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| Cocoon IS Here!
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Posted: Jan 12, 2012
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All new music from Dan Pound, the new album, "COCOON" is in stock and ready for purchase. Check it out at danpound.com & danpoundmusic.com
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| New CD, COCOON......almost here!
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Posted: Jan 1, 2012
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The workings of the latest release by Dan, titled Cocoon are in the final stages. Mere microscopic edits/fades/adjustments are being made in the mastering process as the last stages of this 'life form' are emerging. Final assembly of the design and layout are being administered as well. The release of this CD is on the calendar for either Late December or early January. Another Pure ambient electronic, shamanic new age musical soundscape is coming your way soon.
Stay Tuned!
UPDATE: 1/1/12
This project is now complete and at the replicating plant. DUE OUT IN A FEW WEEKS!
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| New projects at Pound Sounds
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Posted: Jul 22, 2011
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A lot has been happening at the Pound Sounds studio, and it's been a while since I have updated you, so I felt that it's a good time for just that.
So now what's new you ask?
I am very excited about many new projects brewing at Pound Sounds.
First is an announcement of a new series of releases called Heart Sounds.
This is simply a collection of volumes of one hour aural journeys made especially for the healing arts.
Made from various past tracks and material, it's a seamless blend and flow of ambient music, with an all new sound. Many very old tracks were included and remastered just for this project. Each volume will have it's own sub titled theme for a cohesive uniform experience all it's own. This is Dan Pound music made exclusively for the enhancement of sessions of Yoga, Massage Therapy, and Meditation. The first two volumes, "The Deep Expanse" and "The Shaman's Dream" are in their final stages of production. Stay tuned for this first set of releases from this on going project, set for release late Summer.
Next is an official announcement of two more re-mastering releases of old albums.
First is "Return To Other Worlds", a combination of selected tracks from the first two Dan Pound albums, Other Worlds and Return, along with a few tracks from Door Beyond Time.
The second release is a re-master of the album Reflections. This one will be just that. This album in it's entirety. I have always loved this album personally, and feel the need to hear a sonic reconstruction of it with better sound. And I feel it's worthy as material goes for this. Both of these will be released before years end.
Now to announce the all new follow up release to Medusazoa, called "COCOON".
Pure deep zone ambient electronic music soundscapes that first began in February of this year.
Depicting the life stages of a cocoon with it's pupae and Chrysalis developing into a butterfly; it's a musical metaphor for our own spiritual development and the life changes we experience, hoping to find our own release of the self to full crystallization, and to finally develop wings and become a butterfly ourselves, in a spiritual sense. This is a compelling set of music with everything from serene new age to obscurities of the rhythmic electronica type. Stay tuned for an official release date on this. Most likely Late Fall.
That's it for now. Always feel free to contact me for any reason to either suggest a new creation, offer feedback or simply to comment or communicate. My doors are always open.
Best to you,
Dan
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| MEDUSAZOA Now Available!
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Posted: March 26, 2011
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I am very excited to announce the next project from Pound Sounds, MEDUSAZOA.
This release is available in CD and MP3 format.
Based and built from analog modular synth drones, patches & effects, this is pure underwater dream zone music.
Made to accompany the fluid movements and colorful bio-luminescence of the jellyfish, flowing and drifting with the currents,
the blend of sounds are surprisingly organic in their textures, and mix well with crustacean-like effects and poly-sequential, fractal rhythms & pulses.
This promises to be a very special release. Get your copy now!
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| New release AURORA is now shipping!
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Posted: Jan 21, 2011
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AURORA is now shipping!
Meditation music for the ages. Majestically serene, and mysteriously ethereal.
Perfect for the healing arts, or, for just watching the skies.
This is available in CD and MP3 @ 320kbps formats.
On another note....I am very excited to announce the next project from Pound Sounds, MEDUSAZOA.
Began last July, this is coming into full fruition.
Based and built from analog modular synth drones, patches & effects, this is pure underwater dream zone music.
Made to accompany the fluid movements and colorful bio-luminescence of the jellyfish, flowing and drifting with the currents,
the blend of sounds are surprisingly organic in their textures, and mix well with crustacean-like effects and poly-sequential, fractal rhythms & pulses.
