Do you know what it means to have such thoughtfully formed ambient?

Black Feathers

from 'Deterrence' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
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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

This is a collection of songs devoted to sounds you might hear in/on the ocean. The sound samples were provided by Ocean Networks Canada, the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, the JOIDES Resolution's audio library, and Erin Pettit. The cover art is a photograph taken at an exhibit in the Museum of Science and Industry of Chicago.

Whale Sighting

Aokigahara (青木ヶ原), known as the Suicide Forest is a 35-square-kilometre forest that lies at the northwest base of Mount Fuji in Japan. Aokigahara forest is dense, shutting out all but the natural sounds of the forest itself. The forest has an historic association with demons in Japanese mythology, and it is a notoriously common suicide site. 

Duncan Ritchie explores the long journey to Aokigahara through soundscapes ripe with lonely pianos on textural backdrops. Duncan spent countless hours field recording on the voyage between Tokyo to Aokigahara which creates the perfect atmospheric companion to the intricate instrumental approach. This is a beautiful dark ambie

Flowers For Bodysnatchers - And There Is A Darkness

A new track recorded live at Now That's Class in Cleveland, Ohio on February 7th, 2016 as part of Stephen Petrus' Midwinter Dark Ambient Ritual Noise Lunch.  

Apocryphos - Lachrymose Nature (Live in Cleveland, Ohio 2/7/16)

Track from the upcoming release.

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In Search For The Lost Wisdom

A track from the upcoming Desiderii Marginis album 'Procession'.

Silent Messenger

https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/yog-sothoth

A 2 hour dark soundscape album recorded by 20 ambient artists to pay tribute to H.P. Lovecraft. 

Field recordings from foggy towns to desolate mountains. Deep space drone and crackling amplifiers combine into a black sky devoid of stars. 

Yog-Sothoth is a cosmic entity and Outer God of the Cthulhu Mythos and the Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft. Born of the Nameless Mist, he is the progenitor of Cthulhu, Hastur the Unspeakable and the ancestor of the Voormi. 

Yog-Sothoth is omniscient, and is locked outside the universe, meaning he knows and can see all of space-time all at once, that there is no secret hidden from Yog-Sothoth.

Created by: 

ProtoU 
Sjellos 
Alphaxone 
Gydja 
Kristoffer Oustad 
Aegri Somnia 
Kammarheit 
Darkrad 
Atrium Carceri 
Randal Collier-Ford 
Neizvestija 
Council of Nine 
Dronny Darko 
Flowers for Bodysnatchers 
God Body Disconnect 
Keosz 
Kolhoosi 13 
Northumbria 
Sij 
Ugasanie 

Mastered and Artwork by Simon Heath

Yog​-​Sothoth by Cryo Chamber Collaboration

Yog​-​Sothoth Collaboration / Demo

Listen in to the wavelengths of radiation.
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The Inner Devil - Radiation

01 - Beta Pictoris

from the album Void
http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com

Ricardo Donoso - Mutual Assured Destruction

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