It comes in a lovely digipack.
Seren Ffordd + Oöphoi "The Martian Chronicles" CD
Seren Ffordd, in Wales based drone master, has released since 2006 several albums and EPs on Oöphoi's Umbra and Penumbra labels. Now teamed with the Italian drone king for their first collaborative work, "The Martian Chronicles", on Hypnos, where both artists have released several albums (Seren Ffordd on Hypnos Secret Sounds). Sculpted during 2006-2009 and inspired by Ray Bradbury's short science fiction story from 1950, "The Martian Chronicles", released in October 2011 and packaged in attractive 4-panel digipak, is an adventurous and deep sonic exploration merging the talents of Andy Benford aka Seren Ffordd and Gianluigi Gasparetti aka Oöphoi. Nearly 15 minutes long overture, "The Long Years", opens this grandeur voyage with colossally deep drones with invading bells, gongs and extraterrestrial-infused rumblings and resonations. A truly immense soundwalls designed for all aficionados of ultra deep, massive ambience, magnificent!!! With the next, again 15-minute composition, we dive straightly into a chasmic void. "Dead Cities" are painted in the first half with extremely freezing drones and mechanized breathings climbing into the throne of drones, while in the second half the breathings slowly dissolve and some, rather distractive and ominous effects step into the fore and color this ultimate giant drone wizardry. This is stunningly stellar and powerful sound sculpting evoking wonderful sense of spatial emptiness!!! "Blue Fire", another longer piece, keeps on the more active, emerging route, where assorted, mostly otherworldly, at times oddly sounding effects and outbursts enrich the drone. Also few recognizable sounds can be heard, for example something like a trot of a horse. "End Of A Changeling" is shorter, eclectic piece featuring extracts from each track, cut and mixed. "Canals" opens with watery and distant storm sounds that support more free floating drifts, quite relieving and relaxing when comparing to preceding adventurous sonic alchemy. The next composition, "Flamebirds Waiting For The Storm", as its title tells, is flavored with processed bird calls, later the rain and thunder shake the heaven to achieve the most organic environment. Deeply echoed, slow-motion drones with occasional rumblings escape into the darkness of sinkholing "Unremembered" and provide the closing part of this truly absorbing and fantabulous sonic mystery and mastery. "The Martian Chronicles" is purely transcendental listening experience!!! Two drone purveyors are unlocking the gateway of the Void, enter now!!!
Richard Gürtler (Nov 13, 2011, Bratislava, Slovakia)
Oöphoi – Mare Tranquillitatis - Compact Disc
€15 EUR
Oöphoi – Mare Imbrium - Compact Disc
€15 EUR
Paul Vnuk Jr. + Oöphoi – Distance To Zero - Compact Disc
€15 EUR
A Tapestry For Sourcerers –
Compact disc
Five Thousand Spirits
€16 EUR
Probing The Depths –
Limited edition Cd-r
ZEIT
€16 EUR
Tempus fugit –
Limited Edition Compact Disc.
ALIO DIE & INDALASKA
€16 EUR
Cye Wood And Lisa Gerrard – The Trail Of Genghis Khan CD
€17 EUR
KLAUS WIESE ~ Monsoon CD Last stock copies of legendary album from 1996 on Totem records!
€22 EUR
Aglaia Archives unreleased ~ Box 2 Conjunction and fragments
€75 EUR
Aglaia Archives unreleased ~ Box 1 Evidence of beauty
€75 EUR
Alio Die ~ Lorenzo Montanà Dialogue of Water CD
€16 EUR
Aglaia Mondi sensibili CD and Sacred waters CD ~ at special price offer
€19 EUR
Aglaia CD Trilogy ~ at special price offer
€29 EUR
Sit Tibi Terra Levis - Introspective –
The Hidden Spring+Sit Tibi Terra Levis Digipack CDs Special Offer!
ALIO DIE~
€25 EUR
TUU 'Invocation' - Limited Edition Compact Disc
€14 EUR
Pack of 9 CDS Alio Die and Hic Sunt Leones
€59 EUR
Eight Parts of Reality –
Limited edition Compact Disc
AGLAIA
€16 EUR
Quot dies resurgo –
Limited Edition Compact Disc.
ALIO DIE ~
€16 EUR
Spirals of light –
Limited Edition Compact Disc.
ALIO DIE ~
€16 EUR
Distillation of Time –
Limited Edition Compact Disc.
ALIO DIE ~
€16 EUR
The Garland of Dissolution –
Limited Edition Compact Disc.
Alio Die ≈ Remco Helbers
€16 EUR
Allegorical Traces Part I –
Limited Edition Compact Disc.
ALIO DIE ~
€16 EUR
Empathy Fusion –
Limited edition 2xCD digipack Empathy fusion + Transience merger
ALIO DIE ~
€20 EUR
The chapters of the eclipse –
The chapters of the eclipse
Alio Die/Dirk Serries
€16 EUR
Private History Of The Clouds –
Alio Die & Aglaia – Private History Of The Clouds Cd Album
Alio Die & Aglaia
€14 EUR
Enthen Hitti - Via Lattea Cd ~ Special guest: Alio Die: zither in “Love’s consequnces ”
€15 EUR
Cosmic museum –
Limited Edition Compact Disc.
AGLAIA
€16 EUR
Quantum Consciousness –
Limited Edition Compact Disc
FIVE THOUSAND SPIRITS
€14 EUR
Eleusian sources –
Limited Edition Compact Disc.
ALIO DIE ~
€16 EUR
T-shirt
€10 EUR
Transience merger –
Coming again soon..: Limited edition 2xCD digipack Empathy fusion + Transience merger
ALIO DIE ~
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Oophoi – An Aerial View Cd digipack
€14 EUR
ALIO DIE Italy
Since the late 80s, Stefano Musso has recorded deep, evocative experimental ambient & electro-acoustic soundscapes under the
name Alio Die.
His music is a shadowy, cavernous, intensely detailed fusion of acoustical elements, step-and-repeat sample treatments, sparse, echoing percussion, and deep, atmospheric sound design, textural passages..by the music's vague, entropic formlessness.
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