Artwork by Andrei Alecsandru
Music written and mastered by Ivo São Bento.
Released February 4, 2022
Ivo São Bento, sonic concepts.

BUY: https://velgenaturlig.bandcamp.com/album/akasha

Akasha

„GOLDHORN“
intuitive live soundtrack performance |

Created through the visuals of 1931 silent film "Kingdom of the Goldhorn" ("V kraljestvu Zlatoroga")
as performed live for BEAST International Film Festival in September 2023 at Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto

Minimal opulence - vibrant monotony - waves and chapters.
A faint feeling of familiarity. Like a memory, that almost managed to escape your mind for good.

Released November 3, 2023

Artwork by Nanna Cartis
Music written and mastered by Ivo São Bento.

Buy = https://velgenaturlig.bandcamp.com/album/goldhorn

Goldhorn

"VelgeNaturlig has been in our view for some time now. Somewhat underground until recently, when releasing "Opalescent Pust" (2017) and "Kundalini" (2018) on Dutch Winter Light label.
When approaching Reverse Alignment we didn't hesitate to take care of the experimental sound piece "Anāhata".
Staying true to the VelgeNaturlig format, "Anāhata" is another field of sound bits that were put together to manifest a holistic work. Carefully caressed, VelgeNaturlig deliver an almost hourly long hypnotic and deep track. Most easily described as a ocean, waving back and forth, "Anāhata" has to be explored. And felt."

Released June 7, 2019

Music written and mastered by Ivo São Bento.
Artwork by Inês van Velze.
Cover by Kristian Widqvist.

BUY: https://velgenaturlig.bandcamp.com/album/an-hata

An​ā​hata

Strings, echoes, spectral voices, analog antiques, wild captures by Ivo São Bento.

Artwork by Miguel Lima
Music written and mastered by Ivo São Bento.
Released December 3, 2021

Miguel Lima Art
Ivo São Bento, sonic concepts.
BUY: https://velgenaturlig.bandcamp.com/album/heosphoros

Heosphoros

Transmortorium

Experimental fluid piece/set using analog devices, fields and old machinery, recorded circa 2000 using Magnetophon 2000 Hifi reel-to-reel tape recorder from 73, later released by GaldorTechnologies independent label [GT001] in 2002.

Music written by Ivo São Bento 2000.
Artwork by Ivo São Bento in 2002.
Cover by Ivo São Bento 2002.

https://velgenaturlig.bandcamp.com/album/revolt-of-the-sun-2

14 - Vaticínio 14

"Dwelling deep in murky, damp caverns of darkness, where endless drops of water have long shaped ominously towering dark cathedrals of stone. Afloat on a a moss-covered stream, in the thickest of unruly vegetation. Resting atop a massive jagged boulder carried here by the inland ice, the dark earth seeping through your fingers like a fine mist. A magical soundworld glittering in the darkness.

Portuguese soundscaper VelgeNaturlig has a penchant for creating dramatic soundworlds where the elements interact freely with more complex constructs. The magical album Húmus, originally self-released some nine years ago, is a true gterma favourite and we are delighted to bring it once more into the spotlight where its regal stature can inspire a new generation of listeners."

Artwork by Nanna Cartis
Music written and mastered by Ivo São Bento.
credits
Released January 1, 2002
Ivo São Bento, aural concepts.

BUY = https://velgenaturlig.bandcamp.com/album/h-mus-2

10 - Knarr

05 - Ironlunar Aqua Passage

Tested reflux based in radio transmissions envolved in analog fx-inside-fx, sideral drones and spectral voices, recording in 2003, released by GaldorTechnologies independent label [GT002] in 2004.

Released January 25, 2004

Music written and mastered by Ivo Santos 2003.
Artwork by Ivo Santos in 2003.
Cover by Ivo Santos 2003.

06 - Channeling 6

2003 Improvisation using retro machines and digital rack stuff.

Released March 21, 2003
Music written and mastered by Ivo Santos 2003.
Artwork by Ivo Santos in 2003.
Cover by Ivo Santos 2020.

BUY = https://velgenaturlig.bandcamp.com/album/rei

Reið

The Third Light Performance live improvisation in March 15, 2006, Porto.

Artwork, photo in Montejunto, composition improvisation by Ivo São Bento..
Artwork, photo and composition by Ivo São Bento..

The Third Light Performance

Realliance

AxisCaravan

"VelgeNaturlig is no stranger to Winter-Light, having appeared on our recent DCD compilation "...that first season", with his beautiful track 'Golden'.'Opalescent Pust' has an entirely different feeling altogether, one of constant motion, one of change. 'Opalescent Pust'; the breath opal, the colour of pearl, the purest form of breath. A cleansing process, that of a purifying experience. Purity.

From the opening moments of the first track 'Onset', you know you are entering a world that is both familiar to you, but also somewhat alien at the same time. It's an inward journey that you have begun; a travel within yourself that you should feel comfortable with as it's you. But the dark tones and underlying menace of the music let you know that, in no uncertain terms, before you can reach that light, that purity, you must first traverse the dark paths of your own mind and wrestle with whatever it is you find lurking there. And so the tone is set.

Tracks such as 'Opal' push you further into the blackness where, lying there in state, you can hear the electrical impulses of your own thoughts, embellished through 'Amorphous Silence'. 'Diffraction','Gold Opacity' and 'Pust' will leave you floating and submerged in your own flotation tank. Drifting into nothingness, a time to shed and let go. 'Obsidiana', 'The Hum' and 'Plateau' push you upwards and on towards a ceiling of light, crashing first through barriers of your own constricting thoughts and feelings where finally...with 'Exhale', you can at last breath; the purest breath.

