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New Woomh releases by Ran Kirlian

Some time has passed since the last release of a Woomh minialbum, but today three new releases see the light under our record label. All of them comes from the Spanish composer Ran Kirlian and they offer a range of sounds that helps increasing his sonic palette. Here comes a brief description of them:

Ran Kirlian – Nested DreamsNested Dreams

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.

This minialbum also includes music from unreleased projects that finally found its place in this little release.

Available at Ran Kirlian’s Bandcamp

IxtabRan Kirlian – Ixtab

Dark-ambient/noise-drone minialbum based on live recordings and inspired by the figure of the Mayan goddess Ixtab.

This album goes far beyond the drone-ambient styles and explores raw landscapes with more aggresive sounds and distortion, a bit influenced by the early work of the Australian multimedia artist Abre Ojos.

Available at Ran Kirlian’s Bandcamp

MaalesbarkRan Kirlian – Maalesbark

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.

The track Sanctus is a revisited version of a track included in the Ran Kirlian album Shore of Darkness from the year 2000. The track entitled Benthos, was recorded live and one of the first Ran Kirlian live performances to be posted on Youtube, back in 2009.

Available at Ran Kirlian’s Bandcamp

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Landru’s Boira reviewed

Richard Gürtler has reviewed the newest Landru album, Boira, which had a very nice reception:

BoiraPatxi Hernández aka Landru has crossed my radar for the first time during the spring of 2012, not only as one of the driving forces behind Spanish label Altera Orbe, together with another fellow soundscaping countryman Ran Kirlian, but also as a creator of very impressive debut CDr «Neurotransmitters» (released in November 2011). In the meantime Landru has released several other notable solo albums available on CDr format like «Fimbria», «Scotoma», «Facets» and a collaborative project «Waterfront» with above mentioned labelmate Ran Kirlian. Some of them I have reviewed throughout 2012 and 2013. Although, I believe, Altera Orbe is on hiatus now, both artists still continue on releasing their own music, particularly Landru has a new album «Boira» out since June 2016 on his newly formed label Lepysma, even if the CDr edition was released as a limited edition few months later. «Boira», which means fog in Catalan language, comes in a standard jewel case with immersing black and white 4-page front insert.

Nearly 7-minute long «Dormant State», the shortest one on «Boira», ignites the venture with subterraneanly labyrinthine drone cascades, which are delicately reinforced by assorted, translucently cyber-tech swirls and smashes or ambiguously cavernous pulses and bleeps. Auxiliary warmer cinematic vignettes clandestinely permeate across engulfing hypogeal sceneries. A very strong opening! «The Water Cycle», stretching to 11 minutes, merges richly biotic and mesmerizingly transporting location recordings with constantly circling longing undulations, while intangibly noisier bangs are persistently guarding above. The next piece, «Hydroscopic Particles», only slightly shorter than its predecessor, straightly shifts into sonorously dronescaping Eden, where magnificently multi-dimensional monochromatic monoliths are meticulously coalesced with perpetually helixing primal rumbles and intriguingly traverse through awe-inspiringly panoptic vistas. A towering dronezones at its climax!!! «Evolving Landscape» delves into more future-tech-driven terrains highlighted by polished crystalline bleeps and oddities, and surrounded by balmily expanding and tranquilly nuanced cinematic horizons. Another big one!!! «From A Certain Height» masterfully blends nebulously engrossing choir-infused solitudes with subtly vibrating and intricately high-tech grooves. As much engrossing as electrifying, an aural elixir is served here! «Quiescense» reveals with soaring enigmatic drifts, roaming through perplexing altitudes and backed by remotely elusive throbs and eerily glancing groans and squeaks. The closing 20-plus minutes long title opus «Boira» dives deeply into grandiosely unfathomable depths, navigated by gracefully celestial and spellbindingly humming drone stratums and oracularly illuminated by extraterrestrial signals. And then inconspicuously crescendoing through jaw-droppingly transporting meridians. Massively mysterious finale fully reveals all its magic!!! Bravo, Landru!!!

Landru offers with «Boira» 75 minutes of prodigiously tenebrous atmozones exquisitely augmented by a diversity of cybernetic, futuristic or primordial-charged curiosities, no matter if shimmering, pellucid, granular or puzzling. Undoubtedly «Boira» is another very strong recording by Landru, so don’t hesitate to explore this crafted Spaniard, because he really deserves much more attention than he gets. Landru’s discography features several well hidden gems and your support would be greatly appreciated with many rewards awaiting!!! Patxi, muchas gracias and keep on creating!!!

