The Emperors of Gnouv - Illusions

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Here is an album recorded at the end of Summer 2012. It came from three different jams, all completely improvised. This album is a project in editing and combining ambiance with our improv sound. This will likely be the last album we release recorded with the Zoom HN4.

Track Listing:
1) Illusion I
2) Illusion II
3) Illusion III
4) Illusion IV
5) Illusion V
6) Illusion VI*
7) Illusion VII
8) Illusion VIII

Personnel:
Somnium: Guitar, Signal Processing, Electronics, Production
Minanim: Drums, Bass, Synthesizer, Album art
J-Anton: Rhodes
Fynndlit: Drums (Tracks 3 and 7), Synthesizer
Ramon Metsoulth: Organ
Justin Tonation: Chimes
*Sample: J-Dilla

Somnium and the Smooth Daibuttsus Mixtapes

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These are two mixtapes taken from a collection of improvised jams over the summer of 2012, poems by the Gnouv army, and other moments of Gnouvists gone wild.

Track Listing:
1) Mixtape 1 - Shake That Gnouv Thing
2) Mixtape 2 - The X-Tended Ballad of Heinz Karl

Personnel:
Somnium - Guitar, Samples, Signal Processing, Electronics, Percussion, Shit Talking
Shrub - Bass, Guitar, Percussion, Shit Talking
Antimi - Keyboards, Vocals
Billy the Pimp - Drums, Shit Talking
Fynndlit - Drums, Modular Synthesizer
Minanim - Bass, Drums, Shit Talking
J Anton - Rhodes
Ramon Metsoulth - Words
Justin Tonation - Words
Sunyata - Electronics
Balla G - V-drums
Everever - Trumpet
Dink - Shit Talk, Graphics

The Fynndlit Big Band - Meals of Oblivion LP

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This is The Fynndlit Big Band's latest Big Bear studio recording. We approached this album track by track, focusing on ways we could combine what we had in original ways, trying to create something different from one track to the next. We ended up making an album with a lot of really interesting variety whose cohesion and textures came together in a surprising way - sometimes more obviously than others, sometimes more subtlety. Also, to me the whole thing had a totally playful air about it. The cabin is definitely a fun place to record. While we were there, we made a bunch of really kick ass meals and drew a crazy cool picture for album art. Enjoy!

Track Listing:
1) Squiggle One
2) And Two
3) Space Meet
4) Didnime Culd
5) Gopher Chauffeur
6) Level 6
7) Blue Lotus
8) Meals of Oblivion

Personnel:
Fynndlit - Drums, Analogue Synth, Production
Everever - Trumpet, Percussion, Reeds, Harps
Family Figz - Bass, Drums (Track 4), Digital Synth
Shrub - Guitar (Track 1), Bass (Track 4), Drums (Track 5), Percussion, Electronics
Somnium - Guitar, Samples, Signal Processing, Percussion

The Emperors of Gnouv

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This album came from three recorded jams from March. This music is entirely improvised! Nothing was planned out ahead of time - we simply plugged in, and played. I feel like on all three sessions, our band was totally on. While small groups of us had been playing together in different parts of California and in different bands, we hadn't played all together as a unit in three months or so, and when we all got together, the music exploded! Enjoy this recording, and look for future albums and shows from the Emperors of Gnouv!!

Track Listing:
1) Intro - Premonition
2) Crash Landing in a Dark Forest
3) Shrouded Moonlight Rendezvous
4) The Badland Brigade
5) Interlude - Let's Turn On
6) Figz Fury
7) Interlude - Stasis
8) An Easy Mark
*9) Outro - Geodesic

Personnel:
Somnium - Samples, Electronics, Guitar (Tracks 2, 3, & 9), Percussion, Production
Antimi - Keyboards
Shrub - Guitar (Tracks 4, 7, 8) Percussion, Auxiliary Bass (Track 2)
Crags - Drums
Family Figz - Bass
Fynndlit - Analogue Synth, Auxiliary Percussion and Drums (Tracks 2, 5, 6, & 9)
Everever - Percussion (Tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9), Trumpet, Recorder
J-Anton - Analogue Synth, Percussion (Tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 8)
Ramon Metsoulth - Percussion (Tracks 4 & 8)
Layne Scheiner - Graphic
*Sampled - Robert Fripp Evensong Haapsalu

Shrub (ft. Somnium) - Ajna

Here's an ambient single I recorded with Shrub. Enjoy.

You can check out his music HERE

Shrub: Guitar, Electronics
Somnium: Electronics

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Somnium and the Quantum Round LP

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This album is the funky, freaky, sometimes dream-like result of the past two months of instrumental jamming and recording. All the musicians in The Quantum Round are improvisers, which means that even the ideas we compose prior to playing will be played differently every time. The music is a combination of our familiarity improvising with each other, exploration, experimentation, and uncertainty.

Track Listing:
1) Who is it That Knows
2) A Universe From Nothing
3) !
4) Boat on a Moonbow
5) Layin' Low
6) Trinth
7) As Heard Through the Haze
8) Sly Musings
9) *Island Part III (Under the Stars)

Personnel:
Somnium - Guitar, Samples, Signal Processing, Production
Shrub - Bass
Crags - Drums
Featuring:
Antimi - Keyboards (Tracks 4, 5, 6, and 8)
Billy The Pimp - Drums (Tracks 6 and 8)
Iris - Keyboards, Electronic Effects, Percussion (Tracks 1,2, and 9)
Pappa-J - Percussion (Tracks 1 and 2)
Renz - Album Art
Layne Scheiner - Graphics
*Sample by Robert Fripp

The Fynndlit Big Band - Germish Sperman LP

This is The Fynndlit Big Band's first LP. It was recorded in a cabin in Big Bear over the course of two days from 9-30-11 to 10-1-11.

Check out more of The Fynndlit Big Band or Fynndlit's other projects HERE

Fynndlit - Drums, Bass, Analogue and Digital Synths, Production
Somnium - Guitar, Loops, Signal Processing
Family Figz - Bass, Drums, Digital Synth
Shrub - Guitar, Bass, Synth

Track Listing
1) Intro
2) Gettin' Started
3) Interlude 1
4) Space Dew
5) Interlude 2
6) Baditude
7) Interlude 3
8) Fershaman
9) Outro

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