Stay tuned for a release date, (some time this spring), more notes, samples, reviews etc..
This promises to be a very special release.
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| New release AURORA, due out in a few weeks
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Posted: Dec 3, 2010
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Almost a year in the making, AURORA is due out for release on December 21'st.
Private, meditation music perfect for the Winter Solstice.
This project began Christmas Eve of last year. Final mixing and mastering was concluded just last week.
Descriptions, reviews, samples will be posted over the next several weeks.
Stay Tuned!
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| Dan is Galactic Travels artist focus for NOV 2010:
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Posted: Oct 29, 2010
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Galactic Travels, a weekly space music program which plays on WDIY FM and streams it's own podcast, is focusing on Dan Pound for the month of November, 2010. They will be playing whole albums by Dan at midnight on each show for an entire month.
Follow this link for details....
wdiy.org/programs/gt/playlists/2010/focus.html#nov
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| WOLF MOON Now Shipping!
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Posted: Sep 30, 2010
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Pound Sounds 9'th release, "Wolf Moon", is now here and shipping.
I thought this would be a good release date as its just in time for the series of Fall moons.
This is highly shamanically infused ambient electronic space music....lots of tribal elements going on.
This album is available in CD and MP3 @ 320kbps formats.
LINK:
http://www.danpoundmusic.com/cds.cfm
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| Wolf Moon due for release in a couple of weeks
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Posted: Sep 20, 2010
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A primal and often shamanic work, Wolf Moon will be released in early October.
Dark, and searing with emotion, this set of sound design scenes will surely transport you
to an ambient inner zone state. Be prepared to be running with the pack and howling at the Wolf Moon.
Stay tuned!
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| New release INTERLACE now shipping!
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Posted: June 11'th 2010
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Interlace.
Music to surely transport you on an intergalactic far away journey in your minds eye to another time and place.
This was originally scheduled to be a follow up release on the net label Atmoworks, after their release of my Fourth Way album last year. Instead, I have elected to release it on my own Pound Sounds label. I wanted to go beyond the download platform only method. The Cd cover art looks fantastic and the sound is pretty awesome as well. Stay tuned!
Searing and washing pads/drones with analog sequencer pulses and shamanic elements.
Dan Pound brings forth another eclectic symphonic blend of ambient electronic, shamanic space music.
Interlace takes the listener on a voyage beyond the tangible world of matter and into the inner
depths of ones personal psychic realm, bringing with it a very personal experience for each listener.
Using metaphorical titles based on a t.v. screen, the motions of the lattice-like aural structures breathe, melt and intertwine, revealing the emotions and meditations of the listener in raw three dimensional form, presenting itself on ones own inner minds eye as if on a motion picture screen.
Six moderately long form pieces of mind altering, mind bending, shape shifting, trance inducing soundworlds sure to take you on another other-worldly voyage. That is Interlace.
Taking pre-order requests via e-mail at
danpound@danpound.com
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| New projects in the works, March 2010
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Posted: Mar 19, 2010
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1. Two New projects in the works...
"Aurora", & "Wolf Moon".
Both stylistically different, but could be considered companion discs as well.
Pure ambient, penetrating, meditative sound world designs.
Meant for discerning listeners and progressive thinkers,
"Wolf Moon" is an adventure in sonic art, continually developing landscapes seen through the minds eye.
This music depicts the open tundra and a surviving wolf pack, and the intensity of being in a highly alert state as well as being emotionally charged in different levels. In a forever evolving and changing environment, the wolf must also adapt and evolve in order to survive in a world of constant flux and potential chaos. This music is about living on that edge.
This disc should appeal to visual artists of all types, as this music is not only cinematic, but it can enhance visual imagery of the deepest terrain of the imagination to the point where what's imagined becomes a real experience. One can't help but feel like one is running with the pack on the white, open tundra in "Making Tracks". In the short track, "The Hunter", you can feel the chill and primal fear as you 'see' and 'hear' Man, the hunter while watching through the trees, while trying to maintain a completely motionless stance.
