Track 2 from the music album Winter's Path.  This is a winter chilled ambient journey, perfect for studying, sharpening focus, or relaxing.

Winter's Path

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Born a long time ago, music has been maturing in my head for a long time. I finally managed to equip a studio and buy synthesizers. 

By the way, I am a big fan of analog and modular synthesizers. I like to look for the right sound and then the melody comes by itself.

My inspiration and role models are musicians from the old Berlin School, such as synth music legends Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream on the one hand and Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Brian Eno... on the other. However, I try to remain original and build my own style.

Almost all of my songs are original. I do everything myself, from composing and arranging to mastering and mixing. I use Studio One Pro 7.

I would like to have more time to create music, but my full-time job and daily obligations also require a lot of my time!. I hope that will change and I will have more time for music

Currently exploring sounds in the ambient atmospheric aisle.

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Oct 2024

Industry is released in all its glory. An ambient dark atmospheric piece and probably my most coherent, unified sound to date. The atmospheric dub techno is definitely a style I will continue to revisit. 

The next album will be a more experimental collection with less emphasis on beats. The album will be called GEO and is themed on biogenesis. Check it out as each track is added.

June 2024
Industry and Distance

Sides three and four of the double album Industry have now been completed. Full album is released at the beginning of July. You can find the album now on Bandcamp. If anyone reads this and wants a copy let me know and I will send you a free download code.

New project already in the pipeline. I am developing the sound I created on the single Distance. I like releasing completed sides as often the tracks will flow into one another. Distance Ochr Un is due for release in August, but of course my Soundcloud fans get to listen now.

Thanks for your continued support. Please remember to pre save, like, and share.


May 2024
Industry

Industry Ochr Dau (side two) is released this month. Check it out on all the usual streaming platforms
April 2024

The second side of the album, Industry has just been finished. You can preview the release on the left. Please let me know what you think and, if you like it, hit the PRE SAVE button. The second side is due for release on May 10th.

March 2024
Industry

Working currently on an album that has a working title, Industry. Big reverbs and delays seem to be the theme with an ethereal dream quality. The album is being written with a double vinyl release in mind, so there will be 4 sections of around 15 minutes.

Check out Industry Ochr Un and Dau for the first two sides. I expect there to be a side released once per month with full issue in July.

Please PRE-SAVE, like and share as I need all the help I can get.

Sept 2023
Atmospherics

The latest album is called Atmospherics. It is inspired by Joachim Spieth's album Terrain. The album is built around atmospheric sounds such as thunder, rain, wind recorded on the west coast of Wales in 2023.

The idea of the album was to take these sounds and morph them with synthesised creations in the studio so that the boundary between the real and unreal becomes blurred. This was mainly achieved through the use of resonators to create floating harmonics.

The album is officially released on all streaming platforms from the 24th November. It is available to purchase right now on Bandcamp. If you have read this far then message me as I have a free download code for you.

EPiraten

Please contact me at citrusmusic345@gmail.com

Igor Iofe is a
composer whose musical
paths lead to diverse stylistic destinations. Currently Igor's focus in music is Armenian traditional duduk repertoire which he performs on trumpet. He brings the beauty and warmth of the duduk into his trumpet playing.

At the Conservatorium van Amsterdam he studied with  Wim Hendrickx,Richard Ayres,  Fabio Nieder,Willem Jeths and Jorrit Tamminga. Igor attended masterclasses with Misato Mochizuki, Dmitry Kourliandski, Tristan Murail andTan Dun. His music was performed at the Composers’ Festival Amsterdam (2012 and 2013), Atlas Academy (2010-12),  Looptail XXX and at such venues as De Link, De Duif, Het Bethaniënklooster, Het Veem, STEIM, Muziekgebouw aan 't Ij and CvA in Amsterdam and other cities of the Netherlands. His piece Y+Ywas performed by the Joint Venture Percussion Duo at several venues in the USA and Europe.

Parallel to his Classical Composition studies Igor studied Composing Music for Film with Jurre Haanstra and graduated as a Master in Composing for FIlm at the CvA. During his studies he wrote music for several movies which were shown at the Beeldbuis Filmfestival, Keep an Eye Film Festival, VERS Awards, Cinekid Filmfestival, M2M Filmfestival and Pleinbioscoop Rotterdam.

Igor is one of the organisers of the Toets des Tijds Concert Series

Thank you for stopping by and having a listen!  Please connect with me on Facebook and subscribe to my YouTube channel!  Links are below.
LATEST NEWS:
Next release will be on Feb. 1 2025

Recently added to this cool mix:
https://on.soundcloud.com/Rf6ScChegAth2uZZ6

Recent collaboration with my friend Chad Hoffman from Royal Crocodiles has resulted in some tracks under the name of Cassette Museum.  You can find these tracks on YouTube here:

https://youtu.be/foIBKyRmVBk?si=uvAGtxfbwLN2Rjsq

My newest release is out now on Kalamine Records called Twilight Soma!  This five-track album transcends boundaries, weaving a tapestry of sonic landscapes that invites listeners on a contemplative journey through time and space. Each track is meticulously crafted, enveloping the audience in a dreamlike atmosphere where ethereal melodies and subtle textures seamlessly blend.

If you enjoy listening to my music, please show your appreciation by checking out the Kalamine Records website and purchasing my albums on Bandcamp!
The few bucks goes to help Kalamine keep the label and website going.
Here is the site info:
https://kalaminerecords.bandcamp.com/album/twilight-soma
Or:
http://prepolar.bandcamp.com/

We would appreciate your support of independent music very much! 

