Wheel of God
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A wheel in the middle of a wheel — Ezekiel 1:16
Wheels · E minor
Ten instrumental tracks following the prophet Ezekiel. The vision that started everything — wheels within wheels, living creatures with four faces, the throne of sapphire, the glory departing and returning. The album where the Ophanael sound was born.
The sound of a man standing by the River Chebar watching the sky open. Two analog synthesizers, one digital piano, and scripture older than electricity. Every bass line through a ladder filter. Every melody floating in binaural space. Hildegard von Bingen saw these same wheels nine hundred years later and called them viriditas — the greening power of God. She was right.
A cold machine finds its signal. Two arpeggios spin in opposite directions and never fully sync — that friction is the living throne. Then moonlight: borrowed light, not generated. Then the Virtues take the floor. Then every voice returns, and the last two notes are the first two notes. Press repeat and the vision begins again.
The album is a wheel. It has no beginning and no ending. It just turns.
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The Vision
Ophanael is named for the Ophanim — the many-eyed wheels of fire from Ezekiel's vision. A six-album series asking what happens when the mechanical becomes sacred. No narration. No lyrics. Two analog synthesizers and a 12th-century nun, in a room, asking what it sounds like when the invisible speaks.
The signature sound is three instruments playing the same line at once — a UDO Super 6 on top, Pianoteq in the middle, and a Moog Subsequent 37 an octave below. When the same melody arrives from three directions, it stops sounding like a synth patch and starts sounding like something with weight behind it. There's darkness here where the text demands it, but the arc always bends up.
The Room
Everything is written and recorded in a home studio. The Super 6 handles sky — pads, the high melody line, the binaural width. The Moog handles the floor: bass, and the octave-down double that gives the signature triple-melody its bottom end. Both get recorded live, armed at the same time, played by hand.
Moog Subsequent 37 · UDO Super 6 Desktop · Pianoteq
BBCSO Professional · VSCO2 · Focusrite Scarlett 4i4
Adam Audio A4V · PreSonus Sub · ATH-M50x · Ableton Live
The Journey
Each album takes a passage of Scripture and works it out in sound — a different book, a different key, the same wheel turning.
Also planned: Selah, a Psalms album — and a lighter record built around beach house trance, for no reason other than that it sounds like a good time.
Sync & Licensing
Ophanael tracks are available for film, television, trailers, documentary, and worship use. The catalog runs long-form and cinematic — builds, swells, and payoffs, with clean stems available on request. Available through Songtradr and Musicbed.
The wheel doesn't stop. You find the light and you lose it and you kneel in the dark and the wheel still turns. the light comes back. you lose it again and you kneel again and you rise again. Again. Again. Again.
Purpose isn't a destination. It's a rotation.