Your music has a great knack for riding the razors edge between melancholy and inspiring. Beautiful haunting space, my friend. :)

Hi Pasi! A music that always triggers emotions... As you already well know we missed you and this kind of music. As always, you convey universal truths in a concrete way. You never run away from problems and skillfully describe them. Life experience combined with great sensitivity allows you to achieve great results.   Beautiful ambient layers painted with effects flowing smoothly and subtly in an undefined perspective and depth. An ethereal atmosphere  with breathtaking melody. A very immersive and evocative theme imbued by emotions. Stunning work. Best Regards Pasi 😉

your soul must be beautiful...and the music...art beyond comprehension. loving this so much <3

Very tempered with dystopian vibes...yet uplifting! Dope sound!

For a more dense rhythm section I needed agility on bass line so this time, instead of the double bass, I chose to use my old dear electric bass, an old Cort that's been with me since high school. I haven’t played it for a long time, it’s been fun, I think I will do it again soon.
About the picture: actually the place of the photo is not a station or an airport, it is part of a photographic work I made some years ago on the concept of non-place like the big malls. But a non-place is also, some way, an all-places, every places from which to leave or arrive...
The real truth is that I've always liked this photo, for the perspective plane and because it's full of lines with variety of lights and shadows... In short, I couldn't wait to find an excuse to use it :)

Have a nice trip!

Arrivals and departures

I've never thought that I ever write a tango... And here it is, after playing with Valhalla Supermassive plugin it emerged out of nowhere. I hope You'll enjoy listening to it or even try to dance to it, even if it sounds a little apocalyptic ;)

Picture in thumbnail by DALL-E AI

Tango 'Til the End of the World

My latest salvage project, Dystopian Love Protocols, was such a joy that I wanted to do some more. So here's another poor sonic soul redeemed from limbo.
 This track has been haunting me for ages... 
Mixed on to 1/4 inch tape with a bit of saturation- and some of that lovely wow from the unstable mechanics of my tape recorder :)

Ground Zero

Groovin The Moves - Remastered

The stone columns of the Roman arch of Caparra, like gingantic strings played by the force of the wind.

MEDITATION 2 : PETRICHOR

The Spanish Inquisition.

This song took longer to finish than I thought when I started. It is difficult to get the frequencies right so that all the sounds don't flow together into a mush. A good sound engineer knows the tricks we amateurs tear our hair out over.

As usual, I use Reason:
https://reasonstudios.com/
Samples are from bundled refills.
Massive use of Polar, dual pitch shifter and Synchronous, Timed effect modulator.

Primary synth is Pigments from Arturia:
https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/pigments/overview

Some mean sounds are made with Synclavier V from Arturia.
https://www.arturia.com/products/analog-classics/synclavier-v/synclavier-v-resynthesis

A little bass from Blamsoft, VK-2.
https://blamsoft.com/rack-extensions/vk-2-viking-synthesizer/

Text to speech:
https://voicegenerator.io/
Google UK English Male. Pitch 0,6. Speed 1.

Finally, Monthly Python’s flying circus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spanish_Inquisition_(Monty_Python)