Using the usual set of multi-instruments with everything from fat analog synth pulses, Tangerine Dream style sequencer arpeggiations, guitars, and dreamy space pads, to a plethora of Shamanic/Tribal/Ethnic instruments, percussion, and voices, included but not limited to, Didgeridoos, flutes, ocarinas, frame drum, rain stick and shakers, singing bowls, rocks and more.
What's unique about this music, but is sort of a trademark of Dan's, is the mix and blend of electronica, pure space music , and world infusions. Only a handful of pioneering artists like Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana, and maybe perhaps Vangelis can this music and this artist be compared to.
Compelling, dark, ominous and mysterious as well as meditative, hypnotic, ethereal and pensive. All words to best describe this album.
You WILL be transported to an unknown natural world of mystery and wonder as you listen to "Wolf Moon".
"Aurora" on the other hand, is the more serene and tranquil of the two upcoming releases. This music is perfect as an accompaniment to the healing arts. Especially yoga, massage, meditation, and even to enhance sleep and dreaming.
Instrumentation is much more sparse and minimal than "Wolf", and the expansive and ethereal quality of the themes run deep into ones psyche. Mostly using programmed synths, a little guitar, some flute, and subtle background vocals, this album is pure space music that is both hypnotic and intoxicating.
"While developing some of the tracks, I would sometimes lie on the studio floor to listen with my eyes closed, and would find that within a mere moment after laying down, I would be drifting in and out of this world and another.
I personally think that there are potent possibilities for deep, personal expansion while being surrounded by these soundworlds."
Dan
Stay Tuned.
Release dates T.B.D (Most likely this Spring and/or Summer)
2. Re-issues/re-mixes/re-masters of older, early material.
Like the re-working of Trance Meditation, and the release of Rock Into Sand (which combined tracks from Horizon, Hearts Core, & Hummingbirds Dream), both from 2008, there are a couple more up and coming re-issues/re-mixes/re-masters of some whole and parts of older albums that have already been completed, and are awaiting packaging and distribution plans.
The first disk, is a re-working of selected parts from the albums Return, Door Beyond Time, and the very first release by Dan from 2004, Other Worlds. The pieces blend together as if they were made for one album to share. Sometimes, the use of two or more cuts were actually blended together to make one single track.
The second completed disk is the complete album, Reflections, which has been completely re-mastered. This is one of Mr. Pounds personal favorite releases from his past catalog.
I couldnt help but want to bring back to life this album in its entirety with the tracks just re-mastered, so as to hear all the subtleties and nuances that you couldnt hear in the original release.
It definitely benefited from taming some of the frequencies as well. All of the tracks were otherwise un-altered, and as well, the order of tracks remains as it was. Its the same album, it just SOUNDS so much better.
Stay tuned for more news regarding more re-issues.
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| New release on Atmoworks, "The Fourth Way"
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Posted: Nov 28, 2009
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My newest release (and 1'st on the Atmoworks label), "The Fourth Way" is now available on-line. This is an MP3 @ 320kps....very high quality. Album artwork comes with it. Follow the albums link on this website.
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| New release "The Fourth Way" out soon.
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Posted: Nov 10, 2009
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A very special release from Dan, "The Fourth Way", is due out November 27'th through the small but very well known ambient label, AtmoWorks.
This will be a download only option at first, but plans to release it on CD through Dan's Pound Sounds label are in the works.
Stay Tuned.
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| Dan Pound featured artist on stillstream
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Posted: Sep 16, 2009
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Dan Pound Newsletter Sept, 2009
1. 2009 Pound Sounds releases ESOTERICA & LIVING PLANET.....2 for 1 sale
2. Dan Pound is artist of the month on stillstream,com
3. New projects in the works
1. ESOTERICA & LIVING PLANET 2 for 1 special
Attention ambient music lover, because you are a Special Dan Pound listener, you are being offered this limited time deal....both 2009 releases, Esoterica & Living Planet on sale. Buy one at $13.00 plus shipping and get the 2nd free. Offer good until September 30'th.
Pound Sounds accepts credit cards through Paypal, checks, and MOs.
Simply reply to this E-mail with your request and the subject heading of Pound Sounds 2 for 1".
