Gianluigi Gasparetti (26 March 1958 – 12 April 2013), known by the
pseudonym
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Oöphoi, was an Italian
ambient musician. He is perhaps best known for his role as the
editor of ''Deep Listenings'', an Italian magazine dedicated to ambient and deep atmospheric music,
[Se]
"Hypnos Artists"
at hypnos.com where he has featured interviews with many famous ambient artists including
Steve Roach[Deep Listenings Magazine, Spring 1995](_blank)
at steveroach.com and
Michael Stearns
Michael Stearns (born October 16, 1948) is an American musician and composer of ambient music. He is also known as a film composer, sound designer and soundtrack producer for large format films, theatrical films, documentaries, commercials, and ...
.
[Se]
Deep Listenings - The New Music Magazine
/ref> Oöphoi's music can be characterized as being static, organic and minimalistic. It has an overall solid and monolithic feel to it, often integrated in a meditative
Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm ...
and spiritual context. Created by using synths, singing bowls, flutes, and processed voices, his recordings have relatively slight harmonic variations. Gianluigi Gasparetti died in 2013 after a long illness.
Discography
Solo works
*1996 ''Static Soundscapes: Three Lights at the End of the World'' (Hic Sunt Leones)
*1998 ''Behind The Wall of Sleep'' (Due Acque)
*1998 ''Night Currents'' (Due Acque)
*1998 ''The Spirals of Time'' (Aurora)
*2000 ''Mare Vaporum'' (Due Acque)
*2001 ''Mare Tranquillitatis'' (Due Acque)
*2002 '' Athlit'' ( Hypnos Recordings)
*2002 ''Bardo'' (Electroshock Records)
*2003 ''Mare Imbrium'' ( Nextera)
*2003 ''The Dreams of Shells'' (Mystery Sea)
*2003 ''The Rustling of Leaves'' (Due Acque)
*2004 ''Dreams'' (Umbra)
*2005 ''As We Slip Away to Dream'' (Penumbra)
*2005 ''Awakening The Nagas'' (Penumbra)
*2005 ''Hymns to a Silent Sky'' ( Nextera)
*2005 ''Khumba Mela'' 2005, (Penumbra)
*2005 ''Signals from the Great Beyond'' (Gears Of Sand)
*2005 ''The Sun is Falling in a Sea Of Blood'' (Penumbra)
*2005 ''Vertigo'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''Amnios'' (Umbra)
*2006 ''Aquos—the Complete Drones'' (Umbra)
*2006 ''Dreams Part One'' (Faria Records)
*2006 ''Dreams Part Two'' (Faria Records)
*2006 ''Dreams Part Three'' (Faria Records)
*2007 ''Arpe Di Sabbia'' ( Nextera)
*2008 ''An Aerial View'' (Glacial Movements Records)
*2008 ''Potala'' (Substantia Innominata)
Collaborations
with Mathias Grassow and Amir Baghiri
*1999 ''Upuaut'' (Due Acque)
with Klaus Wiese
Klaus Wiese (January 18, 1942 – January 27, 2009 in Ulm) was a veteran e-musician, minimalist, and multi-instrumentalist. A master of the Tibetan singing bowl, he created an extensive series of album releases using them. Wiese also used the huma ...
*1999 ''Wouivre'' (Aurora)
*2005 ''A Call, An Echo'' (Penumbra)
*2005 ''The Light Sweeps All The Mist Away'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''Cherua'' (Umbra)
*2006 ''Deva Mela'' (Penumbra)
with Tau Ceti
*2001 ''Celestial Geometries'' (Arya)
*2003 ''Subterranea'' ( Nextera)
*2004 ''Archaic Oceans'' (Umbra)
*2005 ''Le Torri Del Silenzio'' (Penumbra)
*2005 ''Lifting The Veil'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''Algol'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''Australis'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''Borealis'' (Penumbra)
with Louisa John-Krol
*2005 ''I Hear The Water Dreaming'' (Prikosnovénie
Prikosnovénie (russian: Прикоснове́ние) is a French independent record label founded in Nantes in 1990 in music, 1990 by Frédéric Chaplain and Sabine Adélaïde who moved to its current home in the medieval city of Clisson in 200 ...
)
with L.E.M.
*2005 ''Leteph'' (Penumbra)
*2005 ''The Sacred Orbit'' (Umbra)
*2006 ''Aludra'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''Substrata'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''The Gates Of Aldebaran'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''Trifida'' (Penumbra)
with Netherworld
*2005 ''Postcards From The Void'' (Penumbra)
with Perceptual Defence
*2005 ''Where The Green Ants Dream'' (Penumbra)
with Paul Vnuk Jr.
*2006 ''Distance To Zero'' (Hypnos
In Greek mythology, Hypnos (; Ancient Greek: means 'sleep') also spelled Hypnus is the personification of sleep; the Roman equivalent is known as Somnus. His name is the origin of the word hypnosis. Pausanias wrote that Hypnos was a dear ...
)
with Paradin
*2006 ''Nocturnes'' (Umbra)
with Faryus
*2007 ''Forgotten Rituals'' (Faria Records)
with Enrico Coniglio as AQUA DORSA
*2009 ''Cloudlands'' (Glacial Movements)
*2013 ''The November Earth'' (gterma)
Compilations
*2001 ''Time Fragments Vol. 1 - The Archives 1995/1997'' (Due Acque)
*2001 ''Time Fragments Vol. 2 - The Archives 1998/1999'' (Due Acque)
*2001 ''Time Fragments Vol. 3 - The Archives 1999/2000'' (Due Acque)
*2004 ''Dust In The Wind - The Works, 1995 - 2003'' (Umbra)
*2005 ''Time Fragments Vol. 4 - Garden Of Earthly Delights'' (Umbra)
*2005 ''Time Fragments Vol. 5 - Wastelands'' (Umbra)
*2005 ''Time Fragments Vol. 6 - Between Nothingness And Eternity'' (Umbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 1'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 2'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 3'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 4'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 5'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 6'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 7'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 8'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 9'' (Penumbra)
*2007 ''Whispers From The Noisy Void'' (Umbra)
References
External links
Sleepbot.com
Last.fm
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Dark ambient musicians
Italian electronic musicians
2013 deaths
1958 births
20th-century Italian musicians