Beautiful sounds and arrangement! 🫶 Do I hear a hint of "The dream is alway the same" by TD? 🤗 Luv it!

Very my style Steve, congrats!  Both showed tracks in my show friday 24may 2024  in WavemansUnderground  http://emportal.info/viewforum.php?f=58

Grim Service - DELUSION

Blair Witch Project.... video game.

2000

Coffin Rock (2000)

IVE BEEN MEDITATING FOR YEARS AND SOMETIMES USE MUSIC AS A WAY TO MOVE DEEPER INTO MY PRACTICE. I MADE THIS AMBIENT ALBUM WITH THAT UTILITY IN MIND. YOU HAVE SEVEN CHAKRA (ENERGY SYSTEMS) WITHIN THE HUMAN BODY. STARTING WITH THE LOWEST ONE (ROOT CHAKRA) ALL THE WAY TO THE HIGHEST (CROWN CHAKRA). EACH SONG IS A MEDITATION IN THE KEY OF THE CHAKRA, IN ORDER FROM LOWEST TO HIGHEST. YOU CAN USE THE TRACKS INDIVIDUALLY TO FOCUS ON A CHAKRA OR DO THEM IN SEQUENCE TO OPEN UP THE WHOLE SYSTEM. I ALSO USE THIS MUSIC FOR MY YOGA PRACTICE, EARLY MORNINGS, OR TO GROUND DOWN IN THE EVENINGS. I HOPE YOU FIND PEACE IN THIS ALBUM AND I HOPE IT MIGHT CALM THE SPIRIT WITHIN.

EMERALD AFFIRMATION

from 'Deterrence' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den222
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/ricardodonoso]

Ricardo Donoso is a composer, percussionist and electronic musician from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil who currently resides in Boston.  After having studied composition at Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory he has participated in a slew of projects over the years, most notably playing drums for avant-death metal unit Ehnahre and being one half of the ever morphing electronic duo Perispirit. Ricardo's musical vocabulary draws as much from contemporary composition, drone, to techno and noise.

A year before exploding onto the electronic music scene in 2011with the critically acclaimed Progress Chance, Ricardo Donoso's debut release "Deterrence" was issued as an extremely limited cassette edition - a through-composed ambient piece, "Deterrence" is stripped of all the rhythmic flux which he has become known for. Considered by many in underground circles to be a true masterwork of the Dark Ambient genre, "Deterrence" is often times compared to works by artists such as Lustmord, Biosphere & Deathprod. Denovali is pleased to finally present this much needed reissue, five years from its inception.

It's a fitting time for "Deterrence" to see the light of day, as it lets us explore Donoso's roots as a composer, both musically & thematically. With the simultaneous release of his new opus "Sarava Exu" one can't help but connect the dots from some of the foundations laid out on "Deterrence"; the glacial drones underpinning melodic flourishes on the surface , the patience and pacing of each movement and the use of space, sound design and texture in equal balance with the harmonic and melodic content. 

Although vastly different from the much loved, geometric inspired Digitalis trilogy, "Deterrence" still serves its function of sucking you into its world, guiding the listener through barren landscapes, dreamlike imagery and moments of hopeful yearning then spitting you out on the other side. Like past Donoso releases, it begs to be excavated and explored, revealing more & more of itself upon closer inspection. The motivic cycling chords tumble in-between tape his & location recordings, sometimes appearing inverted, upside down, in reversed order, but always there, present and serving it's function. Melodic content is hinted at on opener "Simulated Charity", becoming fully exposed at the halfway point on a broken down piano on "Prisoner's Dilemma" as feedback swells and guitar drones carry the movement along until the massive crescendo in "Mutual Assured Destruction" gives us some respite, albeit only briefly as the tonal clouds are then drowned by claustrophobic textures, leaving us not with answers, but more questions. While always pushing forward, Donoso' manages to maintain with each release his cinematic grandeur, an elegant narrative arc and a truly singular and dramatic tone. "Deterrence" is a small, yet important window into the one of contemporary electronic music's most unique voices. 

Deterrence

Ricardo Donoso - Mutual Assured Destruction

A 2nd track from the album  "Chasing Shadows,"  following the Dungeons and Dragons character Symfaerā, the elf guardian of the Eladrin, on her journey navigating the shadows of mystery and intrigue.

The Flooded Forest - from the album Chasing Shadows

B1 from i'd love to fly
releases may 30

pre-order
nthng.bandcamp.com/album/id-love-to-fly

music by nthng
artwork by Karina Rovira
video by Raen Coplin
mastered by Isabel @ OLO Mastering
pressed at RAND MUZIK
distributed by Inchbyinch

In the city

Big thanks to Zenjungle (https://soundcloud.com/filgardel) for the opportunity to remix and add new instrumentation to his fantastic piece, 'Elegy for the Will'. The original can be found on his recent LP, 'We Are Not Here' out now on https://soundcloud.com/midirarecords 

Stream: https://zenjungle.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-not-here
Buy: http://midirarecords.com/md-031-zenjungle-we-are-not-here/

The remix is a free download, so please help yourself to a copy

zenjungle - elegy for the will (dead melodies' perspective)

From the album 'That Which is Tragic and Timeless'.

The Love You Find in Hell

Tomb of Ordeals is the fourth installment in the evocative and collaborative Tomb series. 

These wet stone walls have become your prison and eternal home since your capture. The smell of blood and marrow fills your lungs as your fingers scratch to get out. The deeper you submerge into your future tomb, the more the air turns malignant. Distant cries creeps within earshot and suckling sounds slither in the dark. This is your ordeal. Will you become another soul bound to these stones? 

Tomb Series Discography: 
Tomb of Empires - cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/tomb-of-empires 
Tomb of Seers - cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/tomb-of-seers 
Tomb of Druids - cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/tomb-of-druids 
Tomb of Ordeals - cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/tomb-of-ordeals 

Grab the 4 CD Bundle here - cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/tomb-of-ordeals

Tomb of Ordeals

Bandcamp

Apocryphos - Nightside Ordeal

The wind has changed. The Earth itself vibrates underneath. The wind speaks of the North — and so the journey begins.

They leave marks on the stones and carry the fire. Drums and flutes speak with the elements. Voices emerge and fade through the fog.

Through the nights full of rustling, of whispers and glowing eyes.

The bridge of ice welcomed them to a new land. And melted away behind them.

So the journey goes on…

Beringia

Heart of the Island

Evoke

Ambient electronic music producer based in Helsinki, Finland.  
Producing for the Legacy of Thought label.

The Flooded Forest - from the album Chasing Shadows

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