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)

Spuzz Jams Volume 2 - Reuinions

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This is the second release as Spuzz Jams. This album consists of snippets taken from many different jams throughout early 2013 through the Spring of 2014, and if I had to compare it to anything, I would say it is most like Emperors of Gnouv's Oh Baby New Year album, but a slightly more mature version. Like most of our improvisational music, this album features a lot of different musicians playing multiple instruments. I spent weeks on the post production overdubs, drones, samples, etc. The result is an eclectic group of songs that span fusion, post-rock, psychedelic rock, space rock, odd time signatures, and other weird stuff anyone familiar with Gnouv music would be accustomed to hearing. Enjoy!

Tracks:
1) Skidaleedoo
2) Engine
3) Deepsee Destiny
4) Gray Tower Sky
5) Mania Intro
6) Mania
7) Get It Out
8) The Lazy Morning After
9) Waiting Room Music
10) Intri
11) Y2K
12) I Thought I Got That Out

Production, mastering, and overdubbing by Belvis Freshly.
Featuring:
Somnium
James Lake (Fynndlit)
Aaron Cote
Michael Caraglio
Jack Selberg
Alexander "Shrub" Bravo
Ian Gibbs (of Vinyl Williams)
Nick Lake
Alex Rowe
Justin Neff
Ramon Metsoulth
Bryan Truitt
On various different instruments
Album Art by Renz Balagtas, Graphics by Layne Scheiner

Belvis Freshly - Music For Analogue Synthesizer (Vol. 1)

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This album was an experiment in learning a new instrument. The output was a very psychadelic, synesthetic soundscape. Enjoy!

Tracks:
1) Part I
2) Part II
3) Part III
4) Part IV

Featuring:
Belvis Freshly - Analogue Synthesizer, Production
Album Art - Gertrude M
Graphics - Layne Scheiner

Spuzz Jams Vol. 1 - Cinnamon Synonym Pseudonym

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This album was recorded in the cabin up in Big Bear - our third consecutive summer with a third consecutive album up at the cabin. For minanim and myself, this album explored a darker spectrum of emotions than the more celebratory, happy-go-lucky kind of music from Germish Sperman and Meals of Oblivion from 2011 and 2012 respectively, since each one of us were going through some things in our lives at the time. The music took on a glassy and dark atmosphere, which I think is pretty apparent to the listener when hearing it. The music is 100% improvised, and features some members from Emperors of Gnouv (James, minanim, Mica, and myself. Also featuring Neifs on synthesizers. Renz "Balla-G" Balagtas did the album art and Layne Scheiner did the graphics). Enjoy, and feel free to let me know what you think.

Tracks:
1) Intro - Sonic Droplets
2) Synonym
3) Interlude - Darkstar
4) Pseudonym I
5) Pseudonym II
6) Pseudonym III
7) Pseudonym IV
8) PseudonymV
9) Pseudonym VI
10) Interlude - Under Blue Glass
11) Cinnamon I
12) Cinnamon II
13) Cinnamon III
14) Outro - Human Headed Rooster

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

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