Richard Gürtler (May 31, 2017, Bratislava, Slovakia)

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Ran Kirlian | Ethernautica I

Ethernautica IRan Kirlian just released his newest album, Ethernautica I, a drifting electronic journey based on a large format piece that combines ambient soundworlds with classic electronic flavours.This album is the opening volume on a series of live recordingsthat will be released during next months in a similar shape.

«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.»

All music composed, performed, mixed and produced by Ran Kirlian.

Recorded at The Blue_Room between September and December 2016.

Released December 31, 2016.

You can download Ethernautica at Ran Kirlian’s Bandcamp site for free or name your price in lossless format.

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Landru | Boira

BoiraLandru has released Boira, his new album since Facets, released in Altera Orbe 2 years ago. This one is not released under our record label, but we feel compelled to talk about it given its enormous sound quality.

Boria (fog in Catalan language), the latest release by Landru is inspired in the mist and mystic essence of the Catalan forests during the autumn sunrises. This new project consist of 7 new tracks that invite the listener to a calm and relaxing journey through minimalists and evolving sonic landscapes driven by synthesized textures and organical instruments that embellish the field recordings that serve as a background ambience in some of the tracks presents in this album.

After the awesome chill-out album Facets, Boira marks a new Landru exploration into the ambient realms, bringing us an awesome collection of pieces based on minimalistic compositions floating on deep and complex textures, out-of-this-world grooves and treated field recordings. The result is a brilliant sounding masterpiece where the soundworlds flow from darkness to light with a gorgeous sound quality.

Released under Lepysma label, this album has been produced and mastered by Landru on his studio, Atavachron Studios, in Barcelona. Boira has been written, composed, producer and mastered by Landru in 2016.

Boira is available at Landru’s Bandcamp site in both physical and downloadable formats. Please notice that the CDR edition is limited to 25 copies only, so run to grab yours!

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Altera Orbe webstore redirect

Hello everyone,

as you all know a long time passed since our last release. Due to a lot of circunstances, most of our artist and the Altera Orbe crew have been deeply busy during last months and, consequently , they have been disconnected from the label.

Due to a lack of time to maintain our website and keep things alive we’ve made some changes in order to give a better service for both costumers and artists. One of this changes has been redirect all store activity to our artists websites and bandcamp stores (for those who own one), in order to let people directly purchase their music from the source instead of our webstore. We’ve also closed our register/login module as our record label will cease as webstore and stop selling music.

Thanks for your support

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New Altera Orbe releases

After a long long silence, Altera Orbe is proud to announce a few new releases, all of them EP’s from WOOMH series:

Landru – Rust

Rust consists of three previously unpublished tracks based on minimal evolving cinematic pads. Simplicity is the main nexus of this album as all pads were recorded lively using just a couple of digital synthesizers and sonic backgrounds based on field recordings.

Avalilable at Landru’s bandcamp site

Ran Kirlian – Los Bosques Sombríos

Minialbum containing 4 dark-ambient/drone environments inspired by and dedicated to the memory of ambient master Oöphoi (Gianluigi Gasparetti) 1958 – 2013

Available at Ran Kirlian’s Bandcamp site

Vauxia Errante – Cryogenia

The sonic sculptor Vauxia Errante created an evolvinglong form (24 min) atmospheric track based on a combination of drone layers and treated field recordings.

Available at Vauxia Errante Bandcamp site

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New releases from Vauxia Errante and Ran Kirlian

We have the great pleasure to present you twoPrimigenia, the newest subterranean-ambient album from spanish composer Vauxia Errante, and Ataraxia, an exclusive Woomh EP by Ran Kirlian.

Vauxia Errante – Primigenia
Vauxia Errante Primigenia

This new album by Vauxia Errante is a dark and complex sonic journey, far beyond his previous full lenght masterwork Cambrian Spirits. Primigenia explores a much darker and organic side of Vauxia’s music with a high pressence of drones, experimental sounds and slow evolutions in search of a deep meditative state on the listener.

As with Vauxia’s first album, Primigenia counts with Ran Kirlian on mixing, production and cover artwork as well as participating  with voices and textures on two tracks, Katara and Eidotalamia.

Available at Vauxia Errante Bandcamp site

Ran Kirlian – Ataraxia
Ran Kirlian Ataraxia

Ataraxia is a new Woomh EP created by Ran Kirlian hard to be catalogued into any ambient style beyond experimental but consistently fitting the Woomh concept.

