[2-2011] - Albums available at ad21 Music

I recently licensed some of my music with ad21 Music, a record label and online CD & Digital Downloads store featuring ambient music.The label is owned and operated by Bruno Sanfilippo, Max Corbacho and Ran Kirlian, so it is from now, my official label and place to purchase my music. Not all of my work will be available there, as some of my albums are under Creative Commons license and I want them to remain this way. For now, just three of my works are available for purchase there in FLAC + MP3 file Download formats including all printable album art and metadata. Price of each album is 7,90€.

These are the albums available for purchase at ad21 Music:

Sleeper

This conceptual album suggests an evolutive journey into lucid dream states with deep ambient atmospheres and environmental sounds, from floating soundscapes to tribal grooves, from the deeps of earth to the realms of surrealism... [read more]

Elements in Motion

After 3 years of exploring new paths in the dark-ambient side of my music, this album collects tracks that I prepared slowly and deeply. I wanted to do my best on it, and close friends points it as my best album til now. [read more]

Fade Out

Intimate drifting work, floating and space ambient without rhythms and grooves. Synthesizers have here a huge presence, building melodic structures, sometimes far away from the darkness of other works. [read more]

[1-2011] - Rhea

Improvisation recorded at The Blue_Room on january 1, 2011.

Tools:

• Ensoniq Fizmo: soundworld, noises & insects sequence
• HG Fortune Scapeswizard: rumble drones, second bell sequence & sound effects (shoot from Moog Little Phatty)
• Korg Z1: pads
• Access Virus Indigo: pad chords

Notes:

Fizmo plays background drones and noises from begining. On min 2:20, while playing Korg Z1 I also play its touchpad with left hard (not seen on video because the left bottom corner of Little Phatty is covering the angle), disturbing a bit the sound. Scapeswizard is driven and shoot from Little Phatty and starts sounding on 3:48 with sounds effets and dronning on 4:40. Last minute of the track is a Scapeswizard solo. Sound recorded included extra reverb from TC Electronic M-One & DAW.

All pictures were taken by myself some time ago, most of them are near IR.

[12-2010] - Rinjuu

Rinjuu (deathbed) - a studio jam starring:

• Alesis Ion & Nord Rack 2x: drone, pads & modulated sounds
• Eurorack modular system: noises, bass & groove
• DSI Mono Evolver Keyboard: occasional distorted pad
• Reaktor Player 5.0 + Spacedrone Mod 1: drones
• Use Audio Plugiator (Pro 12)+ Novation Launchpad: pads & noises
• Additional sounds: vocal overtone recordings at begining and end of the track

All images and footage recorded, edited and mixed by Ran Kirlian

[11-2010] - Interview & Blue_Room Studio Tour 2010

I've been interviewd recently on Los Sueños Lúcidos de Alicia, aradio and podcast spanish program mostly based on interviews of all kind of style based artists. The program plays weekly on TEA FM (98.9 FM, Zaragoza) and has an online player with 64 kbps audio quality that I embed here:

You can also download the interview on 192kbps audio quality from this megaupload link: Sueños Lúcidos de Alicia nº35

My interview, shared with others, starts on minute 32 and last for 20 or 25 minutes. The audio is in spanish, as well as the complete transcripted text I share on this pdf file: entrevista para SLA.

Additionally, I've created a video tour thru my home studio, The Blue_Room, as a multimedia support for the interview, where I talk about my tools (mostly synthesizers) while I show and play most of them. The audio on this video is also in spanish, but I'm considering to prepare another version with english subtittles.

[9-2010] - Subaquàtica II & Threniar Vish

Two new tracks recorded live in the studio with video were shared during the summer. They are not being assigned to any specific project yet while they are several work in progress over the table. I expect to release my upcomming album before the end of the year, which also includes some similar "live in the studio" recordings. For now, just enjoy these new music.

Threniar Vish

Ambient improvisation based over the Roland Juno 60 drone. The other instruments are the Access Virus Indigo and Indigo 2 Redback. All audio is processed thru a TC Electronics M-One with some reverb.

All color were recorded with a Pentax Optio H90 and infrared video images recorded with Sony V3; both were edited and mixed with Sony Vegas.

Subaquàtica II

Live version. The vocal drone comes from the MS2000, which plays a slow sequence with a lot of delay and also reverb and vocal morphing effect. Ion also plays slow organ-like arps with latch on right keyboard part and pads and noises with left keyboard part. Most of the pads comes from the OB12.

It exists more versions of this track, some much larger. The drone has been used on a collaborative track entitled Carboniferous Dawn with Max Corbacho for his upcomming album Deep Time.

Jellyfish images were recorded at the Oceanogràphic aquarium in Valencia (Spain) 2 years ago with my old Sony V1, sorry for the bad quality.

[11-2009] New album: Dissolution

Dissolution is the new exploration into dark ambient realms by Ran Kirlian after four years in the making and several sound experiments and project evolutions. The result is a collection of 11 new tracks exploring sound in a very organic way, where synth drones melts with environmental noises, acoustic sounds and voices to create soundworlds that drives the listener from the deeps of the earth to the cosmic void. As a preview of the album, here it comes the video from the track Syrtis Major, with a 3D graphics animation created by Ran Kirlian.

Download Dissolution

Ran Kirlian - Syrtis Major