While practicing our set yesterday, we spontaneously launched into a Brian Eno song. Luckily, we recorded this - because who knows when this will happen again?

By this river...

FROM THE  KELDARI STATION ALBUM "BRAVE NEW WORLDS"


where can it be?
where are we now?
deep in the dream,
lost in there somehow.
have we lost faith?
let's not give in
though when things get dark
we can still win

Mothership, come to Babylon
We are ready for the other place
like a rocket out of Avalon
with all the magic of the morning sun
is it time for us to demonstrate
all the ways that we can unify?
rise up, time to elevate
raise yourself up to the sky

time to let go
and lighten our load
clean up our mess
and pack up, you know?
this is a place
deep in our minds
alone we have lost
together, we'll find

Mothership, come to Babylon
We are ready for the other place
like a rocket out of Avalon
with all the magic of the morning sun
is it time for us to demonstrate
all the ways that we can unify?
rise up, time to elevate
raise yourself up to the sky

from Brave New Worlds

Mothership come to Babylon

From the full length album "Brave New Worlds"

in time, I've come to understand
the kind of power in our hands
in space, and where I look, I find
the things we control with our own minds
this place, of which we like to complain
we have created all the same
this skin, we placed ourselves in
to deny recollection of all we have been

time to wake into our dreams
welcome to forever now
always is, was, and shall be
seems we have forgotten how

these words, which we say are just sounds
can manifest what we see all around
these hands, when not busy making chains
fashion the wings that fly over these plains
these seeds, we spread around on this earth
could bring to fruition the roots of rebirth
and our hearts, when they align with our will
turn dreams to reality further still

time to wake into our dreams
welcome to forever now
always is, was, and shall be
seems we have forgotten how


In Time

this time 
let's open up our minds 
and who we find 
could be ourselves 
and if we recognize 
the lies 
the ties that bind us 
simply melt 
maybe 
the answers that we seek 
really are closer 
than we think 
a look inside 
with our own eyes 
is realized 
within a blink 

moving forward 
while looking back 
how can we be moving forward 
if we're looking back 

If we deny 
the things inside 
we try to hide 
or cause us fear 
you can believe 
that we'll succeed 
at only drawing 
these things near 
we can't transcend 
if we pretend 
that which we run from 
isn't real 
such false sincerity 
can only be 
a mask 
for how we feel 

moving forward 
while looking back 
how can we be moving forward 
if we're looking back


Purchase link: https://keldaristation.bandcamp.com/track/moving-forward-looking-back-single-mix


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Moving Forward, Looking Back (SINGLE MIX)

Mixed and Mastered for SoundCloud by Russ Sinfield at chaos cookhouse
https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield
Additional vocal processing by Bitzone 
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone
© 2016 Keldari Station

"I realize just how lucky we can be
all i need is to look around and see
in such a little time, we've come so far
before we've come to grips with who and what we are

I understand just how lucky we must seem
sometimes I cannot tell my real life from my dreams
though I can see that for you it's much the same
why must we insist on always playing this game?

Well this could be my lucky day
(I've never felt so lovely)
I'm seeing things in a different way
(there's only stars above me)
My luck has changed, I hope it stays
(is someone looking after me?)
I've come so far since yesterday
(am I the only one who sees?)

When we're raised inside a culture of complaints
instead of what we love we turn our focus to the things that we hate
if we gaze on everything that brought us here
we can finally pull the future that we wanted near

Now I see just how lucky that I've been
all these years when I felt so stuck between
where I want to be, yet feel left outside
when for my whole life I've been on the inside

But this could be my lucky day
(I've never felt so lovely)
I'm seeing things in a different way
(there's only stars above me)
My luck has changed, I hope it stays
(is someone looking after me?)
I've come so far since yesterday
(am I the only one who sees?)"


Lucky EP

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Lucky   *SINGLE VERSION*

From the upcoming Keldari Station album 
"Say Goodbye to Ground Control"
Mixing and Production by Russ Sinfield at the Chaos Cookhouse
(https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield)
Drums by Pete
(https://soundcloud.com/midipunk)
Original tracks recorded by Darren D and Kelley D at the Landing Pad
©2016 Keldari Station

"In another barren landscape
like the mountains of the moon
deep in our imagination
far beyond the dusty dunes

we lift off and make our journey
guiding stars won't let us stray
from familiar terra firma
parsecs past the milky way

Yippie yo, hippie hey
climb aboard, ride away
if you want to make some noise 
join the space cowboys
Yuppie no, You can't pay
or you're gonna have to stay
It's a brave new world
just in case you haven't heard.

it's a kind of evolution
passing through the photon belt
and we all become accustomed
as illusions slowly melt

with a modicum of courage
and a thing not unlike faith
there's a chance that in our lifetime
we can change the human race

Yippie yo, hippie hey
climb aboard, ride away
if you want to make some noise 
join the space cowboys
Yuppie no, You can't pay
or you're gonna have to stay
It's a brave new world
just in case you haven't heard."



