Ran Kirlian – Los Bosques Sombríos [AOREP008]

Los bosquesWoomh EP containing 4 deeply connected tracks that conforms a sonic portrait of one of those moments when we’re feeling lost and blind, like walking inside of a dark forest without a path to follow. While the music of this minialbum is mostly dark ambient, I conceived it as a soundtrack for one of these enlightening experiences that we must feel, and even enjoy, in out lifes. Dedicated in loving memory to Oöphoi (Gianluigi Gasparetti) 1958 – 2013

Tools: Antonio Blanca’s Dron-E, Wooji Fruits Sylo Synth, Oberheim OB12, Roland JP8080, TC Electronic M3000, Sonic Forest & treated field recordings

Composed, performed, recorded and mastered by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room, 2012 – 2014. Released in 2015.

Cover art layout and pictures by Ran Kirlian

Track list
1.- Below the Surface6:19
2.- The Roots Keep Growing3:02
3.- Through the Ancient Ruins11:54
4.- Wrapped in Whispers3:23
Complete set: 24:38 

Available at Bandcamp

Ran Kirlian – Mystical Veils [AOREP001]

Mystical VeilsMystical Veils is the first volume in the Woomh Series. It is an EP that collects 3 electronic pieces recorded live in 2009 in a different style Ran Kirlian music uses to be, with pulsating sequences and textures, a bit away from classical ambient genres.

In Ran Kirlian’s words: «The idea of releasing this music on a mini-album format came because I’ve found that these tracks were strongly contextualized between them with a very particular sound.«

All music composed, performed, recorded and mixed by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room in 2009 and mastered in 2012.

Sound sources includes analog and digital synthesizers.

Pictures, digital images and cover art design by Ran Kirlian.

Track list
1.-Mystical Veil I
6:09
2.-Mystical Veil II
6:20
3.-Mystical Veil III
7:58

Complete set: 20:27

Available at Bandcamp

Ran Kirlian – Ataraxia [AOREP007]

AtaraxiaAtaraxia is a Woomh EP created by Ran Kirlian that comprises 4 electronic tracks hard to be catalogued into any ambient style beyond experimental. However it consistently fits on the Woomh concept, where boundaries are not yet defined.

This mini-album collects music created between 2012 and 2013 using both software and hardware synthesizers, samplers and effect tools in order to create an alternative sonic palette to the most typical Kirlian textures.

All music composed, performed, mixed and matered by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room between 2012 and 2013.

Sound sources includes analog and digital synthesizers, samplers and effect processing.

Pictures, digital images and cover art design by Ran Kirlian.

This download includes additional wallpaper art (1920x1200px)

Track list
1.-Leretia
3:58
2.-Ostoprenia
10:03
3.-Ubur
3:35
4.-Froisia Venna
5:50

Complete set: 23:30

Available at Bandcamp

Ran Kirlian – Sleeper [AOR0023]

SleeperThis conceptual album suggests an evolutive journey into lucid dream states with deep ambient atmospheres and environmental sounds, from floating soundscapes to tribal grooves, from the deeps of earth to the realms of surrealism… Taken from a live performance based on improvisations, Sleeper collects most of the sides of Kirlian music, including complex textures, subtle melodies, tribal percussions, flutes, shakers, seeds, rainstick, treated sounds and his own voice performing live.

Based on a privated live performance, this album tries to explore some personal experiences around lucid dreaming. Combining both atmospheric and tribal sides, it describes a new path into my music and my own way of living. Source material was recorded in summer 2003 and treated during next months. Massive synthesis layers and treated nature sounds creates here a warm environment to give support to tribal grooves, flutes, whispers and strange sounds to enhance a meditative state.

Recorded live 15-16 august 2003, mixed at the Blue_Room Sept 2003 – Feb 2004

Track list
1.-In Somnia Part I11:20
2.-Host Creatures6:54
3.-Metaphase2:04
4.-Submerging7:44
5.-Traveler8:01
6.-Other Place10:37
7.-Relapse5:46
8.-In Somnia Part II16.17


Complete set: 68:46

Available at Bandcamp

Review by Bert Strolenberg

«The album “Sleeper” was born from two large floating sessions the Spanish ambient musician Ran Kirlian recorded in the summer of 2003. Both are based on pure improvisation, with some treated field recordings played randomly. Later on, as Kirlian ran over the recordings, he added voice, some additional sounds and grooves to make the music fit in the concept of an evolutionary process on dreams and sleeping. The outcome is an album that is highly atmospheric, but which also features several tribal elements like the claypots which show up in “Other Place” next to his voice. “Sleeper” is a continuous vast textural landscape floating by, able to transport the listener’s mind to a remote places and dense atmospheres. I’m sure fans of Roach and freeform tribal ambient will love this sonic scenery for the mind . Well done!»

