Just a year ago, I congratulated the year 2022 on these dates, and commented on the image that "A new LP is coming". The LP did not arrive in 2022, but I am much closer to finishing it... My intention is to release "The Fermi Paradox" on November 1, 2023... just four years after the release of my first album "Immensity "... I'll get it?
I am working right now on another of the tracks that will be part of the next LP. In this case, the song is titled "Wrong Perception of Reality" and deals with the possibility that our perception of the reality that surrounds us is not correct ... or is not the only one!
After the re-interpretation of the cover of my first LP, "Immensity", which was made by the Spanish artist @la_espiral_oscura . Using the same instructions that I indicated to the artist, this time, I show you three other possible covers for the LP, this time made by an AI called @stablediffusion . I still prefer the cover of the human artist, but the results are amazing!
As I mentioned a few months ago, I had the idea of revising the covers of my releases, to be able to relate my work to a very personal visual style and also to have exclusive rights to these images, something that did not happen with the magnificent work by the finnish artist grandeluc, whose work i used as covers until now through partial rights.
I love the visual interpretation of my music that La Espiral Oscura does and after he did a great job with the cover of the single "Beyond The Oort Cloud", this time it was the turn of the iconic cover of my opera prima, the LP " Immensity". The original cover was not by the artist grandeluc, but a collage of royalty-free images... What do you think of the change?
I continue to work on my sophomore LP. This time it is the song that gives the album its name, "The Fermi Paradox". It will be the first theme song on the LP after the Intro and I wanted it to be a good sample of what is going to be heard during the rest of the album.
Another three tracks are in progress and I hope I can say that I will finish sometime in 2023
Until now, for the covers of Oblidivm, I have been using stock images of the great Finnish artist Grandeluc, which fit very well with my vision for this project, but I needed dedicated art and also had the rights to the covers to make them something unique, since that stock images can be used in other projects by other people.
Finally, I found a magnificent Spanish artist, called "La Espiral Oscura", to whom I will entrust the visual section of the new LP, but who will also, one by one, remake the covers of my previous releases.
A little over 6 years ago, the seed of what is now the Oblidivm project was born. It was a video game for mobile devices titled "Galaxy Strikers".
At that time I was collaborating with small video game studios making the soundtracks for their projects.
The 24 Code Limit studio asked me to compose the soundtrack for a retro spaceship game, with a very "neon" aesthetic. I fell in love with the project, since I love space odysseys and retro music and I really enjoyed composing it. That probably helped me do probably my best work within this facet.
Oblidivm is the legacy of that project. Some of the original tracks have been adapted, such as "The Long Journey of Mankind", from my LP "Immensity", which is really two of the songs from this soundtrack mixed together. And right now I'm recovering another of the original songs to include it in the next LP "The Fermi Paradox", which I hope to release in late 2022 or early 2023.
Here the original soundtrack.
On May 17, the composer who has been one of my greatest influences in electronic music passed away. Of course I speak of the great Vangelis.
Together with Jean Michel Jarre and Mike Oldfield, Vangelis discovered electronic music in my childhood and made me fall in love with the most melodic and magical part of this musical style.
The greatest ones are leaving us, but they leave us a legacy of incredible music that will inspire other artists for centuries.
Rest in peace, master.
Just 3 months after the third one, the fourth volume of the Electric Synthicate compilation has been released.
12 new songs with the best electronic music based on synthesizers produced in Spain. Discover new and awesome artist!
https://electricsynthicate.bandcamp.com/album/electric-synthicate-vol-4
#synthwave #darkwave #dreamwave #vaporwave #spacesynth #outrun
Deviating a little from my usual style and remembering the origins of what was the name of Oblidivm 20 years ago, (an instrumental Goth Metal band), I took advantage of this great Electro Dark style song by my friends Mixina, to experiment and come back to my roots for a while.
I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed producing it.
Working right now in a new track for my next LP.
Developing the concept of the Fermi paradox, this next track tells us about the "rare earth hypothesis". Perhaps our planet has unique and very unusual conditions, and perhaps that is why life was born on it. If our planet is one among billions, life may be something exceptionally rare in the Universe... What do you think about that?
