Shadow

A little experimental piece of audio with some crisps field recordings.

I hope you like it :)

Crisps Pov

LFO 20 - 2

A track from "Haunted Houses" album. Released by Laverna label. Digital copy is available for free download here: http://www.laverna.net/releases/Lav85.html

Composed, recorded and mixed by Alessandro Barbanera (march - july 2020)
Mastered by Francis M. Gri

"Haunted Houses" is a collection of seven tracks in slow, melancholy, dreamlike, nocturnal mood. It's a work made of waiting, of grainy sounds and silences full of rustles. It's a work talking about isolation, either in a physical and mental space; which talks about full spaces and empty or restricted spaces, of presences and absences, of memory and hope, of distances, of houses and rooms. Rooms innervated with restlessness and waiting (the opening track "Sleepless"). Houses where memories crowd, layered memories that coexist with the present (the title-track "Haunted Houses" is a short electroacoustic study on perception: indistinct, evanescent sounds, old pianos in the distance, confused and ectoplasmic voices, furniture that moves from the floor above, sighs...). And then there are presences such as those of literary characters, which can come to life in the mind while reading ("The death of Joe Christmas" is inspired by the restless and controversial character narrated by William Faulkner in "Light in August"). 
Even absences find space in the album, manifesting themselves in their impalpable distance (the piece "In Absence"), as memories of a past that has no place in the present. Then the rooms can become places overloaded with pain (the track "Torture Room"), where this suffering and effort can take an expiatory, spiritual, meditative form. And after all this inner torment, even isolation can turn into an opportunity for reflection, "redemption" and sincere change: the final tracks "Pure" and "Endless" try to capture this renewed spirit, following a strongly emotional path. “Endless” closes the circle, but it can also reopen it. 

"Haunted Houses" was made with guitars, contact microphones, an old cassette recorder, field recordings, dusty and grainy lo-fi sounds, found objects, recordings of streets at night, sounds of a carpentry workshop, slowed sounds, manipulation of loops of classical music taken from the radio. Every detail, every sound has been carved and polished day after day, chiseled and positioned with care and devotion, in a work of "sound craftsmanship".

Haunted Houses

In Absence

This is the last song of  "Me, and the waters"  series.
I made this song with the sound of the forest rain and moving water, and I played crystal bowls with the little bit my singing.
In this july, it was always raining when I heard some goodbye.
Farewell has a special feeling that is sad and not sad always.

Me, and the waters3 (farewell rain)

Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/track/1TWmLq4Dyvph7Ump6T3p3K?si=7882ea9ef7314d7e
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/tr/album/memory/1585557017?i=1585557018&l=tr
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Qrjs6jAkU&ab_channel=Orix
Bandcamp: https://orix.bandcamp.com/track/memory

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Memory (Demo)

4th track from the latest album "Unseen".
Release date 10th of December 2020.
CD Limited edition of 100.

Unseen

Dust [Unseen]

beneath your heart of darkness

This is an improv with minor editing comprising of three distinct parts. 

This is an edited version; the full track is available from Naviar Records: https://naviarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/7-years-of-naviar-haiku

Very simple set-up: Fender Tele --> various boxes --> Logic.

This week's Naviar Haiku: 

slanting rain,
gentle breeze,
no need to return home

This translates into three distinct parts. The "valleys" in the waveform give away where they start and end.

Part I: Skittering clouds, downpours.
Part II: Like wind brushing past, with uneasiness creeping in towards the end
Part III: Major key mood, closing with Koto-ish textures and an abrupt ending

haiku by Zhang Zhihe http://www.silkqin.com/09hist/other/zhangzhihe.htm

picture by Dave Hoefler https://unsplash.com/@johnwestrock

More about this project can be found here:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2020/12/09/naviarhaiku362-slanting-rain/

Thanks for listening!

7 years of naviar haiku

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Tri-ing (Naviarhaiku362) [Short Version]

Having been started but not finished in 2012, this piece was then picked up and had things added, mixed and released in late 2020.

Enjoy!

New Shores [v.2012]

Is It Ever Not There

I hope the Wild Edges speak for themselves. The rest is what happens between them.

I have limited know how and equipment, but think that feeling is more important than hardware and technical ability. 

I decided to stop liking other artists tracks, even if i do like them. I was feeling the pressure to like tracks when i listened to them, especially when people sent them to me to listen to, worried that if i didn't i would upset or offend the artist if i didn't like them, its easier just to like privately. Misunderstandings sadly happened too easily, so i'm distancing myself from the possibility of hurting anyone and of being hurt myself.  Maybe it is better being alone after all. Soundcloud is just like anywhere else where there are lots of people...it can be difficult.

I won't follow, listen, or like, for followers, listens, and likes, so, please, don't ask me to. 

This is a creative escape.

I am always trying to be quiet, but often fail, and to do better.

For Headphone listening
Thank you for listening

Is It Ever Not There

Notes From Your Wild Edges