(Bert Strolenberg, main editor & journalist E-dition Magazine & Sonic Immersion, 2005)

Ran Kirlian – Elements in Motion [AOR0022]

Elements in motionStrange noises meets haunting overtones and static passages to conform a dark soundtrack for infinite landscapes.

After three years of exploring new paths in the dark-ambient side of my music, this album collects music that I prepared slowly and deeply.

This album mostly explores dark ambient landscapes and is strongly based in drones; all source material come from field recordings, overtone voices and found sounds with a lot of edition, stretching and effects. Synthesizers have here a minimal presence. The music in this album sounds closer to artists like Lustmord and Thomas Könner than my other albums.

First released at artist website as free download in 2004-2005; remastered version released at ad21music during 2010-2011 and later on Altera Orbe in 2012.

All tracks composed, performed, arranged and produced by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room 2003-2004

Cover artwork by Ran Kirlian

Track list
1.-Black Surface11:20
2.-Celiar Structure4:50
3.-Deflective Limits13:25
4.-Static Motion22:23
5.-Cortical Landscapes14:11
6.-Collapse11:49
Complete set: 77:58

Available at Bandcamp

Review

«This release from Spanish ambient composer Ran Kirlian is another long form journey encompassing dark landscapes and ideas, taking the listener on an extended trip of 78 minutes. As Kirlian explained to me, synthesizers aren’t that prominent compared to his other recordings, they act more as support for the major layers of organic and industrial environments.

The music itself is a bit drone-like at times, but also moving to more floating nature at times. Rather minimal shaped, it’s accompanied by treated voices, some organic sounds of metals, stones and field recordings.
It is no easy music to listen to, but it is still worthwhile and rather hypnotic when listening through headphones.
«

(Bert Strolenberg, main editor & journalist on E-dition Magazine and Sonic Immersion)

Ran Kirlian – Fade Out [AOR0021]

Fade OutThis drifting work offers an inner vission of the cosmos thru a continuous flow of rhythmless textures and floating passages full of melody and harmony, creating an intimate experience with over 78 minutes of pure space ambient. Synthesizers have here a huge presence, building melodic structures, sometimes far away from the darkness I touch in other works.

All tracks composed, performed, recorded and produced by Ran Kirlian at the Blue_Room, 2002-2003. Sound sources includes: analog and digital synthesizers, samples and field recordings.

Fade Out was revisited with remastered sound and redesigned album art in 2013.

Cover artwork by Ran Kirlian

Track list
1.-Movement 18:25
2.-Movement 24:30
3.-Movement 311:12
4.-Movement 44.44
5.-Movement 514:01
6.-Movement 62:04
7.-Movement 77:16
8.-Movement 826:34
Complete set: 78:46

Available at Bandcamp

Oöphoi & Ran Kirlian – The Physics of Heaven [AOR0017]

the physics of heavenThe Physics of Heaven is a collaborative work with italian ambient master Oöphoi (Gianluigi Gasparetti). It is a bright and ethereal jouney that explores the transition between life and death thru different spiritual traditions and mythologies.

On “Amnios: The Complete Recordings”, Oöphoi envisioned the very beginnings of life. Now in collaboration with Ran Kirlian, Oöphoi explores what Heaven maybe like on “The Physics of Heaven”. From the first Breath and the Ascent, the ethereal cords and pads are light filled providing the listener with a broad sense of uneasy serenity with natural sounds. Seamlessly, a sagacity of the enigmatic prevails as one looks across the White Shores of fluid pads with no end in sight… Just past the midway, the colors turn to obscurer hues through the granular drones of Transmigration unfolding only to The Golden Fields of peace with some of the brightest tenors over waves that fade, leaving the last few notes of life. Upon death, there is a reflection on legacy, the footsteps left behind…

Oöphoi and Ran Kirlian have left us with more than just the soundscapes to contemplate but the eternal.


