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Ran Kirlian – Selected Works I [AOR0004]

Selected-Works-ISelected Works Vol. I collects music from the most tribal-ambient side of Ran Kirlian music 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 Shore of Darkness ( 1999-2000, now discontinued), Limbo (2001), Melting Point (2001) and Sleeper (2004) as well as a rare live version of Fade Out movement 5 and two previously unreleased tracks, Densho Barshi Huo 2, a demo from a 2004 live performance and Viral Storm, an outtake from the album Limbo.

Sound sources includes synthesizers, samplers, voices, groove percussion, flutes bells and treated found sounds. All tracks composed, performed, arranged and produced by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room between 1999 and 2007. Cave of Forgotten Fires features Patrick van de Ven on groove percussion, ethnic flutes and rainstick.

Track list
1.-Suria2:55
2.-Sanctus9:24
3.-Pandemonium6:15
4.-Densho Barshi Huo 23:50
5.-Indocalia4:32
6.-Beyond the Void6:34
7.-Samadhi7:27
8.-Summoning Spell1:42
9.-Cave of Forgotten Fires6:39
10.-Other Place6:50
11.-Fade Out (live)5:02
12.-Virical Storm6:50
13.-Nepenthes5:19
Complete set: 73:26

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Ran Kirlian – Dissolution [AOR0003]

DissolutionDissolution is the new exploration into dark ambient realms by Ran Kirlian after four years in the making and several sound experiments and project evolutions. The result is a collection of 11 new tracks exploring sound in a very organic way, where synth drones melts with environmental noises, acoustic sounds and voices to create soundworlds that drives the listener from the deeps of the earth to the cosmic void.

This album collects music from very different periods between years 2005 and 2009, mostly based on dark ambient and minimalist soundscapes and sometimes based on improvisation

Sound sources includes synthesizers, samplers, effect processors, bells, flutes, singing bowls, voices & treated found sounds

Track list
1.-Amalgama4:20
2.-Dark Matter11:45
3.-W-M315:34
4.-Atmosfear4:23
5.-Syrtis Major7:19
6.-Dissolution6:21
7.-Deflection5:06
8.-Labyrinth6:55
9.-Selenium12:07
10.-Inconnu5:22
11.-Ágora6:10
Complete set: 75:29

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Synergy 1 – An Altera Orbe Compilation [AORS001]

Synergy 1Synergy 1 is an AlteraOrbe ambient compilation released in 2012 featuring music by Max Corbacho, Landru, Joxan Ruiz, Ran Kirlian, Mindglide, Isidro Castro and Vauxia Errante.

This album was created as a presentation to our record label and to our main artists and offered as a free download in FLAC and mp3 format. You can find the link at the end of this page.

Mixed by Ran Kirlian at The Blue_Room, Dec 2012
Cover artwork and fractal images by Landru, 2012

All music composed, recorded and performed by their authors & published by AlteraOrbe

Track list
1.- Max Corbacho: Deep Time (except) – from Deep Time (AD207, 2010) 6:27
2.- Landru: Fimbria – from Fimbria (AOR0007, 2012) 4:53
3.- Mindglide: The Edge Of Infinity – from Down the Light (AOR0012, 2012) 7:52
4.- Ran Kirlian: Messier 83 – from Continuum (AOR0008, 2012) 4:28
5.- Joxan Ruiz: Ocean Vibration – from Gaze (AOR0011, 2012) 7:02
6.- Landru: Binary Rain – from Scotoma (AOR0013, 2013) 5:57
7.- Isidro Castro: Arrival – from Flightpath Vol. 1 (AOR0014, 2012) 12:54
8.- Vauxia Errante: Xandarella Spectaculum – from Cambrian Spirits (AOR0009, 2012) 7:37
9.- Ran Kirlian & Landru: Alluvium – from Waterfront (AOR0006, 2012) 10:43
10.- Joxan Ruiz: Space Between – Previously Unreleased, 2012 9:40
Total time: 77:40

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Ran Kirlian & Landru – Waterfront [AOR0006]

WaterfrontWaterfront is the consolidation of the first acclaimed collaborative work between the ambient artists Ran Kirlian and Landru, co-owners of the online ambient label Altera Orbe.

Recorded as a real time performance during one whole session and later mastered at the artists’ recording studios, Waterfront reflects the interaction between the sublime drones and ethereal ambiences created by Ran Kirlian and the hypnotic and melodic sonic riffs and tribal percussion loops composed by Landru.

Using both digital and analog synthesizers as the main sound sources, Waterfront has a very unique organic mood, mainly thanks to those background ambience landscapes provided by real ethnic instruments and dedicated field recordings.

Track list
1.-Alkali 7:45
2.-Diffraction 14:58
3.-Interdimensional 6:26
4.-Pulsating Core 10:58
5.-Alluvium12:39
6.-Waterfront4:37
7.-Metamorphism 14:49
Complete set: 72:14

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Vauxia Errante – Cambrian Spirits [AOR0009]

Cambrian SpiritsCambrian Spirits is the first album by Vauxia errante, a dark and deep subterranean-ambient work full of drones, complex textures and field recordings from the underworld. The album, recorded during 20011 and 2012 features Ran Kirlian on synths, flutes and tribal grooves on some tracks as well as on production. The album art was also created by his friend, while thematics and pictures comes from Vauxia’s secondary passions: photography and paleontology.

