An absolutely astounding accomplishment, the second 4 LP Box set diving into previously unreleased material - 'French Archives Vol. II' - is a mind-melting immersion into the composer and saxophonist's radical experiments and stunning ambient harmonics made between 1974 and 1985.
| Ariel Kalma's latest compendium of 4 LPs (vinyls):
French Archives Vol. II |
| January 2021 | October 2020 | |
| Antivirus Music | Saxoridoo | |
After one year of isolation I feel the frustration, bordering rage and despair of the less fortunate... Here is some heartfelt music for you to ‘Dance The Virus Away’ while dreaming of better days, letting go and moving motions in the comfort of your own being… This album is meant to be affordable for everyone to enjoy. |
Tribal Electronica Mx |
| October 2020 | March 2020 | |
| Rainbow Dreamwalker | Corona Insola | |
.Some Universes behave differently than expected |
Soothing tracks for challenging times |
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| October 2009 | Re-released 2020 (original 1980) | |
| In My Dreams | Bindu | |
Dream On Minimal Ambient Music Hypnotic, entrancing repetitive musical patterns and rhythms alter our perception of reality. Ariel uses keyboards, synthesisers and lots of sound effects to weave a journey into Dreamland. Excellent for space walks, exploring Gaga-land, for relaxation, meditation, healing massage, and clearing the mind… |
Melody Meets Avantgarde Recorded between 1976 to 1980 at the GRM studio (Musical Research Group) in Paris, France, where Ariel was an assistant engineer. Cover photo with Margot Anand. |
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| July 2020 | August 2020 | |
| Keep Calm and Breathe | Ambient Zeitgeist | |
Long-breath saxophones to quiet the mind and stay sane! |
Spirit of The Times |
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| June 2020 | May 2020 | |
| See You Up There | Music for Quiet Times | |
Mixed from old analog archives, modern effects + plugins. Photo montage from NASA background and a flowering agave plant. |
Peacefulness unburdens the mind, soft sounds create an agreeable environment to relax and unwind. Find a quiet space where you can listen, sing the long notes, and breathe… you will feel refreshed in no-time! |
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| March 2020 | January 2020 | |
| Birds Dreaming | Astral Dreams | |
From the rhythmic emu to rainforest night birds, Ariel is always inspired by bird songs of all kinds; he just has to tune his instruments to various recordings and magic happens… This relaxing album highlights birds skills to trance us into cosmic realms. |
Hypnotic music for deep relaxation, meditation, time-travel, massage, reverie and other inner space activities. |
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| December 2019 | November 2019 | |
| Mainly Mental | Energy Archives | |
Mixing nature with keyboards, percussion loops, mini sax, flutes, digital effects, Musing Ariel presents Hypnotic tracks that do not fit elsewhere. From Acid Jazz to toddler babble. |
Over the years Ariel played with lots of musicians friends, recording various styles of music. These tracks are made to move, dance, shake, sing, play with the energy in our body… enjoy! |
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| October 2019 | August 2019 | |
| Dervish Wish | Tantric Sax | |
Various Space Music pieces from 2019 in collaboration with DJ’s Dima Ustinov and Gilb’R (except #3) |
Long analog tape loops, carefully timed delays, controlled feedbacks, harmonic-creating instruments, effects… Ariel improvises with tenor, alto and soprano on strange sounding scales and patterns with circular breathing, crossing the lines between notes, always coming back to haunt and provoke, titillate and excite new neuron pathways… it gets better at each listen. |
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Concert tour in Europe 2019 |
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Here is a video where you can see and hear him |
Ariel Kalma in residency at the Old Carpet factory |
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| May 2019 | June 2019 | |
| Intemporel (LP) | Nuits Blanches au Studio 116 (LP) | |
Sarah and Ariel blend their strong individual personalities in a single trip on the edge of time. Their kosmic music is pure, magnificent and elegant, an intergalactic hypnosis that seems to tell of distant times, a millenary vortex of a lost Era. "Intemporel", the latest project just published by Black Sweat Records, was born from the collaboration between the famous Canadian composer and sound artist Sarah Davachi and Ariel Kalma, a true luminary of French ambient music. Here, the common interests for electronic experimentation, electro-acoustic music and minimalism, merge in a complementary dialogue of great charm. Terry Riley's lesson, the sound intuitions of La Monte Young and Kalma's great passion for Indian music are just a starting point. The overall result is an intense cosmic and spiritual experience in which Arp Odyssey synthesizer drones, harmoniums and keyboards meet saxophone, sitar, tampura, Tibetan bells, vocals and a multiplicity of acoustic instruments in an effective synthesis. |
Transversales Disques is very glad to announce the release of « Nuits Blanches au Studio 116» - Unreleased rarities from Ariel Kalma’s personal archives recorded in the legendary GRM’s Studio 116 during the 70’s. New Age conduit Ariel Kalma’s mid-late ‘70s GRM recordings are set to blow a lot of minds with this deep dive compiled by current GRM audio restoration engineer and Transversales proprietor, Jonathan Fitoussi. Properly unnerving, beautiful proto-Lynchian vibes on this one. Sourced from a recently excavated box of tapes recorded during late night recording sessions in the GRM’s Studio 116 - the same concrète laboratory used in Bernard Parmegiani and Luc Ferrari masterpieces - this LP delves into some of Kalma’s earliest recordings to provide an enchanting listen and reveal the groundwork that came long before his relatively recent collaborations with mutual, explorative souls Sarah Davachi and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.More ...
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| March 2019 | January 2019 | |
| Music to Dream By 562 |
Moonlight Suite Relaxing Inspiration |
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Resonance disappearing in harmonic reminiscence of time immemorial where pure energy travels on soundwaves. Abstract sequences, soothing rhythms, floating music. Created to accompany a series of talks on consciousness as background environment. Download --- More info?
