Niclas Tamas - Decorating Time
Niclas Tamas - Decorating Time

Niclas Tamas - Decorating Time

“If you look for a meaning, you’ll miss everything that happens.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

Nostalgia - The Mirror's Longing

(June 2025, date coming soon)

Introduction: Nostalgia - The Mirror's Longing: A Musical Odyssey Through Memory and Renewal


Dive into Nostalgia - The Mirror's Longing, an orchestral hybrid that marries lush, traditional orchestral arrangements with the vintage-inspired, experimental edge of Hainbach's plugins. These plugins channel the raw character of rare test equipment, Soviet wire recorders, and cosmic phenomena, delivering lo-fi warmth, resonant depth, and otherworldly textures. Think haunting echoes from Wires, the hypnotic pulse of Gong Amp, or the ethereal delays of Moon Echo—tools that blend analog soul with cinematic flair.


Roads Through the Mirror is a conceptual music project spanning 11 orchestral pieces, each approximately an hour long, with a completion timeline of 4-5 years. Inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky’s films and Marcel Proust’s exploration of time, the series aims to musically articulate themes like spirituality, nostalgia, dreams, and nature. The project delves into the Time-Space-Thought Theorem, utilizing Sonic Archetypes to explore the interconnectedness of human existence through music.

As the second chapter in the 11-piece hybrid orchestral series Roads Through the Mirror, this piece takes you on an emotional voyage through longing, despair, hope, and enlightenment, all framed by the timeless metaphor of a mirror. Imagine a traveler peering into its depths, where reflections of the past flicker and evolve across four vivid Epochs:


  • The Reflection Begins: A tender yearning unfolds as violins, woods, brass and glockenspiel conjure fleeting memories of youth—fragile, bittersweet, and achingly familiar.
  • Descent into Despair: The mood darkens as cellos, brass, and snare drum unravel a raw tableau of lost paths and shattered dreams, pulling the listener into a shadowed abyss.
  • Turning Point: Hope glimmers through a piccolo and London Contemporary Orchestra Textures, with clarinets and Crow Hills Murmurations weaving a gentle shift—old wounds revisited, now with healing in sight.
  • Ascension and Enlightenment: Strength emerges as LABS Tape Piano, Dulcet Voices from Crow Hill, Tundra High Woods and tenor drum unite past and present in a serene, transcendent resolution.


This is a mirror to your own story, blending the emotive power of orchestral writing with the innovative textures of Hainbach's plugins. Following the series’ debut, Spirituality - Climbing the Light (October 2024), Nostalgia - The Mirror's Longing sets the stage for the next release in June 2025, Poetry - Canvas of the Soul's Eye, due late autumn 2025.