Ran Kirlian – Stillness

Ran Kirlian StillnessTogether with Ethernautica, Ran Kirlian also released another album in New Year’s Eve entitled Stillness. It is a deep and dark soundworld album formed by three long-form pieces where slow evolving passages flow to conform intense textures.

This is what Kirlian has to say about this album:

«Stillness proposes an isolated and timeless sonic universe that combines and contrasts static and dynamism trying to cause the listener to feel expelled from that world full of sounds, noises and rhythms resulting from the daily reality in which we live. In Stillness you can find slow sequences and melodies that flow and evolve over even slower structures on mostly static drones. This made me feel that the sound world I was creating was expanding again and again, to fill everything.

This album suggests an alternative approach to the classic concept of environmental drones as I have been developing so far. For the recording and composition process of this album, I have applied patterns similar to those used in works such as Ethernautica.»

Stillness is available digital download format in 24-bit depth sound quality at Bandcamp: https://rankirlian.bandcamp.com/album/stillness

Ran Kirlian – Ethernautica IV

Ran Kirlian Ethernautica IVRan Kirlian just released Ethernautica IV, his fourth episode in his series of raw large format dronescapes. This is what he says about this release:

«As every year, since I’ve started this personal tradition three years back, a new Ethernautica album has been release, just on New Year’s Eve.

This volume, the fourth instance in the series, is again a single long format piece that presents an evolving soundworld full of little details. Recorded in a single take as usual, this track was originally created as an inspirational source for my own as well as for meditative purposes. This piece may sound a bit raw and unpredictible, which is part of the spirit of this recording series.»

You can download now Ethernautica IV free or naming your price at Bandcamp.

Ran Kirlian – The Woomh files video mix

The latest Ran Kirlian album, The Woomh Files, is a collection of music recorded from 2009 to 2019 previously released as mini-albums on the Altera Orbe record label under the Woomh series.

Ran Kirlian also recorded a little video collecting excepts of the tracks included in the album «having each one its own visual space, mostly based on their cover artworks«.

Video editior: Sony Vegas
Particulas effect created by Alexander Demyanov on http://vegasaur.com
Artwork and video footage by Ran Kirlian
All music composed, recorded and produced by Ran Kirlian between 2009 and 2019

Mindglide Bandcamp website

Present Absence Our estimated artist Mindglide debuts Bandcamp site where fans can finally find all his releases available. This includes the remarkable albums Down the light and Radiance , released on Altera Orbe back in 2011 and 2012 with notable success and also two new albums that the artist recorded since then, Cosmogenia (2012), an intimate soundtrack for deep space journeys and Present Absence (2015), a delicate and highly detailed exploration of the electronic music divided on three chapters with a generous amount of vintage and futiristic sounds and soundworlds.

Mindglide has also released a remastered early work entitled Tangent, which is also an awesome sounding masterwork that Tangerine Dreams fans will easily enjoy as it contains a lot of sequences, long evolving melodies and drifting soundwolds with a bit of both experimental and psychodelic elements to enhance the experience.

As most of you already know, Mindglide music is mostly based on cosmic electronic ambient with berlin school influences, genres that he deeply explores with those new releases, available for the first time. All of them are also carefully mastered by himself in his home studio.

Mindglide albums filed under on Altera Orbe catalog:

Other releases available at Bandcamp:

Ran Kirlian – Many Futures 3 [AOREP103]

Many Futures IIIMany Futures is a series of minialbums that collect my musical and sonic impressions around years of science fiction literature reading. More than just a soundtrack for those stories, these tracks are my personal vision of the future portrayed by the authors. That’s where the series title comes from, as the music contained in this and further volumes flows around the many alternative futures of the humankind. Issue 3 includes sonic landscapes inspired by sci fi short stories created by Fritz Leiber, Henry Slesar, Poul Anderson and Kingsley Amis.

Tools: Wooji Fruits Sylo Synth, Delta-V SpaceCraft, apeSoft iPulsaret & iDensity, iMusicAlbum SoundScaper, M-RGT PsyGen and PsyBox, HG Fortune Alio Noctis, Oberheim OB12, Roland JP8080, TC Electronic M3000

Composed, performed, recorded and mastered by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room, 2018-2019 Cover art layout and pictures by Ran Kirlian

Track list
1.- Ship of Shadows3:59
2.- Ersatz10:07
3.- Night Piece5:10
4.- Something Strange4:49
Complete set: 24:12 

Available at Bandcamp

Ran Kirlian – Many Futures 2 [AOREP102]

Many Futures IIMany Futures is a series of minialbums that collect my musical and sonic impressions around years of science fiction literature reading. More than just a soundtrack for those stories, these tracks are my personal vision of the future portrayed by the authors. That’s where the series title comes, as the music contained in this and further volumes flows around the many alternative futures of the humankind.

