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Taken from VA/Meditations 7
Limited Edition CD available here:
shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m…tions-7

Mastered by Andrea Porcu
Release date: 12.3.2021

Mount Shrine - Fukuoka

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

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Izu Ambient 012 (Instrumental)

Integrated music and sound design for LIMBO (Playdead) released on Xbox LIVE arcade, Playstation Network, and Steam

»if you still have any friends that don’t think games can be works of art, they haven’t played this game.« (The Tanooki)

»Amazing, phenomenal, brilliant, fantastic, sublime, astonishing« are some of the adjectives used by reviewers to describe the audio in LIMBO

Martin Stig Andersen - Menu (Limbo)

Dronny Darko and protoU presents us a highly conceptual work in Earth Songs. Starting with the Big Bang, leading us through a path of evolution from the first life below the surface to the connected consciousness of humanity and us finally leaving earth. A dark ambient album of soothing, dreamy atmospheric drones and field recordings.
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released 28 July 2015 

Written, produced, performed - Oleg Puzan & Sasha Cats 
Artwork, Mastering - Simon Heath

Full Album

Riparian Forest - 300 Million Years Ago -

Eternals | From the new album "NOCTURNA": https://htdc.bandcamp.com/album/nocturna-2

Nightscapes Sessions: Songs in the key of night.

All tracks written and produced by How To Disappear Completely
Nightscapes Sessions: Recorded between April/June 2016.

This release is a coda to WITHIN WITHOUT.

All perceived silence and audio deformations were intended.


Nocturna

Eternals

Oressa from Mer de Revs II - Music For Insomniacs: htdc.bandcamp.com/album/mer-de-revs-ii

Mer de Revs Sessions (Recorded in 2016/2017) 

A study in deliberately soothing textures designed to give the listener space to find stillness and collapse into rest - late night lullabies.

How To Disappear Completely presents Mer de Revs II, second installment of our experimental sleep music project. Almost eighty minutes of new music composed and recorded over twelve month period (a song per month), 2016/2017. Recording this album we wanted to keep the same aesthetics - simple as possible, minimal amount of gear as possible. We hope you enjoy our latest release as much as we did recording it and we can't thank you all enough for your support. As always, thanks for listening.

Oressa

Livana from Mer de Revs III - Music for Insomniacs: https://htdc.bandcamp.com/album/mer-de-revs-iii

Mer de Revs Sessions (Recorded in 2017/2018)

A study in deliberately soothing textures designed to give the listener space to find stillness and collapse into rest - late night lullabies. 

How To Disappear Completely presents Mer de Revs III, third installment of our experimental sleep music project. Almost eighty minutes of new music composed and recorded over twelve month period (a song per month), 2017/2018. Recording this album we wanted to keep the same aesthetics as on the last two volumes - simple as possible, minimal amount of gear as possible. Volume III of Mer de Revs is a culmination point of the trilogy and a summary of the first two installments. We hope you enjoy our latest release as much as we did recording it and we can't thank you all enough for your support. As always - thanks for listening.

Livana

Seraph III from the new album Seraphim - a coda to our experimental sleep music project, Mer de Revs series: https://htdc.bandcamp.com/album/seraphim

We’ve been considering and wanting to make this kind of record after recording Seraphim II on the 1st volume of Mer de Revs. Material for this album was composed and recorded over the last two years during MdR recording sessions. The end result is almost 2 hours of music that we hope you’ll enjoy as much as we did recording it. As always - THANK YOU for listening and your support.

Seraph III

Seraph V from the new album Seraphim - a coda to our experimental sleep music project, Mer de Revs series: htdc.bandcamp.com/album/seraphim

We’ve been considering and wanting to make this kind of record after recording Seraphim II on the 1st volume of Mer de Revs. Material for this album was composed and recorded over the last two years during MdR recording sessions. The end result is almost 2 hours of music that we hope you’ll enjoy as much as we did recording it. As always - THANK YOU for listening and your support.

Seraph V

How To Disappear Completely is a live collective based in Poland.

Seraph III

HTDC

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