Coming to an ocean and sky to you soon....

Ah, what the hell...  I'm taking previous recordings - genetically fusing them - and tossing them into ambient landscapes....  Glurpy, spacy, watery, ethereal etc. sounds from the original sources...  Complete with natural killer album covers (something about them floatin' thangs)...

I just signed with Distrokid who gives an incredible cost savings deal for distribution to the major digital sites...  I've been doing this a long, long, long time in the digital arena, kind of an early adapter (my music was #1 on MP3.com in the late 90's & early 00's - before anyone knew what mp3s were)...  Anyway, we'll see how Distrokid delivers...

So...  new stuff....   Dreamdrones....  Lunasolar.... and  Manta Sky....  are all cued up --- all will be released by the end of April....  available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Deezer,,, etc....


 
 

A new recording "Ganga"....  Now available on Bandcamp as a free download.

I am collaborating with a gentleman from India named Gopal Koduri.  He has provided many interesting recordings on the site freesound.org (which I have visited/used sounds for over a decade).  The first song on an upcoming recording "Pavitra nadiyom" which is phonetic for    पवित्र नदियों  (Hindi for "Sacred Rivers").  It is very ambient and very Indian.

I hope you enjoy it.

http://iannaismith.bandcamp.com/track/ganga-from-upcoming-recording-pavitra-nadiyom

Credits:
 

Part of this recording is made publicly available as part of the Carnatic Varnam dataset, from CompMusic project:

Koduri, G. K., Ishwar, V., Serrà, J., & Serra, X. (2014). Intonation analysis of rāgas in Carnatic music. Journal of New Music Research, 43(01), 73–94.

Ian Naismith - Mix, treatments, additional instruments; 

Gopala Koduri - Source Recordings

Xavier Serra - Source Recordings
Ajay Srinivasamurthy - Mridangam Performance

The complete recording of "Data Sapiens" is now available on Bandcamp for FREE.   

Yep, FREE just like "Deepest Blue" on Bandcamp.  I will continue to load older projects on to Bandcamp as it seems to be really taking off as a concept.  Some older projects will be offered at Bandcamp with much lower prices than their retail prices on iTunes, Amazon, EMusic, Rhapsody, etc...

For the past five weeks I have had a fractured right hand and nerve issues.  It is nearly impossible to play instruments, I assure you.  All open ended projects that were scheduled to come out in 2014 have been delayed.  Besides that, many are still in the incubation process - and are very different.   

Current projects:
"Quark" (homage to 70's & 80's fusion with strangeness added)
 "Dream Drones"  (drenched glissando guitar, piano, space)
"Which Craft"  (fifth recording documenting extraterrestrials ;-)
"Future Wish, Future Places"  (lush soundscapes like "Deepest Blue")

and the newest....

"Tropos" (the latest ethnoambient visit ala my most best known recordings such as "Forgotten & Imminent" "X" and "Medicating The Shaman.")

The original pic was taken by my daughter Alina - in the side yard from our old Florida home.  It has been manipulated a bit for fun...

"Datasapiens" due out in late June! -------- "Quark" is due out by mid-August! -------- "Future Wish, Future Places" is due out by late October... -------- All will be available at your favorite online music stores...

Datasapiens: musical interpretation of the de-evolution from the private self to the monitored and stored digi-self...

 
Quark:  a musical "thank you" to so many who have influenced my listening and style of composition and performance.   R.I.P.  Ronald Shannon Jackson - the most incredible drummer I've ever heard...

Future Wish, Future Places:  lush in the spirit of Deepest Blue - a musical journey to otherworldly beautiful places here on Earth...hopefully, to become a reality some day...