Music: 60's and 70's progressive rock, British Folk, Krautrock: Tangerine Dream (1967-1976), Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel, Agitation Free, Can, Neu!, Amon Duul II
The Miles Davis Quintet ~ Ambient/Cosmic/Space: Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Loren Nerell, Vidna Obmana ~ J.S. Bach, Richard Wagner, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Medieval music...
TV: Star Trek, the first season - Football: Inter and Liverpool, my favorite teams...
Heroes: Albert Hoffmann, Timothy Leary, Glenn Gould, George Best
Influences: books, Nature, the movies of Andrey Tarkovski and Werner Herzog, my own dreams
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: The Secret Doctrine ~~
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: Isis Unveiled ~~
His Holiness XIV Dalai Lama: Sleeping, Dreaming and Dying ~~
Popol Vuh ~~
Alejandro Jodorovsky: La Danza de la Realidad ~~
Gesualdo Bufalino: Le menzogne della notte ~~
Gesualdo Bufalino: Diceria dell'Untore ~~
Italo Calvino: Le Città Invisibili ~~
Italo Calvino: Il Barone Rampante ~~
Lama Anagarika Govinda: The Way of White Clouds ~~
Henry Thoreau: Walden ~~
Baigent/Leigh/Lincoln: The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail ~~
Josè Luis Borges: Aleph ~~
Michael Hutchison: The Book of Floating ~~
Timothy Leary: The Psychedelic Experience ~~
Timothy Leary: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out ~~
Albert Hofmann: LSD, mein Sorgenkind ~~
Graham Hancock: Fingerprints of the Gods ~~
Graham Hancock: The Mars Mystery ~~
Alfred Tomatis: La Nuit Uterine ~~
Alfred Tomatis: Ecouter l'Univers ~~
Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Sufi Message: Music-Sound ~~
Renè Guenon: Le Roi du Monde ~~
Louis Charpentier: Les Mysteres de la Cathedrale de Chartres ~~
Glenn Gould: The Glenn Gould Reader ~~
Kevin Bazzana: Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould ~~
Peter Hamel: Through Music to the Self ~~
Giovanni Ansaldi: La Lingua degli Angeli
Born in Rome, Italy, March 26, 1958. He started his own music experiments in 1995, with a basic instrumentation, trying to explore the shores of deep space-ambient music.
His first album "Three Lights at the End of the World", composed in 1995, has been released in 1996 by Italian ambient artist Alio Die on his own label, Hic Sunt leones (Alio Die himself played for one minute in a track of this album).
His classic double live album entitled "The Spirals of Time", released in 1997 on Amplexus, has been voted as one of the best ambient albums of all time.
Oöphoi uses mainly synths and sampling machines, singing bowls, flutes, Theremin, waterphone, processed voices and unusual percussions (woodchimes, stones, shells, crystal chimes); all his music is recorded using analog-only devices in The Kiva, his studio, which used to be a stable in a XV Century stone country house in the hills of central Italy.
In 2002 he has founded the experimental ambient group Nebula, along with Klaus Wiese, Mauro Malgrande, Lorenzo Pierobon and Tau Ceti. He has released 20+ Cds for many international labels (Hic Sunt Leones, Amplexus, Hypnos, Nextera, Prikosnovenie, Electroshock Records, Skean Dhu, Stella Maris, Aplaus, Mystery Sea, Glacial Movements), and now he runs his own label Umbra, devoted to the music of new Italian ambient artists.
His latest work is "Potala", a vynil-only album released on Substantia Innominata label. Oöphoi is currently working on a collaboration cd with welsh artist Seren Ffordd ("The Martian Chronicles") and has recently completed the album "Cloudlands" with italian guitarist Enrico Coniglio under the pseudonym of Aqua Dorsa (out now and available via www.glacialmovements.com).
This page is maintained by Laurent Maginelle and Oöphoi.
If you have a personal message for Oöphoi, you can also use this address: deeplistenings@tin.it
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Hello. Represent a new album ARX KAELI - Highway. 2009. Cd packed in wooden box with laser engraving, covered a grey varnish. Time 62 min. Best Regards.
Thanks for adding me as a friend. I really like your music, and the production quality. Real Ambient sounds. Wonderful, keep up the good work, Regards, Frank.
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