A 13.30 minute collage of the album "Travel In Peace" that i recorded in 2019 as a requiem for my soulbrother J.Derwort. 

At 11.30 min you can hear his last flute ever recorded. I call this piece "Last Breath". It was a sunny day in january 2019 at his house in Santa Fe, where he moved december 2018. I put out a comfortable chair with a blanket in the winter sun. And a small table, a cup of tea and his first ever made bamboo flute. He said: thank you but i can not play anymore. After 30 minutes he still picked up the flute and played for a few seconds, that i recorded on my telephone. He said: it's no good at all, but still it's oke, i know you will put your magic to it later. He borrowed me this flute that he made at the Kallikatsou early eighties to record more myself. It was a kind of farwell. A month later he died. Of course i was there too and his best friends.
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You can download the original album (2 x 21 minute) here:
https://astralindustries.bandcamp.com/album/ai-18-travel-in-peace
The vinyl was sold out shortly after the release. They now sell copies up to Є 200 on Discogs, which is of course crazy.  I hope Astral will do a repress soon. 

Here are a few of the reviews:

Fred Mikardo-Greaves for Norman Records:
‘Travel In Peace’. Sound advice. Our own Ant rather delightfully described Chi Factory’s ‘Travel In Peace’ as a ‘mind lozenge’, and this latest set is certainly a balm for the soul in extraordinary times. The two side-long meditations here are sonically rather amorphous - aquatic drone, fourth-world soundscapes, spiritual incantations and far-out flurries of field recording can all be found across the course of the LP. Jon Hassell, Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra and ‘Tower Of Meaning’-mode Arthur Russell keep watch over both band and listener throughout. ‘Travel In Peace’, and leave refreshed.

Juno Records:
"Following the death of his one-time Chi Factory partner J.Derwort in February 2019, Hanyo van Oosterom went back to Patmos, the magical island where they once recorded their most famous works, armed with some of the artefacts and hand-built instruments they'd collected together. While there, he made the field recordings and musical sketches that form the backbone of "Travel In Peace", Oosterom's emotional final album as Chi Factory. Poignant, atmospheric, melancholic, dreamy and otherworldly with a genuine sense of time and place (you can almost smell the surrounding flora and fauna), the album's two lengthy tracks - collages of interlinked sketches and recurring musical motifs - are fittingly fantastic. As curtain calls go, we can think of few better".

Here's an interview with "A Vague New World" from 2019. It's all about the story behind CHI, The Chi Factory and Son Of Chi:
https://vaguenewworld.substack.com/p/in-conversation-hanyo-van-oosterom

And a video collage on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6scnruYei0Q

Travel In Peace Collage

Sieste Ambient w/ Skahra Gate

Drone, dark ambient, neofolk, dungeon synth et medieval indus d’Europe du Nord. Det finns inget dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder : il n'y a pas intempérie, seulement de mauvais équipements.

Svartsinn - Yearning
Halo Manash – Tulitania
Raison d’être - In Abscence Of Subsequent Ambivalance
Morthound – Down The Hall
Jääportit - Askeleet valottomuuteen
Coph Nia – Lord of The Air
Wardruna – Løyndomsriss
Arcana – In Search of The Divine
Atomine Elektrine - Earthly Delights In Eden Of Rusty Shells
Ordo Equilibrio - Conquest, Love & Self Perseverance. The Gospel Of Aptitude
Sephiroth - Now Night Her Course Began
Biosphere – Depared Glories
Atrium Carceri – Black Needle
Desiderii Marginis – Land of Strangers
Die Weisse Rose - Letzter Wille
Necrophorus – sadnight
Raison d’être – The Awakening
Necrophorus - Yoga Part 1
Deathprod - Treetop Drive 1
Kammarheit – Hypnagoga
Jana Winderen – Heated
Hazard – Time Dialation
Beyond Sensory Experience – Paralysed
Aindulmedir - Wind-Bitten
Northaunt – Barren Land
Rome – Sonnengötter

https://soundcloud.com/skahra_gate
http://stationstation.fr/emissions/libre-service

Sieste Ambient #115 w/ Skahra Gate

listen with deep conscious awareness


with @tosca-scmusic @mehmetpolat-music @undefined-frequencies @vedis_klara @marskumari @fatima-al-qadiri @solmadj @muslimgauzeofficial @jarguna-music @sonofchi @rapoon @kalocain @venaportae @vakula @olma @treeboga

𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘫𝘢𝘴 @𝘋𝘐𝘝𝘈 ▫︎ 𝟢𝟣.𝟣𝟣.𝟤𝟦

Extemporaneous with only 3 tracks recorded from my synth modular.

Stone Rust

'Winterlicht' is Seetyca's third full length album to be released on the Winter-Light label.

As the album title indicates the theme is that of the winter's light and comprises of 12 new tracks, combining deep drones and sparse musical pieces to create a vast wintry landscape. The opening track 'cold morning' invokes images of sunlight playing across fields steeped in deep white snow while your cold breath disappears in to the morning air. The title track 'winterlicht' is a slowly evolving darker, deeper 13 minute drone piece. Here the heavy mantle of winter steadily envelopes the listener, drawing the darkness of the nights ever nearer, as the cold winds howl and the ice begins to form, locking the landscape in to a frozen tundra.

The play between light and dark, the subtle use of environmental sounds and carefully chosen instruments, played by a stellar array of Seetyca's friends, is what makes this album truly engaging.      

Seetyca uses e-maschinen, samplers, glass harmonica, air voice and harmonica. Technical assistance by dr. dipl.-ing. johann e. mildenberg.

Some friends gave a hand....
artin mucht: additional synths.
umanosuke yumeji: electro harmonix.
thom yeesland: environmental sounds.
madeleine madeiras: ice piano on track I.
ralf behrendt: additional atmospherics on tracks VIII & XII.
string samples on track IX by the oregon origo chamber orchestra, conducted & recorded by etheocles stevens.
gowlan roberts: bass on track XI.
the newschubert: additional sequencing on track XII.

'Winterlicht' was conceived, played and recorded over three summers between 2014 - 2016.
The album was mixed by Artin Mucht and mastered by Seetyca.
The cover design and layout has been created by Midnight Sun Studio.

© Seetyca 2017.
© Winter-Light 2017.

CD comes in a 4-panel full colour digi pack. 12 tracks with a total running time of 79:30 mins.

1. cold morning (03:22)
2. a drone in my head (04:56)
3. eyn kalter rausch (04:40) 
4. winterlicht (13:23)
5. the tree behind my house (03:40)
6. eyn schones glanzen (18:33)
7. flockenglanz (02:54)
8. eyne leuchtende nacht (07:49)
9. rauschendes ostinato (04:14)
10. hibernacule (04:47)
11. dreaming of snow (02:34)
12. global chillage (08:15)