August

Aghast


PORTFOLIO        PATRONAGE

AUGUST AGHAST
is a multi-instrumentalist from the grey wastes around Toronto making music for a new generation of aesthetes. The sounds herein are intended for weddings, childbirths, funerals, & political revolutions. This project is fully independent; all composition, arrangement, performance,
production, art direction, etc - unless otherwise noted - is of my own hand.

Please send any inquiries to: augustaghast@gmail.com

Releases


SELECTED RELEASES 2019–CURRENT
ALBUM, 2024 (UPCOMING)
ÆA twenty-four song cycle based on the 15th century Flemish black books of hours, with each song representing an hour of the day.

Written & recorded between 2019–2024.
CREDITS:
August Aghast: all instrumentation (woodwinds, horns, bowed strings, lyre, lutes, guitars, bass, keyboards, bells, percussion, drums, electronics)

VIDEOS:
TRACKLIST
1. The Price Of Admission
2. Duo Infernale
3. Waiting At Your Door
4. Keep The Time
5. No Place To Rest
6. Steel Sharpens Steel
7. Father, Father
8. Half a Fathom Slack
9. Shadow Empire
10. Last Arrow In Her Quiver
11. Headcanon
12. Proven Point
13. Hime Cut
14. Fire Sign
15. The Chemical Wedding
16. Follow The Leader
17. Pleasure Doing Business With You
18. Take Me With You
19. Setting In The West
20. Dying Breed
21. Monad
22. Turning Back The Clocks
23. Æ (Controlled Burn)
24. Parts Per Million
LISTEN
SINGLE, 2024 (UPCOMING)
DogwoodA longform piece in two parts about the dogwood tree from which Christ's crucifix was made.TRACKLIST
Part I. A Tree Is Born
Part II. A Cross Is Made
COMPILATION, 2024– (UPCOMING)
CatacombsA quarterly book club & music compilation – each volume consist of original pieces based on a literary work from antiquity through the early modern period, each selected by a different member.VOLUMES
Volume I: Hypnerotomachia (Summer 2024)
ALBUM, 2021
Midheaven“A unique sonic stroll through the Nineteenth Century” — Anonymous.

Written & recorded primarily during winter 2018–19.
CREDITS
August Aghast: all instrumentation (guitars, lutes, bows, flutes, bells & whistles, pianos, fake mellotron, auxiliary percussion, drums, etc)

Horseshoes on 'Royal Winter Fair' by Condie Stripe.

Cover photography courtesy of the Amadeo León Collection.
TRACKLIST
Part I
1. Sunshower
2. Royal Winter Fair
3. Bread & Roses
4. The Bridal Path
5. Harlequin Roma
6. Little Palm Cross
7. Angelica Kneeling
8. Sweetwater Roundup
9. Maiden’s Blush
Part II
10. Simple Pleasures
11. Lucky Pearl Fisher
12. Fishercat Tales
13. Mercury Rising
14. Peregrine Lands
15. Morrows Of All
16. Featherblade Waltz
17. The Miracle Cure
18. Falling From The Sky
19. The Dancer’s Silhouette
LISTEN

Soundtrack & Score


SELECTED RELEASES 2019–CURRENT
SCORE, 2019-2022
Black Maple“Canadian folk horror schizoanalysis”. 

What is Black Maple: multimedia art project? Casual fireside chat? Conspiratorial propaganda outlet? Esoteric alt-history theory fiction? 

All featured music – including theme song, score, interludes, as well as some general sound design by yours truly.TRACKLIST
1. The Bells (Black Maple Theme)
2. Where The Wilderness Begins
3. Calypso’s Piano
4. Hinterland
5. Cold Case
6. Deep In An Open Clearing
7. Nature Of The Beast
8. Fearsome Critters
9. Only a Sliver at a Time
10. Lake Of Shining Waters
11. Some Say It’s Bottomless
12. Cloverleaf
13. Burnt Lands
14. Salt On snow
15. Lord Of Many Legions
16. Beneath The Black Maple
SCORE, 2019
Then & NowProduced in collaboration with the educational history & politics series Then & Now.TRACKLIST
1. The Veil
2. Affect
3. Never In Anger
4. Man Made
5. Fear Itself
6. Rowing At The Bow 
LISTEN
*Track released as single.
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