You can check out these albums via the links below.
http://www.danpound.com/album/0 For Living Planet
http://www.danpound.com/album/1 For Esoterica
2. Dan Pound artist of the month on stillstream.com
Dan is proud and honored to be the featured artist of the month (Sept) on the on-line ambient
radio net station, stillstream.com
This is a great site to discover new music of several ambient artists from around the globe.
The link below.
Http://www.stillstream.com
3. New projects.
Several new projects are brewing and/or being wrapped up. The first couple are another set of re-mastering of older material projects. The first is Return To Other Worlds. This features selected tracks from the first two albums, (now unavailable in Cd form), Other Worlds, and Return, along with a few tracks from Door Beyond Time, all re-mastered. The second re-mastering series Cd is the Reflections album in its entirety, all re-mastered. This is one of Dans personal all time favorites, so the whole disc is brought back to life with a very sonic upgraded sound, and no additional tracks included. It is still undecided whether these will be a download only albums, or also physical Cds. Your input is appreciated.
The new music project is a very space induced, searing, soaring and sensual album called The Fourth Way (working title). This is a somewhat darker approach to soundscapes for Dan as he explores newer terrain in a mysterious alien world. This music is based on the literary works of Greek and Russian philosophers, Gurdjieff and Ouspensky and their work known by the same title. This Musical journey is sure to take you to other dimensions of time and space. Release date is for December of this year.
Stay tuned.
Http://www.danpound.com
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| LIVING PLANET now Available
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Posted: Jun 16, 2009
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Living Planet is now available and shipping.
You can get your copy through this website or Cdbaby.com
E-mail for special discounts for ordering directly through Dan's label Pound Sounds.
danpound@danpound.com
Stay Tuned for more!
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| Living Planet due out soon
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Posted: May 22, 2009
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New CD, "Living Planet" due out in a few weeks.
Get your free copy (by request only via E-mail) download of Sampler Mix of album.
danpound@danpound.com
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| March 2009
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Posted: Mar 10, 2009
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News letter March 2009
1. New release, ESOTERICA, now available.
2. New re-working and re-mastering of three early albums on one new release,
ROCK INTO SAND, also available.
3. Core music from Dans, RED PLAINS used in the documentary, Southern Fried Bigfoot,
airing on The Documentary Channel, April 13'th.
4. In the works, LIVING PLANET, new CD due out in the fall.
1. New release, ESOTERICA, now available.
Pound Sounds and Dan Pound are very happy to announce the release of ESOTERICA
Click this link to view and listen to samples.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/danpound30
Traversing deep and wide into uncharted sonic territory, Dan Pound emerges with a whole new set of tracks that are un-classifiable by genre.
Combining shamanic/ethnic percussion, voice and indigenous instruments with ambient electronic, space soundworlds, there is an expansive journey of discovery ready to be had throughout this whole disc. One is called out to the far reaches of the Nether worlds, and upon listening, one can't help but to heed it's call.
Some moods are serene and tranquil, while others are mysterious, haunting or otherwise moody and atmospheric.
As well there are sonic portraits that beget feelings of triumph, glory, and even ecstasy.
2. New re-working and re-mastering of three early albums on one new release,
ROCK INTO SAND, also available.
Introducing a new album with old material re-worked and re-mastered...
.....Rock Into Sand.
Click this link to view and listen to samples.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/danpound28
This album is a culmination of whole tracks and excerpts from three early albums no longer available in physical form;
"In A Hummingbird's Dream", "Horizon" and "Heart's Core".
These sounds have been re-mixed and mastered by Dan and edited together in a musical mosaic collage that has made this an entirely all New album with all older material. A must have for fans of Mr. Pound.
3. Core music from Dans, RED PLAINS used in the documentary, Southern Fried Bigfoot,
airing on The Documentary Channel, April 13'th.
Ever really wondered about the existence of Bigfoot in the South?
Now is your chance to explore this very realistic possibility,
on April 13'th, on The Documentary Channel, carried by DISH Network, at 9pm Eastern/8pm Central. The DVD will also be sold in DOC's online store.
The reason for this plug here is because most of the core music from this picture is from Dans Cd, RED PLAINS. This is effectively used in eerie, swampy, atmospheric scenes.
