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Post by esp on Jul 28, 2011 15:38:41 GMT
My own work and Mick will be pleased - not a spaceship in sight (unlike the first version). it looks like the spaceship just left... ;D
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Post by SeReN on Jul 28, 2011 18:50:49 GMT
My own work and Mick will be pleased - not a spaceship in sight (unlike the first version). it looks like the spaceship just left... ;D ;D spaceship ended up discarded from the final image - so true in a way....
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Post by SeReN on Jul 28, 2011 18:53:10 GMT
Great stuff Andy, been waiting for this to be released for what seems like forever. Roll on August It's been a while - we started the project in 2006.....but as I've said before - I'm glad it's taken a while as now it's in a digipak which I really like.
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Post by SeReN on Aug 20, 2011 23:30:36 GMT
soundcloud.com/seren-ffordd/a-melancholy-lightHypnos have been reissuing many of my releases on the Umbra/Penumbra label - but not everything fits in with the series of albums so I have put A Melancholy Light (320KbsMP3) for download on Soundcloud - link above. Thanks for listening.
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Post by Ross Bullfinch on Aug 22, 2011 9:37:44 GMT
Oh yes, I really like this one - must dig out the CD when I get home and have a listen.
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Post by SeReN on Aug 22, 2011 11:58:22 GMT
Thanks Ross.
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Post by SeReN on Oct 3, 2011 17:37:12 GMT
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Post by SequenceC on Oct 3, 2011 20:05:34 GMT
Samples sound brilliant, great artwork too. Glad it's finally released.
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Post by phobos on Oct 3, 2011 20:16:51 GMT
Extra cool,just ordered it
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Post by SeReN on Nov 13, 2011 14:50:56 GMT
Review of TMC -
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)
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Post by Hengler on Nov 13, 2011 15:30:13 GMT
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Post by SeReN on Mar 19, 2012 7:57:18 GMT
another review of TMC - On Amazon:
By JLP (Schaumburg, IL USA) - See all my reviewsThis review is from: The Martian Chronicles (Audio CD)
"The Martian Chronicles" by Seren Fford + Oophoi, apparently inspired by Ray Bradbury's story collection of the same name, is a haunting and deeply immersive sonic voyage to multiple alien worlds. While certainly evocative of the Martian setting, TMC is just as easily placed closer to home, say, in the romantic lost cities of ancient Mesoamerica or the Central Asian Silk Road; or even within the microcosm of our own minds, in the uncharted bottomless regions of our unconscious, peopled by numinous forces and archetypes, beings as foreign from our normal selves as the remotest galaxies.
Since I'm unfamiliar with Bradbury's work, I enjoy the music best with a sort of visualization.
For example, as the music starts, let's imagine ourselves transported to a bleak wind-swept land/mind-scape (Track 1 - The Long Years). In the wind's furious howls, we make out voices: murmurs(?) or incantations(?) in an unknown vanished tongue.
When the wind dies down and the dust settles, we see the crumbling fantastic architecture of great cities, the ruins of a civilization long forgotten (Track 2 - Dead Cities). As we touch the decaying walls, we feel like walking in a dream or witnessing some secret shamanic vision (Track 3 - Blue Fire). The voices are growing louder; the buildings are taking on a newer sheen. The silent cities are coming back to life!
Night falls; the shadows stretch and disappear into the darkness (Track 4 - End of a Changeling). The weird vision continues, bringing back long-gone sounds and memories, the unfamiliar ghosts of the vanished people (Track 5 - Canals).
Suddenly, our trance breaks. It was just an illusion after all. This world is long dead. Its only inhabitants now are grotesque bird-like creatures that watch us threateningly from the collapsing roofs (Track 6 - Flamebirds Waiting for the Storm).
Yet why do the faces of these beasts bear mournful, almost human expressions? Are they perhaps reflecting on life's brief span, on the vanity of existence and power, as if too much fallen glory had softened even their brutish hearts? No, the noxious alien atmosphere is just playing tricks on our sensibilities. This world died long ago (Track 7 - Unremembered). If there had been any mourners, they didn't have long to await their turn.
End of visualization. Well, you get the idea now. 'Mars' is not a planet, it's a state of mind. The setting could really be anywhere strange and special to your imagination. Wherever you find yourself, TMC, this ambient masterpiece, will work invariably well.
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Post by Seeker on Mar 19, 2012 8:18:11 GMT
Nice review
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Post by SeReN on Mar 19, 2012 10:56:11 GMT
yep - wonder what he would have done if he'd read the book?
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Post by SeReN on May 22, 2012 9:12:16 GMT
short review from Bert Strolenberg of TMC: "The Martian Chronicles" is a 74-minute longform album inspired by Ray Bradbury's short science fiction story by the same name. It is the first collaborative album between Oöphoi (aka Italian drone expert Gianluigi Gasparetti) and Welch soundscape composer Seren Ffordd (aka Andy Benford). What we got here is a deep and immersive work of cinematic ambient that took about three years in the making. The seven tracks feature vast, dark and slow morphing drone textures along field recordings and percussion, making up an intense trip into a mysterious and alienating world with psychedelic edges. "The Martian Chronicles" is a spacious recording meant for deeper and focussed listening, that seems to submerge the listener even more when heard with a good pair of headphones. If you’re into dense ambient art works with both subtle changes along fine environmental sounds, this quality album is for you. he has many other reviews at www.sonicimmersion.org/index.php
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