Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Photography by Alexander Kopatz.
www.go70north.com
Faint025 // FaintCD025
Faint / 2021

Misleading Structures - Recurrence

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

Larynx

Coiming Through The Clouds

TYMELAPSE - We Became Strangers

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)

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)

'Emptiness Is Form' is the follow up of the last Purl album 'Form Is Emptiness', released last year on Archives.
A collection of remixes by Logic Moon, Powlos, Moshimoss, Darren McClure, SVLBRD and new versions by the own Purl. 

Written and Produced by Ludvig Cimbrelius. 
Remixes by Moshimoss, Logic Moon, Powlos, Darren McClure and SVLBRD. 
Photography by Alexander Kopatz | www.go70north.com 
Mastering by Rob Small. 
Archives37 // ArchivesCD018

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Purl - Vissna (Logic Moon Remix)

Moscow based quartet Lesa Listvy debuts on Cryo Chamber with Way Home. 
On this highly atmospheric release you get a mix of deep analogue drone, dark beats, ethereal walls of sound and subtle field recordings. 

Years ago the beat of the shaman's drum pulled your tribe out of the motherland. Now as you make your way home everything has changed. The smell of burnt wood linger in the canopy of the forests, clicking machinery reverberate deep within. Trees malformed, technology fused with nature, the prophecy of the shaman was wrong. The ancient land now lies perverted by the swarm, but the tribe is coming home. 

Highly recommended for fans of warm analogue ambient

Way Home

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Lesa Listvy - Evening by the Lake

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

additional mixed by kashiwagi souichro(sindromz)

Make Me Forget All That Hurts Me
→https://youtu.be/MPwSqj-bRaM

Make me forget all that hurts me

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

Seraph III

HTDC