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26/09/2025

Out today: ‘The Intimate Overlap’ and ‘Poiesis’ – two new albums by o[rlawren] on Dronarivm with distribution by Fonodroom.

Working with field recordings, acousmatic and modular synthesis techniques, ‘The Intimate Overlap’ is presented in a suite of two parts over four longform pieces covering the album’s 73 minute running time.

https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/the-intimate-overlap

‘Poiesis’ is a more recent continuation of the artist’s ongoing research into modular synthesis and field recordings, informed by and created in collaboration with Portuguese photographer Carina Martins and author Rui Ibañez Matoso.

https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/poiesis

Both albums come in beautifully designed digisleeves (with ‘Poiesis’ including a 10-page booklet) and are also available as a special 2хCD bundle – check out Dronarivm bandcamp page.

Thank you for your devoted attention and support!

18/09/2025

Federico Mosconi feat. Barbara De Dominicis 'Frammenti' – a review from African Paper (translated from German):

"No longer really newsworthy, but still definitely worth recommending is "Frammenti," the current album produced by musician and producer Federico Mosconi together with Barbara De Dominicis, which they released a few weeks ago. The album is a work that, in six longer pieces, reflects on memory, fragility, and the small fragments of experiences that lodge themselves within. Barbara De Dominicis, appearing here as vocalist, lends these fragments a human contour with singing, whispering, and mantra-like repetitions of texts by Mirco Salvadori. Her mostly bright voice often provides a gentle contrast to the warm sound of the music, which is based on guitars, sound processing, and field recordings.

The pieces develop at a leisurely pace, subtle and rich in detail, without grand gestures, but with touching intensity. Mosconi describes it: "My music would have been incomplete without Barbara and Mirco. I'd like to express my heartful thanks for their emotional depth and friendship." As Igloo Magazine highlighted in a lengthy review, Mosconi succeeds in creating a space with dense layers of guitar, electronics, and ambient recordings, where abstract textures and lyrical subtleties intertwine. De Dominicis's voice anchors this web in the human, while Salvadori's lyrics add a layer of poetic depth. "Frammenti" with artwork by Mariana Pedroza is available on CD and as a download from Dronarivm."

~ https://africanpaper.com/2025/09/09/frammenti-neues-album-von-federico-mosconi-mit-barbara-de-dominicis/ -48004
~ https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/frammenti

Nicht mehr wirklich eine News, aber in jedem Fall immer noch eine Empfehlung wert ist "Frammenti", das aktuelle Album, dass der Musiker und Producer Federico Mosconi zusammen mit Barbara De Dominicis produziert und vor einigen Wochen herausgebracht hat. ...

09/09/2025

Zyklen 'Desire Paths' – a review from Chain D.L.K.

"I thoroughly enjoy reviewing new music but sometimes gathering all the necessary components (photos, links, contact info) takes a lot of time and energy to research. Few artists/labels put together all the info we reviewers need here at Chain D.L.K. and time that could have been spent listing and reviewing ends up going for playing detective. I got lucky with this one. Musician, composer and synthesist Simon Ferris (from Devon, UK) began creating music with tape machines and keyboards in 1989. Since then he's had a slew of releases under the name zYklen of which 'Desire Paths' is the latest. Unfortunately I have not heard any of his previous efforts, but if 'Desire Paths' is indicative of his earlier work, then I'd definitely recommend a stroll through his back catalogue. This album consists of eight ambient high quality soundscapes, broadly cinematic in their scope. A quote from zYklen's Bandcamp sire may provide some insight into the album's concept. "The human obsession with exploring; risking life — whether to establish a name, expand human knowledge, or simply discover what’s over the horizon. A theme repeated by civilization over thousands of years. Our planet-wide presence is evidence of our compulsion to explore and fulfill our desire to create paths. It will continue for as long as we remain curious."

Opening with "The Lost City" I get the impression of lazily drifting over a landscape unto the the repeating but melodically subtle theme emerges, becoming more forceful as it evolves. It eventually declines, subsides and disappears. "Pytheas and the Frozen Ocean" does sound frozen its own way, and features wordless female vocals that enhance the atmospherics. "Legend of Cape Bojador" explores a rather obscure place, a headland on the west coast of Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. It was historically known as the "point of no return" due to its treacherous navigation conditions and the fear of the unknown beyond it. Sailors believed it was the edge of the world, with legends of boiling seas, sea monsters, and insurmountable currents. From there we journey to the "Canyons of the Escalante" in southern Utah. This piece has somewhat of a melancholy and oppressive theme, possibly due to the heat? (Keep hydrated when listening to this one.) Next stop is Alaska to visit "Aniakchak Caldera," a raw and rugged volcanic feature located in a landscape that is, because of its remoteness, little affected by human occupancy. The slow beat measured at first by gentle noise pops, taken over by bass forms reminds me of certain 70's electronic music albums along the Tangerine Dream lines. I'm not sure if "Roanoke" refers to the city in Virginia or not, but it's an exceptionally sad piece. Mountain climbing time with "Denali Ascent," so it's back to Alaska we go. Mount McKInley to some, Denali is considered the tallest mountain on Earth from base to peak. This track has mysterious and dreamlike elements, but I was surprised to not find any indication of motion in it. Perhaps the view from above? Last on our world tour of strange places is "Lop Nur," a now largely dried-up salt lake formerly located within the Lop Depression in the eastern fringe of the Tarim Basin in the southeastern portion of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, northwestern China. More mysterious cinematic ambience. Definitely a worthwhile album, but I would have liked to have heard a bit more motion here and there."

