The Shamen, Autechre, Ken Ishii, Orbital, Future Sound Of London, The Orb, Juno Reactor, Eat Static, DJ Christof/Absolum/Talamasca, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams. Film soundtracks: Dune, Blade Runner, Total Recall. Films: Star Wars, Matrix, Dune, Terminator, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, Nirvana, Existenz, 2001. A Space Odissey, Resident Evil, Strange Days, Armitage 3. Books: Frank Herbert's Dune, Rig Veda, Bhagavad Gita. Third Wave, the works of Sri Aurobindo and Vivekananda. Games: Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Dune.
Sounds Like
An introspective music that tends to explore the deeper layers of reality and human spirit, expressing the concept of simultaneous coexistence of duality as the true nature of the world, and the persistence of equilibrium in extremes, thru a wide range of music from light ambient to dark industrial/noise. Main idea: The material world is an illusion. Life is just a game and this is the most serious way to be. The purpose of life is already won and can never be lost. This world has no beginning and no end, and so is the infinite and eternal spirit within us. Once found a certain proof of the true nature of our spirit, no force in the universe, nothing and noone can influence us.
Between 1994 and 2003 author of programs on electronic music on the national radiostation of Moldova, including programs "Techno Mix" and "Zona De Limita". Since 1994 author of numerous articles in the local press, in publications Saptamina, Democratia, Sud-Est Cultural and Contrafort. Studied classical composition. Has a particular interest for the indian spirituality, most notably the Advaita Vedanta school and the works of Sri Aurobindo. RELEASES: ALBUMS: "A Journey To The Core Of Reality" (Tibprod), "Mulberry Forest Voyage" (Krakilsk), "Vicious" (in collaboration with japanese cyberpunk writer Kenji Siratori) (Hypermodern), Pure Land (Tibprod Italy) TRACKS ON COMPILATIONS: track "Flying Dragon" - compilation "Cat-Zen Jammer" (Tibprod), track "Space Station" - compilation "Noise To Meet You Europe" (Simlog), track "Bindu (Lifeforce)" - compilation "The Scariest Weapon vol. 3" (Invasion Wreck Chords, distributed thru Ant-Zen and Adnoiseam), track "Eden 2007" - compilation "Season Of Snow And Ice" (Zaftig Research), track "Universal Memory Access" - compilation "Dark Ambient Radio Vol.1", track "Nirvana" - compilation "Tranchillizer" (Peak Records), track "Obsidian" - compilation "60X60 International Mix 2006-2007" (Vox Novus Foundation, from a project of electroacoustic compositions presented at Oxford and Cambridge), NEW - track "Blue Skies Over Arcadia Remix" in collaboration with King Pheenix - compilation "Here Comes A New Challenger 2 Turbo" (Scrub Club Records and Game Music 4 All).
Megatone techno oriented music, including hard techno EP "Power Blade" is available at JUNO DOWNLOAD.
http://www.junodownload.com/labels/Megatone/
Here are the Internet sites of cultural magazines Sud-Est Cultural and Contrafort where I currently write permanent headers Brief and Trends. The archive editions are available as well:
www.sud-est.md
www.contrafort.md
New Megatone album "Mulberry Forest Voyage" now released on label Krakilsk from Norway:
www.krakilsk.org
NEW: Album Pure Land by Marcel Gherman alias Megatone has now been released as digital download on digital label Tibprod Italy
http://www.tibprod.com/italy/electronic-music-mp3-megatone_pure_land.htm
Recommended for fans of Vangelis, The Orb and Jerry Goldsmith. Album Pure Land includes 18 tracks and has been quoted in Artemi Pugachev’s Encyclopedia of Electronic Music as highly cinematic symphonic synthesizer music. The full review by Artemi Pugachev may be read on the same link.
The album is a collection of vast sounding neoclassical cinematic music combined with hyperreal sound design. The material was gathered during several years of work. All sounds are originally synthesized and also feature originally synthesized sound of rain, water, fire, forest. It is a journey into an ethereal realm of magic, inspired by one of Marcel Gherman’s recent fantasy literary projects. Some of the tracks on album Pure Land were broadcasted on international FM radiostations.
Track INFINITY - vast symphonic harmonies combined with dense masses of digital sonic particles as made of liquid metals and precious stones, that transform in the end into a fully artificial sound of a crystalline falling rain.
BLACK LOTUS - a breathtaking nighttime panorama of a metropolis in the future.
SUNSET ON CORUSCANT - the central planet of the Galactic Republic. Vast space harmonies, dub beats, the sound of wind at high altitude, the sound of starships passing by with their reactors burning.
NEW - track BLUE SKIES OVER ARCADIA - cinematic neo-classical. All sounds are originally synthesized.
Arcadia was a very prosperous province in Ancient Greece. Track "Blue Skies Over Arcadia" portrays a phantasmagorical celebration of a prodigious civilization in a parallel world Ancient Greece or Rome.
Thanks. Viva the underground! Viva the NOISE! Viva Megatone!
Congratulations on the excellent work, GREAT sounds and atmospheres produced here.
I hope you enjoy my noise music too. Maintain contact. Cheers!
My friendship and max respect always!
cher Marcel, c'est un vrai plaisir de collaborer avec toi! et oui, c'est bien moi qui a photographié la tornade! (elle est passée tout près de chez moi!). mes amitiés, Sam (alias Syndrôm)
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