Distant Signals was planned as a personal soundtrack for a deep space exploration, both inner and outer, based on pure electronic atmospheres build on minimal structures. Dark and light combines here in a flow of textures and subtle melodies laying on a vast environment out of time and space. The inital recordings were created letting things breathe, letting themselves mark the pace of the recording sessions, pulsating in the studio and me, provoking a state of consciousness that I have seldom achieved by playing my instruments. This is something that I would like to transfer to the listeners.
The initial recordings of Distant Signals were created during summer 2010 based on live in studio sessions but it needed some extra time to finish. It was remixed, polished, taken and abandoned several times during the next years between other projects and it even became a totally abandoned project. It wasn’t until 2017 when I decided to finish and release it.
Although the sound of this album may occasionally sound out of control, I decided to keep it this way in order to preserve the essence of the creative process that inspired them.
Recorded and mixed at The Blue_Room between 2010 and 2017 All music composed, performed and produced by Ran Kirlian. Released August 31, 2018
Cover art and layout by Ran Kirlian
| Track list | |||
| 1.- | Egea I | 11:02 | |
| 2.- | Primical | 5:43 | |
| 3.- | Siria | 7:27 | |
| 4.- | Tochlia | 3:43 | |
| 5.- | Ansejo | 6:01 | |
| 6.- | Egea II | 6:42 | |
| 7.- | Ooprema | 8:14 | |
| 8.- | Arsenas | 10:54 | |
| 9.- | Niastas | 9:21 | |
| 10.- | Ergesia | 7:53 | |
| Complete set: 77:31 |
Availalbe at Bandcamp
Review by Best Strolenberg
The first sketches of “Distant Signals” -planned as a personal soundtrack for a deep space exploration, both inner and outer, based on pure electronic atmospheres build on minimal structures- were created during summer 2010 based on live in studio sessions. The recording was shelved thereafter and finally rediscovered in 2017 starting a process of remixing, editing and polishing. Well, all of Ran Kirlian’s efforts have delivered another fine work of freeform ambient, a captivating journey through a netherworld of dark, light and the unknown.
If you love immersing into vast, darker-shaded and breathing textural landscapes with distinct organic edges I’m confident the morphing 77-minute result will tick various boxes for you. The dense veil of compelling atmospherics is lifted briefly on the second half of “Ooprema” and the final track “Ergesia”.
Bert Strolenberg at Sonic Immersion (2018)
Third instance in the series of recordings based in long format drones and processed raw material. In this volume I collect three pieces as a result of different recording sessions during 2018 with mixed emotions, something that I also wanted to reflect on the cover art. These tracks were originally created as an inspirational source for my own as well as for meditative purposes. Some of these pieces may sound a bit raw and unpredictible, which is part of the spirit of the recordings, so I’ve decided to release these recordings for free. 
Second instance in the series of live recordings based in long format drones and raw material originally created as an inspirational source for my own as well as for meditative purposes. Some of these pieces may sound a bit raw and unpredictible, so I’ve decided to release these recordings for free.
Ethernautica I is the opening volume on a series of a series of live recordings based on large format pieces with slow evolving atmospheres, mostly based on drones. This and other pieces that will follow in this series were originally created as an inspirational source for my own as well as for meditative purposes. Some of these pieces may sound a bit raw and unpredictible, so I’ve decided to release these recordings for free.
White Angel is the alternative name of the Lyra-8 synthesizer created by Soma Laboratory. It is, also, the title of my newest minialbum, as the Lyra-8 is the main instrument used on the tracks included on it. This project contains 40+ minutes of sonic explorations beyond ambient boundaries. 
La Cueva de las Almas Perdidas (The Cave of the Lost Souls) is a minialbum exclusively based on layers and loops of voices treated with different reverb effects. All drones, sounds and choirs were done with my own voice and, eventually, my son’s voice and a rotating corrugated tube. 
Maalesbark is an electronic music minialbum dominated by modular synth sequences and few extreme frequencies. All tracks recorded live with an Eurorack modular synthesizer + friends. 
After a long period of innactivity, both Landru and Ran Kirlian found each other back in 2014 exploring similar dark-ambient soundworlds. They soon decided to build something together in a very different way that they did with Waterfront (2012). 
Dark-ambient/noisy-drone minialbum based on live recordings.
Dark ambient minialbum based on complex textures and treated field recordings. This tracks have been deeply inspired by the work of Brian Lustmord, Voice of Eye and Yen Pox.