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| Spirit Dome - Live Archive Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana 2009 Projekt PRO225 (CD)SPIRIT DOME returns with a perfect companion, LIVE ARCHIVE. Two out-of-print releases from this acclaimed ambient duo are brought together in this value-priced 2-CD release. Living proof of the power of live performance, these recordings are so immediate and engaging it would be easy to assume they were crafted over months in the studio. LIVE ARCHIVE, from their 1997 tour, serves as a natural complement to 2004's SPIRIT DOME, recorded live to stereo master in one take in a studio-like environment. LIVE ARCHIVE was originally released as a small run on the Groove label in Holland, and has been out of print for several years.
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 magnify | The Memory Pool / Revealing the Secret Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana 2008 steveroach.com (CD) – Ultra-Limited Edition (80 sets)First released as a limited edition of 2000 in 1998, the 3-CD box set ASCENSION OF SHADOWS: MEDITATIONS FOR THE MILLENNIUM quickly sold out, and has remained a highly-desired prize for Roach and Obmana fans. The intentions for creating a place of solace for what the artists were sensing, with the approaching anticipation of the year 2000 and beyond, feels especially potent and nourishing when heard now. SOMEWHERE ELSE, the first disc in the box set was re-released in 2005. The original plan was to release the second and third discs over time, but this plan was altered because of a steady flow of new music that Steve and Projekt wanted to focus upon. Recently, Projekt discovered 80 sets of the original pressing of the second and third discs, "The Memory Pool" and "Revealing the Secret". These are now being presented in a DVD-sized case. There are no plans to bring these back into print after these are gone; this is the final stash!
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| Somewhere Else Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana 2005 Projekt PRO177 (CD) Reviewed by David Rush, amazon.com, Muze, Sonic Curiosity, Star's End, Wind and WireFirst released as a limited edition of 2000 in 1998, the 3-CD box set ASCENSION OF SHADOWS quickly sold out, and has remained a highly-desired prize for Roach and Obmana fans. In response to consistent requests, Projekt has initiated a reissue series which will present each disc as its own release, using John Cagian principles: the release dates are hinged upon when PRO177, PRO188 and PRO199 arrive on Projekt's release schedule.
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| Spirit Dome Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana 2004 Projekt PRO152 (CD) Reviewed by All Music Guide, Ambient Musings, Ambient Visions, CD Services (UK), Hypnagogue, MusicTAP, Sonic Curiosity, Synth Music Direct, Wind and Wire, www.Metal-Only.comSteve Roach / Vidna Obmana's 2002 CD INNERZONE served as the doorway to the surreal environment explored on SPIRIT DOME. Recorded in one continuous 74-minute session, this is a dark sanctuary of pure texture and beautiful, if not at times foreboding, dissonance pulled along with pulsing beats, subtle loops and dense soundworlds. The single piece, "Spirit Dome," captures a chilling gothic ambience that offers the exploration of remote psychological states of awareness. This is achieved by way of extensive live processing of instruments including fujara (overtone flute), guitar, and the seemingly bottomless wellspring of electro-acoustic sounds found only in the duo's soundscapes.
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 magnify | InnerZone Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana 2002 Projekt PRO132 (CD) Reviewed by Ambient Visions, AMBIENT.us, Ink 19, Sonic Curiosity, Star's End, StarVox, Under the VolcanoStep into the INNERZONE with surrealist soundsculptors Steve Roach and vidnaObmana on their first new collaborative work since 1999's quickly sold-out limited-edition box set ASCENSION OF SHADOWS. Venturing off safe and well travelled roads, the duo head into a chilling and beautifully haunting realm of shape-shifting soundscapes mixed with fascinating rhythmic forms. An unusual combination of instruments both acoustic and electronic can be heard on this compelling release. Central is the fujara, an Eastern European overtone flute, and the electric guitar — both creatively altered with a multitude of audio processing equipment to create a hybrid elecro-acoustic mix. The final merging of surreal acoustic, electronic elements and deep "inner" rhythms creates a bold new atmospheric music experience.
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1. | At the Edge of Everything | MP3 | 6:08 | |
2. | Strands | MP3 | 8:39 | |
3. | Cloud Space | MP3 | 6:18 | |
4. | Encounter Passage | MP3 | 2:13 | |
5. | Isolation | MP3 | 14:04 | |
6. | Spires | MP3 | 10:39 | |
7. | InnerZone | MP3 | 25:23 | | |
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| Live Archive Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana 2000 Groove Unlimited GR038 (CD) Reviewed by Jim Brenholts, Jason Bratcher, Incursion, Synth Music Direct, The Raging Consciousness DeskA blending of selected live high points from concerts in 1997 in the US and Europe. It contains almost all new and unreleased material created for the tour, as well as improvisations that captured the atmosphere of the performance space in Italy: an outdoor Roman-era amphitheater set within a mountain-top village. Take the spirit of their previous studio releases, and unleash this in the live setting of duel didgeridoos, deep soundworlds, trance grooves, shamanic percussion, flutes, ocarinas and otherworldly spirit voices. The result unfolds like one perfect uninterrupted concert in your own space.