This issue of Many Futures includes sonic landscapes inspired by sci fi novels and short stories created by Theodore Sturgeon, Brian Aldiss, Clifford D. Simak and Robert Silverberg.

Tools: Wooji Fruits Sylo Synth, Delta-V SpaceCraft, apeSoft iPulsaret, iMusicAlbum SoundScaper, M-RGT PsyGen and PsyBox, HG Fortune Alio Noctis, Oberheim OB12, Roland JP8080, TC Electronic M3000

Composed, performed, recorded and mastered by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room, 2018.

Cover art layout and pictures by Ran Kirlian

Track list
1.- Microcosmic God2:30
2.- The Moment of Eclipse10:47
3.- Here Gather the Stars6:02
4.- Time of The Great Freeze5:00
Complete set: 24:19 

Available at Bandcamp

Ran Kirlian – Many Futures 1 [AOREP101]

Many Futures 1Many Futures is a series of minialbums that collect my musical and sonic impressions around years of science fiction literature reading. More than just a soundtrack for those stories, these tracks are my personal vision of the future portrayed by the authors. That’s where the series title comes, as the music contained in this and further volumes flows around the many alternative futures of the humankind.

This issue of Many Futures includes sonic landscapes inspired by sci fi novels and short stories created by Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clark and Stanislaw Lem.

Tools: Wooji Fruits Sylo Synth, Delta-V SpaceCraft, apeSoft iPulsaret, iMusicAlbum SoundScaper, M-RGT PsyGen and PsyBox, HG Fortune Alio Noctis, Oberheim OB12, Roland JP8080, TC Electronic M3000

Composed, performed, recorded and mastered by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room, 2018.

Cover art layout and pictures by Ran Kirlian

Track list
1.- The Green Morning11:20
2.- The Sentinel5:05
3.- The Seventh Voyage8:38
Complete set: 25:03 

Available at Bandcamp

Ran Kirlian – The Woomh Files [AOR0031]

The Woomh FilesThis album collects music previously included in the Altera Orbe Woomh series, a number of minialbums mainly based on experimental, electronic and dark-ambient music genres. Most of the music contained in this album was recorded between 2009 and 2019 and released from 2012 onwards in digital format only (all of them available here).

This compilation not only includes music from each one of these minialbums and some unreleased music, but also a lot of extra information about the making of these recordings and their artworks.

All music composed, performed, produced and recorded except on track 10, with synths and grooves by Landru and track 13 with additional voices by Alan Kirlian.

All music included in this album was mixed, recorded and produced by Ran Kirlian between 2009 and 2019 This album was mixed, recorded and produced by Ran Kirlian between March and June 2019

Track list
1.- White Angel III 2:53
2.- The Seventh Voyage8:35
3.- Mystical Veils II 5:57
4.- Orthaleim6:35
5.- Circles I 2:58
6.- Froisia Venna5:41
7.- Benthos6:26
8.- Ix Tab 17:01
9.- Here Gather the Stars 5:46
10.- VAIRISCO7:31
11.- Dreissia Veiox5:42
12.- Wrapped in Whispers3:07
13.- Sibiaran 5:27
14.- Something Strange4:49
Complete set: 78:28

Available at Bandcamp

Ran Kirlian – The Shape of Memories [AOR0029]

The Shape of MemoriesThe Shape of Memories was originally released in 2013 for Phillip Wilkerson’ Complex Silence Project and has been unavailable for some time. It has been rereleased in 2018, remastered and having some parts mixed again from the source in order to enhance the experience and fix some minor issues.

This album was conceived as a long-form piece by combining smooth textures and minimal melodic weight with field recordings of a rainy autum afternoon, and it ended as a melancholic picture of the passing of time thru our memories. It has been described by many listeners as one of the most delicated works I’ve ever done.

Ran Kirlian: analog and digital synthesizers, samplers and field recordings.

Composed, recorded and produced at The Blue_Room by Ran Kirlian, 2012-2013 and remastered in 2018. Released December, 2018
Art layout and cover pictures by Ran Kirlian.

Track list
1.- The Shape of Memories66:33
Complete set: 66:33 

Available at Bandcamp