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

Doggedness in Destitute

PROPERVA001 is the first compilation by Proper Pull and a glimpse into their musical beliefs. Coming from a background of organizing free open air parties around Leipzig, ‘Close Coordinates’ aims to capture the essence of shared experiences by bringing together local producers and artists close to us. Delivering a mix of diverse genres and distinctive styles, each track contributes to creating this otherworldly atmosphere

Artist: @entropic-forces
Mastering by @impala_wagnerluuv
Artwork by instagram.com/michellesorin_/

PROPERVA001 - Close Coordinates

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Entropic Forces - synergy

Kammarheit - All Quiet In The Land of Frozen Scenes

A sacred congregation, an alchemical union of the opposites, a marriage of two poles. Unification of male with the female, Light with Darkness, a mystical conjunction between the forces of the Universe... A wonderful and great merging of the gods themselves.

Order "Gnosis Dei" here:
https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/gnosis-dei

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Hierosgamos

Svartsinn was asked to contribute a song for the desibel project which is a part of Norway's biggest festival "Øyafestivalen" in 2016. As I was already working on a new album I chose to make a track with a theme that could fit in with the album concept. This is the desibel project version of the song. A slightly different version will appear on the album.  The song image shows the speakers also known as Desibel. (The worlds biggest mobile speakers). Mastered by Simon Heath at Cryo Chamber.

Read about the Desibel Project: 

http://ratkje.no/2009/10/desibel/

Echoes Of Silent Cries (Jukai)

An excerpt of a track from my next album Metanoia...

Apocryphos - The Withdrawing Soul

Dead Melodies (UK) releases his Cryo Chamber debut with Legends of the Wood. A melancholic journey on the isle of mist. 

The hearth warms your bones as you peer out the crosshatch window. The damp morning dew forms translucent drops on the knee high grass. Whatever was out there last night seems gone but the birds are not yet singing and the animals still hiding. You pull your trekking boots on and head out the gnarled door, leaving the heat of the lonely cabin behind. 

Save the faint caw of a crow from up in the canopy, the forest lay silent; Devil's Hill looms in the distance. Through crooked trees you go as the headache hits you and flashes from last night come flooding back; Hooded figures. Blood. The sacrifice! Through clenched teeth you gaze down at the compass in your hand. The needle spinning faster and faster. Anxiously, you look back for the cabin, but it's gone. Gone! Devil's Hill dominates where it once stood, only one way to go. 

Lush field recordings, detailed soundscapes and melancholic melodies drench this album in atmosphere. For lovers of high fidelity dark ambient. 

Available in 24 bit FLAC on our bandcamp

Written, Produced, Performed - Tom Moore 
Artwork & Mastering - Simon Heath

Legends of the Wood

Dead Melodies - Unearthed

Lost in the Zone.

You can download WAV file for free from my bandcamp page.

Helpless Stalker in Chernobyl

Remix

Owsey - Thousands of Summer Twilights (Dead Melodies Remix)

My diamond in the rough (extended version)

Kammarheit is a well respected dark ambient project by Pär Boström, currently living in Umeå in the north of Sweden.

The project started in 2000 as a way to explore and re-create a certain atmosphere – a post apocalyptic stillness among majestic subterranean halls, deep chasms and abandoned places. Initially the project also functioned as a means to ease insomnia and to drift in and out of sound. With no musical education the atmosphere became the focal point, using what little equipment he had at the moment. Throughout the years Pär has mastered a music that is both apocalyptic and soothing, a kind of numinous and meditative ambience.