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| CD out of stock | iTunes | Bandcamp | Circles & Artifacts Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana 2000 The Contemporary Harmonic CH001 (CD) Reviewed by Star's EndThis enhanced CD unites Martina Verhoeven's photography (seen on the CAVERN OF SIRENS cover) with an exclusive soundtrack by Vidna Obmana & Steve Roach, and Linda Kohanov's intense and breathtaking poetry. The audio portion, 60 minutes long, plays on any CD player, while the multimedia presentation requires a Windows PC. (Mac users can use Virtual PC from Connectix.)
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1. | Circles & Artifacts | MP3 | 60:22 | | Multimedia CD featuring photography by Martina Verhoeven, and written poetry by Linda Kohanov. |
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| CD out of stock | iTunes | Bandcamp | Ascension of Shadows Meditations For the Millennium Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana 1999 Projekt (CD) Reviewed by Muze, Star's End, Wind and WireThe next chapter in the collaborative work between Steve Roach and Vidna Obmana is sure to delight those who appreciate the more serene, atmospheric side of their work together. On Ascension, the artists return to a more minimal core of sounds and approaches to reveal an atmosphere that flows for over three hours. As the acceleration toward the new century builds, this music offers a space for repose so needed these days.
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| | CD out of stock | iTunes | Bandcamp | Well of Souls Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana 1995 Projekt PRO60 (Poster, CD) Reviewed by John Pemble, Detroit Metro Times, i/e, Muze, The Tracking AngleSteve Roach and Belgium-based Vidna Obmana in their first fully-realized duo project. A dark and inviting descent through textures that swirl and drift like liquid smoke while ethno-electronic grooves throb with primal urges. This double CD presents a "day" and "night" disc, starting with the rhythmic, then moving to pure atmospheric drifts. "This is an unequalled achievement and nothing in ambient or space-music can be compared... organic, graceful, it approaches the realm of the sacred." -- (Detroit Metro Times)
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Disc 1 | 1. | In the Presence of Something | MP3 | 9:57 | |
2. | In the Realm of Twilight -- Outlands One | MP3 | 13:13 | |
3. | The Secret Arrival -- Outlands Two | MP3 | 14:08 | |
4. | The Gathering | MP3 | 24:08 | |
Disc 2 | 1. | Deep Hours | MP3 | 29:24 | |
2. | Well of Souls | | 25:58 | |
3. | The Quiet Companion | MP3 | 8:14 | |
4. | The Dwelling Place | MP3 | 9:02 | | |
| Echo Passage Vidna Obmana, Alio Die 2006 Projekt PRO190 (CD) Reviewed by Phil Derby, AmbiEntranceVidna Obmana and Italian soundsculptor Alio Die unite their vision and realized this introspective work of sixty minutes. At times droning and abstract, sometimes ritualistic and ethnic. "ECHO PASSAGE clearly lives up to the reputations of Obmana and Musso while offering both ample opportunity to work outside of their ordinary parameters" -- Adam M. Bialek / Outburn (USA)
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1. | Echoes of Light | | | |
2. | A Slip of Darkness | | | |
3. | The Passage | | | | 2006 reissue in Digipak. |
| The River of Appearance 10th Anniversary 2-CD edition Vidna Obmana, Dreams in Exile 2006 Projekt PRO185 (CD)Projekt re-releases Vidna Obmana's classic THE RIVER OF APPEARANCE with a bonus disc, the entire album performed by Oregon's Dreams in Exile. River was a high point of Obmana's early compositional style, presenting a minimal and serene flow utilizing sparse piano lines which intermingle with drifting keyboard loops and organic rainstick sounds. There is an overall harmonic unity on these 8 pieces, stripping dense walls back to reveal a slowly changing sound configuration. The second disc is not merely bonus tracks, but a complete re-creation of the original on traditional instruments.