Dave Ebacher, 2013

All music composed & performed by Oöphoi & Ran Kirlian
Recorded at The Kiva, 2009-2011 and The Blue_Room, 2012-2013
Mixed and mastered by Ran Kirlian

Oöphoi: synths, sampling machines, singing bowls, voices, field recordings
Ran Kirlian: synths, samplers, bells, shakers, voices, field recordings, additional treatment

Track list
1.-Breath
10:28
2.-Ascend
15:35
3.-White Shores I
20.10
4.-White Shores II
9:12
5.-Transmigration
11:32
6.-The Golden Fields
5:48

Complete set: 72:48

Available at Bandcamp

Ran Kirlian & Jaja – Cosmos I [AOR0016]

Cosmos Ran Kirlian & JajaCosmos is the first collaborative work between prolific ambient wizard Ran Kirlian and german based electronic alchemist Jaja (Jana Rockstroh). When Ran Kirlian and Jaja met first time in 2012 they recognized the same deep bond about space and music.

They immediately thought of doing a collaborative work to share their visions and to bring out the best of their both worlds. What followed was a fulminant adventure and a truly colorful journey into deep space territories, a powerful flow of pure space-ambient music based on improvisations on synthesizers.

Now, the result is the first album on a series of electronic space-ambient dedicated to the magnificence of the Universe and the figure of one of its biggest explorers: Carl Sagan. Cosmos is pure space-ambient flow with four timeless ambient journeys into outer space full of stars.

All music composed, performed & Recorded by Ran Kirlian & Jaja (Jana Rockstroh) between Spain and Germany in September 2012

Produced and mastered by Ran Kirlian & Jaja

Ran Kirlian & Jaja: analog, digital & software synthesizers and samplers.

Track list
1.-Majestic
18:42
2.-Particles
19.17
3.-Full of Stars
14:07
4.-Communion

27:43

Complete set: 79:53

Available at Bandcamp

Review by Bert Strolenberg

«Cosmos Vol. 1» (the first album in a series of electronic space-ambient dedicated to the magnificence of the universe and one of its biggest explorers: Carl Sagan) marks the debut collaborative work by Spanish ambient composer Ran Kirlian and his German soul mate Jana Rockstroh (aka Jaja).

The album contains 80-minutes of profound atmospherics featuring four massive, deep and extensive soundscape textures, all curling smoothly through the wonders and splendor of magnificent galaxies toward infinite worlds beyond. If you’re a fan of emotive, harmonic and imaginary ambient-space music, the improvised sonic explorations featured here will be right up your alley.

The physical edition of the release is limited to just 50 copies.

Bert Strolenberg at Sonic Immersion ( Jul, 2013)

Ran Kirlian – Formations [AOR0010]

Formations

Formations defines a journey to the core of Ran Kirlian’s tribal-ambient landscapes prevously visited on albums like Sleeper, Melting Point and Limbo. With a continuous flow of expansive and complex soundscapes accompanied by subtle melodies and tribal grooves, this album conforms an excellent immersive process in to the electro-acoustic tribal flavours of Ran Kirlian musical career. Most of the music of  Formations is based on live improvisations subjected to a large evolutionary process, including the high privilege of counting with the ambient master Max Corbacho on the final mastering process.

All music composed, performed, recorded and mixed by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room between 2009 and 2011. Mastered by Max Corbacho in Barcelona, 2012.

Sound sources includes analog and digital synthesizers, samplers, overtone voices, flutes, wind chimes, bells, percussion, rocks, sand and processed field recordings and found sounds.

Pictures, digital images and cover art design by Ran Kirlian.

Track list
1.-First Hours
4:13
2.-Aerthanna
10:10
3.-Crimson Trees
14:05
4.-Formations I
8:43
5.-Dark Territories
11:41
6.-Forgotten Survivor
6:11
7.-Quh Ong I
8:43
8.-Quh Ong II
6:52

Complete set: 70:45

Available at Bandcamp

Ran Kirlian – Continuum [AOR0008]

Ran Kirlian ContinuumAfter five years in the making and a strong process of depuration  that left behind music enough for a triple album, Continuum marks the return of Ran Kirlian to space ambient atmospheres and ethereal soundscapes, collecting music recorded from 2005 to 2010 and finally mixed and mastered during 2011.

This album is a deep and intimate voyage that offers a continuos flow of evolving soundscapes and harmonic structures both from the outer space and the inner void.

All music composed, performed, produced and recorded by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room 2005-2010. Sound sources include: analogic and digital synthesizers, samplers, treated sounds and field recordings.

Track list
1.-Amos Neheran Arr
3:47
2.-Apeiron
8:51
3.-Ikuinen Mitätön
9:51
4.-Messier 83
4:45
5.-Continuum
15:15
6.-Stella Ignea
10:10
7.-Órbita
6:37
8.-Momentum
12:56

Complete set: 72:12

Available at Bandcamp