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{{Infobox album
| name = Nothing Lasts... But Nothing is Lost
| type = [[Album]]
| artist = [[Shpongle]]
| cover = Nothinglasts 2005.jpg
| alt =
| released = 16 June 2005
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = Hallucinogen Sound Labs, [[Wiltshire]]
| genre = [[Psybient]]
| length = 67:30
| label = [[Twisted Records (UK)|Twisted Records]] {{flagicon|UK}}
| producer = [[Simon Posford]], [[Raja Ram (musician)|Raja Ram]]
| prev_title = [[Tales of the Inexpressible]]
| prev_year = 2001
| next_title = [[Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland]]
| next_year = 2009
}}
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'''''Nothing Lasts... But Nothing is Lost''''' is a 2005 album by [[Shpongle]]. It is the project's third and was announced as their last, though that plan later changed. Like the previous two albums, it features many live musicians and vocalists in combination with computer-generated sounds and spoken-word [[sample (music)|samples]]. Stylistically the album can be described as a fusion of [[world music]], [[intelligent dance music]], and [[psychedelic trance]]. It is dedicated in memory of author and [[Psychedelia|psychedelic]] researcher [[Terence McKenna]], whose voice and ideas are used throughout the album. The tracks flow together continuously without any break.

According to Simon Posford,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shpongle.com/hallucinogen/interviews-hallucinogen_site2005.htm|title=Hallucinogen site Interview|last=|author=Shroomy |publisher=|date=January 2005|accessdate=2010-03-11|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050309214444/http://www.shpongle.com/hallucinogen/interviews-hallucinogen_site2005.htm|archivedate=2005-03-09}}</ref> the album actually has 8 songs divided into 20 tracks. Each part symbolizes a phase in the dream sequence. The vinyl version of the album is separated into these 8 tracks, but the track listing is identical to that of the digital and CD versions.

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| title1 = Botanical Dimensions
| length1 = 4:37
| title2 = Outer Shpongolia
| length2 = 2:33
| title3 = Levitation Nation
| length3 = 3:40
| title4 = Periscopes of Consciousness
| length4 = 1:54
| title5 = Schmaltz Herring
| length5 = 2:21
| title6 = Nothing Lasts...
| length6 = 4:28
| title7 = Shnitzled in the Negev
| length7 = 4:18
| title8 = ...But Nothing Is Lost
| length8 = 4:39
| title9 = When Shall I Be Free?
| length9 = 4:37
| title10 = The Stamen of the Shamen
| length10 = 4:11
| title11 = Circuits of the Imagination
| length11 = 3:12
| title12 = Linguistic Mystic
| length12 = 1:36
| title13 = Mentalism
| length13 = 2:54
| title14 = Invocation
| length14 = 2:40
| title15 = Molecular Superstructure
| length15 = 4:47
| title16 = Turn Up the Silence
| length16 = 3:22
| title17 = Exhalation
| length17 = 2:16
| title18 = Connoisseur of Hallucinations
| length18 = 3:31
| title19 = The Nebbish Route
| length19 = 3:36
| title20 = Falling Awake
| length20 = 1:50
| total_length = 67:30
}}

All tracks written by Simon Posford and Raja Ram, except track 19 (S. Posford, R. Ram, P. Callard) and track 20 (P. Callard).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Shpongle-Nothing-Lasts-But-Nothing-Is-Lost/release/5279395|title=Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost|website=Discogs|language=en|access-date=2018-08-05}}</ref>

==Credits==

===In The Studio===
* [[Hallucinogen (musician)|Simon Posford]]: [[drums]] (tracks 1, 2, 7, 8, 18, 19), [[bass guitar]] (tracks 4, 9), [[electric guitar]] (tracks 9, 10, 18, 19), [[synthesizer]], [[Electronic keyboard|keyboards]], drum programming, production
* [[Raja Ram (musician)|Raja Ram]]: [[flute]] (tracks 7, 13, 15, 17, 19), [[vocals]] (tracks 2, 7, 8, 11-13, 19)
* Pete Callard: [[acoustic guitar]] (tracks 1-3, 18-20), electric guitar (tracks 18, 19)
* Hari-Om: vocals (tracks 9, 10, 14, 15)
* Chris Barker: bass (tracks 3, 7, 16)
* [[Ott (record producer)|Ott]]: [[timbales]] (tracks 3, 5)
* Kevin Metcalfe: [[Audio mastering|mastering]] at Soundmasters

===Shpongle Live===
* Pete Callard: guitars
* Hari-Om: vocals
* Michele Adamson: vocals
* Nogira: drums, [[percussion]]
* Harry Escott: [[cello]]
* [[Raja Ram (musician)|Raja Ram]]: flute, vocal effects
* [[Hallucinogen (musician)|Simon Posford]]: computers, bass, [[Audio mixing (recorded music)|mixing]]
* [[Ott (record producer)|Ott]]: [[Audio engineer|engineering]]

==Samples and allusions==
* ''Botanical Dimensions'' samples from the [[Richard Linklater]] film ''[[Waking Life]]''.
* ''Levitation Nation'' samples a 2003 song by the Brazilian [[samba school]] [[GRES Beija-Flor de Nilópolis|Beija-Flor de Nilópolis]].
* The title for ''Nothing Lasts'' comes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, a translation of "Omnia mutantur, sed nihil interit"
* ''Circuits of the Imagination'' contains a sample of the "bionic" sound effect from ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]''.
* ''The Nebbish Route'' song samples [[Ned Flanders]] from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode ''[[El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)]]''.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.shpongle.com/ Official Shpongle website]

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