THE ALBUM
  • shifting sands
    Øneheart, Dean Korso, leadwave

    "shifting sands" opens the album, setting the tone for the entire journey. It is a prologue that immerses the listener in a state of fluid transition between worlds, where boundaries blur like moving sands.
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  • before it begins
    W/ MEDASIN
    Øneheart, Medasin, leadwave, Dean Korso

    "before it begins" marks the first step on life’s path, the entry point into the world of Samsara Passengers, and the album’s first single. It carries a sense of anticipation, the moment before the most important journey begins - the journey of life itself.
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  • momentary drift
    W/ YOUNGER BROTHER
    Øneheart, Younger Brother, Dean Korso, leadwave

    This track symbolizes birth itself - the first encounter with an incredible, unfamiliar world. It embodies pure perception, free from judgment or preconceptions - only a stream of sensations, a forward motion where every sound, every shade of light and air is felt for the first time.
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  • while the time sleeps
    W/ AU5
    Øneheart, Au5, Dean Korso, leadwave

    This track reflects a unique period in life when the concept of time does not yet exist for us. It represents childhood, a time when we are unaware of our age and do not yet comprehend that life is finite.
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  • UNDER THE RISING SUN
    W/ REMIND ME
    Øneheart, remind me, leadwave, Dean Korso

    "under the rising sun" represents youth, journeys, and the search for oneself. This track captures the intense and transformative period of growing up - a time when one actively explores the world, faces new challenges, and experiences their first deep realizations. It’s a stage of self-discovery, first major decisions, and first real disappointments.
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  • LAGRANGE POINT
    W/ MOBY
    Øneheart, Moby, Dean Korso, leadwave

    “lagrange point” marks a turning point in the journey. It is the first point of no return - the moment when familiar perceptions collapse under the gravity of a deeper truth. A breakthrough. A shift. A place where internal limits dissolve and an infinite expanse of new sensations and meanings unfolds.
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  • beyond the veil
    W/ OWSEY
    Øneheart, Owsey, leadwave, Dean Korso

    "beyond the veil" is a waking dream - a space between reality and fantasy, between what has been and what never came to be. This track explores hidden emotions, unspoken feelings, and dreams that, for better or worse, remain beyond our reach.
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  • between realities
    Øneheart, leadwave, Dean Korso

    "between realities" is a turning point in the album when it becomes clear: the world is not as straightforward as it once seemed. Until now, the music has reflected personal experiences and transformations, but at this moment, a feeling of blurred boundaries emerges - of multiple parallel realities, different fates, perspectives, and possibilities.
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  • don't leave me
    W/ KIRAN + NIVI
    Øneheart, Kiran + Nivi, Dean Korso, leadwave

    "don't leave me" is the most emotionally vulnerable moment in the album - the only track with vocals, making it especially intimate and piercing. It conveys the deep sorrow of loneliness, the realization that everyone we love will leave sooner or later - either them or us. This is an unavoidable law of life, yet it is precisely what makes every connection, every touch, and every meeting priceless.
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  • nomad
    W/ JEFF RONA
    Øneheart, Dean Korso, leadwave, Jeff Rona

    "nomad" represents detachment, the realization that past joys no longer hold meaning. It tells the story of a person, now in old age, setting out on their final journey - not to escape, but to explore what still lies beyond the lived life.
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  • into the unknown
    Øneheart, Dean Korso, leadwave

    "into the unknown" is the climax of the entire album - the final Transition, the moment everything has been leading up to. It marks departure from this world, leaving behind everything lived, experienced, and understood.
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  • saying goodbye
    W/ ANTENT
    Øneheart, Antent, leadwave, Dean Korso

    "saying goodbye" is the epilogue of the album - a moment when the final page is turned, yet this farewell is not an end but rather an invitation to return, as the cycle of Samsara repeats over and over again. This track gently and warmly concludes our musical journey, leaving the listener with a sense of peace and quiet hope.
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Samsara Passengers is a collaboration between artists from different generations: Øneheart (19 years old), his father Leadwave (46 years old who became an ambient musician and producer with the help of his son), and composer and electronic producer Dean Korso (49 years old). The differences in their perspectives, life experiences, and musical approaches naturally shaped the album’s core idea: a journey through the different stages of life, the accumulation of experience, and the pursuit of wisdom.
Samsara. This word is associated with the spiritual concept of reincarnation, karma, nirvana and the wheel of samsara. But the focus in the album was not exactly on that.
We do not interpret rebirth in a literal sense - this concept lies beyond the limits of the known. Instead, we are fascinated by the path that every person takes: from the first heartbeat in the depths of the mother's womb (as explored in the album’s first single, “before it begins”, co-written with Medasin), through the phases of growing up, searching for oneself, struggling, winning, losing, experiencing spiritual revelations, and ultimately attempting to peer beyond the boundaries of existence as we know it.
Among the many challenges we face, there is one ultimate challenge that awaits us from the very beginning - death itself. It exists invisibly at the core of our identity from the moment we become aware of what our age truly means. This awareness defines whether we truly live or merely construct walls of safety to shield ourselves from the fears and anxieties born from a question we cannot answer.
The moment a person fully understands and accepts their own mortality - just as they accept the impermanence of all matter in the universe - they respond to this challenge. Their life blossoms with new colors; they stop running from sorrow and begin to see beauty in everything, even in loneliness and suffering. This pivotal realization is embedded in the album’s structure:

  • The opening phase – A sense of primordial purity, infinite wonder at the first encounters with reality, and the emergence of the first existential questions.

  • The middle phase – A process of becoming: struggles, doubts, searching for answers, wandering, and gaining spiritual insight.

  • The final phase – Here, the album grows deeper, more intense, mystical, and unsettling. The moment of the unknown approaches, but as fear fades away, all that remains is acceptance - and an awe-inspiring readiness to move forward into the vast halls of the unknown.