the Space Cowboys *SINGLE VERSION*

Collaboration between Romi Anauel
https://soundcloud.com/romi-anauel
and Keldari Station, additional tracks by Bandulu Dub
https://soundcloud.com/banduludub

Romi Anauel : Voices
Bandulu Dub : Skank riddims and terminator bass
Keldari Station : Clav, Bass Guitar, Samples, Organ, Vocoder, Beats

Menino Vadio

From the album
"Say Goodbye to Ground Control" 
now available on Bandcamp
Mixed, Mastered, co produced by Russ Sinfield https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield
Blackwhole art by Angelo Atencio

Lyrics:

"how did we come to this place
and sacrifice our time and space
for all these riches that aren't real
distracting us from how we feel?

like a black hole that pulls you in,
we're told we failed when we begin.
who would discourage us to shine
instead of making us divine?

but we'll succeed collectively 
to make our own reality
free to live inside our hearts - 
that kind of freedom is always ours.

so give the TV back it's soul,
say goodbye to ground control,
take that chance and step outside,
and don't forget, enjoy the ride."

Quantum Singularity

This version remixed by Bitzone https://soundcloud.com/bitzone
Featuring additional vocals by Bitzone
Original version from the Keldari Station album "Say Goodbye to Ground Control" 

Lyrics:

"Into the light
Everything's plain to see
Nowhere to hide
Not like it used to be
Open your eyes
See what we really are
There's no surprise inside…

As we're changing our raging
and feeding the need to fight
reaching far into the light

Into the light
I never thought I would
Exit the night
Even my shadow could
Never deny
It's only half of us
Everyone tries to hide…

As we're changing our hating
and feeling the need to lie
stepping out into the light"

©2016 Keldari Station

Original version here

Into The Light - BITZONE REMIX

Remixed with additional performances by Stone Catcherye
https://soundcloud.com/stonecatcherye
Original version on the Keldari Station album 
"Say Goodbye to Ground Control"
https://keldaristation.bandcamp.com/album/say-goodbye-to-ground-control

Album version

Pins of White on the Shroud (Stones & Bear bones mix)

Live cover/mashup/medley recorded during rehearsal on March 22 2017

Dr Who Meets The X Files

Mixed and mastered by Robert Shea https://soundcloud.com/robertshea

Original version appears on the Keldari Station album "say goodbye to ground control"  https://keldaristation.bandcamp.com/album/say-goodbye-to-ground-control

Dedicated to Big Boy with love.

the Space Cowboys  - "Bob's Big Boy Mix" by Robert Shea

From the Keldari Station album "Say Goodbye to Ground Control"
available from Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon, and just about anywhere digital music is sold. 
Produced  Russell Sinfield https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield
and Keldari Station
Additional voices by Lisa Littlejohn West https://soundcloud.com/faerytale
And Stone Catchereye https://soundcloud.com/stonecatcherye

DB painting by Cynthia Ceelen

"Star man
have you gone back home
or fulfilled your own
wanderlust?

Space boy
just began to learn
as your ashes turn
to Star dust.

Maybe
the Jean Genie came
and took Aladdin Sane
back outside?

Better
to ask the Buddha
In suburbia 
or inside."

Stardrop Superlative

Just D3 on this one, making loops on various devices, jamming to them, manipulating them, effecting them. 
Needs to get some synthesizing out of his system, apparently.
Recorded live to stereo. 

Synths used:  Novation Mininova, Roland JDXi, Korg EMX1, yamaha SU200, Korg Microsampler, Roland JP8000, Novation Nova II running through lexicon and alesis effects through soundcraft and mackie boards recorded live in stereo to ableton 8,  mac OS

Space Noodle

Mixed and produced by Russell Sinfield 
https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield

"A new beginning,
 life still expanding 
always looking for a new place to thrive 
and ever changing - 
or re arranging
 a new world rising from the old one that died
As we're evolving,
 the seeds are sprouting
 always looking for a new place to grow
 we feel the doubting disintegrating 
all that it blocked is beginning to flow

Like a dew drop spinning through space and time
 just to re appear on the horizon line 
we make the world by our design 
the more we dream, the more we find 
all the things we want to see 
while we create reality
 by living in the harmony 
of our collective destinies

Initiation, a celebration 
as we're becoming all the things that we are
 realization, sanctification
 moving outward, but do we know how far?
and the elation of our station
 a concentration of the things we have learned
 no longer waits on our hesitation 
our destination, our new leaf overturned.

Like a dew drop spinning through space and time
 just to re appear on the horizon line 
we make the world by our design
 the more we dream, the more we find 
all the things we want to see 
while we create reality
 by living in the harmony 
of our collective destinies"

Say Goodbye to Ground Control

Genesis?

Went through the song in a more subdued way at practice last night, happy we recorded it because we kind of like it. 

Original version on "Brave New Worlds"

©2014 Keldari Station

Moving Forward, Looking Back - stripped version, live

Jam that came out during band practice. 

