Mindglide is the electronic musical
project behind Rafael De Julián, an independent artist born in Valencia,
Spain, with a deep influence from electronic music, progressive rock
and jazz. He started studying and creating music in the early 90’s
attracted by synthesis and sequencing as a way of composing and
developing his ideas with the main objective of evoking rich and deep
feelings onto listeners.
Mindglide’s music is aimed to transmit
evocative atmospheres and portraits of a free form universe, allowing
the listener to expand his mind and his imagination beyond musical
boundaries. According to this, his music is presented full of dense
timbrical structures, rich soundworlds and progressive composition
schemes.
His main tools include analogue and digital synthesizers
and sequencers, software synths and his recently adquired eurorack
modular system. Here, his preferences go towards FM synthesis and
wavetables with synths like the Yamaha SY99 and the Korg Wavestation to
mention some. While his music shows evident influences by ambient
pioneers like Brian Eno and Steve Roach, krautrock and the Berlin school
are also present in his compositions thru artists such as Tangerine
Dream or Klaus Schulze, as well as several bands going from symphonic
rock to jazz styles.
Music released on Altera Orbe
- Radiance (the soundscapes of science) [ AOR0020, 2009, remasteres 2012]
- Down the light [AOR0012, 2007, remastered 2011]
Other albums
- Present Absence [2015]
- Cosmogenia (the faces of the universe) [2012]
- Tangent [2010]