Space Music 70's (Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream), Atmospheric ambient music (Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Andrew Lahiff, Tohm Brennan, Brian Eno), Experimental (Robert Henke, @C), Pop electronic (Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Kitaro), Beatscapes (Monolake)
"We encounter a lot of ambient artists who are skilled at sound design; we also encounter many artists who are talented composers. But it is not so common to find an artist who is so masterful at both. David Schombert is one of those rare ambient artists who is every bit as much a musician as he is a sound sculptor, and his music can only be described as gorgeous." - Stephen Phlips, Dark duck Record
"Brilliant job ! I am have listened a few times now since its arrival and continues to draw me in more after each listen. Many thanks and again congratulations on a fine release !" - Steve Roach about The Gate of Silence
About The Gate of Silence : AURAL WELNESS "Superb album from David, very rich atmosphere, indeed a companion of Roach and vidnaObmana. Great relexation, well produced, only little pity is the bit monotonous drumming in track 1, the music can provide its own rhythm at the listener. The tracks following are sheer beauty so please stay tuned. A mental massage is guaranteed. Recommended."
TRULY AMBIENT "Very good recording. I downloaded this one and it has become a frequent part of my music rotation. It reminds me at times of 70s Tangerine and early ambient works in general. I put this one during an afterparty following a Trauma Trance show here in San Francisco.....Great for melting psychedelic cuddle puddles....."
PERFECT NIGHT MUSIC "I love this album! Along with Doc's "Through A Glass Darkly", this is my favourite of all the music I've found on this site so far. I've been playing this album on repeat while going to sleep over the last week, and I let it keep playing when I wake up so I can actually listen to it a couple of times. For that reason it's the perfect definition of ambient music - you can have it playing in the background for an aesthetic effect, or you can actively listen to it, and either way it is simply beautiful. The best way I can think of to try to describe this music in words is, imagine you're alone at night on the surface of an alien planet, looking up at a very very different sky to the one we have here. I like the first three parts best. Part one has some lovely slow percussion, and parts two and three have some sexy warm synth underneath haunting nocturnal sounds.
Yeah. I love this music."
REWARDING SOUNDSCAPES "The Gate of Silence is an excellent album for fans of deep, spacey ambient and meditative, textured drones. I generally prefer my ambient to be beatless, so I was a little less than thrilled by part 1. The ethnic percussion lingers over some very subdued background pads. It seems like an intro to a song that never materializes. Much more atmospheric than its predecessor, part 2 evokes underground spaces. There are some cavernous echoes and drops of water throughout and sweeping pads come through at a couple of key moments. Very cool. The third part has more of a hypnotic, minimalist approach, with a synthesizer and piano pattern played throughout. There is enough variety to the ostinato that it doesn't bore, and there are a lot of layers that peek through behind the moving notes. Part 4 puts me in the same introspective, heightened state that I get from Steve Roach's Immersions. I think it's fairly fast-moving for a long-form soundscape, as it carries a sense of motion within its seemingly still drones. There are lots of sonic flutterings as it builds to a crescendo of waves crashing on a beach. Brilliant! This is my first experience with the artist's work and it made for a very nice surprise. I'd say that the 2nd and 4th tracks are the strongest. Soundscape enthusiasts may want to skip Part1 on their first listen. "
BIOGRAPHY
David Schombert, born in Paris 1971, is a French independent electronic musician, producer and sound artist based in Portugal. Since fifteen years and 6 albums, released exclusively on Internet, with more 250 000 free downloads from 80 countries (with reactions amazingly positive), his acclaimed melodic ambient electronic music was used by many TV, radios, NASA, CNES, publicities, etc.
David Schombert always wanted to explore new soundworlds. So, since "The Gate Of Silence (2007)", critically acclaimed dark/ethereal ambient music project, with more 20 000 listeners, he left melodic 'pop electro/ambient/newage' music to explore poetic and dark drones, ambient soundscapes, experimental sounddesign, floating atmospheres and concrete music.
In this moment, he's working on his new project, a computer live experimental drones based music called Vertigo.
David Schombert's music is realized exclusively with synthesizers, and since 2004, only on a computer laptop. His main software is Ableton Live.
Hi Hope everything is going great for you We have a new tune up: "We never saw it coming"... we also have a new album out: "Loving the cyborg" have a look at our Cds & t-shirts at the Stratosfear Store... send us a cmmt... thanks for listening
Online Now!
