Timid melodies gently crafted of fragile cassette tapes.

From "In the Embrace of Light" release: https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-embrace-of-light

In the Embrace of Light

Before the Dawn

Midnight Fairytales

Valotihkuu & Dynastor - Closing Chapter

Valotihkuu & Dynastor - Intro - Bedtime Storyteller

Valotihkuu & Dynastor - On a Little Journey

Valotihkuu & Dynastor - Waltz of Night and Day

Valotihkuu & Dynastor - Smaragdina

Valotihkuu & Dynastor - Creature Comforts

Buy track/listen on Bandcamp: https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/track/soft-focus

Listen on streaming services: https://band.link/IwfwX

Watch video: https://youtu.be/kbxXTC6UKEM

Soft Focus

Silence is the mist that hovers over the dawn,
The space between the petals that gives the flower its worth.
The canvas on which our thoughts find their space.

Unspoken

https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-beginning

Rising Dawn

Sleeping In Wildflower Meadow

Sunrise Lullaby

All music written & produced by Denis Davydov (aka Valotihkuu) 

Used stuff: zoom H4n, acoustic guitar, tascam 4 track cassette recorder, old VHS recorder, yamaha VSS-30 digital sampler, a lot of different acoustic sounds that has been resampled and processed; some found objects and other various field recordings. 

Sinking Flowers

All music written & produced by Denis Davydov (aka Valotihkuu) 

Used stuff: zoom H4n, acoustic guitar, tascam 4 track cassette recorder, old VHS recorder, yamaha VSS-30 digital sampler, a lot of different acoustic sounds that has been resampled and processed; some found objects and other various field recordings.

Fall Asleep in a Trees Lounge

From LP "Lost in the Beautiful Noise" https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-the-beautiful-noise

Inspired by autumn's decay, abstract paintings, rains and loneliness.

All music written & produced by Denis Davydov (aka Valotihkuu) 
Artwork by Liza Lis vk.com/colorknsla 

Instruments/processing/sounds used: Electric guitar, cello bow, tascam 4 track cassette recorder, digital samplers, various field recordings, a lot of layering.

Lost in the Beautiful Noise

Moments in Silence

Download: https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/tides

Tides

Ode to Nothing

First Light

From LP "Time and Silence" https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/time-and-silence

Time and Silence

Our Night Walks

From LP "Time and Silence" valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/time-and-silence

Flickering Stars

From album "Paths", Full: https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/paths

Forest Path (Part 1)

From album "Fragments".
This album created mainly with Teenage Engineering OP-1, cassette dictaphone, and field recordings. Some tracks I recorded directly from OP-1, others were edited, mixed, and rearranged in a DAW.

Download from bandcamp (name your price): https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/fragments

I posted some videos for this album on my YouTube channel: youtube.com/valotihkuu

Gear: Teenage Engineering OP-1, Zoom H6, LOM instruments Uši Pro microphones, Sony TCM-200DV Cassette Recorder.

I would greatly appreciate your support, it means a lot for me. All funds will be spent to purchase new studio equipment for future works.

Also, I have Patreon page where I post exclusive content such as field recordings, bonus tracks, sketches, and my ambient patches for Teenage Engineering OP-1. Join me: www.patreon.com/valotihkuu

Fragments

Near the Summer House

The track was made for the project "Sounding Nature". 
Nature sounds was recorded by belarussian fieldrecordist Christine Novitskaya while walking in the woods. 

"The Cities and Memory global project Sounding Nature is the first worldwide artistic reflection on our natural environment, as artists all over the globe recompose and reimagine the sounds of our natural world. The Sounding Nature project, using these artistic reinterpretations of how our natural world sounds, will shine a light on the damage we are causing to our natural soundscapes – and by extension to our natural world itself." More detailed information: citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature/

Enchanted Pond

My track for Unline label compilation: unline.bandcamp.com/album/ishi-part-1-3

Download/Listen: https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/track/waterfront

Various - ISHI (Part 1)

Waterfront

This remix is included in reissued the Green Kingdom album called "Expanses"

'Expanses (2014) is a classic, gorgeous The Green Kingdom album. And it now has an expanded reissue, with gorgeous remixes by Tobias Hellkvist, Halftribe, et al. The snow is there, but it is manageable. It’s cold, but you’ll survive. The sun is there, even though the days are shorter. This is essential ambient for the winter, when you’re trying to get it to be less bleak'.

