Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Originally released in May of 2017, Compendium I is the first in DIM's long-running Compendium series, now retroactively fitted under the banner of Lowly Dying Steward Records.
Compendium I was conceptualized, rendered and hewn by Josiah Wilkinson as DIM.
Instagram: instagram.com/steepedsky
Store: lowlydyingsteward.com
Purchase: iamdim.bandcamp.com/album/compendium-i
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/4qmJg1WcehufjlObRJVi5S?si=lJipeNgGTWSk0X8H1iwZeA
Story:
"Lost in the uncharted eons of time when creatures of legend shared the earth with men, a peaceable kingdom stretched from the fertile valleys, green and verdant, to the ancient, towering forests and even to the far, blue mountains beyond which no eye had seen. Among the rolling hills and blooming glens, lush with all manner of orchards and gardens, the valley towns thrived with barely a thought for any matters beyond their neatly walled fields.
Such were the range of a roaming minstrel whose long-told tales and oft-sung songs could be heard in the valley inns and markets. Along the winding roads he occasionally heard whispers from the far countries, intrigues from the king’s household, and murmurs from deep within the tangled forests, deeper even than any of the king’s heroes dared venture. The wonders of such mysteries filled his imagination.
And so it was that one cool spring afternoon he determined to leave the familiar lanes of the valley towns and venture to the farthest reaches of the kingdom and--should fortune look kindly upon him--farther still, beyond the wilds and wastes, beyond the far countries, and there to learn the peculiar songs and strange stories of those ancient lands."
Tracklisting:
i. Edge of Town
ii. Woods of Old
iii. Sellsword's Grotto
iv. Ellendrial's Lullaby
v. Clandestine
vi. King's Arrival
vii. Farewell (New Lands Await)
Contact: iamdim@protonmail.ch
Originally released in May of 2017, Compendium I is the first in DIM's long-running Compendium series, now retroactively fitted under the banner of Lowly Dying Steward Records.
Compendium I was conceptualized, rendered and hewn by Josiah Wilkinson as DIM.
Instagram: instagram.com/steepedsky
Store: lowlydyingsteward.com
Purchase: iamdim.bandcamp.com/album/compendium-i
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/4qmJg1WcehufjlObRJVi5S?si=lJipeNgGTWSk0X8H1iwZeA
Story:
"Lost in the uncharted eons of time when creatures of legend shared the earth with men, a peaceable kingdom stretched from the fertile valleys, green and verdant, to the ancient, towering forests and even to the far, blue mountains beyond which no eye had seen. Among the rolling hills and blooming glens, lush with all manner of orchards and gardens, the valley towns thrived with barely a thought for any matters beyond their neatly walled fields.
Such were the range of a roaming minstrel whose long-told tales and oft-sung songs could be heard in the valley inns and markets. Along the winding roads he occasionally heard whispers from the far countries, intrigues from the king’s household, and murmurs from deep within the tangled forests, deeper even than any of the king’s heroes dared venture. The wonders of such mysteries filled his imagination.
And so it was that one cool spring afternoon he determined to leave the familiar lanes of the valley towns and venture to the farthest reaches of the kingdom and--should fortune look kindly upon him--farther still, beyond the wilds and wastes, beyond the far countries, and there to learn the peculiar songs and strange stories of those ancient lands."
Tracklisting:
i. Edge of Town
ii. Woods of Old
iii. Sellsword's Grotto
iv. Ellendrial's Lullaby
v. Clandestine
vi. King's Arrival
vii. Farewell (New Lands Await)
Contact: iamdim@protonmail.ch
