Etiqueta: ethereal

This 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 1		8:25
2.-	Movement 2		4:30
3.-	Movement 3		11:12
4.-	Movement 4		4.44
5.-	Movement 5		14:01
6.-	Movement 6		2:04
7.-	Movement 7		7:16
8.-	Movement 8		26:34
	Complete set: 78:46

Available at Bandcamp

The 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

Cosmos 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)

After 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

Selected Works Vol. II collects music from atmospheric, space and dark-ambient styles of Ran Kirlian composed and recorded during the years 1999 to 2007.

The music included in this selection was remastered (when possible) and mixed to provide a continuous and organic flow to enhace the listening experience. It collects music from the albums Obscurity (1999-2000), Isolated Landscapes (2001), Melting Point (2001), Limbo (2001), Initial Flow (2002, now discontinued), Fade Out (2003), Elements in Motion (2004) and Sleeper (2004) as well as a rare live version of Cortical Landscapes from 2005 and two previously unreleased tracks, Veronica from 2004 and Pisaura Mirabilis from 2007, just recorded for this album. Due to large time duratin, some fo the tracks had to be cut down to fit the mix.

Sound sources includes synthesizers, samplers, voices and treated found sounds. All tracks composed, performed, arranged and produced by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room between 1999 and 2007.

	Track list
1.-	Divided Zones		2:58
2.-	Host Creatures		7:26
3.-	Initial Flow I		4:18
4.-	In Aeternum Part III		8:52
5.-	Black Surface		6:05
6.-	Beauty		8:03
7.-	Veronica		2:00
8.-	Fade Out 8		7:32
9.-	Pisaura Mirabilis		5:15
10.-	Obscure Angels		4:27
11.-	Cortical Landscapes		8:56
12.-	Beyond the Stars		11:28
	Complete set: 77:25

Available at Bandcamp