3 years down the line, the press seemed to have done their usual '3 years maximum for coverage' but it's still happening! This piece seeded itself in my head a few weeks after Russia's 'Military Exercise' into Ukraine. How could it not? What's happening in Ukraine is so wrong in so many ways.

It's still going on so why forget. That's the reason I have remixed this version in 2025 to keep this injustice fresh in our minds. 

Music Geek Alert (Instruments used)

4 x Contra Basses (Legato)
6 x Cellos (Long Flautando)
12 x Violins (Long Flautando)
12 x Violas (Long Flautando & Tremolo)
1 x Lead violin (Legato) 
Vocals : Clara & Danielle with their amazing timbres
Vocals : Mercury Choir
Vocals : Oliver Patrice Weder & his remarkable swimming pool choir 
Vocals : 3 Gothic Sisters
Oboe 
Piano 
Cymbalon (similar to a Zither)
Various digital instruments for 'The Groove'

Hymn For Ukraine

Descend into the immovable silence of Liturgia Atra, the eighth ritual cycle of the Arkanæa saga. Here, in the cold echo of stone and void, the divine watches without whispering—no warmth, no seduction, only the gravity of ancient liturgy.

Deep, distant Gregorian fragments drift through bowed-stone drones and pipe-organ undercurrents. Metallic scrapes and bone percussion punctuate rusted bells and gongs, while reversed vocal loops and breathless Coptic murmurs swirl like wind in a crypt. Cold analog synths and subterranean thunder recordings ground you in monolithic austerity.

This is a fossilized hymn—an archaic, post-sacramental relic where every tone uncovers what should have stayed buried.

✦ Gregorian Dark Ambient & Cold Ritual Drone
✦ Pipe Organ, Bowed Stone & Bone Percussion
✦ Rusted Bells, Gongs & Subterranean Wind
✦ Reversed Latin & Coptic Vocal Textures
✦ Tape Decay Chants & Monastic Field Recordings
✦ Enigmatic, Minimal & Monumental Atmosphere

Presented by Arkanæa: witness the sacred shadow.

Cripta Vocis

Celestial Breath

Dreamy, melancholic, peaceful, or just plain gorgeous? As long as your ears are open, the sound world of Yui Onodera will take you where YOU want to go. From simple means (piano, guitar, computer), Onodera draws complex materials, and then mixes them back into deceptively simple results. The work draws inspiration (and its title) from an abstract structure thought up by architect Christopher Alexander. What you get is quiet background music if you leave it at that or, if you are willing to take the time to listen, a deep immersive journey.

Hailing from Tokyo, Japan, Yui Onodera is a musician, a composer, and the founder of Critical Path. He studied both music and architecture, which explains his uncanny grasp of spatiality in music. His method consists in blending delicate instrumental lines with field recordings and computer treatments to create quiet, ambient electroacoustic pieces. This approach is akin to artists like Machinefabriek, Stephen Vitiello, and Chihei Hatakeyama.

"Semi Lattice" is Onodera's second solo album to be released in 2015 (the first one was "sinkai" on Japanese label Arctic Tone), after eight years of solo silence. In the interval, Onodera pursued several fruitful collaborations with musicians and groups like The Beautiful Schizophonic, Pjusk, Vadim Bondarenko, Mizkami Ryuta, and Baskaru recording artist Celer. All these projects seem to have informed "Semi Lattice" in some way, Onodera's solo works having grown lusher, fuller, and more fully-formed.

Yui Onodera - Semi Lattice 2

A track from the album 'Terra Nova' out 10/03/17 on Constellation Tatsu.
FALL BATCH 2017

Angel 1 - Karaoke

A Warmer Welcome// a digital benefit in support of syrian refugee welfare // 110 Tracks // DL - 2016
https://www.discogs.com/Various-A-Warmer-Welcome/release/8140284

:Zoviet*France: - The White Sea

Dragon’s Eye Recordings is pleased to announce the return of Japanese sound artist and composer Yui Onodera with the reissue of 'Synergetics / Entropy'. 'Synergetics' was originally released in 2007 on Drone Records (Germany), while 'Entropy' was originally released through Critical Path (Japan) in 2005, then again on Trumn (Japan) in 2009. Now, fifteen years later, the two aesthetically complementary albums have been remastered and will be released together as one.

'Synergetics,' composed entirely of electric guitar and piano, is a minimal two-track study in slow motion. Overtones, harmonics, and the slightest of melodies emerge to richen expansive drones. Described originally as “music shimmering like light on water,” it is contemplative listening experience that simultaneously allows for release of consciousness while drawing focus to a pinpoint of the present moment. A delicate, kaleidoscopic sound work. 

The moodier of the two releases, 'Entropy' is Onodera’s original self-released debut. Through use of guitar, field recordings, and electronics, Onodera’s signature style of manipulating harmonics and accent noises into simple loops and melodies is recognizable and can be now understood as foundational.  Moments of timbral friction add a dimension that gently fractures a hypnotic hallucination induced by the warm parenthetical embrace of harmonic drones. Again, as in 'Synergetics,' Onodera uses this palette to heighten the listener’s sense of genuinely 'active' living—the present moment is drawn to the forefront while the exterior world’s pulse thrums along.

Synergetics / Entropy

Yui Onodera - Entropy 9

MISC.WAVES APOCALYPSE DISTRACTION SPECIAL
w/ Datassette, Mücha & Tengui

Inappropriate Joyousness
Unexpected Positivity
Mild Amusement In Accidentally Apt Lyrics
Happysad / Melancholy
Classic Cheddar

Originally broadcast on Threads Radio, April 9th 2020

Tracklist:

Intro
The Pharcyde - It's All Good!
Julianna Barwick - Someway
Robert Lippok - All Objects Are Moving
Kate Bush - King Of The Mountain
Arthur Russell - Being It
A-Ha - Take On Me (Datashat Abandoned Shopping Mall Remix)
Awakening - Gotta Do Something (Might As Well Cultivate)
Chris Morris & Steeve Coogan - Crisis Correspondent
The Black Dog - Virtual
Aphex Twin - Analogue Bubblebath
Joful Talk - Part I - I've Got That Trans-Dimensional Feeling Again
Khotin - Frog Fractions
Talk Talk - I Believe In You (Tengui 1000 Yard Stare Version)
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Viholliseni Maala (In The Land Of My Enemy)
Crystal Stilts - Converging In The Quiet
Broadcast - Echo's Answer
Mogwai - Tracy
Broadcast - Corporeal
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround 7
X-Ray Pop - Contakt
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Maximum Joy
Voices From The Lake - S.T. (VFTL Rework)
Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened
Bent - Always (Import Version)
Schneider TM - The Light 3000
Dubstar - Stars (2003 Datashat Edit)
Mücha - Hear, See, Feel
Outro

MISC.WAVES - Apocalypse Distraction Special w/ Datassette, Mücha & Tengui (9 Apr 2020)

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Pre-order date: 7th July 2020
Release date: 18th July 2020
Format: CD, Digital

Music by morimoto naoki
Mastered by kazuhiro takeuchi

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Purple Dancer

Music by Rutger Zuydervelt, from the digital compilation Wheeler (2004-2008).
https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/wheeler-2004-2008