Throwing Snow previews upcoming album with third outing "Traveller"

"Traveller" follows previous single "Halos" and "Brujita", and is described by Throwing Snow - real name Ross Tones - as "journey music".

He explains, "The etymology of the word ‘travel’ originates in ‘to toil’ or ‘labour’.In a modern context, movement is easy for some and near impossible for others, so the word still encapsulates this duality. "Traveller" is journey music and was made from recordings loaded on to the SAMPLR app then manipulated and sequenced."

Dragons will follow Tones' 2018 album Loma, and sees Throwing Snow explore the purpose of music from the beginning of human history. "We have Palaeolithic minds but find ourselves in an increasingly complex and interconnected world," Tones says. "Music and art have always been ritualised as a tool for memory, knowledge and emotion, and humans make sense of existence by using tools. Songs were tools of understanding, passed down from our ancestors. Now, things are complex and interrelated, so we can’t use that ancestral knowledge, and need to invent new tools – that’s where machine learning comes into it."

He adds of the album, "I’m into putting music back into history. I want to make you think about what music is, what its purpose has been. I’m asking about the scientific aspect to folklore and ancient knowledge, and looking at why it’s still useful. This album is a doorway – if you choose to listen like that."