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The 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 Memories		66:33
	Complete set: 66:33

Available at Bandcamp

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)

This 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 I		11:20
2.-	Host Creatures		6:54
3.-	Metaphase		2:04
4.-	Submerging		7:44
5.-	Traveler		8:01
6.-	Other Place		10:37
7.-	Relapse		5:46
8.-	In Somnia Part II		16.17
	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)

Strange 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 Surface		11:20
2.-	Celiar Structure		4:50
3.-	Deflective Limits		13:25
4.-	Static Motion		22:23
5.-	Cortical Landscapes		14:11
6.-	Collapse		11:49
	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)