Awake is taken from the album “My Own Island” - the result of my latest explorations within the immersive music realm and is my first Dolby Atmos album. My last album “Expansive Nothingness” was mixed binaurally and I really appreciated the spaciousness that the technology lent to my compositions. After that album was released in 2021, I became curious about Dolby Atmos and so alongside the creative process of composing this latest release, I was also figuring out the technical aspects of designing and setting up my own Dolby Atmos studio. I was interested in creating a studio environment that is immersive so that my composing, editing, mixing and mastering experience was also immersive. And in the process, I felt like I was creating my own island.
“My Own Island” is about that personal creative space and individual internal reality that each of us has. Each track on the album are poems within poems where I encoded my ideas and feelings into the sounds, loops and melodies. Even the album titles can be read like a poem. The guitar is the main instrument (even synth sounds are played with a midi guitar) with the addition of supporting instruments like voice, charango, clarinet, prepared vst piano, various synths and field recordings. All sounds pass through hardware effects back and forth before being recorded in my DAW. The mix is also a big part of the composition where I work with fader and knob gestures as an expressive tool in order to add a more human feeling. The result is a weaving in and out of leitmotifs that travel through ambient landscapes, dub infused passages or even sometimes song-like structures. A humanistic, expressionist, unclassified album guided by intuition and mixed in Dolby Atmos and made entirely on my own island.

My Own Island

OdNu - Awake

This is a soundtrack to a short movie "Requiem" made by photographer Valeria Chernova https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g0fPKuGUvM&ab_channel=%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0
Cover by Valeria Chernova

Requiem

Ishome о миксе в стихах:

«Записала миксок 
Для осеннего чила, 
Чтобы не грустно было ,
Не будем мерзнуть и грустить
Будем чай горячий пить».

1. Boards of Canada - Kaini Industries
2. Odd Nosdam - ME YOU GONE
3. Rhythm & Sound feat. Paul St. Hilaire - Never Tell You
4. Dual tone - Reign Dub
5. Kedr Livanskiy - Lugovoy (November Dub)
6. Odd Nosdam - SOUND NERD
7. 2562 - Techno Dread
8. Rolando Simmons - Whisper and Laugh
9. Kitty Pryde - Florida (Instrumental)
10. Zomby - Tears In The Rain
11. Kitty Pryde - sickfit
12. Urbs'n'Chaoz - Bustin
13. Dual Tone - Dub Massacre
14. The Blue Boy - Remember Me
15. Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
16. Chimurenga Renaissance - It's Alright
17. Rolando Simmons - Through Towers
18. Demdike Stare - Demdike Stare Meets Shangaan Electro
19. Martin Stig Andersen - Rabbit at the Airport 1
20. Feldmaus - Poteplenie
21. Lapti & Nocow - Sirenas

Fields Podcast 006: Ishome  «Осенний Чил»

Lugansk Сontemporary Diaspora presents debut release by leitmotiv.
“Womb” is a six-tracks EP that unfold different facets of leitmotiv oeuvre – from avant-garde and club deconstruction to reconsideration of dance music and EBM. Blasting and tough sound oriented toward live performance is enriched by atmospheric and melodic touches.

All tracks were recorded at leitmotiv home studio with heavy usage of soviet analogue synthesizer Polivoks and unique modular bass-synthesizer Donbass, which was built in Donetsk by engineer Illya Sidorenko.

leitmotiv – an alias of Donetsk-born musician and sound-producer Oleksandr Yushkov, who is now based in Moscow.
@ltmtv

Requiem

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