The Tanagnouv Exchangum Plus - Brunswick's Big Bear Bachelor Boogie

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This is an all-improvised album made at the cabin in Big Bear in celebration of James Lake getting married. All instruments are analogue, modular, and digital synths, samples, and hand-drums. The music is groovy, blissful, and weird! Enjoy!

Track List:

1) Intro

2) Ten Fat Goblets

3) Interlude 1

4) The Original Squirrel Suitors

5) Interlude 2

6) Boan n' Skroan

7) Interlude 3

8) Ballistic Mystic

9) Doozie Ass Spider

10) Outro

Personnel:

Somnium: Beats, production

James Lake: Synths

Nick Lake: Synths

Kyle Berzle: Beats, samples

Todd Walker: Synths

Michael Caraglio: Synths

Jack Selberg: Synths

Aaron Cote: Synths, Album art

Shrub: Bass

Rogue Tempo - Sunday Morning Heist

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The second EP from Rogue Tempo. These are a series of tracks inspired by Nujabes. Enjoy!

Tracks:

1) Sunday Morning Heist
2) Grandfather Clock
3) What It's Worth
4) Solstice Garden
5) Utopia
6) Lady LongLegs
7) Playin' for the Creeks

Personnel:

Rogue Tempo: Sampling, Synths, Production, Art
Layne Daniels: Graphics

Somnium - Cryogenic Lucidity

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This is the third solo release from Somnium. This album is a deviation from the experimental psychedelic space rock scenes of the last two albums, into a realm of space disco and experimental dance beats. This album is the soundtrack of your abstract dream on roller skates under a disco ball! Enjoy!

Tracks:

1) Intro - A Ship Approaches

2) Pixel Fix

3) O

4) Disco on the Lido

5) In My Private Chambers

6) Cryogenic Lucidity

7) Scootin' Round Solvang

8) Tiny Bots

9) Outro - Meet Jacques Disc

Personnel:

Somnium: Synthesizers, Bass, Drum programming, Guitar, Production, Art

James Lake: Bass (Track 4), Production, Keyboards (Track 8)

Aaron Cote: Bass, Production (Track 7)

Alex Metson: Drum Programming (Track 8)

Michael Caraglio: Keyboards (Track 9)

Todd Walker: Keyboards (Track 9)

Layne Daniels: Graphics

Rogue Tempo - Backward Motion Picture

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This is the first EP release as Rogue Tempo. This album is a short collection of hip hop music done Gnouv style. Enjoy!

Tracks:

1) Backward Motion Picture

2) AP + Som

3) AP + Som (instrumental)

4) Don't Forget

Personnel:

Rogue Tempo: Production, Art

Anthony Parnham: Rap (track 2)
Layne Daniels: Graphics

Communing - Beyond a Friendly Conversation

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This album unveils a completely new way of making music. This album was created in my home studio in Seattle when Aaron Cote came to visit in the summer of 2018. I recorded a collection of samples, and passed them to Aaron to stitch together one at a time in a sort of musical tapestry, which was further layered multiple times, until the final product came together. This is a beautiful ambient album that tells a story. Enjoy!

Tracks:

1) Beyond a Friendly Conversation

Personnel:

Somnium
Aaron Cote

Somnium - Suburban Rooftops

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Float over the suburban rooftops of a lucid dream with Somnium's second solo release! These tracks are a collection of dreamy, moody scenes from dreams. Enjoy!

Tracks:

1) Suburban Rooftops

2) Bit II

3) Interlude 1

4) Dash

5) Interlude 2

6) Hologram

7) Interlude 3

8) Blue Mirror

9) Dreamscape No. 2

10) Rapid Projections

11) Interlude 4

12) Driving on the Dreamscape Highway

13) Interlude 5

14) Promenade Along a Foreign Shore

15) Dreamscape No. 3

Personnel:

Somnium: Guitar, Bass, Drum Programming, Keyboards, Synths, Samples, Signal Processing, Art

Adam Pfeffer (antimi): Keyboards (Tracks 1 and 2)

Brian Evans: Drums (Track 2)

Bryan Truitt: Sample (Track 2)

Michael Caraglio: Drums (Track 8)

Alex Metson (Permadeath): Drum Programming (Track 6)

Layne Daniels: Graphics

Emperors of Gnouv - Deep Earth

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This album is a collection of tracks recorded in the cabin at Big Bear. Band members played a variety of improvised instruments on these tracks. Rhythms and tracks were created in really imaginative ways, and the result is a wild ride of unpredictable, interesting sounds! Modular Synths dominate the composition framework, but other instruments shine through and create full sounds. Enjoy!