Its a very well made Doc, sure to make you think of the possibilities of other life forms existing among us in our world.
4. In the works, LIVING PLANET, cd due out in fall.
Long form, continual textural flows combine with techno-induced grooves to produce another living, breathing space CD.
Tracks open, change, transmigrate and transduce into cellular forms to create a new life of substance that becomes available to the touch and senses by only aural means, but still manages to penetrate the inner core and essence that is the most real part of any mortal soul.
Stirring, primal, visceral, ancient, ambient, visual, moving shamanic space music.
In The Works.
Stay Tuned!
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| New release "Esoterica" due out in a few weeks
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Posted: Mar 4, 2009
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This all new music by Dan is Shamanic and spacious. Warping through time on an infinite voyage beyond the stars. A Shaman journeys to outer space in "Esoterica". Due out by the end of March. Stay tuned.
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| November 2008
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Posted: Oct 30, 2008
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Dan Pound Newsletter November 2008
1. New release: "Night Watch"
2. New videos with music from Night Watch
3. Re-release of "Trance Meditation", re-mastered by Steve Roach
4. More news on the phasing out and re-workings of older releases
5. New project in the works: "Esoterica".
1. New release: "Night Watch"
This is pure tribal/shamanic ambient space music.
This is the perfect ambient night time album for late night star gazing and fire stirring
tendencies.
Shamanic, ethnic percussion and instruments meet with space synth atmospheres and
sequential pulses and beats.
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This music is meant for dark meditations and deep zone exploration.
Sound worlds for inner transformation.
Instruments include:
Didgeridoo, Native American Lakota Flute, Tibetan singing bowls, frame drums, shakers and
rain sticks and other assorted ethnic percussion, electric guitar, digital and analog
synths, samplers, processing, shamanic vocals and field recordings of crickets, birds,
and other natural ambiences.
Click here to see the CD: http://cdbaby.com/cd/danpound27
2. New videos on YouTube featuring two tracks from "Night Watch"
These feature Dan in his studio creating the sound worlds for this new CD.
Primal Erotic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8FW9lUhPSc
Night Magic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaZw9kF_i2o
3. Re-release of "Trance Meditation" (new version)
Although this was released several weeks ago, I neglected to send a news letter regarding
this project.
Re-worked and with new material, this re-release is the result of my master class
sessions with Steve Roach. He mastered and helped re-arrange the new version.
Still with much of the same zones and overall feel, this new CD transcends anything I
have done so far by the very nature of its recording and sound quality.
I have since begun a whole new journey by taking other older pieces and re-working them
and re-mastering them as well. This I will talk about more in the next topic.
Meanwhile the link for the new version of Trance is:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/danpound26
4. More news on the phasing out and re-workings of older releases.
As stated in the above topic; I am in the on going process of phasing out and re-working
some older releases and material. Most of these projects will be re-mastered as well. Not
everything will be carried on, therefore, some works will never be available again, so if
you're interested, there are still a few copies of most of these CD's still out there.
Otherwise, they will be gone in the not too distant future.
After Trance was re-done, I got right on honing my mastering skills and putting together
a three in one disc. This is the culmination of material from "In A Hummingbird's Dream",
"Horizon", and "Heart's Core".
This new alchemized version is called "Rock Into Sand", (one of the cuts from Horizon,
and seemed appropriate for the title of a sonic alchemy CD).
This is basically done and is going through the final stages of production, and is due
out by years end, possibly even sooner.
5. New project in the works: "Esoterica"
Get ready for some very moody Analog sequencer based and deep zone long form works. There
is some very drifting, floating material as well as some erotically charged sequencer
driven tracks with analog beats and pulses and other spacey, trippy atmospheres. The
dynamic flux works well here and this seems to be calling out to be the bed track-line
for a live show.
By the way, this is being considered for next year as a back-yard concert at "The Shed"
studios.
Thanks for listening and STAY TUNED!
Oct, 2008
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| News September 2008
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Posted: Sep 8, 2008
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September 2008
New!
Re-release of Trance Meditation, mastered by Steve Roach with new material.
Ultra sensory, deep zone space music meditation.
Get ready to be Trance-Ported.
Available now through this website, or cdbaby.com
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