May evolve into a song, may perform this at our next show if we work on it some... who knows?

Guest appearance from Hookah the cat

Kelley - Mininova, X50, Minibrute, Digitakt
Darren - JDXi, Nova2, Digitakt
Hookah - Meows

Thumper VS Hookah

Cover of New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" recorded live at the Landing Pad, January 18 2018

Bizarre Love Triangle

Mixed / Mastered by Russ Sinfield 
https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield 
at the  Chaos Cookhouse, UK

Original tracks recorded at the Landing Pad, CO, USA

Darren Douglas Danahy  (D3PO) - Vocals, Synthesizer
Kelley Donovan (PING) - Synthesizer, backing vocals


"With of of our technology, a big electric heart
Is forming in the circuits of machines we use for art
You might not think it’s real, but I know that it is true
There’s a big electric heart pumping blood inside of you

Like a spark in our electrons, A big electric heart
slowly understanding all the knowledge it imparts
We don’t have time for riddles, But we know just how it feels
when our big electric heart gets wounded and it’s time to heal

And we don’t want to pull the plug
We only ask that you plug in
All is changing, but love is still the drug
For how we change the space we’re in

There’s something in the sound of  a big electric heart
Thumping on the ground as the music does it’s part
To bring us all together when we feel light years apart
Since the engine of this ship is just a big electric heart

So, if you think that you can love me like a big electric heart
Don’t just cross my wires as a human counterpart
We need to have consistency if dancing’s gonna start
Never stop the beat and break my big electric heart

And we don’t want to pull the plug
We only ask that you plug in
All is changing, but love is still the drug
For how we change the space we’re in"

©2017 Keldari Station

Big Electric Heart (single mix)

This mix by Martin Nyrup of Perpacity
https://soundcloud.com/perpacity
featuring guitar by James Thomas of DVL
https://soundcloud.com/officialdvl

Original tracks recorded by Darren Douglas Danahy and Kelley Donovan
at the Landing Pad, Colorado USA
Mastered by Russ Sinfeld at the Chaos Cookhouse UK
https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield

GRANDA ELEKTRO KORO

Big Electric Heart : Summer of Love (Perpacity mix)

Big Electric Heart : Summer of Love (the Perpacity remix)

Small section of a jam we recorded on our gear earlier today, pardon the bumps in volume or what have you. 
Felt good to throw up there for posterity. 
Free to download if you wish. 

Kelley: TD3, Deepmind12, Microsampler
Darren: Prophet, MS101, X50, Digitakt

Dragon Of Gold

Danceable and downtempo, electronic but organic, thoughtful yet irreverent…
Keldari Station is a synth duo based in Denver, CO comprised of Darren Douglas Danahy: Keyboards, Guitars, Voice, Programming/Sequencing and
Kelley Donovan: Samplers, Synthesizers, Signal Processing, Melodica, voice

Formed in 2012 originally as a live, all improvised instrumental project, Keldari Station prefer to make and perform their brand of electronic music by connecting together bits and bobs of analog and digital equipment, rather than exploring the depths of their personal computers and the mysteries buried there. 

Their debut EP, 2013's "Where in the Universe is Keldari Station" (released December 21, 2013) was recorded entirely live for Portugal's Dan Dada Records, and more than half of the songs on the release were written and recorded during the same week as the release.

Three of the songs from the EP, after some work and many live performances, made it onto their first studio album and CD "Brave New Worlds" (released April 25, 2015) which is where the band solidified their "Space Dub" sound which fused elements of dub reggae, psychedelia, electronic pop, and experimental music with lyrics that spoke of a change in consciousness that is either impending or already upon us, creating this "brave new world".

By the time the band had enough new material for an album at the beginning of 2016 (along with a reworking of something from the first EP) and were getting set to record, one of the bands biggest influences, the late David Bowie passed away, giving both members pause for a moment and reflection, and the decision to name the upcoming album "Say Goodbye to Ground Control" and to begin working it towards becoming a tribute to the artist. Since this point, the band has gone on to involve an outside source for the cover art (Chris Pendergraft, Torch Fire Labs) and more importantly, mixing and production assistance by Russ Sinfield (at the Chaos Cookhouse in the UK) who has in turn, began to involve other musicians outside of Keldari Station's two "core" members. 

First release from the album is the single "Lucky" which was released on an EP August 26, 2016. 

Their most recent  album "Say Goodbye to Ground Control" was released on Thanksgiving, 2016 and was a tribute to the life and music of David Bowie. 

After taking a short break for the first 3/4 of 2017 to work on other projects, the band returned to performing in November with new material and updated versions of their older songs. 
2018 has found the band rejuvenated and inspired, and they are writing and recording for their 3rd album, to be preceded by a single in May - "Granda Elektra Koro" as well as a small summer tour.  The new material expresses gratitude and love towards the band's fans, and each other, and is loosely being titled "the wedding album"  and roughly themed around our having landed somewhere, after a long journey. 

Be on the lookout!

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