Album — Cello Works to Accompany The Hunter’s Craft

by Stephen Van Olsen

“These pieces were composed alongside The Hunter’s Craft. Each one carries the atmosphere of the book—its quiet dread, its shadowed beauty. They are free to listen or download, created to deepen the experience of the story.”

Stephen’s Note — Why these pieces exist

The cello is where I’m most honest. People confuse solitude with loneliness; I don’t. The instrument gives that silence a voice. These pieces weren’t written to decorate the book— they were written to return me to it: the atmosphere, the pulse, the things that won’t sit quietly on the page.

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Featured Tracks

“The cello doesn’t just make music; it holds memory.”
Elegy of a Lost Kiss FREE
1:08

For Kobe Beef—the love he cannot keep. The ruin that taught him hunger, and the small, reckless hope that refuses to die.

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Nocturne for the Forgotten FREE
3:29

A slow drift through memory, where tenderness and threat share a key.

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Chasing the High (Solo Cello) FREE
2:11

Composed in the ache after too many failed nights—withdrawal rendered as pulse; a bow chasing euphoria through silence.

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Whispers of Dusk FREE
3:57

Every farewell is a rehearsal for the last one. This melody came to me as the light bled from the sky — a whisper that lingered longer than the sun. I wanted it to feel like a memory you can almost sing, something fragile enough to fade but addictive enough to keep returning. In its silence, you hear the things I never said.

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If the music stays with you, so will the book. Read The Hunter’s Craft.