The egg, the sea.
An island, the kitchen.
My walls, your warmth.
Your deep breath, a wave of wind.

Manifesto

Never Temple is a place where things grow. It is organ. It is divine. It is archival.
Embryonic Forever
We are all water beings

sometimes to love someone, you gotta be a stranger
a mothers body functions like a meditation
everything will be resolved
everything will evolve
you are a stranger and yet I take you inside of me
I can see you but can never hear you
listen to the organs within
Ssshhh, what are they saying?
they are our mirrors

Never Temple is like throwing around an invisible ball
I am born in a beam of light
the i-age is embarking on entropy the i-age is embarking on entropy
mimicking rhythms of other species
rivers of the earth running through us remind us who we are
full of water, our past is an ocean
the sea turned fluorescent in Tasmania
control is about a strategy (of) aiming at something. controlling a direction. east. humanity, the voyage
here's a published idea
"working to build a better world"
regenerative thoughts.. going backwards and forwards
in time
cleanse your cyber profile (always for eternity)
the need for a hypocrite, desire brings us re-birth
le désir
le désir

by reading this you entered the never temple,
welcome

Listening Instructions

Being active in the Temple (Webbing, Convention, Observance, Form)

Rain (Convention):
Go outside friend
Walk in the rain
Rain you become
Thick drops lick your face
Let them kiss you
You are a reflection
Single cell organism use your light
This fractal uses your body
Bioluminescent flower
You
Bioluminescent flower
The shadows of water are interacting with each other
And you keep walking
Water you become
Every cell a bubble

Refraction – reflection (looking - a subconscious visual encounter with your double)

A mirror
under the trembling candle light
During Angel Fall for Me, maybe you want to keep your eyes closed.
In Automatic Pilot, slowly open your eyes – looking inward – looking behind the reflection
In an Osmotic relationship with each other, are you one? Or are you multiple? Are you from the same matter?

Creating the Never Temple space in your own environment

Walk to water (a river, ocean, rain or pond) or walk through gusty wind
Play Automatic Pilot on an audio playback device or listen to the score through memory
Enjoy the natural soundscape and how it harmonizes with the recordings.
Breathe underwater
Breathing is imagining
Breathe with your kidneys (observance)
Turn your world upside down so you don’t differentiate the sky from the earth.

Lyrics

Automatic Pilot

LrdAUK: Where is the automatic pilot?
WTCHCNTRL: If I have a voice they have none,
I've lost my voice. Everytime I want to speak I speak in snakes.
LrdAUK: Two clear serpents slipping out
Of two clear windows. They ran straight into my light
WTCHCNTRL: Dusk or dawn?
LrdAUK: Dawn I'd say.
WTCHCNTRL: Light eyes are more sensitive to the light, it does not mean they see better in the dark.
LrdAUK: We put cameras in the brain to see the neurones flickering
WTCHCNTRL: We do not know what is means but we see the rhythm
LrdAUK: Do you think it is like looking at the stars we see the galaxy?
WTCHCNTRL: No infinite space in our brains. Looking at the flickering neurones we read the composition of life itself.
LrdAUK: Do you see that spider?
WTCHCNTRL: Yes, I see that spider moving along it's web.
LrdAUK: We are like that spider. We weave our life and then move along in it.
WTCHCNTRL: We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in the dream.
LrdAUK: Do you think it is true for the entire universe?
WTCHCNTRL: Having created the creation, she moved into it.
LrdAUK: who is she?
WTCHCNTRL: The creatress, the one that creates.
LrdAUK: Is it true for us? Do we create our world and then move into it?
WTCHCNTRL: yes, is it true for us too. We create our world and enter it, We create our world and live in it.
LrdAUK: What if our hearts are not pure? Do we live in darkness?
WTCHCNTRL: When our hearts are pure we create the life we have wished for. We will get there.

