New town, new album.
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I’m absolutely loving this. I’m going to give it a deep listen, there’s so much interesting sound design and movement. Right up my alley. Thank you for posting it.
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Holy fucking shit, this is amazing.
I haven’t heard anything like this that I could really latch onto in a long time, but I absolutely love the wide variety of sounds and thoughtful use of them all. I’d love to hear what you made it with, too, if you don’t mind sharing some of the creative process!
This is some super dynamic, dare I say, electroacoustic? I can’t wait to listen to the whole thing
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I don’t mind sharing.
I basically use a classic 4 track recording process, with the difference that all 4 tracks are stereo and that i record 3 versions of the stereo from a instrument simultaneously. So i have 6 mono tracks per instrument, which is curious because my recorder has exactly 24 track, it’s a Tascam DP-24SD. The disadvantage is, i need better preamps, you can hear a lot of hiss on the tracks, that is amplified by tripleing them, so the original signal needs to be super clean. I’m still figuring that out. In terms of the three: one version is the signal without any processing, one is just a reverb of the signal and one is a crushed to death compressed version of it. So I’m basically using parallel reverb and parallel compression and I’m commiting to it while recording, i can mix it in the tascam a little afterwards, but the limitations of the recorder force me to get the sound right at the tracking stage.
When the session is done and mixed in the tascam, i print it first to tape on a old akai gx-201d, that i refurbished last winter, through a tiny cheapo half analog “sound correction” chain, that has a stereo tool, a eq, a bus compressor a mostly clean running tube stage(brands are not important, most of my gear is below 300€ per unit, some of it i bought broken and refurbished it before use). This chain i use in front of the tape input, because i need to very carefully but in the end also forcefully raise the higher frequencies without getting more hiss. I like the sound of that tape machine but you have to print on it with an amplified mid-high end to get a good sound from the tape, because tape naturally dulls the signal, but also introduces extra hiss, more or less depending on the machine and tape you’re using.
The final recording i will let sit on the tape for a few days, to wait till the high end has dulled to a point, where i get this immediate “now” sensation in my guts and then digitize it into its final form.
Credits:
Soma Lyra-8
Soma Cosmos
Soma Enner
Bastle Microgranny
Electron Octatrack
A Contact Mic with an Amplifier
Nord Lead 3 slowed down with an old Uher Report 4200 IC.
A matrix mixer that i should have never bought and died in the process.
A Roland S1 that died in the same incident
A Modal Argon8m that replaces the Roland now
The mighty Exquis MPE controller
A bunch of old Reaktor ensembles
Some old Grand Piano Kontakt8 instrument.
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This is some quality stuff right here.
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Loving this! You’re sound design is awesome, and the tone of the whole album is fantastic!
Following / +1 fan.
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Thanks so much for sharing all of this. It’s really insightful and i feel like I have learned quite a bit.
You are clearly very resourceful, creative and intentional with what gear you use and how. Really cool that you refurbished some of it. I’ve got a lot of respect for people who really get their hands dirty like that to create something. Very very cool.
Excellent work!
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You haven’t seen dirty, if you haven’t scrubbed rubber bands out of a tape machine that turned fluid, deteriorating in a cellar over a few decades. 
If you really want to hear me scream bloody murder, you make me do exactly that.
It happens every time i open my kitchen morning jazz tape machine for maintenance. I’ve never really could get it clean, you touch something, and get black fingers from it. There will be that special moment in my life where take it apart desolder everything and put it into my ultrasonic cleaner. 
I live in fear and joy of that day.
P.S. I am very very happy, that i could reach a bunch of people with this. You guys make my day. Thank you so much for all the kind words.
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I added a music video to the OP.