~ https://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/12980
~ https://owltotem.bandcamp.com/album/desire-paths

09/09/2025

Featuring Dag Rosenqvist's 'Linnebraten' from 'Tvåhundra ord för ensamhet' released back in April...

~ https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/tv-hundra-ord-f-r-ensamhet

We wander through the cooler drifts of summer into the start of a new semester. Those of us living student life start gathering our books and getting our minds ready for shaping! Here are a few fine picks for your wandering ears. *Our cover comes from Ghostloop's appropriately titled Almost Autumn o...

09/09/2025

August episode of Between Two Points radio show by Richard Chartier on dublab features 'Frammenti II. 15000 Minuti' by Federico Mosconi & Barbara De Dominicis. Enjoy the whole 2-hour long show here:

~ https://www.dublab.com/archive/richard-chartier-between-two-points-08-26-25
~ https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/frammenti

Between Two Points is a monthly mix by Los Angeles sound artist and composer Richard Chartier for dublab. A beginning, an end and 2 hours of unusual sounds... overlapping, sculptural... harmonious and dissonant... in between. Between…

08/09/2025

Two reviews on our releases from the recent issue of ROCKERILLA magazine, written by Mirco Salvadori and translated from Italian.

Xu 'Murmurs of the Machine' (Le Mont Analogue)

Murmurs of the Machine breathes in time with circuits that think and dream. Nicola Fornasari, a.k.a. Xu, designs sound architectures with eurorack modulations like delicate brushstrokes on rice paper. Each track is a conscious mechanism, a dive into the sonic matter that becomes idea, contemplation, secular prayer. Fornasari’s electronics are a substance to immerse oneself in, embracing the slow flow of the invisible that, in the end, makes it audible. His inner gaze inhabits the machine as if it were flesh, transforming the coldness of code into a human whisper: a gentle and persistent contemplation. An album that beats silently and ILLUMINATES THE EDGES OF THOUGHT.
~ https://le-mont-analogue.bandcamp.com/album/murmurs-of-the-machine

Zyklen 'Desire Paths' (Owl Totem Recordings)

Simon Ferris, under the name zYklen, traces forgotten routes, sound maps that blur into legend. The Lost City is a diary of explorations with no return, a plunge into humanity’s obsession with the unknown, translated into dense drone, mineral ambient, geological memory of sound. Each track is a frontier to be crossed: the Caldera of Aniakchak, the ice of Pytheas, the silence of Roanoke. Ferris shapes synthesizers like ancient instruments of navigation, creating a landscape to be traversed. An album capable of describing the uncertain step of the first explorer. In this sonic groove, the “elsewhere” is no longer a place: ELSEWHERE IS A CALL.
~ https://owltotem.bandcamp.com/album/desire-paths

8 track album

08/09/2025

'Frammenti III. Gorghi' by Federico Mosconi & Barbara De Dominicis featured in the recent episode by Ambient.Zone!

~ https://www.ambient.zone/s17-08-time-shift/
~ https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/frammenti

🚀 Spacemusic 17.08 "TIME SHIFT" 🎶

🌍 Imagine the Earth as a great drummer, keeping time for all of us. Every spin of the planet is like a steady beat, giving us the rhythm of day and night. But even the best drummers don’t play perfectly—sometimes the Earth’s rhythm slips by the tiniest fraction. Most people would think that’s too small to matter. Yet humans have always been creatures of timing, tuned to notice shifts others might miss.

🎵 Certain sounds trigger the imagination, creativity flows and dreams are made. Musicians know this secret and play with it, bending time to stir emotion. That sensitivity is hidden in all of us—it’s why a single offbeat can make us smile, shiver, or even dance.

🎶 This is why the Spacemusic podcast feels so powerful—it slows time, smooths the rush of daily life, and restores balance. Letting its soundscapes wash over you can heal your sense of rhythm and quietly recharge your inner battery. Wanna learn more?..

👉 Listen to music by Gold Lounge, DivKid, Federico Mosconi ft. Barbara De Dominicis, Field Lines Cartographer, Woob Mono, Martin Stürtzer, Paul Beaudoin, Mike Beever, Xu, Odysmod.

