Ran Kirlian – Stillness

Ran Kirlian StillnessTogether with Ethernautica, Ran Kirlian also released another album in New Year’s Eve entitled Stillness. It is a deep and dark soundworld album formed by three long-form pieces where slow evolving passages flow to conform intense textures.

This is what Kirlian has to say about this album:

«Stillness proposes an isolated and timeless sonic universe that combines and contrasts static and dynamism trying to cause the listener to feel expelled from that world full of sounds, noises and rhythms resulting from the daily reality in which we live. In Stillness you can find slow sequences and melodies that flow and evolve over even slower structures on mostly static drones. This made me feel that the sound world I was creating was expanding again and again, to fill everything.

This album suggests an alternative approach to the classic concept of environmental drones as I have been developing so far. For the recording and composition process of this album, I have applied patterns similar to those used in works such as Ethernautica.»

Stillness is available digital download format in 24-bit depth sound quality at Bandcamp: https://rankirlian.bandcamp.com/album/stillness

Ran Kirlian – Ethernautica IV

Ran Kirlian Ethernautica IVRan Kirlian just released Ethernautica IV, his fourth episode in his series of raw large format dronescapes. This is what he says about this release:

«As every year, since I’ve started this personal tradition three years back, a new Ethernautica album has been release, just on New Year’s Eve.

This volume, the fourth instance in the series, is again a single long format piece that presents an evolving soundworld full of little details. Recorded in a single take as usual, this track was originally created as an inspirational source for my own as well as for meditative purposes. This piece may sound a bit raw and unpredictible, which is part of the spirit of this recording series.»

You can download now Ethernautica IV free or naming your price at Bandcamp.

Ran Kirlian – The Woomh files video mix

The latest Ran Kirlian album, The Woomh Files, is a collection of music recorded from 2009 to 2019 previously released as mini-albums on the Altera Orbe record label under the Woomh series.

Ran Kirlian also recorded a little video collecting excepts of the tracks included in the album «having each one its own visual space, mostly based on their cover artworks«.

Video editior: Sony Vegas
Particulas effect created by Alexander Demyanov on http://vegasaur.com
Artwork and video footage by Ran Kirlian
All music composed, recorded and produced by Ran Kirlian between 2009 and 2019

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 – The Shape of Memories [AOR0029]

The Shape of MemoriesThe 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 Memories66:33
Complete set: 66:33 

Available at Bandcamp

Ran Kirlian – Distant Signals [AOR0028]

Distant SignalsDistant 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 I11:02
2.- Primical5:43
3.- Siria7:27
4.- Tochlia3:43
5.- Ansejo6:01
6.- Egea II6:42
7.- Ooprema8:14
8.- Arsenas10:54
9.- Niastas9:21
10.- Ergesia7:53
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)