Berlin school with Arturia Minibrute

A great improvisation with an analogic Arturia Minibrute synthesizer by Dovinia.

Max Corbacho - The Ocean Inside

The Ocean Inside is the long awaited new album of Max Corbacho presents an immersive flow of emotional soundworlds and harmonic structures that bring us to the depths of the inner ocean.
Max Corbacho returns with a new work, this time as a long awaited double album, which again immerse ourselves into touching atmospheric ambient realms of pure beauty. The Ocean Inside is a paradise of lush, cascading long chords, as oceanic waves, back and forth, in an eternal flow of shifting tones and spiraling harmonies. This is music aimed at energy, emotional and mental levels, for listeners who love deep, meditative ambient music.

With this awesome album Corbacho portrays a very personal and introspective journey divided in two parts: one in his now classical melodic and cosmic style full of beauty and dreams and the other one introducing a deeper and a bit darker scenario surrounded by massive amounts of pads and drones that takes us to the dephts of serenity, like laying in the ground of an infinite ocean. In the end, this album is just an acurated soundtrack of every human soul.


In Max words:

More than two years ago I started this project from a Eastern concept that has always been present in my work: the analogy that exists between the mind as an ocean, with constantly changing waves at the surface, and the inner stillness and silence at the depths. It is from this seed that brings me to the concept of "Oceanic", the word from which I have been developed each of the parts that make up the album. During the creation of these pieces, I tried to go as deep as I could into this bottomless ocean depths. The Ocean Inside is the record of that dive into the depths, the witness that what matters is not how deep you can go, if not the experience of that moment.

The Ocean Inside is a double album and is now available in ad21 store in 2-CD Digipack format and in Altera Orbe both FLAC and MP3 digital formats. Don't miss it!!

Mindglide - Down the Light

Spanish ambient label Altera Orbe recently released Down the Light, a gorgeous space ambient work full of nostalgic and beautiful melodies surrounded by a complex universe of synthetic sounds created by Mindglide. This is the first album by thespanish ambient artist, which was recorded back in 2007 and now remastered and rebuilt for this new digital release.

In Mindglide's words:

Down the light is my first electronic music album, a work free of all standards and prejudices, an intimate feeling converted in to the music that approaches me to the cosmos, my  primal roots. It is inspired by the contemplation of landscapes where light writes the history of the universe throughout its existence, traveling in all directions through space and time and showing us the great spectacle of creation. A landscape of infinite magnificence, where everything is part of life.

Down The Light album_Medley by mindglide

Mindglide is the electronic musical project behind Rafael De Julián, an independent artist born in Valencia, Spain, with a deep influence from  electronic music, progressive rock and jazz. He started studying and creating music in the early 90’s attracted by synthesis and sequencing as a way of composing and developing his ideas with the main objective of evoking rich and deep feelings onto listeners.

More info about Mindglide at Altera Orbe and his website.

Hollan Holmes - Aeon

Fron the album The Farthest Fringe.

More info: http://hollanholmesmusic.com/

Ambient soundscape with Access Virus Indigo 2

Live ambient music performance on Access Virus C (Indigo 2) using rhythmic LFOs, reverb, resonance and envelope filter adjustments. (Excerpt taken from a longer session):

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Antonio Blanca - Dron-E

Antonio Blanca just released Dron-E a new Reaktor ensemble based granular synthesis specialised in creating ambient, generative, abstract and cinematic soundscapes and drones.

Dron-e contains flexible parameters and controls for creating everything from delicate atmospheres to complex walls of sound. Included is a custom created sound bank of acoustic and synthetic instrument and field recordings designed specially for Dron-e , but you can load your own and venture into unknown sonic territories. In addition to the pre-established modulators and controls. it's possible to use your own modulators built in Reaktor such as sequencers or break-point envelopes using the EXT option,as well as MIDI/OSC signals to further shape your sounds. Notice that the video demos are from betatesters when Dron-E was only a prototipe yet, so it looks a bit different:

"Dron-e is brilliant. Perfect for creating the sonic mayhem soundscape, it's a must have ensemble"  Music Composer for Mass Effect 3, Tron Evolution, Borderlands series, Quake series, Prototype and many more"... http://sonicmayhem.com/

The result is an impressive sonic sculturing tool to create massive textures and complex soundworlds with a estonishing sound quality. It is also quite fun to manage with the classic Blanca minimalistic style interface, which is pretty intuitive.

Dron-E comes with a collection of 132 gorgeous presets (snapshots) based on acoustic and synthetic instruments and field recordings created by Antonio Blanca and artists such as Anthony Distefano, Bronto Scorpio and pnortnaomi who also shared sounds and even complete tracks in their Soundcloud accounts. Here some audio demos by Blanca:

DRON-E Snapshots by A-B

Dron-E is available for free download via Antonio Blanca’s website and requires Native Instruments Reaktor 5.7 (full version is required in order to use this instrument without restrictions).

Giles Reaves: Space Music Improv

Giles Reaves: Space Music Improv on the Synapse Antidote Synthesizer. Testing my new Nikon D600, and the new Synthesizer from Synapse Audio: Antidote (for Reason 6.5). I created the patch from scratch in real time, as shown in the video. To keep in the "space music" theme, I used my night time time lapse footage from a recent trip through Southern Utah and Northern Arizona (including shots at Arcosanti, AZ).

Abre Ojos - Häxan

Abre Ojos, the ambient/noise musical project from the australian audiovisual artist Scott Baker, just presented his latest work Häxan, a six audio-visual tracks using the 1922 Häxan – Witchcraft Through the Ages Swedish/Danish silent horror film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen as a starting point to examine the persecution of women and the suppression of the Divine Feminine.

The footage has been cut up, reversed, inverted, time shifted and looped, which doesn’t undo the damages but releases the energy back to the Source, a transmutation of intention, beauty from the ugliness of mankind, restoring the balance in some small way. The titles come from the english translation subtitles from key points in the movie.

The audio is improvised on a eurorack modular synthesiser processed through Native Instruments Guitar Rig and Maschine. The videos were edited in After Effects and extra animations were created with Quartz Composer. The audio and visuals were performed and recorded live in the studio.

This is the video of the ending track of the album Their Unfailing Test:

Their Unfailing Test from abre ojos on Vimeo.

66.6 minutes of morphing mandalas and electronic drones ranging from noise to warm tones that wrap you like a blanket.The DVD includes a DVD-ROM section where there are FLAC audio versions of the tracks and also links on the cover to download high quality MP3′s and iPad video of each track.

The DVD is a limited edition of 50 copies all hand numbered and every disc comes with an Abre Ojos sticker. They are $20AUD each including shipping to wherever you are in the world. Purchase below via Paypal. More details and order at abreojos.net.