It collects music created between 2012 and 2013 using both software and hardware synthesizers, samplers and effect tools and building an alternative sonic palette to the most typical Kirlian textures.

Available at Ran Kirlian Bandcamp site

 

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Steve Brand and Chronotope Project new releases

We feel proud of presenting the newest works of two great masterworks from our Relaxed Machinery fellows Steve Brand and Chronotope Project (Jeffrey Ericson Allen):

Steve Brand – Over-Soul

Steve Brand Over SoulA 61 minute long form piece, divided into three seamless expanses of driftscape, created entirely with keyboards and medicine drum by ambient master Steve Brand.

The original inspiration for this long form piece was my readings from various esoteric sources, and the idea that although we may see ourselves as separate, isolated and alone, in fact we all are individual expressions of one unifying, all-encompasing source, and therefore linked to that source and ultimately to one another.

Available on Steve Brand Bandcamp site

Chronotope Project – Event Horizon

Chronotope Project Event HorizonThe album bears comparison to the cosmic phenomenon of the event horizon: the boundary surrounding a black hole representing its point of “no return.”

An earthy foundation of sustained drones and rich chordal soundbeds, flowing watery melodies, the scintillating sparkle of fiery sequences.

The music of Chronotope Project (Jeffrey Ericson Allen) bridges time and space with immersive soundscapes that invite the listener to discover intimate connections between consciousness and experience.

Available on Chronotope Project Bandcamp site

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Mindglide, Steve Brand & Zero Ohms

we have the great pleasure to introduce some of the new productions that we have prepared for this summer: Space Between, the newest space-ambient album from spanish composer Joxan Ruiz, and Steve Brand latest album: The Great Hoop. Also we present you a very special work by our friend Steve Brand: Trust and Remember, an exclusive Woomh EP.

Mindglide – RADIANCE

Radiance is an awesome and expansive space ambient work recorded in 2009 by Mindglide that has been now remastered, remixed and extended into a mesmerizing masterwork.

Radiance, the second album by spanish ambient artist Mindglide, was recorded back in 2009 and has been now remastered and remixed into a large double album. As on previous works Radiance provides a deep journey thru the cosmos surrounded by complex synthetic sounds and harmonies with several influences from many diferent styles.

Steve Brand – She Covers the Sky

Re-imagining, re-working, re-mastering of the 2009 release, now with two new tracks.

Originally, SCS was created to honor the divine feminine, which is said by many to be making it’s way back to a place of prominence on Earth—balancing the heavily male energy that has been in place for millennia.

The dominant notes here are fluidity, fecundity, flow, and flexibility—and a lot of sounds from Mother Earth herself.

369 – Zero Ohms

A journey of what seems to be an unending ascension of shifting drones and wind-synth chords which take you to the very edge of space and beyond.

A superb follow-up to Worlds, Afterworlds, “369″ by Zero Ohms features flutes, bass flutes and wind-controlled synthesizers over a unique collection of field recordings.

 

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The Physics of Heaven reviewed at Sonic Immersion

Bert Strolenberg wrote a wonderful review of the album The Physics of Heaven by Oöphoi and Ran Kirlian at his website dedicated to Electronic Music Sonic Immersion:

As Oöphoi, aka Italian deep-ambient composer Gianluigi Gasparetti, flies with the angels since a couple of months, Spanish soul-spirit and musician Ran Kirlian decided to release his wonderful collaboration with him, based on unfinished recordings by Oöphoi between 2009-2011 and additional stuff created by Mr Kirlian between 2012-2013.

As the release was meant to materialize before Gianluigi’s passing, and the latter wasn’t able to make that happen anymore, Ran Kirlian started out a sonic quest wherein he tried to stay close to the initial goal of his music. During that process he remixed two large soundworlds in order to a create a solid flow that also worked as a kind of argument for both of them. After Mr Gasparetti’s approval, Ran then started adding his own layers of sounds and polish and sculpt the final result towards an album that merged and expressed both their ideas about life and death.

«The Physics of Heaven» ended up as a continuous space of unleashed serenity and gently flowing non-rhythmic tapestries lasting for over 70-minutes. It’s an overall soothing, peaceful and profoundly ethereal ambient landscape radiating many colours as it explores the transition between life and death through different spiritual traditions and mythologies as the contemplative washes break on an imaginary eternal shore.

If you’re looking for something to caress the mind and soul smoothly, «The Physics of Heaven» will be most satisfying. Recommended!

Via sonicimmersion.org