Available on dronarivm.bandcamp.com

Expanses Remixes

The Green Kingdom - Untitled (remix by Valotihkuu)

From album "Memories
Full album: https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/memories

Memories

Christine

20/04/2019

Falling Clouds (feat.Limitless Wave)

Broken Melodies

Video: https://youtu.be/MgWDLB9Vkws

Patreon.com/valotihkuu
Bandcamp: valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/valotihkuu
Facebook: facebook.com/Valotihkuu/

Melting Slowly

From the album "Pastoral": https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/pastoral

This album was hugely inspired by the atmosphere of summer vacation, creaking seesaws, and solitude. I tried to transfer all these things in thoughtful soundscapes. 

It’s like a little journey to the silent countryside. This music was made for people who want to escape reality for some time and come back to the rhythm of a city with focused energy afterward. 

I started this recording creating the whole atmosphere and depth of the tracks using field recordings, and other noises of nature. It’s the reason why if you play this album sitting in your room with your eyes closed, you would be transferred to another world, where you feel the fragrances of wheat, cut-grass green and moist air. 

After creating the right atmosphere with field recordings, I was improvising with different musical instruments. I think that live improvisations are the key to an organic and textural sound: volume and airy pads play with the sounds of an acoustic guitar and muffled bells, sounding in the background. All these sounds comprise a beautiful symphony praising nature.

Pastoral

10/07/2019

Green And Blue

From the new album "By the River": https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/by-the-river

During the album recording sessions, I limited myself to a certain setup: electric guitar, looper, delay/reverb pedal, and a 4-track portable tape recorder. This helped me to concentrate on expressing the moods instead of being distracted by the necessity of choosing the instrument and timbre. Each track was a result of a single recording session. By means of sound, I tried to express some sort of a “stream” feeling; that’s why it was important to me to stay in this state myself, not to ruin the general picture and make the album as solid as possible.

By the River

Evening Breeze

Morning By The River

Album "By the River" is available on regular and deluxe edition CD’s. 

valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/by-the-river

During the album recording sessions, I limited myself to a certain setup: electric guitar, looper, delay/reverb pedal, and a 4-track portable tape recorder. This helped me to concentrate on expressing the moods instead of being distracted by the necessity of choosing the instrument and timbre. Each track was a result of a single recording session. By means of sound, I tried to express some sort of a “stream” feeling; that’s why it was important to me to stay in this state myself, not to ruin the general picture and make the album as solid as possible.

Lying On The Grass

From the new album "Winter Lullabies": https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/winter-lullabies

In the blue night
frost haze, the sky glows
with the moon
pine tree tops
bend snow-blue, fade
into sky, frost, starlight.
The creak of boots.
Rabbit tracks, deer tracks,
what do we know.

("Pine tree tops" by Gary Snyder)

Winter Lullabies

Winter Lullaby

From the new album "Winter Lullabies": valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/winter-lullabies

In the blue night
frost haze, the sky glows
with the moon
pine tree tops
bend snow-blue, fade
into sky, frost, starlight.
The creak of boots.
Rabbit tracks, deer tracks,
what do we know.

("Pine tree tops" by Gary Snyder

Glittering Flakes

From the album "Spring Inside", full: https://valotihkuu.bandcamp.com/album/spring-inside

I would greatly appreciate your support! Also, I have Patreon page, where I post exclusive content such as field recordings, bonus tracks, Ableton Live projects, sketches and my ambient patches for Teenage Engineering OP-1. Join: www.patreon.com/valotihkuu

Spring Inside

The track from my latest album "Swallow".

W&P by Masaya Kato and Denis Davydov (Valotihkuu) 
Mastered by Denis Davydov 
Artwork pictures by Oleksandr Demianenko

Listen full album: https://band.link/5HXVt

Swallow

Gardenia (w/ Masaya Kato)

Valotihkuu's music is a mixture of nature sounds with a variety of acoustic and electroacoustic instruments, tape loops, found objects and lots of childhood memories, which are carefully transferred into music. Contact: valotihkuumusic@gmail.com

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