Etiqueta: Ran Kirlian

La 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.-	Darvahan		2:16
2.-	Sibiaran		6:22
3.-	Kelerosh		6:00
4.-	Vinah		9:56
	Complete set: 24:34

Available at Bandcamp

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.

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.-	Pluto		7:42
2.-	Benthos		6:51
3.-	Sanctus		9:56
	Complete set: 24:28

Available at Bandcamp

After 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.-	IVSCOIRA		10:05
2.-	VAIRISCO		8:02
3.-	SIVCAIRO		6:22
	Complete set: 24:30

Available at Bandcamp

Dark-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 1		7:10
2.-	Ix tab 2		10:42
3.-	Ix tab 3		7:40
	Complete set: 25:33

Available at Bandcamp

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.

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 lähestyy		9:42
2.-	Orthaleim		6:48
3.-	Straits of Devastation		8:12
	Complete set: 24:41

Available at Bandcamp

Woomh EP containing 4 deeply connected tracks that conforms a sonic portrait of one of those moments when we’re feeling lost and blind, like walking inside of a dark forest without a path to follow. While the music of this minialbum is mostly dark ambient, I conceived it as a soundtrack for one of these enlightening experiences that we must feel, and even enjoy, in out lifes. Dedicated in loving memory to Oöphoi (Gianluigi Gasparetti) 1958 – 2013

Tools: Antonio Blanca’s Dron-E, Wooji Fruits Sylo Synth, Oberheim OB12, Roland JP8080, TC Electronic M3000, Sonic Forest & treated field recordings

Composed, performed, recorded and mastered by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room, 2012 – 2014. Released in 2015.

Cover art layout and pictures by Ran Kirlian

	Track list
1.-	Below the Surface		6:19
2.-	The Roots Keep Growing		3:02
3.-	Through the Ancient Ruins		11:54
4.-	Wrapped in Whispers		3:23
	Complete set: 24:38

Available at Bandcamp