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| Legacy Vidna Obmana 2004 Relapse Records RR66242 (CD)LEGACY is Vidna Obmana's closing chapter in his critically acclaimed and challenging Dante trilogy. The evolution of these darkly surreal soundscapes and harmonic themes now merging with Vidna Obmana's insistent grooves makes this an especially powerful conclusion to a relentlessly uncompromised series. While the trilogy plays with the duality of choices, parallel to the epic Dante poem -- covering the conflict of opposites, between good and evil, black and white -- equals Vidna Obmana's personal longing for an artistic and creative change in pace, profile and style. LEGACY brings forward a fusion of industrial, ambient, fourth world and even some post-rock elements, performed on electric guitars, overtone flutes and an array of electronic devices. This new album also features Steven Wilson, originator and leader of the group Porcupine Tree, who performs a haunting and thematic electric guitar passage to conclude the trilogy.
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1. | Canto | MP3 | 2:45 | |
2. | Bloodshift | MP3 | 7:05 | |
3. | Torment and Resolution | MP3 | 11:56 | |
4. | Sinner's Tongue | MP3 | 7:33 | |
5. | The Virtual Insomnia | MP3 | 13:06 | |
6. | Cycle of Agony | MP3 | 8:55 | |
7. | Impious Rising | MP3 | 11:43 | |
8. | Legacy | | 10:54 | | |
| Anthology 1984 - 2004 Vidna Obmana 2004 Projekt PRO157 (CD)2004 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Vidna Obmana. These past 20 years signified Vidna Obmana as one of the most wilful independent exprimental artists around. He recorded more than 35 CD albums, whether solo or in collaboration, of music that explored the abrasive side of electronic composition, the freeform landscapes of the isolationist ambient aesthetic, the structured interactivity of Fourth World soundscapes, international music traditions and post-classical experimentations. Vidna Obmana's ANTHOLOGY 1984 - 2004 release marks this celebration and covers Vidna's oeuvre from 1984 up 'til 2004. For the first ever, this anthology links Vidna Obmana's most succesful ambient period with his most obscure earlier phase. A period in his career that Vidna Obmana refused to recognize until a year ago when he realized that his experimental and noise phase created the foundation for what he has produced so far. Twelve selections which range in style from ambient music in the vein of THE RIVER OF APPEARANCE and his ambient Trilogy to harsh noise electronics from the early 80's. An unique and provocative document confirming Vidna Obmana's essential position in the field of electronic and modern experimental music. This CD, the first in a series of anthologies, also stands for the birth of Vidna Obmana's own label Ikon (this first release is in alliance with Projekt). The circle is complete and a new path lies ahead. Be aware this is challenging, provoking listening, shifting between omninous sound eruptions and the more developed forms of later years.
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1. | Shallow faith (previously unreleased, from 'Legacy' studio sessions - Belgium, 2003/2004) | | | |
2. | Second praise for last hope (previously released, from 'Untitled' cassette, Ladd-Frith - USA, 1987) | | | |
3. | The noctural air (previously unreleased, from 'The River of Appearance' studio sessions - Belgium, 1995/1996) | | | |
4. | Ecstasy (previously released, from 'Hope and Die' cassette, V-tapes - Germany, 1984-1985) | | | |
5. | Kindred spirits (from 'Crossing the trail' studio sessions - Belgium, previously released on '1654-The Cave2' CD compilation, Hands Productions - Germany, 1998) | | | |
6. | Darkness overpowers it all (previously released, from 'Untitled' cassette, Ladd-Frith - USA, 1986) | | | |
7. | Soul dislocation (previously unreleased, from 'Spore' studio sessions - Belgium, 2001/2002) | | | |
8. | By abundant rain (live) (previously unreleased, from 'The Trilogy' studio sessions - Belgium, 1990/1993, live in concert at Diogenes, Nijmegen - The Netherlands, 1991) | | | |
9. | Only fear will survive (previously released from 'Only Fear will Survive' cassette, Ladd-Frith, USA - 1985, enhancement by Brian Ladd) | | | |
10. | Bemused amphibian (from 'Experience Artaud' cassette, self-released - Belgium, previously released on 'Ecstasy by Current II' LP compilation, Schizophonia - Austria 1988) | | | |
11. | Assimilate (previously unreleased, from 'Tremor' studio sessions - Belgium, 1999/2001) | | | |
12. | Arterial (previously released, from 'Landscape in obscurity' cassette, S.S.A. - The Netherlands, 1989) | | | | |
| Subterranean Collective Vidna Obmana (with Steve Roach) 2001 Projekt PRO110 (CD)Ambient collectors have searched for the missing link for years: a search for the albums that reflect the transition from vidnaObmana's early minimalist-ambient work to his current tribal-ambient sound. ECHOING DELIGHT, PARALLEL FLAMING and THE SPIRITUAL BONDING – out of print for most of the 90's – are that missing link. This is the SUBTERRANEAN COLLECTIVE.