You can find Pre Polar on Spotify, Soundcloud, YouTube, Amazon Music, and other major streaming services.

Previous tracks has been picked up by several bloggers and Spotify playlist curators.  Last Day Deaf has included 'Cold Transformations' in their latest ambient compilation.  You can listen to that here:  http://lastdaydeaf.com/ambient-syndrome-%e2%96%ba91/

A recent review from Acid Ted Blog:
Here’s The Distant Survivors, the opening track to album Crystal Monuments. The album is as much chill as it is ambient. But it’s perhaps best seen as chilly, rather than chill. 
The Distant Survivors is a slow piece full of open spaces. It’s described as both “Endless grey skies. Dim sunlight. Seeping cold…” and “An overflight of a distant fjord where unexpected people are found.” This makes it sound austere and a bit unwelcoming. It’s not really like that at all. 
The synths have a rounded warmth and welcome. It’s a track that enjoys places to roam. Views to be seen. Things that are far off. It takes its time to unfold. It’s a beatless wander through snowdrifts. Crystalline. 

Recently, I created a page on Gumroad for selling my sample packs.  You can find them here:
Sci Fi - Cinematic Sample Pack Volume 1
https://gum.co/PWmwZ
Sci Fi - Cinematic Sample Pack Volume 2
https://gum.co/OVVpF

Contact for Collabs, wav files for your mix, Custom Sound Design and Booking :
ohvonbraun@yahoo.com

I have played and recorded in international settings, a multitude of percussion instruments, guitar, bass, harmonica, some flutes, keyboard, and if you push me - a very fine jaw harp.

In fact, if I break it down.... I just love to offer-up music, in a living room, a bar, a concert hall or an intercontinental, interactive satellite coordinated concert. 
  
I became fascinated with percussive sounds from around the world… especially African and Latin American rhythms. I fanatically traveled the world collecting anything that you could bang, scrape or hit.
What I learned? Border customs people really don’t appreciate the true value of handmade African caxixi shakers or a Brazilian berimbau. They just want the serial number.
More importantly, a single clicking or ringing sound in a song can make or break that song.
  
I toured Canada, USA and Europe and recorded many “world music” albums (before it was called that), with my late, musical soul mate, Dario Domingues. We played in grand churches, the water reservoirs under Munich, on an island where 100,000 doves were released at the climax of our performance, the first-ever “simulcast”, live satellite, intercontinental concert and then, the humbling experience of being involved in Berlin, in front of 500,000 people, for a series of anti-apartheid concerts featuring ‘Sting’.  For our 'world music' efforts, we were awarded the Deutscher Schallplattenpreisan (1983) accolade by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie, an association of recording companies of Germany that recognizes outstanding achievement in the music industry.  
What I learned? Music is truly a universal language. Around the world people are drawn to music. Of course, different strokes for different folks! 
Whether you play in front of a half-million people in a field, or 10 people in a bar, your role as a musician never changes.  
 
“Dream of the Drum” – I was commissioned to compose and conduct a score for 40+ percussionists from all corners of the world... Jamaican fire dancers, Trinidadian steel drummers, Japanese kodo drummers, African djembe players, military drummers,... the list goes on.
What I learned? The language of music respects no geographic borders. 
Also, never start your outdoor concert, with a lone Native Elder's rain drum song. The drum's magic works!
 
I helped build three innovative recording studios plus, my current production studio. I academically taught musical acoustics and production for several years.
What I learned? All the mathematics and physics in the world can’t replace a good ear.
 
As a producer, I've had the wonderful opportunity to work in great studios in NYC and Nashville with amazing session musicians such as: Eric "Roscoe" Ambel - best known as lead guitarist of Steve Earle’s band the Dukes; Dan Baird of the chart-topping 'Georgia Satellites'; guitarist extraordinaire, Warner E. Hodges, founding member of 'Jason and the Scorchers'.
What I learned? Great musicians tend to be humble but they sure have opinions! In Nashville, I was bluntly told -"No, I won't raise the tom level - in country music, we use toms for holding our bourbon glass." I never did get the toms louder.
 
I spent many years as President of the Ottawa International Jazz Festival and met some of the greatest musical geniuses in the world.
What I learned? "Man, if you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
 
Music for jingles on radio and TV. Documentaries.
My personal favourite was coming up with suitable music for the mating rituals of pigs or, how to create 60 minutes of Arctic wind sounds for the movie 'Never Cry Wolf'.  
What I learned?  You can tell an entire story in a 29.5 second radio jingle and music is the glue that holds a great video together.

My latest single "Sometimes" is OUT NOW. Stream/like it and follow me on Spotify 🙏 

https://open.spotify.com/track/0q4CRMVCf5o6V1d6c6pVK3?si=774680c5624e4de6

From this corner of northern Spain, making music for the soul, because as Haleen says, music is medicine. Composing with the heart and that harmonies come from feeling before knowledge, that is the path I have chosen. Multi instrumentalist musician. Resident in Gijón, Principality of Asturias. I compose instrumental tracks and songs with my own voice and lyrics. I have no complex in exploring all kinds of musical genres because I believe that experimentation leads to discovery, in music too. And above all, being able to share my music with you, who, after all, are the ones who support me in my convictions and goals. On all my tracks I play electric guitar, acoustic guitars, bass and keyboards.