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A Certain Peace

On February 24, 2022, at 5 am, Russian bombs began to fall on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. The perfidious invasion of Russian troops forever changed the history and face of this country. Every day, civilians and soldiers who defend their homeland are getting killed. This war is senseless and merciless. No decent person can remain indifferent. The Chitra Records label also took on a small mission of helping to rebuild Ukraine. We teamed up with ambient and neoclassical musicians from all over the world and released a two-hour compilation of calming, peaceful, and experimental ambient music. Our goal is to raise funds for the civilians of Ukraine. All proceeds from the digital sales of the compilation on Bandcamp for the first two weeks from the release date (until March 21, 2022) will be sent to the Red Cross Society of Ukraine.

https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/pacification

Music is a powerful calming force. We want this war to end as soon as possible. On March 21, we will publish the receipt of the donation transfer.

We ask for your help and support: tell your friends about this compilation and repost it on your social media.

https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/album/pacification

Peace and good music to you, friends!
credits
released March 7, 2022

Henrik Meierkord (Sweden) www.soundbread.se

Yellow6 (UK) yellow6.bandcamp.com

Kshatriy (Russia) kshatriy.bandcamp.com

Adrian Lane (UK) adrianlane.bandcamp.com

NK x [Ųvás Gøød It] (Ukraine) nkxmusic.bandcamp.com

FlownBlue (UK) soundcloud.com/flownblue

Michele Andreotti (Italy) soundcloud.com/michele-andreotti

Mortuus Auris & The Black Hand (UK) mabh.bandcamp.com

Sergio Mariani (USA) sergiomariani.bandcamp.com

Alejandro Fiori (Argentina) alejandrofiori.bandcamp.com

Dionisaf (USA) dionisaf.bandcamp.com

Macrogramma (Italy) soundcloud.com/macrogramma

Sebby Kowal (USA) soundcloud.com/sebbykowalmusic

Toni Dimitrov (Macedonia) The owner of the labels: www.post-global.com and elanvital.bandcamp.com

Alessandro Barbanera (Italy) alessandrobarbanera.bandcamp.com

Lelya (Russia)

KapTep (UK) kaptep.bandcamp.com

Federico Balducci (USA) federicobalducci7.bandcamp.com

fourthousandblackbirds (Canada) soundcloud.com/fourthousandblackbirds

A Distant Shore (Italy) adistantshore.bandcamp.com

Mastering by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Artwork and cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Label playlist on Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6NhkzsiLGCStuOkSjCfvso

Patreon: www.patreon.com/chitrarecords

Pacification

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Henrik Meierkord - Quiescis

5 AM, still in the darkness of mid-March morning, a pair of tawny owls starts vocalising at their would-be nesting grounds. They are probably still in courting phase. Female was desperately calling all through previous evening and male repeatedly approached. In the morning, first thing they did was passionately-sounding lovemaking...  At least that is my interpretation of the audio  recording. 
13. March 2022, 5 AM. Meoma, Estonia. Unattended recording (12 hours). Dogs and rooster in background.

Tawny Owls In Love

NEW DRONE II

Cold Fusion is from the Legacy of Thought album "Electronic Fusion", which was broadcast in full on the weekly radio show ELECTRONIC FUSION, solely dedicated to electronic music of various styles and is hosted by Brainvoyager.  https://www.brainvoyagermusic.com/radio-show-electronic-fusion/

Cold Fusion - from the album "Electronic Fusion"

Reach down into the water, close your eyes

Sentient - Reach Into The Water

What We Might Have Begun

April 20, 2019. The recording begins at 7.37 in the morning. I really like diversity of birds in Matsalu but recording is somewhat difficult because there are no natural obstacles (thick forest or mountains) to preventing noise from the roads. It's not technically pure clean recording. It's a sketch, the groundwork, note in my audio notebook.

A walk through the landscape of Matsalu National Park, Estonia.

[Experiment] Trying the Shure MV88 mic on a iPhone for field recording (nature).   Not that I would want to do this very often, but it could be useful when better mics/recorders are not available in a given moment.   The photo shows the location where this recording was made (holding the iPhone, standing about 5 feet from the grass in lower middle of photo).

[Setup] Shure MV88 on an iPhone 10 with foam windscreen. Settings on app:  mid-side mode, max compression, flat EQ,   The quality is not bad for what it is.

The Shure MV88 is *not* a sensitive mic and certainly not great for nature field recording.  The manual even says it was designed to record in very loud environments like concerts, so it would not be good for recording a quiet soundscape.   However, for loud environments it seems OK.   These cricket frogs were so loud that I wore the headphones for ear protection even when not recording.  Without ear protection the frog calls were painfully loud (to give an idea of the ambient sound levels being recorded).

BTW, on an iPhone X I was not able to find a way to monitor audio while recording.  Gain was set by watching the meter on the app.  On phones that have plug-in headphones, apparently there is a way to monitor audio while recording.

iPhone field recording using Shure MV88 mic (frogs in forest)

Included in: Slow sketch vol. 1: Reflections of the ambient community
(El Muelle Records)

https://elmuellerecords.bandcamp.com/album/slow-sketch-vol-1-reflections-of-the-ambient-community

A Certain Peace

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