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Post by esp on Sept 22, 2009 9:42:29 GMT
nice cover
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Post by SeReN on Sept 22, 2009 10:09:25 GMT
Thanks Jez, designed it myself - and the other side of the booklet is the mirror image which gives it a whole different look.....
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Post by SeReN on Nov 11, 2009 19:16:33 GMT
Latest news from Hypnos I'm pleased to announce that this disc has finally been released in the Hypnos store. hypnos.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=hss28We are also announcing a change to the price of all past and future Hypnos Secret Sounds releases, starting now, through at least the end of the year -- $9.99 per disc!
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Post by SeReN on Feb 25, 2010 20:35:21 GMT
Recent review of Stellar Nurseries (and other Hypnos releases) on Textura - textura.org/reviews/brand_ffordd_mystified_viridiansun.htmSeren Ffordd's Stellar Nurseries, which is actually a reissue of a 2004 release (the first in a planned series of recordings previously issued on Umbra and Penumbra, Italy-based labels managed by Oophoi) he created using a Korg 016 and a Yamaha PSR 262 keyboard. It's an hour-long, single-movement work that the Wales-based Ffordd splits into four figurative sections: “Out of the Void,” “Storm Movement,” “Spiral Dance,” and “Floating, Dreaming.” By way of context, the artist's notes describe huge, drifting clouds of molecular gases that turn star-like, then gradually increase in heat and movement until ignition occurs, after which lighter and heavier elements are pushed and pulled by gravitational forces until planets form. There's a suspended and drifting quality to the material, with cloud-like washes and tones extending for minutes at a time like massive exhalations taking place thousands of kilometres above the earth or perhaps nebulae coming into focus in slow-motion. Shifts in emphasis alternate between the rumbling lower to ascendent higher tones, and wave-like surges in intensity occur too, lending the material an industrial character in the process. An undercurrent of controlled aggression and pressure dominates the first half, until an abrupt termination strips the material down to a sole, organ-like nucleus around which synthetic tones languorously congregate as the sound mass thickens. In contrast to the first, the mood of the second half is lambent, serene, and melancholy, rather requiem-like in spirit as if in mourning for the death of a star. Ultimately, the programmatic connections between the section titles and the work itself are easily drawn in Ffordd's beautifully sustained meditation.
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Post by SeReN on Sept 1, 2010 20:59:05 GMT
News from Mike at Hypnos:
The plan is to release The Martian Chronicles on Hypnos before too long -- it's great work. Seren Ffordd and Oophoi recorded two albums worth of somewhat "connected" material but I think those will be treated as separate albums, rather than a 2-CD project.
I understand The Martian Chronicles are third in line for pressing and will be released in a digipak cover- just a matter of waiting....patiently....
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Post by SequenceC on Sept 1, 2010 21:10:38 GMT
News from Mike at Hypnos: The plan is to release The Martian Chronicles on Hypnos before too long -- it's great work. Seren Ffordd and Oophoi recorded two albums worth of somewhat "connected" material but I think those will be treated as separate albums, rather than a 2-CD project. I understand The Martian Chronicles are third in line for pressing and will be released in a digipak cover- just a matter of waiting....patiently.... Nice one. I know originally you wanted a double album.
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Post by SeReN on Sept 1, 2010 21:12:27 GMT
I think the double would have been nice - but Mike said that a double digipak cost more than double the price - so cheaper to produce 2 seperate CDs. I won't complain about that....patience...
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Post by SequenceC on Sept 1, 2010 21:15:05 GMT
I think the double would have been nice - but Mike said that a double digipak cost more than double the price - so cheaper to produce 2 seperate CDs. I won't complain about that....patience... Will both albums come out at the same time or will there be some delay between the two?
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Post by SeReN on Sept 1, 2010 21:18:25 GMT
I suspect the latter....so will have to have patience....
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Post by SequenceC on Sept 1, 2010 21:21:07 GMT
I'm sure the music is excellent. Looking forward to it
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Post by SeReN on Sept 8, 2010 7:53:09 GMT
Hypnos due to release the reissue of Arhythmia very soon on their Secret Sounds label and pushing ahead with the pressed CDs so 'The Martian Chronicles' comes a bit nearer.
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Post by SequenceC on Sept 8, 2010 8:38:35 GMT
Hypnos due to release the reissue of Arhythmia very soon on their Secret Sounds label and pushing ahead with the pressed CDs so 'The Martian Chronicles' comes a bit nearer. Nice one Andy, As mentioned by several people, Arhythmia is a great album, more lively than most of your releases. If you listen to it before bedtime, it can affect your pattern of sleep due to the disjointed rhythms, in a way it disturbs your concentration pattern as the music never really remains in one place but is constantly moving. Hope more people pick it up.
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Post by SeReN on Oct 5, 2010 7:03:40 GMT
Arhythmia has been released by Hypnos on their Secret Sounds Imprint: www.hypnos.com/smf/index.php?topic=3340.0As it was recorded on very basic equipment (2 mics and the Korg D16) I did consider re-working some of it, partly because on the D16 I could only record it as 1 long track and partly because I was thinking of adding reverb and textures because some of it was perhaps a little spar.ser than I would create now. In the end settled for giving it 5 tracks.....
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Post by esp on Oct 6, 2010 1:51:22 GMT
nice one
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Post by SeReN on Oct 20, 2010 18:35:58 GMT
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