Cosmos Unfolding by Siddhartha Barnhoorn & Robert Logan

'Cosmos Unfolding' is a collaboration between Siddhartha Barnhoorn and Robert Logan.

Siddhartha Barnhoorn is an award-winning composer from The Netherlands and, alongside the release of a number of ambient solo albums, is also responsible for the soundtracks of over 70 films, various documentaries and video games like Antichamber, Planet Alpha and the Out There series.

Robert Logan is an Emmy Award nominated composer and producer from the U.K.. He has scored a number of award-winning documentaries, released two albums in collaboration with Steve Roach, and has created multiple acclaimed solo albums, with the BBC calling him “a prodigy...showing a maturity and a musical/textural understanding that many simply never find” in their review of debut album 'Cognessence'.

Together they have created a beautiful and intriguing new ambient album, 'Cosmos Unfolding'. Their coming together was a natural outgrowth of their interests, and the music seemed to form itself effortlessly. The album was created remotely between 2020 and 2022 and explores a shared fascination with astronomy, cosmos-related mythology and the universe beyond Earth, as well crossover musical interests in certain kinds of synthesis, sound design and classic space-themed albums and media. The pieces of 'Cosmos Unfolding' form one long seamless journey chronicling the story of the universe, and the music ranges, at times drawing unashamedly from the romantic space-music tradition and at others stepping into new mysterious territories. The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins coined the term 'inscape' to suggest 'a quasi-mystical illumination, a sudden perception of that deeper pattern, order, and unity which gives meaning to external forms.' Aaron Copland stated that “this description...applies more truly to the creation of music than to anything else.” The aim of this album was to illuminate and express the wonder and a childlike obsession with what lies in the great beyond, and the resulting music is both overtly emotional and inviting, leading as it does to the first humans on Earth, and otherworldly, peering into a world we don't understand.

Tracklist

1.	Stellar Blooming	9:10

2.	Celestial Signals	6:24

3.	Scattering Light	11:30

4.	Planetary Formation	11:32

5.	Expansion Sequence	5:00

6.	Emerging Crystals	12:40

7.	First Creatures	8:32

8.	The Space Ahead	12:14

Credits

released September 30, 2022

Composed, performed, recorded and mixed by Siddhartha Barnhoorn & Robert Logan between 2020-2022.

Mastered by Siddhartha Barnhoorn.

Sid - Korg MS10, Ensoniq ESQ-1, Oberheim Matrix-1000, Eurorack Modular ( www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/1017333 ), Lexicon PCM70 & PCM80, Roland RE-501 Chorus Echo, Soundcraft EMP-8, Brian Moore guitar and pedalboard fx for guitar ambiences mainly: MXR Super Comp, Proton Pedals Misha "Bulb" Mansoor Overdrive, Flux Effects Liquid Ambience, Shiftline A+ Astronaut, Ernie Ball Volume Pedal, TC Electronic Ditto X4, Strymon El Capistan, Strymon DIG and Strymon Nightsky, various software synths & fx mainly: u-He The Dark Zebra & Valhalla reverbs.

Robert - Nord Lead 3, Moog Subsequent 37, Korg MS-20, Roland JD-XA, Juno 106, Emu samplers, various software synthesisers, software DSP, Alesis Midiverb II, III & IV, Wedge and Quadraverb, Lexicon Vortex, Strymon Big Sky, Korg Kaoss Pad 3, Electro Harmonix Cathedral + others, Elektron Machinedrum, sequencers, edits, treated voices, rhythms, field recordings & percussion; piano, programming.

Front cover image & layout by Siddhartha Barnhoorn.
Front cover title font by Ryoichi Tsunekawa. (Clonoid font) - www.onlinewebfonts.com

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