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| The Contemporary Nocturne Vidna Obmana (with Steve Roach) 2000 Hypnos (CD)This is the second half of Vidna's special "dual" release for the Hypnos label, following THE SURREAL SANCTUARY, again with guest appearances by Jim Cole, Joris De Backer and Steve Roach. Continuing his focus on the avant-garde and atmospheric, Vidna Obmana reveals the solution and reaches the light at the end of the sonic tunnel with this second chapter.
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| Memories Compiled 2 Vidna Obmana 1999 Projekt (CD)Remastered archival recordings from 1988 – 1991, resequenced by the artist, with an additional 30 minutes of unreleased music from that era added per disc.
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| Crossing the Trail Vidna Obmana 1998 Projekt (CD)For vidnaObmana, music is like water. It is a singular element with the unique ability to change form, flowing and changing, but never losing the qualities of movement and fluidity. It can be very lively and dramatic, but at the same time it can be very silent and cold.
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1. | Encountering Terrain | MP3 | 8:13 | |
2. | Trail Dwelling | MP3 | 10:55 | |
3. | Forest Arrow | MP3 | 8:59 | |
4. | Mission Ground | MP3 | 10:19 | |
5. | The Esoteric Source | MP3 | 7:51 | |
6. | The Giant Traveller | MP3 | 8:21 | |
7. | The Splendid Place | MP3 | 14:17 | | 2. with Steve Roach |
| The River of Appearance Vidna Obmana 1996 Projekt PRO65 (CD)"Nothing in Vidna's previous releases will prepare you for the glories, the passion, and the transcendental beauties of this release. This is a crowning achievement; in the heavenly, soaring, shimmering, meditative vein. This is a must-have release for all lovers of space and ambient music." – Bill Schroeder, WEFT / Epiphanies Radio.
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| Twilight of Perception Vidna Obmana 1996 Projekt (CD)A 70-minute collection of previously unreleased and compilation-only tracks. "An indispensable look back along the path that has led to vidnaObmana's watershed work of recent years. Highly recommended." - Ink19.com
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1. | The Embrace In Motion | MP3 | 5:48 | |
2. | Traditional Spirit (Gülüm Seni) | | 4:59 | |
3. | Sanctuary of Reply | MP3 | 16:14 | |
4. | Over Blue Mountains | MP3 | 6:11 | |
5. | Primary (Gamelan 3) | MP3 | 7:11 | |
6. | Twilight Came | MP3 | 8:30 | |
7. | Charm Mystique | MP3 | 5:15 | |
8. | Torch of Remembrance | MP3 | 4:51 | |
9. | Shamanistic Return | MP3 | 6:53 | |
10. | By Abundant Rain | MP3 | 6:25 | | |
| Memories Compiled 1 Vidna Obmana 1994 Projekt (CD)1998/1999 | A beautiful double-CD bringing together Vidna's first two cassettes, along with unreleased material from the same era. Comprising the majority of this Belgian composers work from his post-industrial period, these two hours focus on a dense dark ambient sound, with an un-nerving sub-texture. The packaging and music on this release amazingly capture Vidna Obmana in his dark prime.
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Disc 1 | 1. | Neo-Noir | MP3 | | |
2. | Exhaust Dark Crown | MP3 | | |
3. | Momentary Stillness | MP3 | | |
4. | The Fall of Romantic Simplicity | MP3 | | |
5. | Insects to Harmony | MP3 | | |
6. | Door of Secret Rising | MP3 | | |
7. | Closing | MP3 | | |
8. | Isolation / Refuge | MP3 | | |
Disc 2 | 1. | Dazzling Array 1 | MP3 | | |
2. | Lost in the Swirling Distance | MP3 | | |
3. | Inside the Empty Mass | MP3 | | |
4. | Dazzling Array 2 | MP3 | | |
5. | Before Mutual Grace | MP3 | | |
6. | Upon Steel Heaven | MP3 | | |
7. | Dazzling Array 3 | MP3 | | |
8. | Reflecting Deep Stars | MP3 | | |
9. | Into Gray Divides | MP3 | | |
10. | Gathering in Frozen Beauty | MP3 | | | |
| The Spiritual Bonding Vidna Obmana (with Steve Roach) 1994 Extreme XCD 027 (CD) Produced by Steve Roach
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| Terrace of Memories Vidna Obmana, Sam Rosenthal 1992 Projekt (CD)An ambient instrumental release from black tape for a blue girl's Sam Rosenthal in collaboration with Vidna Obmana.
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1. | These Ancient Halls | MP3 | | |
2. | Dark Mist, Rain | MP3 | | |
3. | Terrace of Memories | MP3 | | |
4. | From Within the Cold (A Fragment) | MP3 | | |
5. | Of Silent Crossings | MP3 | | | |
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