His creative process combines electronics, voices and field recordings in a deconstructive research. Darkness, cavernous and underground are words that comes to mind after listening to Vauxia Errante textures and sonic experiments.

Track list

1.-Sirius Passet
12:39
2.-Xandarella Spectaculum (with Ran Kirlian)
8:14
3.-Call of Nacreous
11:54
4.-Cambrian Spirits (with Ran Kirlian)
21:23
5.-Cycle of Earth (with Ran Kirlian)
12:41
6.-Hazelia
8:36


 Complete set: 75:27

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Vauxia Errante

Vauxia Errante is the alias of a history teacher born and located in Valencia (Spain) who prefers to remain anonymous in his music career. He started playing music in 2008 as a hobby influenced by his love for ambient and dark-ambient genres. During the last years, this innocent hobby has become a serious passion with a deep research and time-consuming dedication, redefining dark and drone music in which he classifies as Subterranean Ambient. His first music project was developed with the support of his long time friend Ran Kirlian letting them start some collaborative works.

His most prefered instruments are software synths like Reaktor, Kontakt, Alchemy and a large amount of VSTis and iOS Apps. He also uses to include voices and field recordings as source material for his sonic experiments.

Strongly influenced by the music of Oöphoi, Mathias Grassow, Thommas Köner, Vidna Obmana , Nik Parkin , Jeff Greinke, Alio Die, Viridian Sun, Lustmord, Zeit, Yen Pox, Nimh, Aglaia, Kenneth Newby and a lot more.

His first album, Cambrian Spirits, was produced by Ran Kirlian, which is also featured in some of the tracks of this album. The album art was also created by his friend, while thematics and pictures comes from Vauxia’s secondary passions: photography and paleontology.

Vauxia Errante on Bandcamp

Music released on Altera orbe

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Ran Kirlian

Born in Hannover (Germany) in 1972 and later moved to Valencia (Spain), Ran Kirlian began exploring his own musical pathways in the mid-nineties and recorded his first album Shore of Darkness in 2000. Since then nearly a dozen albums have followed, among which include Obscurity (2000), Melting Point (2001), Sleeper (2004) and his lastest work Dissolution (2009). Also, two albums entitled Selected Works I & Selected Works II were released in 2007 collecting music recorded and released between years 2000 and 2007 from tribal-ambient to dark and space ambient genres.

His music, mostly focussed on tribal and dark ambient genres, offers a personal and intense approach to textural landscaping and atmospheres inspiring ritualistic environments, cold spaces and desolate landscapes. Defined as a self-taught musician, he uses to start most of his projects from raw improvisations that later evolve in a continuous refinement process.

With synthesizers and samplers as his main tools, his music tries to combine different sound sources like field recordings, exotic flutes, percussions and ethnic instruments like bowls and didgeridoos. This mixture carries evident influences from artists like Steve Roach, Alio Die, Robert Rich, Mathias Grassow, Oöphoi, Lustmord, Thom Brennan and Jorge Reyes.

Ran Kirlian albums on Bandcamp
Ran Kirlian official website

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The Woomh Files: a journey of almost ten years

The Woomh FilesAltera Orbe started releasing EPs and minialbums back in 2012 under the special Woomh category, trying to offer to the artist another way to create and release music on an altertive format that allowed a faster develope. The idea was to catch ideas in distinction to the classic album format and time lenght, being perfect for little live performances, smaller conceptual works, medium-form pieces with identity, etc. In the end a lot of ideas fitted the format that sometimes was also possible to have a physical release in mini-CD (210Mb/ 24 minutes).

Ran Kirlian has released a dozen mini-albums in the Woomh series, being a few of them even earlier to the Woomh concept, ranging from year 2009 to 2019. Now he released an album collecting pieces from each of these mini-works with a fine mix that melt them together and also incluides some extrastuff like a pair if unreleased tracks and 12 pages booklet containing a lot of information about the making of these recordings and their artworks. It acts both like a sample of the music pictured on the Woomh series and as a portrait of a ten years journey across Ran Kirlian music.

The Woomh Files is available at Bandcamp for free or name your price.

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Ran Kirlian | White Angel

White AngelWhite Angel is the alternative name of the Lyra-8 synthesizer created by Soma Laboratory. It is, also, the title of Ran Kirlian 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, from experimental and drone to subtle melodies and drifting atmospheres.

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

The minialbum White Angel is available at Bandcamp

Listen and see in the next video a sample of the music of this Woomh, with an alternative version of the track White Angel VI played live:

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The Many Futures of Ran Kirlian

IMany Futures 1n September 2018 Ran Kirlian released a new EP with 3 tracks entitled «Many Futures issue nº1». Beyond the naive title, its cover art and layout looked closer to a vintage sci-fi magazine than to the typical Woomh albums. Also it did not followed the catalog number of the series, however it is an Altera Orbe minialbum release, but belonging to a new conceptual series, parallel to the Woomh series.

Many Futures is a series of mini albums that collects Ran Kirlian musical and sonic impressions around years of science fiction literature reading.

As Ran says: «More than just a soundtrack for those stories, these tracks are my personal vision of the future portrayed by the authors on their stories. 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.»

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