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In 1983 Ariel moved from Paris to Hamburg to live with his sweetheart. He bought a 4 track ¼” tape recorder and composed Moonlight as a suite of vignettes illustrating Shamballa, the land of silence and bliss. Nightingale Records (his publisher at that time) needed a new age version called Rainbow, so Ariel added birds to the mix when they published a cassette (Ariel was not satisfied with the sound quality though). Then he left for Hawaii, raised a son and did not remix and remaster until… 2018. This time (almost) no birds. Download --- More info? |
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| December 2018 | Live in Concert Europe 2018 | |
| Archives PortaSound 1981 Space Trance Ambient |
It was a great small tour, good music, good reception.... |
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During the 80’s Ariel travelled as music director for Margot Anand Tantra workshops and also played live with his portable setup : Modified Yamaha Portasound PS-20 keyboard, Wasp synthesiser, 4 track cassette recorder/mixer, microphone and effects. Download --- More info? |
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| March 2018 | February 2018 | |
| Osmose III Ambient Songs of the Forest |
AndroGene 2018 Adding apps to the mix! |
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40 years after his cult classic album OSMOSE, Ariel Kalma presents OSMOSE III created with field recordings of birds surrounding him nowadays. Peppered with space saxophones and flutes, velvet harmonic voices, dreaming didgeridoo, dynamic groove loops, those birds songs illustrate how nature and people could interact with respect. Download --- More info? |
Recorded in the beginning of 2018 with my 'normal' setup, plus a Volca Keys synthesizer, an old Casio CZ-101, and several Android apps on phones and a tablet!! I was just practicing to muster all these, but after a warm up, Music Machines synchronised by themselves! Download --- More info?
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French Archives 1977 - 80 (4-LP box)
...... French Archives 1977 – 1980, the lavish four LP box set, now emerging in the hands of Black Sweat, draws from previously unreleased recordings from one of Ariel Kalma’s most creatively rich periods. Divided under four headings – Sarasvati Planet Ariel, Planet Air, Ascend Descend and Astral Cathedral, the represented body of work was conceived as autonomous works, sculpting distinct sonic environments, as well as for applications within group therapy sessions for healing, trance and relaxation.
When viewed as a single body emerging from the shadows of time, these lost recordings offer a remarkable revelation into the diversity of Kalma’s practice. With their ambiences, extended tones, and repetitive rippling melodies, most of the composer’s previously know work has offered easy connections to the efforts of the New Age Movement and to Minimalists like Terry Riley, La Monte Young, and Jon Hassell.
The works contained within French Archives 1977 – 1980, display an even more diverse range – all so engrossing and of such a remarkable quality, that it’s an unquestionable sin that they have remained unheard for so long.
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| December 2017 | November 2017 | |
| Eternalia Harmonic Music Forever |
Rue de la Gaite 70s Morocco-Indian-Jazz |
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A musical saga of human Evolution, and search for the rhythms of Life. Mix a synthesiser with harmonium, crystal and Tibetan bowls, mini saxophone, vocals and effects. Add inner space, a dash of mystery and you’lll have a cosmic ode to eternity on which to hum along for a drug free ecstatic insight. Download --- More info? |
This album was recorded at Rue de la Gaite, between 1976-1979 in Paris where Ariel lived. At that time, Brahim el Belkani from Marrakesh camped in his living room/recording studio and often played music Morrocan G’nawa style mixed with Indian style and jazzy improvisations. Loy Ehrlich and other visiting musicians, who Ariel met while traveling, recorded several sessions together. Download --- More info? |
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| October 2017 | ||
| Sarasvati Planet Ariel Musique Planante |
Astral Cathedral Cosmo Spiritual |
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During the Mid-70s, Ariel recorded lots of ‘Musiques Planantes’ (Space Music). Ariel also participated to the development of Human Potential giving him inspiration but no desire to commercialise. Now in his 70s, Ariel wants to share his explored cosmic collection born out of nowhere… Download --- More info? |
Inspirations from St John the Divine cathedral in New York where I 'secretly' stayed in the basement during summer 1976, accompanied by a rescued dove with a broken wing. I lived in the Earth Society's large room and could only go out at night … so I learned to play the grand harmonium, or practiced circular breathing on soprano saxophone under the crypt (large echo!!). Download --- More info? |
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| October 2017 | June 2017 | |
| 1985 Kula Blackhole From Outer To Inner Space ... |
Confidential Intimate Sax Off The Record |
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During 1985, living high up on the Haleakala mountain on Maui, I got very inspired by the island vibes, the night skies, and that special silence... I recorded this piece with a simple portable setup: Download --- More info?
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Ambient music to relax in good company, far from the hurried world to create an atmosphere of quietude with longing saxophones, Download --- More info?
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| Never Mind Introspective Changes Perspective |
Dream Stars Voyage into the Dreamtime |
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Change is the only constant, so this is ‘Music to Change Point of View’... a gathering of tracks connecting elsewhere... Several tracks from Ariel’s 70’s archives on analog tapes. Several more recent tracks. Ariel Kalma: all instruments, cover art, remastering (with the technical knowledge of Kamal Engel @ Art of Audio, Byron Bay). Background photo of space courtesy of NASA Spitzer telescope.
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Live recording (analog tapes) from 1977 at the Paris Planetarium. Remastered 2016. Ariel Kalma: all instruments, cover art, remastering with the technical knowledge of Kamal Engel @ Art of Audio, Byron Bay. Background photo of space courtesy of NASA Spitzer telescope. Download --- More info?
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