Dronarivm

05/09/2025

Dear friends and ,

Today we open pre-orders for two new titles – '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-Rated 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.

01/09/2025

Latest episode of 'Melodies for Knut' playing 'Roanoke' by Zyklen (from 'Desire Paths' on Owl Totem Recs). Check out the whole podcast here:

~ https://www.mixcloud.com/Melodies_for_Knut/in-every-strangers-eyes/
~ https://owltotem.bandcamp.com/album/desire-paths

Chiara Bacci, Florence Cats, Frédéric Becker, Issa Ndour & Nicola Lancerotti : https://dirkwachtelaer.bandcamp.com/album/union-split David Dellacroce : https://daviddellacroce.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-for-the-indifferent-listener Werner Dafeldecker, Simon James Phillips & Morton Joh : https://wer...

01/09/2025

Rick Sanders 'The Arrow of Time' – a review by Vital Weekly:

Dronarivm, the power house for ambient music, have a sideline label releasing 3″CDRs in a cardboard box with all sorts of ephemera, in the case of Rick Sanders, “an artwork card, and two additional cards made with a spirograph on special scratch paper. The box also includes an intricately folded copy of a 17th-century celestial map, and a set of mechanical inserts: gears, metal balls, and light diodes.” These releases are seasonal, and with autumn pending, Sanders offers four tracks for the upcoming season. Rick Sanders, who lives literally down the road from the VW HQ, plays ambient music in the strictest sense of the word. I reviewed some of his work and attended his concert a couple of times. These days, he’s into creating a modular setup that almost plays by itself, following patterns and rules; not totally automated, as the composer needs to be present. By moving filters around, there are very subtle changes within the music. And when I say very subtle, it is very minimal, almost on the threshold of noticing. I am not sure if that is what he does on this release, but it sounds like the recent pieces I heard from him. He has four pieces on this CDR, nearly 24 minutes of pure sonic bliss. It is very spacious, a bit dark, but not the dark of winter. You can see the golden glow of the setting sun in a forest, a mix of gloomy and shining. Autumn music it is, and not, surprisingly, my favourite time of the year, just because it leads to this kind of music. A great release, with one notable downside: it’s only 23 minutes and 45 seconds. I could have enjoyed this for much longer, so maybe it’s time for another full-length album by him. (FdW)

~ https://www.vitalweekly.net/number-1496/
~ https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/the-arrow-of-time

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29/08/2025

'Sjörök' by Dag Rosenqvist from the album 'Tvåhundra ord för ensamhet' – a nice choice to round up the 104th episode of Trevlad Sounds radio show!

~ https://www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/trevors-virtual-cassette-library-104/
~ https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/tv-hundra-ord-f-r-ensamhet

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...

29/08/2025

Federico Mosconi feat. Barbara De Dominicis 'Frammenti' – a review by Peppe Trotta at OndaRock (translated from Italian):

Two years after "Nocturnal," Federico Mosconi returns to Dronarivm, presenting what he himself defines as a necessarily choral work. The lyrics written by Mirco Salvadori extracted from the original text and entrusted to the interpretative skills of Barbara De Dominicis, are an integral part of the project conceived by the Venetian composer, providing a true guideline upon which to graft the entire narrative trajectory.

It is precisely in this blend that the new and most interesting element of the work lies, with the resonant material recalibrated towards ambient drone horizons dominated by the filtered frequencies of the guitar, complemented by electronics and field recordings. This choice is in line with Mosconi's creative process, which has always focused on elements of continuity and the search for original solutions capable of broadening his musical spectrum without distorting its essence. From this perspective, the continuity with the three movements that structured the previous self-produced album "Slow Motion" is evident, from which the six fragments inherit the crescendo layering.

The sound becomes an emotional tide that encompasses and pushes the fragments of the text that De Dominicis skillfully declaims, whispers, and sings. Diluted frequencies of great intensity, inclined towards the majesty of the scenarios that made Tim Hecker's work seminal ("Frammenti IV. Addio Sognatori") or profoundly romantic, modeled after the ambient vapors of bvdub ("Frammenti II. 15000 Minuti"). There are few passages where the instrument's strings paint clear phrasings; we hear them emerge amidst the roar of the waves in "Frammenti V. Promesse" before the modulations rise towards cosmic saturation and in the form of a deep percussive line in the shadowy flow of the magnetic "Frammenti III. Gorghi."

The result is a six-handed—or rather, three-hearted—journey with a powerful impact, an ocean of overwhelming sounds and words, transporting you to a land where time expands to the point of losing meaning. A restless electroacoustic landscape grounded in compositional rigor and the infinite potential offered by the intersection of the instrument and electronic processing.

~ https://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2025-federicomosconibarbaradedominicis-frammenti.htm
~ https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/frammenti

Un itinerario elettroacustico in cui parole e suoni si fondono alla perfezione

27/08/2025

Mirco Salvadori writes about his experience with the creative process behind the album 'Frammenti' by Federico Mosconi and Barbara De Dominicis:

"We are pieces of what we wish we were
of what we will ever be
of what only luck will want us to become
We are torn fragments with strength in the underpass that life has dug to reduce the distances between our disappointments and the habit of resuming the race
Immortal fragments in the fluid instant of flesh, unique moment in which we open our eyes in the turmoil of the explosion that takes us a thousand miles off course far from what we would like to have been, will be or what only luck will want us to become.
'Pieces' The Finale.
Originally published on Nazione Indiana on October 10, 2023
https://www.nazioneindiana.com/.../les-nouveaux.../
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Federico doesn't go to social media and does good essays, but it is from this angle that I try so hard to stay intact and independent, that I can reach him to thank him once again and publicly.
‘Frammenti’ was a project that had a long and complicated management. It took his perseverance, his undisputed musical mastery and sound vision, to make a record that for a long time didn’t even have a final destination, found in Dronarivm with which he had already released two albums.
What else to say about Barbara vocal work! I remember listening to the demos he was sending and the feeling they were able to give by listening to who wrote those words. For me it was pure, real, palpable, poetically and furiously fascinating shock.
The reality in which we act, we who have always been immersed in the sound of borders, both musicians and advertisers in the field, is complicated and difficult to do. After forty years of militancy, the writer might think of ending it there, but when these little miracles happen, when different souls meet and unite with a single breath and vision, those forty years of frustrations, misunderstandings, paid off professional growth with very little satisfactions, disappear instantly.
Thanks to those who want to listen to the six fragments of immense music and sound, contained in this record."

Give this album a listen if you haven't done it yet!

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

6 track album

26/08/2025

Zyklen "Desire Paths" – a review from HopBlog & PossibleMusics (translated from French):

"An end-of-the-world atmosphere reigns in zYklen's new album. Real name Simon Ferris, this Devon-based producer delivers eight long tracks evoking desert landscapes, with a distinctly cinematic feel. Influenced by Loscil, Pete Namlook, Michael Brook, and Jean-Michel Jarre, zYklen has created a dark but superb album, in which we immerse ourselves completely, letting ourselves be carried away by its modular layers."

~ https://possiblemusics.com/2025/08/21/zyklen-desire-paths/
~ https://owltotem.bandcamp.com/album/desire-paths

Simon Ferris, alias zYklen, déploie une fresque ambient sombre et immersive, entre paysages désertiques et visions cinématographiques, (7.8)