I’LL VISIT SODOM & GOMORRHE ONE DAY, LISTENING THIS

Want the same misic at my FUNERALS. No, sorry, AT YOURS, want to be on the audience side, with a earphone on my head

kinda reminds me of the Assassins Creed 1 soundtrack abit

Ambient

from: The Gods Are Small Birds, But I Am The Falcon!

Herbst9 The laments begin

Herbst9 Nanab Ishtar, Exalted Light Of Heaven

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

so beautiful, yet so painful.

How Strange Are Bodies? by Teresa Winter from the tape 'Oh Tina No Tina' on Reckno

Teresa Winter -  How Strange Are Bodies

Teresa Winter - I am not even faintly like a rose

Love

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter LXXIII. Wild Seeds by Strategy.
Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price.

Tracklist:
1. The Orb - The 10 Sultans of Rudyard (Moo-Moo Mix)
2. Material - Eternal Drift (Eternal Thaemlitz Curse Mix) 
3. Skylab - Electric Blue
4. Vladislav Delay - Tunnelivisio
5. Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (excerpt) 
6. Rhythm Devils - Street Gang
7. Andrew Pekler - Frogpond Idyll
8. Idea Fire Company - Stranded I 
9. Alvin Lucier - Sferics
10. Marcel Turkowsky - Strom
11. Sawako - Radio Stone
12. Yes - Close to the Edge (excerpt) 
13. Soviet France - Skratte 
14. K. Leimer - The Cockpit
15. Ditto - Bush
16. Mouse On Mars - Die Seele von Brian Wilson
17. Klaus - Delta
18. Hallucinator - Frontier
19. Strategy - Earthgazing
20. Best Available Technology - Digi Hex
21. Bulbs - Skylight
22. Aube - Tricle Out 
23. Chris Watson - Oceanus Pacificus
24. The Camberwell Now - Trade Winds
25. Stuart Dempster - Standing Waves (excerpt) 
26. .O.rang - Anaon, the Oasis

https://soundcloud.com/strategydickow

Mysteries of the Deep Podcast, Chapter LXXIII

Mysteries of the Deep LXXIII - STRATEGY | WILD SEEDS

Near-complete version of Caul's track for the upcoming Kalpamantra/Malignant Records cross-over compilation, due June 29.

Caul - The Long Dust

Mixed and mastered by Lukas Serafin

Shout out to Suid Tronica who published a version of that song a few months back !!  https://soundcloud.com/suidtronica

Photo by Andrea Rojas

Morning

Taken from the upcoming album 'Departed'.

Departed

The Silence Of A Thousand Years

Scorpio V - Heremus. Taken from "Chants From the Inner Monastery" full album. Available at: https://scorpiov.bandcamp.com
Scorpio V is an artistic entity and creative force behind Metatron Omega, Paleowolf, Gaetir the Mountainkeeper, and a few other vessels of sonic landscape. This album is a manifestation of an intimate and personal inner journey, in search for the authentic Self and the Gnosis behind the veil of cosmic matter. Atmospheric monastic, gregorian chants are sung upon meditative and ethereal soundscape, while ritualistic drums pound in the rhythm the Universe's heartbeat. The sacred work from the monastery buried deep into the core of Being is projected outwards and illuminates the path towards greater knowledge.

Scorpio V - Heremus

From the forthcoming album "The Word As Power".

Featuring the voice of Soriah.

Grigori (Extract)

Another extract from he forthcoming album The Word As Power.
Andras Sodom features the voice of Jarboe.

Andras Sodom (Extract)

An extract from the forthcoming Lustmord album "The Word As Power".
Featuring the voice of Maynard James Keenan.

Andras Sodom (Extract)

Lustmord

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