Direct Link to the post:

https://www.ambient.zone/s17-08-time-shift

🎼 Easy going tracks, melodic, ambient, deep and warm with a focus on the Light. Better times are coming for all! Thank you for your understanding and continued show support!

〰️ Show available through Ambient Zone, Patreon and Apple Music. Links are everywhere ;-)

ENJOY!
~TC

08/09/2025

Rick Sanders 'The Arrow of Time' – a review by Philippe Blache at Igloo Magazine

"Rick Sanders is a new sound artist coming from Netherlands and who released a small number of releases as ultra limited editions. The fact that his new effort, The Arrow of Time, is signed and distributed by the prominent indie label Dronarivm guarantees it will reach a wider community of potential listeners, eager for mantra-like, synth-oriented excursions—ranging from radiant, spacious electronica to slow-evolving, soothing ambient. The music of Rick Sanders fits both categories. The classy soundscapes offered in this release play with our perception of time and space, guiding a mental voyage through alternative trajectories and liminal, intangible experiences—as if we are about to perceive an enhanced, augmented form of reality that the mundane world cannot offer.

In a way, The Arrow of Time redefines sound design, as it focuses heavily on hypnotic atmospherics with a kinetic, visual dimension—a distinctive sonic image. Its meandering, unobtrusive, wavering textures alternate between serene, velvety moments of spiritual stillness and more opaque, shadowy buzzing sequences, bringing to the fore aerial and then nebulous movements that permeate the psyche, metaphorically reaching toward the transcendental self.

The full album is an exploration on timbres, tone colors and sinuous textures. To my viewpoint it achieves a synthesis between functional new age music and ambient sonic dialogues. The Arrow of Time can easily captivate those who appreciate Ongaku-style Japanese environmental electronica and its healing qualities, as well as fans of space music or slow-moving compositions featuring expansive, enveloping synthesized layers. It particularly resonates with listeners drawn to pioneering efforts from labels like Earth Mantra and Hypnos Recordings, as well as the full catalogs of artists such as Steve Roach, Lorenzo Montanà, Vidna Obmana, and Harold Budd."

~ https://igloomag.com/reviews/rick-sanders-the-arrow-of-time-dronarivm
~ https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/the-arrow-of-time

Rick Sanders is a Dutch sound artist known for his ultra-limited releases. His new album, The Arrow of Time, released on indie label Dronarivm, blends ambient and electronica to explore time, space, and perception. With hypnotic textures and a visual, atmospheric depth, it appeals to fans of Steve R

05/09/2025

Dear friends & ! Today we open pre-orders for two new titles on Dronarivm – ‘The Intimate Overlap’ and ‘Poiesis’ – a simultaneous double album release from Scottish sound artist and electroacoustic musician o[rlawren].

Active for over two decades in the electronic music scene, o[rlawren] has developed a distinctive and intuitive approach to emotional and intimate detail within his electroacoustic constructions, documented in a string of solo and collaborative works.

‘The Intimate Overlap’ was created over a nine-year period as a delicate micro-drama of shifting proximities – each holding onto their roots, folding, seeking nutrients, learning and unlearning.

https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/the-intimate-overlap

‘Poiesis’ is a more recent continuation of the artist’s ongoing research into modular synthesis and field recordings, informed by and created in collaboration with Portuguese photographer Carina Martins and author Rui Ibañez Matoso.

https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/poiesis

Both CDs come in beautifully designed 6-panel digisleeves with a soft-touch finish, with ‘Poiesis’ including an additional 10-page Leporello-style booklet with extensive liner notes and photographs.

The two albums are also available together as a 2-CD bundle at a friendly price. Official release date: September 26th.

Thank you for your devoted attention and support!

03/09/2025

New addition to Trevlad Sounds virtual cassette library! Featuring 'Frammenti II. 15000 Minuti' by Federico Mosconi & Barbara De Dominicis (with words by Mirco Salvadori). Enjoy!

~ https://www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/trevors-virtual-cassette-library-108/
~ https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/frammenti

A 90-minute journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe. 💌 Want to be part of the transmission? Send your vibrations to: [email protected] Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked a...

03/09/2025

Rick Sanders 'The Sound Of Ice Voids (From Noctilucant Clouds)' on air at X-***ed at Concertzender curated by Bob Rusche. Check out the archive of this transmission here!

~ https://www.concertzender.nl/programma/xrated_843948/
~ https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/the-arrow-of-time

Experimenteel, avant-garde, industrial, ambient en electronics.

02/09/2025

Chitra Records digest of August 2025 features our release by Federico Mosconi & Barbara De Dominicis 'Frammenti', among other gems of ambient genre. Check it out!

These 10 ambient releases from August 2025 deserve your attention.