Clouds Of Sustained Sounds

by Volker Lankow

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	1.	Drone & Pulse 1 09:42
	2.	Missing Drone Link #1 03:48
	3.	Mountains From Afar (not coming closer...) 07:54
	4.	Missing Drone Link #2 04:41
	5.	A Drone For The Desert 07:49
	6.	Missing Drone Link #3 04:25
	7.	Droning For A Dark Soul 07:28
	8.	Missing Drone Link #4 03:43
	9.	Drone With Me 07:13
	10.	The Missing Drone Link #5 04:14
	11.	Drone & Pulse 2 09:17
	12.	Missing Drone Link #6 04:38
	13.	Drone & Pulse 3 06:22
	14.	Missing Drone Link #7 04:39
	15.	Drone Forms 10:06
	16.	Missing Drone Link #8 04:24

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With this album I would like to take you again on a journey of drone music.
This is not my first attempt making a drone album.
John Cage said once that if you do something and it’s boring, then you should do it again until it becomes interesting.
Cage, of course, took this to extremes: “Organ²/ASLSP”—As Slow As Possible—started being performed in 2001 in the church of St. Burchardi in the Eastern-German town of Halberstadt. The performance will end in 2640, a time-lapse droning on for over half a millenium.

Here a nice expression and kind of explanation of Drone Music:
"Since the beginning of time, the universe has vibrated and emitted a fundamental tone, an incomprehensible rumbling. Even in the imagination of the ancient Greeks, the heavenly bodies moved on transparent spheres, rubbing against each other and thus filling space with an eternal chord, the "symphōnía". And for the American physicist Brian Greene, the assumption that everything that exists is filled with a constant sum can be wonderfully combined with string theory. This is because the strings that make up the universe oscillate. From this point of view, the cosmos is pure music. And drones are the voice of the universe. Even the first thing a human ever hears is a drone. A never-ending roar caused by blood circulation and respiration: the soundtrack of the womb. Static undertones and clusters of sound whose harmony or rhythm changes only slightly are ubiquitous. In music, too, drones represent a perennially exceptional phenomenon. In a sense, they are as old as music itself. Tones or chords without rests, without melodies, arrangements or developments. Really? Sounds that are almost completely stripped of everything that distinguishes music from pure noise, and that only shift back and forth between dissonance and consonance? For some, that's pure boredom. For others, it's neither exciting nor boring, but a spiritual listlessness that swings inexorably into the listener's subconscious." (F. Sievers 2018)

For this album I wanted to have a continous humming in the background of the tracks...and sometimes the humming becomes rhythmic (like in "Drone For The Desert")

Maybe you like the clouds of drone music and sustained sounds over the restless world and you find a few moments of pause and balance.

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released January 11, 2023

All music played, recorded and produced by Volker Lankow in his World Ambient Studio Kreuzberg

Thanks so much to Remi Chabanel for the great cover drawing.

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Volker Lankow Berlin, Germany

Percussionist since the late seventies, Volker Lankow lives in Berlin, plays and collaborates in many diverse projects, such as together with Bernhard Wöstheinrich, David Rothenberg, to name a few.
Volker works on many Solo projects, using mainly electronics and as well percussions, to develop his own vison of experimental sounds, drones and as well world music. ... more

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