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Last Updated: 12/29/2009

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City: Long Beach
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 9/21/2007

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Friday, October 16, 2009

Interview and Immersion Festival

I was interviewed for LBPOST.com about the up coming Immersion Festival this coming Saturday. You can read the interview here:

http://www.lbpost.com/sander/6924

Also if you are in Southern California this weekend and are looking for something different to do, come to the Immersion Festival, with Steve Roach, Djam Karet and myself performing. Admission is free, so come early. More information is at the Immersion Festival website which is here:

http://www.immersionfestival.com/index.php

I hope to see some of you there.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Terraform out soon on Projekt
Current mood:

blessed
Category: Music

A budget-priced reissue of this out-of-print 2006 collaborative album from Steve Roach and Loren Nerell is being released September 29th on Projekt records.

Vivid ecosystems of sound abound on this field recording of the mind. Drones, liquid resonances and soothing walls of sound wash over the listener. This abstract sound painting includes hints of crickets, sounds vaguely suggestive of water, and deep otherworldly echoes. There is no melody, no rhythm; the feeling is cool, relaxed, and yet in the darkness there is warmth as well. The worlds Nerell and Roach have built do not exist on any map; their impact goes well beyond what can merely be perceived with one's ears.

Tokafi.com: "For Terraform, they have opted for building a galaxy from scratch. The result is a place of incredible lushness, borderless vastitude, sudden atmospheric swings, wordless spirituality and many different colors turning in slow motion like shimmering grains of sand inside an infinite kaleidoscope. For most of their duration, these pieces do not want to "go" anywhere, they just "are", existing and breathing in all of the detailed richness of a physical landscape, allowing the gaze of the listener to stray and inspect its structures from the purple-tinged horizon to the dense brushwoods of its rainforest and the lifelines of its lush and moist green leaves. There is a sound of crickets running through almost all tracks like a beacon, assuring the wanderer of the safety of his trajectory by its presence and warning him inside the cavernous wastelands of its absence. Of course, all of these animal allusions, all of the noises, all of the swelling and congesting pads and liquid resonances are all highly artificial – once you start observing their characteristics in an intellectual fashion, there is not the slightest doubt that this is not a field recording, but in fact a collage of synthesized harmonies and effects."

THE BACK STORY

Loren Nerell and Steve Roach met in Los Angeles in 1982 in the early days of the electronic music scene. It was a time when like-minded musicians who understood the importance of emerging technology were coming together in local clubs and performance venues to share what they knew and learn from one another. After years of friendship and occasional musical collaboration, in 2006 the two decided to convene in a relaxed setting to see what they could distill from a blending of their collective talents and individual styles.

The two composers are both experienced in using the world around them as inspiration for their art; Nerell taped hisIndonesian Soundscapes in 1999 and Roach, of course, has travelled the deserted rockscapes of Australia to come up with Dreamtime Return, an album now considered a milestone and a classic. In both cases, though, what you heard wasn't a 1:1 conversion of their journeys, but the aural representation of a multisensory experience.

Terraform emerged from their mutual desire to create an organic, surreal and deeply ambient environment of langorous humid soundscapes. Through a labyrinth of studio techniques, a kind of audio terraforming was developed. Heavily textured and mood altering, the long uninterrupted flow seemingly slows time down by way of the surreal dark ambient soundforms found in much of Roach's work. Nerell brings the steamy, evanescent blend of his mutated Indonesian sources, a signature sound that defines his previous releases for Amplexus, Side Effects and Soleilmoon.

Loren Nerell has studied gamelan music for the last twenty-five years, expanding and fine-tuning his mastery of Indonesia's unique indigenous musical traditions through performances and field work. During this time he has accumulated a large number of field recordings, many of which he uses in his compositions. This has evolved from simply using the material as-is to an elaborate processing technique in which the material is taken to a point so far from its original source as to be unrecognizable.

Impressions from several listeners have referenced Brian Eno's seminal On Land recording.

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Thursday, March 27, 2008

From Russia no love
Current mood:

betrayed
Category: Music

Doing a google search on my name brings up all kinds of interesting things. Everything from on line stores to forums to reviews of my CDs. But at this time the majority of 'hits' from google are so called mp3 sites hawking my works. They go by such names as "mp3.sweetpreserve." "mp3here," "soundsfiesta," "tunerecord." etc. They all look very slick, professional, and legit, but none of them are. They are all pirate sites most probably run by the Russian mafia.

Not to say that all mp3 stores are pirates, there are real stores selling mp3s such as iTunes, emusic, napster, etc. So, how can one tell the difference between real mp3 stores and pirate ones? Well for one read the text they use to describe my music, most of it is gibberish but here's a great example of one of the more readable ones I found on one pirate site:

"There is so much to love about Loren Nerell, starting with incredible harmonies, songwriting chops and stellar stage presence. Mila Sparrow has compared writing for Loren Nerell's new album to that on 'Lilin Dewa' - but has declared the lyrics will be even more terrifying. While no new Loren Nerell album is in sight, the artist has been road testing new songs during 1996 tour in Asia. IT makes me wanna dance!"

Harmonies, songwriting and stellar stage presence are interesting, and I guess one could say my lyrics would be terrifying. Terrifyingly bad if I wrote any! And now you know why my creative output has been so low all these years. I've been stuck in Asia on an endless tour testing new material.

Another way to tell is the price, if a web site is selling a track for $.03 or a whole album for $.99 then there is something wrong. At those prices no one is making any money, most real mp3 stores sell tracks for no less then 75 cents or entire albums for $7.50. Having said this I have noticed that a lot of these pirate stores have stopped listing prices, so this might be harder to tell. My guess is these stores are really just fishing for your credit card number so be careful.

Another way to tell is, at least in my case is by the tracks they have to offer. Just about every fake store offers one track from my first album "Point of Arrival,' and two tracks from my second called "Book of Alchemy." The reason being back in the late 1990s I was one of many artists on mp3.com who offered free downloads of my music. And as you have probably guessed by now these three tracks came from that site, evidently someone downloaded them and they have managed to get into the hands of these profiteers. At this time I have yet to offer anything from my first two albums for sale on any mp3 site.

So please, if you like the music then consider buying the tracks from a real store for real prices. It helps support the artist who make the music and you won't have to worry about what happens to you and your credit, unless you buy too many tracks, but that's your own problem.

- Loren