TheSpanishInquisition

Is anyone still out there?
Well hello there if you are taking some of your valuable time to read this! As the lyrics to this (probably)final song say, its been a long while……
The last time I checked into Soundcloud was maybe last December, wow…. 
I packed up for a holiday in Hawaii, ran the Honolulu Marathon, watched a volcano erupt, cast my dog’s ashes into a lava field and drank a tropical island's worth of cocktails while watching the sunset with my wife. And then returned a few weeks later decidedly unenthused about the Cat and my collaborator.
Gina had been making noises about returning to an on again / off again musical partner. That wasn’t unexpected and was actually a bit of a relief as I hadn’t been enjoying this for a while. Our last few songs had been tortuous to finish, including this one which was finally finished I think way back in October 2022.
Cat Came Back was always a lot like an arranged marriage - nothing at all in common but we kind of made it work 3 minutes at a time. But by late last year, it had become very hard work. And as you fellow Soundclouders know, outside of personal satisfaction, the rewards for all of that hard work are not very large. So, if the personal satisfaction is gone, there’s not a lot left to motivate oneself. 
In addition to that, there were a few rather large elephants in the room regarding my collaborator that I won't go into but nevertheless constantly weighed very heavily on my mind throughout our time together and I was finding these increasingly difficult to continue to ignore for the sake of making music together.
So anyway, when I returned a perhaps brief hiatus accidentally turned into this - silence for what, 7-8 months? Haven’t picked up an instrument in all that time and they currently sit in my garage gathering dust. Took up Chess, what a rabbit hole that is! Continued running. Listening as always to a lot of old jazz. Continued seemingly never ending renovations to my house. Spent a lot of time with my lifelong friend, William Styron’s Black Dog, as a matter of fact he's here sitting right by my side now. 
So what now? I sat down a few days back and listened to a few things that were unfinished as of late last year. Maybe its time to start again. Find a new collaborator or two? Anyone know anyone who might be a match?
In the meantime I’ll dip my toe in and check out what some of my favourite Soundclouders have been up to while I was away. I'm sure I've missed out on some really great stuff.

Minor Exotica (Turned To Black)

track from humanfobia x noxpox EP: "🔥Carrie White Burns in Hell🔥"//Free download this track and the full EP from 4 alternative links:
- https://humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com/album/carrie-white-burns-in-hell-ep-2023
- https://archive.org/details/carrie-white-burns-in-hell-ep
- https://hearthis.at/humanfobia/set/2023-ecarrie-white-burns-in-helleepwith-noxpox/
- https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Humanfobia/carrie-white-burns-in-hell
//credits: music by noxpox / remixed by sabila orbe / vocals: Mist Spectra.  Inspired in Carrie (1976) movie.-
/// Lyrics:
Durante años he sido controlada por la mentalidad religiosa
He estado presa de mis pensamientos
Siento una energía dentro de mí, un gran poder invisible, la Telekinesis
Telekinesis, Telekinesis, poder sin límites que no lo puedo controlar.

Romperé las barreras de lo que me imponen
dejaré de ser una chica tímida y cabizbaja
me graduaré con honores en la fiesta de sangre
ya no seré mas objeto de tus burlas
seré tu peor pesadilla infernal.

Telekinesis, Telekinesis, poder sin límites que no lo puedo controlar.

Telekinesis, Telekinesis, poder sin límites que no lo puedo controlar.

▼Telekinesis▼[with noxpox]

Composed by: Joan Manuel Serrat: https://www.ouvirmusica.com.br/joan-manuel-serrat/511067/
Version, Arrangements & Production by: Chivicke HomeStudio

A toda orquesta

Autumn Ballad (Orchestral - cover-version - Joan Manuel Serrat )

On The Same Planet

A song inspired on an article I once read about Aeham Ahmad, the piano player from Yarmouk, Syria, who's piano was burned by IS.  After this he flee from his country and ended up in Germany. He still plays the piano; you can also find him here on SoundCloud!  @aeham_ahmad




DISCONNECTED

I used to feel free
In my beloved country
There was nothing to image 
that could make me want to leave that place
I used to play piano
And sang songs of love and happiness
Now those days are  gone, those lovely days are gone

I am disconnected
disconnected

My piano is destroyed now
They burned out the devil
My piano was executed and I’m sure 
I would be next if I would stay around too long
So I started travelling
Without knowing where to go
I started travelling
I just had to go.

I am disconnected
Disconnected

I’ve travelled by car, by trains and busses
I walked for many hours
While I sat on boat on the endless sea
I thought it never ended
I’ve waited for gates, without food in the rain 
I crossed 9 borders
Now I here and 
I’m disconnected

I’m disconnected
disconnected

Disconnected

Hierophlex is my main channel for expressing various moods, visions and stories via electronic soundscapes.

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