Angel Fall For Me

Lament voice 1
Hey ghost, is it you that called me in?
How did you find the tower I am in
I've let it slip, again
My inner voice is singing me an opera
Through the membrane of our memories,
You are closer, than close
I want to pull you out
I want to break you down
I want to spit my pain onto your crown
Hey ghost, are you now part of me?
Did I miss the chance to set you free?
Do you come, as winding tentacles,
Did you shape me out of glass?
Is it pouring in like liquid storm
Is it striking me, I'm losing form
Am I born again, into a wave
Am I crashing into waking dreams
Ghost, do want us to go back
Unlearn the lesson of our past?
Hey ghost, hold your tongue
As I am whispering to you;
Black leather cigarettes
A mind that never sleeps
A hunter for control,
Driven by anxiety
Crazy neighbours, sonic saints
The kitchen was too small
And all our loving brea-king
Gently-though-those-walls.
Is it pouring in like liquid storm
Is it striking me, I’m loosing form
Am I born again, into a wave
Am I crashing into waking dreams
He ghost, man you’ll never be
Bohemian with a bandana
You know how to use the world
Your desire can not be
I’ll tie you down inside of me
Make sure you never speak
As you remain prisoner
Of a girl in her sleep

Mirror (Poem)

I am holding you tightly in my branches as sound is coming from the closed door. Cello or is it a human voice, speaking to us through the wall.

Are you sleeping in your dream? Are you dreaming in my sleep? Are we one body? You, warm pile of blood, flesh and bones and I a collection of stone cold skin covered in green. More bush than stone as I whisper without anyone hearing me. Our genes do not determine who we are. My song plays on repeat as you escaped the waking world.

I long for a choir to wake you up. I long for a crash, a separation of the layers of blue that hold you in entanglement.

The egg, the sea.
An island, the kitchen.
My walls, your warmth.
Your deep breath, a wave of wind.

Strong wind makes for strong trees.
Wild waves make for wild bodies. And we are raging against the waters that hold the heart in motion. Dance for me.

I feel you coming alive in the slow motion of the hedge/green that is shielding you from the world.

Outside you walk the streets, carelessly, not knowing I’ve been guarding your sleep. Not knowing I’m watching over you.

We once were one. Membranes of our memories keeping us safe from the storm that smothered the earth and turned everything into shadow.

I hold you in my branches tightly as the outside worlds are ghosting us like absent lovers.

Lets live in delay
A blueprint of below the surface
Torque of the universe

Lets live in delay
The tortoise picks Flowers
To cover her shield in petals

Lets live in delay
The corals are portals, the sand a fatamorgana of the temple

Let’s live in delay
One look in the mirror
brings us home.

Ambrosia embroidery
Embrace of the embryonic
Turn us into fluid again.

Pick me up
I’m your lullaby
Wake up
I’m your dream

Paparuda
Donne-moi ta main ailée
Un jour je vais perdre ma voix
Dans un monde inondé
La mer a toujours raison

Those earthquakes will rock me to sleep you.

Biography

Welcome to Never Temple, the Temple is a ship, the ship is made of water. Never Temple spans the Atlantic: Blumas is based in Toronto, and is known for her work with E-Prime and Doomsquad, and Duvekot in Amsterdam, a member of Blue Crime and art collective Meduse MagiQ. Within this ever-evolving collaboration, the interconnections of sound, performance, and ritual are constantly explored.
Debuting with a series of performances at Amsterdam’s Dok Zaal, Never Temple was then approached to join New York’s 24hr Drone Festival at Basilica Hudson in 2019. This performance showcased their signature midnight ritual—a fusion of ethereal cello, otherworldly vocals, and haunting synths, all adorned in attire suited to the characters present in the world they create. During the 2020 lockdown, the pair presented another performance at the 24hr Drone Fest, which was recorded and released via Manchester's Golden Ratio Frequencies label.
Incorporating the energy of oceans and rivers, Never Temple seeks to transport listeners into deep sonic landscapes that resonate within the body. Visual artist Erato Tzavara (Athens) joined the project in 2023. While the group utilizes spatial sound techniques, Tzavara's contribution expands the work into a multidisciplinary, theatrical experience.
With multiple EPs on the horizon, Never Temple’s latest work, Automatic Pilot, will be released worldwide in May 2025 through Canadian label Halocline Trance and the UK’s DUPE, a cassette subsidiary label of Bella Union. As the project grows, it continues to redefine the limits of experimental music, creating a truly immersive, multidimensional sonic experience.