of the land that flows down its own bank.
3. It Could Have Been Different
A reflection on impermanence and the constant vanishing within the world. Life appears as a film in which we play our role as best we can, while still longing to change what is already gone.
4. My Joy
An intimate dialogue with your own joy, which is constant and immovable. The song reminds us that joy does not belong to us - we are the ones who move away from it and return to it again.
5. Beheading
Questions of guilt, destiny, and choice lead us into confrontations with others and with ourselves. The song opens space to doubt whether we can ever truly avoid the crossroads that shape us.
6. Just the Sea
A musical meditation on thoughts and words as waves on the water. The song brings the image of the horizon and the sea, which remains what it has always been – endless water.
7. The Sun
Inspired by a poem of Mary Oliver, this is an ode to the beauty of the sun and its eternal cycle. The song invites gratitude for those moments when we are flooded with pure delight in being.
8. The Game
Life as a never-ending game that we sometimes wish to interrupt. The song speaks of longing for calm in the midst of struggle, and of how we create rules just to bear it all.
Longital return with The Land Runs Down Its Own Bank – music that blends poetry with sonic power and invites us to stop, listen within, and reconnect with what really matters.
"Music that flows like a river, leading to the essence.
"The poetry of sound and the power of silence in one album.
"Longital – the land that runs down its own bank.
