Atlan, by SoRIAH with Ashkelon Sain

Atlan

by SoRIAH with Ashkelon Sain

supported by

V.X. Blackthorne Dreamlike, otherworldly, and beautiful. Favorite track: Amo Cahuit.

	/

Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
This is the lovely 6 Panel Ecowallet Edition of the "Atlan" album on Compact Disc. Projekt Records, Second Pressing, Printed ca. 2012,

Includes unlimited streaming of Atlan via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 4 days

Purchasable with gift card

$10 USD or more
Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$7 USD or more

1.	Yoallicuicatl 05:24	buy track
2.	Cehui 08:06	buy track
3.	Tonacayotica 06:21	buy track
4.	Temictli Atlan 01:08	buy track
5.	Citlalpol 05:59	buy track
6.	Xopancuicatl 08:25	buy track
7.	Atlan 04:29	buy track
8.	Morguul 06:12	buy track
9.	Borbaak 09:46	buy track
10.	Tona Atoyaatl 07:42	buy track
11.	Amo Cahuit 12:20	buy track

about

Atlan has its roots in the ceremonial: ritualism, shamanism, butoh. Master Tuvan throat singer Soriah teams up with prolific soundscaper Ashkelon Sain to create a totally breathtaking album. Soriah conjures up a haunting sonic otherworld, drifting, dreamy, a rumbling, whirring ambient dronescape, thick with natural timbre and dense with subtle overtones. The eleven tracks employ a host of Central Asian ethnic stringed instruments alongside atmospheric synths and hypnotic hand percussion to form a simmering backdrop for Soriah’s mesmerizing vocals intoned in the ancient Aztec language of Nahuatl.

Detailed album description...
Aquarius Records Says:
“Totally breathtaking. Soriah conjures up a haunting sonic otherworld, drifting, dreamy, menacing and malefic, a rumbling, whirring dark ambient dronescape, thick with natural timbre and dense with subtle overtones. A deft mash up intertwined with various vocals, sometimes crooning, alien and operatic, but more often an impossibly low-end rumble, a dense and deep Tuvan style throat singing, buzzing and multilayered, more like some strange long stringed instrument than a human voice. Crumbling and corrosive, but at the same time soothing and ethereal.”

Atlan has its roots in the ceremonial: ritualism, shamanism, butoh. Master Tuvan throat singer Soriah has teamed with prolific soundscaper Ashkelon Sain to create a masterwork of epic celestial elegance. The eleven tracks employ a host of Central Asian ethnic stringed instruments alongside atmospheric synths and hypnotic hand percussion to form a simmering backdrop for Soriah’s mesmerizing vocals.

Soriah has extensively trained in traditional Tuvan throat singing. Most recently, he was honored as the Third Place winner in the International Symposium of Khoomei Competition, and “Best Foreigner” in the 2008 Ustuu-Khooree World Music Festival in Tuva, where the form originated.

As much as the complex underpinnings of Soriah’s music reach back to Central Asia, he traces his cultural roots to his father’s homeland of Mexico. Soriah’s explorations of Mexico’s cities, wilderness, and eclectic indigenous traditions – as well as his extensive Tuvan travels and musical studies there – have deeply influenced his pan-cultural ethos. Soriah’s interest in contemporary expression through animism and shamanism, and particular fascination with the Aztec mysteries has all substantially informed the material found on Atlan. Of the album’s lyric tracks, five are intoned in the ancient Aztec language of Nahuatl, while two others are interpretations of traditional Tuvan chants.

Producer/instrumentalist Ashkelon has crafted the album’s sound with a seamless, ambient quality, harkening equally to the symphonic and the etherealesque. Arranged in spellbinding tempo, the tracks vary in structure from linear, North Indian styled ragas to rhythmic, esoteric songs to multilayered walls of ambient beauty, all the while retaining an unwavering sense of spiritualism and timelessness.

Atlan is a ritualistic sound adventure. You emerge from a listen with your head swaddled in a pre-linguistic fever dream. Vocals and whispers collide and chase each other through the mix and just when you start to feel comfortable or certain of the terrain, another movement begins and you’re back in the mist. With closed eyes, envision vast steppes illuminated by firelight, or rain falling in deep space, or vanished civilizations – ancient and mysterious yet curiously modern.

credits

released April 7, 2009

Soriah (Enrique Ugalde): Vocals and Instruments
Ashkelon Sain: Instruments and studio production
Mastered by Doug Krebs
Originally Released on Projekt Records, Catalog #232.

license

about

SoRIAH with Ashkelon Sain Portland, Oregon

Primordial Ambient Tribal Darkwave featuring Ashkelon Sain of Trance To The Sun, Solara Obscura, etc., with Aztec Language Tuvan Throat Singing by Soriah.