Walilamdzi Alchemised Sonic Opium for the Soul with His Guitar Score, Nothing Lasts Forever Anyway –

Walilamdzi made the cerebral accessible with his latest reverb-driven score, Nothing Lasts Forever Anyway. Between the title and the timbre, he created a new philosophy, one that almost waltzes with Machiavellian nonchalant opulence. Yet it isn’t the gilded-in-gold kind of opulence, it’s the cultivated air of an existential soul watching the world slip by through a quasi-Lynchian dusky lens. How he managed to convey all of this through the resonance of warm, saturation-rich guitar strings and a steady percussive pulse alone borders on modern-day alchemy. It’s sonic opium for the soul.

Behind Walilamdzi is Berlin-based artist Nikita Noebel, who shapes his instrumental work as if it were a landscape, vast, cinematic, and atmospheric in its reach. Drawing inspiration from Daniel Lanois, Gustavo Santaolalla, and Neil Young, he composes soundscapes that hold mysticism, solitude, and impermanence at their core. His debut single Violent Tendencies opened the door to this sonic prism, and Nothing Lasts Forever Anyway expands it further, weaving intimacy with scale, memory with dream, and philosophy with sound.

Walilamdzi’s music feels equally at home in film, television, or as a private headphone companion, proof of its cinematic magnetism.

Nothing Lasts Forever Anyway is now available on all major streaming platforms via this link.

Review by Amelia Vandergast