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 – White Angel [AOREP015]

White AngelWhite 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.

Synths: Soma Laboratory Lyra-8 (all tracks), Quasimidi Polymorph (tracks 2 & 6), Access Virus Indigo (track 5)
Effects: Waves Trueverb, TC Electronic M3000 (tracks 1 & 5) and Valhalla Shimmer (track 6)

All music composed, performed and produced by Ran Kirlian
Cover artwork by Ran Kirlian
Recorded, mixed and mastered at The Blue_Room, May-June 2019. Released in 2019

Track list
1.- White Angel I (Lyra solo)6:12
2.- White Angel II (Lyra & Polymorph)9:57
3.- White Angel III (Lyra solo)3:38
4.- White Angel IV (Lyra solo)7:18
5.- White Angel V (Lyra & Indigo)7:05
6.- White Angel VI (Lyra & Polymorph) 6:07
Complete set: 40:17

Available at Bandcamp

Ran Kirlian – La Cueva de las Almas Perdidas [AOREP014]

La CuevaLa 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.

This minialbum is dedicated to all the victims during and after Franquism whose corpses were never found.

Tools: Tasty Pixel, Loopy HD, Amazing Noises Reverb, Waves Trueverb, TC Electronic M3000 and Valhalla Shimmer

Ran Kirlian: voices, whispers, whistles and rotating corrugated tube (track 4) Alan Kirlian: voices (track 2)
Recorded mixed and mastered at The Blue_Room, March 2019. Released in 2019

Track list
1.- Darvahan2:16
2.- Sibiaran6:22
3.- Kelerosh6:00
4.- Vinah9:56
Complete set: 24:34 

Available at Bandcamp

Ran Kirlian – Maalesbark [AOREP013]

MaalesbarkMaalesbark 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.

Tools: Eurorack modular synthesizer, Roland Jupiter 4 (tracks 1 & 3), Toshio Iwai’s Electroplankton (track 2)

All tracks composed and recorded live between 2010 and 2011. Sanctus, originally composed by Ran Kirlian in 2000

Mixed and mastered by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room, 2015 – 2016. Released in 2017
Cover art layout and pictures by Ran Kirlian

Track list
1.- Pluto7:42
2.- Benthos6:51
3.- Sanctus9:56
Complete set: 24:28 

Available at Bandcamp

Ran Kirlian & Landru – OSCVIRIA [AOREP012]

OSCVIRIAAfter 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).

While the initial bases and lines were totally clear since beginning and the first mix was ready in 2015, it took few years to complete it. I was taken and abandoned several times during months between other projects from both artists. After finding time to complete this inspirational work during the second half of 2018, it finally found a launch window during 2019.

OBSCVIRIA is essentially a dark-ambient minialbum that combines dark soundworlds, sequences and rhythms by Ran Kirlian and Landru.

Landru: analog and digital synthesizers, samplers & grooves
Ran Kirlian: analog and digital synthesizers, samplers & voices

Recorded between 2014-2016 at Atavachron and The Blue_Room. Released in 2019
Mixed and mastered 2017-2019 at The Blue_Room

Track list
1.- IVSCOIRA10:05
2.- VAIRISCO8:02
3.- SIVCAIRO6:22
Complete set: 24:30

Available at Bandcamp

Ran Kirlian – Ixtab [AOREP011]

IxtabDark-ambient/noisy-drone minialbum based on live recordings.

The album concept is based on the figure of the Mayan goddess Ix Tab, who has a nice description at wikipedia: ”At the time of the Spanish conquest of Yucatan (1527-1546), Ix Tab, or Ixtab ([iʃˈtaɓ], ‘Woman whose work involves the use of a rope’), was the indigenous Mayan goddess of suicide by hanging. Playing the role of a psychopomp (a guide of souls), she would accompany such suicides to heaven. No certain depictions of Ixtab are known.” ( Source: wikipedia)

Tools: Oberheim OB12, Roland JP8080, Creamware Pro12, TC Electronic M3000, TC Electronic M-One & treated field recordings

Composed, performed, recorded and mastered by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room, 2016 – 2017. Released in 2017

Cover art layout and pictures by Ran Kirlian

Track list
1.- Ix tab 17:10
2.- Ix tab 210:42
3.- Ix tab 37:40
Complete set: 25:33 

Available at Bandcamp

Ran Kirlian – Nested Dreams [AOREP010]

Nested DreamsDark 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.

The track Straits of Devastation owes its name to one of the maps of the MMORPG game Guild Wars 2 and the track Orthaleim was originally composed for a compilation in honour to the Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005) that was never released.

Tools: Antonio Blanca’s Dron-E, Wooji Fruits Sylo Synth, Moog Little Phatty, Oberheim OB12, Creamware Pro-12, TC Electronic M3000, TC Electronic M-One & treated field recordings

Composed, performed, recorded and mastered by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room, 2015 – 2017. Released in 2017.

Cover art layout and pictures by Ran Kirlian

Track list
1.- Jotain lähestyy9:42
2.- Orthaleim6:48
3.- Straits of Devastation8:12
Complete set: 24:41 

Available at Bandcamp