The album began life as a one take improvisational piece, which was then fine tuned in the studio by Ivo Santos (aka VelgeNaturlig), resulting in the fluid, organic wave of sound that you now hear. This full CD of new and original music comprises of 10 tracks of experimental drone and ambient soundscapes. "

released May 12, 2017

All music has been recorded by VelgeNaturlig, the end of 2016. Fine tuned by Ivo Santos, Home Studio in 2017. All tracks have been mastered by Cruel Sound Works. The cover concept and design is by Midnight Sun Studio © 2017.

winter-light.bandcamp.com/album/opalescent-pust

www.thisisdarkness.com/2017/08/09/velgenaturlig/

www.vitalweekly.net/1090.html

Opalescent Pust

The Hum

Obsidiana

Gold Opacity

Diffraction

Amorphous Silence

"Having previously released the full length 'Opalescent Pust' on our label, the Portuguese sound sculpture VelgeNaturlig returns with an album of deep, immersive ambient drones - 'Kundalini'.

On 'Kundalini', Ivo Santos presents us with an album, layered with a rich tapestry of dense drones, reverberating sub-bass and circulating processed sounds, cleverly woven together with field recordings.

As with most, if not all of VelgeNaturlig's work, on 'Kundalini' the tracks flow together as one, creating vast musical landscapes to traverse within the minds eye. The music weaves an infinite pathway between the light and the dark, sometimes isolating but always keeping the listener engaged.

'Kundalini' is an album of true awakening, invoking a clash of primordial sounds and energies. Let the currents flow....."


released September 21, 2018

All music by VelgeNaturlig.
Mastered by Martijn Comes.
Cover concept and design by Midnight Sun Studio.
© VelgeNaturlig 2018
© Winter-Light 2018

winter-light.bandcamp.com/album/kundalini

www.thisisdarkness.com?s=velgenaturlig

vitalweekly.net/1152.html

Kundalini

Unboundedness

"VelgeNaturlig has been in our view for some time now. Somewhat underground until recently, when releasing "Opalescent Pust" (2017) and "Kundalini" (2018) on Dutch Winter Light label.
When approaching Reverse Alignment we didn't hesitate to take care of the experimental sound piece "Anāhata".
Staying true to the VelgeNaturlig format, "Anāhata" is another field of sound bits that were put together to manifest a holistic work. Carefully caressed, VelgeNaturlig deliver an almost hourly long hypnotic and deep track. Most easily described as a ocean, waving back and forth, "Anāhata" has to be explored. And felt."

Released June 7, 2019
Music written and mastered by Ivo São Bento.
Artwork by Inês van Velze.
Cover by Kristian Widqvist.

BUY = https://velgenaturlig.bandcamp.com/album/an-hata

Anāhata

Artwork by Andrei Alecsandru
Music written and mastered by Ivo São Bento.
Released February 4, 2022
Ivo São Bento, sonic concepts.

Akasha V

Akasha IV

Akasha III

Akasha II

Akasha I

Sedem

Štiri

Anāhata

Anāhata X

Anāhata IX

Anāhata V

Anāhata IV

Anāhata III

Anāhata II

Anāhata I

Live improvisation in 27.05.2016, alchemically sculpted with MF-102, FilterFactory, Mo-Fx, RNC 1773, HK 2k18.

Artwork by Claudia Stieper
Music written and mastered by Ivo São Bento.
Released May 27, 2016

BUY: https://velgenaturlig.bandcamp.com/album/kuiper

Ivo São Bento, sonic concepts.

Kuiper

05 - Kuiper V

00317

00739

00720

00523

00542

00816

00400

00820

00134

00618

00806

Atoms Of Existence

Live improvisation in 27.05.2016, alchemically sculpted with MF-102, FilterFactory, Mo-Fx, RNC 1773, HK 2k18.

Artwork by Claudia Stieper
Music written and mastered by Ivo São Bento.
Released May 27, 2016
Ivo São Bento, sonic concepts

https://velgenaturlig.bandcamp.com/album/sunna

All Creation, recording, artwork paint and production by VelgeNaturlig in 2003 summer, primordial groovebox and rack stuff test in "innocent" mode.
credits
released January 1, 2003

Music written and mastered by Ivo Santos 2003.
Artwork by Ivo Santos in 2003.
Cover by Ivo Santos 2003.

January 1, 2003
© 2003 VelgeNaturlig
℗ 2003 VelgeNaturlig

Sunna

Ácida no Xispes - VelgeNaturlig - Live 23 Julho 2016 - Acto 1. Barcelos.

MF-102
FilterFaktory
Mo-Fx

Live ÁCIDA - Barcelos 23.07.2016

21-12-2012

Ivo São Bento is an exploratory sound artist and aural composer from Lisbon based in Styria.

By working preferably fully improvisational each performance by São Bento is solely focused on the respective present moment, resulting in a myriad of unique sonic outcomes and allowing for the creation of (and in) “complete natural flow” - the focal point of São Bentos work.

From sculpting vast and ever-evolving sonic spaces by multi-layering carefully tailored processed sounds, field recordings and electro acoustic elements to meticulously crafting simplistic musical blueprints with purposeful precision using old analogue machines - the work of the Portuguese electronic music veteran creates a variation of aural environments - pleasant, immersive and bright as well as dense, heavy, dissonant and unexpected channeling.

Under the moniker “VelgeNaturlig” he has released over 32 full-length records, some of which have been published through international major labels and has been performing both nationally and internationally, recently playing selected shows in the United States.

Bookings: kosmisk@proton.me
Publishing: velgenaturlig@musician.org

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