Tracks:

1) Introduction

2) Lil' Junk

3) Interlude III

4) Elements of Cave

5) Deep Earth

6) Interlude I

7) Wunkle

8) Chonga

9) Interlude II

Personnel:

James Lake

Somnium

Aaron Cote

Bryan Truitt

Liza Patterson

Somnium - Contact Ritual

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This is my first solo release as Somnium. This album is a sonic collection of experimental compositions that play with rhythm, texture, and harmony. 

Tracks:

1) Intro - Meditation
2) Contact Ritual
3) Cosmic Chad
4) Dreamscape No. 1
5) Uber Deato
6) Straftic
7) Ultra Intelligent Machines
8) Bit pt. I
9) Homage to Antiquity
10) The Gnouv Boyz
11) Outro - Jayde's Bell

Personnel:

Somnium: Guitar, Bass, Percussion, Synthesizers, Keyboards, Production, Composition, Art
James Lake: Drums
Gertrude Malingus: Vocals
Billy Petty: Drums
Alex Metson: Electronic Treatments
Bryan Truitt: French Horn
Brian Evans: Drums
Michael Caraglio: Voice
Nick Lake: Voice

Emperors of Gnouv - Live Around SoCal

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This album was put together from various shows throughout 2013-2014 in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Pomona. Emperors of Gnouv always incorporates elements of improvisation, and this live album features this heavily, including one jam with half of Vinyl Williams! Enjoy!

Tracks:

1) Astral Bodies

2) Hittin' Dur G

3) When J-Anton Smiles

4) Improv I

5) Thrusting Shell Signal

6) Big Badass

7) The 7th Illusion

8) Lucrid

9) Improv II

10) Gopher Chauffeur  

11) Masters of the Galaxy

12) Boat on a Moonbow

13) Gnouvinyl Improv (ft. Vinyl Williams)

Personnel:

Somnium: Lead and Rhythm Guitar, Auxiliary Percussion

Aaron Cote: Bass

Michael Caraglio: Drums, Keyboards

James Lake: Modular and Analogue Synthesizers, Rhodes, Drums

Jack Selberg: Fender Rhodes, Synths

Alexander "Shrub" Bravo: Auxiliary Percussion
Album Art: Renz Ballagtas
Graphics" Layne Daniels

Featuring:

Lionel Williams: Drums (Track 13)

Ian Gibbs: Guitar (Track 13)

Bryan Belvis - No. 1

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This album is a really a collection of sounds that highlights both the sounds themselves and the silence in between the sounds. There's also a fatty crystal meditation bowl jam at the end! Enjoy!

Tracks:

1) Field Recordings, Sine Tones, and Synthesizer
2) Field Recordings and Electronic Treatments
3) Samples, Sine Tones, and Ebow
4) Crystal Bowls in a Geodesic Dome

Personnel:

Belvis Freshly - Field Recordings, Analogue Synthesizer, Crystal Bowl, Production, Composition
Bryan Truitt - Field Recordings, Sine Tones, Ebow, Crystal Bowl, Album Art, Composition
Aaron Cote - Analogue Synthesizer, Crystal Bowl
James Lake - Crystal Bowl
Liza Patterson - Crystal Bowl
Layne Daniels - Graphics

Belvis Freshly - Sound Walls

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Belvis Freshly used guitar, percussion, and synthesizers to make this music. Gertrude Myrtle Malingus provided vocals. Layne Daniels provided the graphics. Art by Somnium.

Enjoy!

Tracks:

1) spectralwall

2) undergroundwall

3) sandwall

4) livingwall

5) waterwall

Somnium Presents - Gnouv Lyfestyle (Vintage Gnouv) Vol. II

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Taken from improvised jams from 2009 - 2011

Track Listing:

1) Super Submarines
2) Interlude - Megaliths I
3) Miranda
4) Interlude - Shadow Play I
5) Kraut
6) Interlude - Shadow Play II
7) Shizuoka
8) Interlude - Shadow Play III
9) Dragon Boat Festival
10) Interlude - Chime Hours
11) The Fourth House
12) Outro - Megaliths II

Featuring:

Somnium
James Lake (Fynndlit)
Aaron Cote
Jack Selberg
Shrub
Michael Caraglio
Lionel Williams (Vinyl Williams)
Nick Lake
Christian Noakes
Adam Pfeffer (antimi.com)
Billy Petty
Nick Tee
Alex Rowe
Ramon Metsoulth (Ramon Bravo)

I'm back!

Hi everyone. It's been years since I've posted updates to this blog, but I've decided to continue posting music here once again. I'll begin by posting the albums I've created over the last four years since my last entry. I hope you all enjoy!