Adam Filip releases Berlin School album ‘The Returning Circle’ on Cyclical Dreams
Adam Filip released the Berlin School and ambient album “The Returning Circle” on 3 July 2026 via Cyclical Dreams, a 10-track set on Slavic ritual themes.
Electronic musician Adam Filip released the Berlin School and ambient album “The Returning Circle” on 3 July 2026 through the Buenos Aires netlabel Cyclical Dreams. The 10-track record, catalogued CYD 0161, is out in digital form and as a CD, and moves through evolving synthesizer sequences, ambient textures and themes drawn from pre-Christian Slavic ritual.
Adam Filip ‘The Returning Circle’ draws on Slavic ritual
“The Returning Circle” builds its ten tracks around the cycles of nature, time and ancient Slavic spirituality, taking cues from winter-solstice vigils, the fire rites of Kupala Night and the cult of Veles, the Slavic god of the underworld and magic. The sequence runs from “First Circle” through “Postrzyżyny”, “By the Fire”, “Between the Breaths of the World”, “The Light That Returns”, “Summer Flame”, “Return to the Circle”, “Parallel Rhythm” and “JaryÅ‚o” to the closing “Veles’ Night”. Adam Filip built the album on hardware synthesizers including the ASM Hydrasynth, Access Virus TI2, Korg Radias and Roland MC-101, with u-he software instruments, keeping to the classic Berlin School method of multi-layered, slowly shifting sequences. Cyclical Dreams describes the set as carrying “echoes of early Vangelis and Jean-Michel Jarre, while maintaining its own unique, organic, and emotionally resonant voice.”
The full album streams on video, and the digital edition carries a reduced price until 8 July 2026. The CD is available on demand through Kunaki.
About Adam Filip
Adam Filip is an electronic musician who composes Berlin School and ambient music, building long-form pieces from layered synthesizer sequences and drones. “The Returning Circle” places him on Cyclical Dreams, the Buenos Aires netlabel that specialises in Berlin School, ambient, drone and space music and issues its catalogue on Bandcamp with on-demand CD editions.
The label has released a steady run of atmospheric electronic records covered by Side-Line, among them DTime’s “Nightwoven” in May 2026 and French composer Christian Wittman’s deep-space ambient album “Andromeda”* in January 2026. “The Returning Circle”, out on 3 July 2026 as CYD 0161, adds a Slavic-themed, ritual-minded set to that catalogue.
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