BLISS WAVES (FROM THE HEART REALM), by AHRKH

BLISS WAVES (FROM THE HEART REALM)

by AHRKH

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Kelly Davidson This is an excellent record. I’ve been using it for meditation or background music for several days now and it keeps revealing itself. It’s like a brain wave massage…. For fans of Coil’s Time Machines or other ritualistic, waves of shimmering drone music. AHRKH has tapped into something for me. Recommended Favorite track: Bliss Waves.

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"Forget your worries, lie back, and rest your mind. Watch the sun gently set on this world as pink-tinged clouds drift by like thoughts in your mind and feel yourself letting go . . . nowhere to go . . .nowhere to be. Nothing matters, nothing exists outside of this moment . . . right here. . . right now."

ZamZamRec are ecstatic to announce the first vinyl release from AHRKH, the solo project of Gnod’s A P Macarte : BLISS WAVES (FROM THE HEART REALM).

Recorded during the first UK lockdown in 2020, BLISS WAVES brings us an hour of undulating, swirling, vaporous and transcendent waves of sonic bliss.

Macarte may be best known for blowing out our senses with his work in the experimental noise collective GNOD, however he returns this time to ZamZamRec under his solo moniker AHRKH with a triad of delicate, transcendental sound works, more closely aligned with the ambient sonic journeys he transports us on via his monthly NTS radio show, Golden Ratio Frequencies.

Following on Macarte’s 2015’s ZamZam release “Tone Mantra”, and from last year’s deeply meditative “Beams From A Spiritual Panorama” cassette (Golden Ratio Freq), BLISS WAVES (FROM THE HEART REALM) finds the Manchester-based artist and Sound Therapist delving into a more “Nu-Age” sound palette of mystikal aeriferous sound waves, cascading arpeggiators and bliss-out drone tones, resulting in something akin to Laraaji’s ecstatic zithers being dosed in psilocybin and modulated through LSD soaked synthesisers.

Though recorded during the first UK Lockdown in 2020, the music wasn’t initially intended to be a “lockdown” album. It was simply born out of a time of innocent play and deep rest, as the world outside seemingly slowed down and offered a collective moment of quiet repose.

Says Macarte:
“When the lockdown came into place, I had no real intention of making any creative music..at all. Whilst I saw many take the opportunity to create their ‘lockdown magnus opus or “pandemic tonics”, I found myself confronted with the sudden and unexpected cancellation of a quite gruelling schedule of touring, performing and recording with different projects, and so I was quite happy and grateful for the ‘great pause’, choosing instead to spend my time in deep relaxation, meditation, yoga, reading, and generally just ‘being;.

However, a piece of new equipment to play with was enough to spark some inspiration.

“A friend lent me a new synthesiser for a couple of weeks, and so that was enough of an impetus for me to do some sonic exploration, making sounds just for fun -- something I hadn’t really done in some time -- and so each each evening, I’d have my equipment set up at my window and play with no pressure, no aim, and no intention. Creating new sounds whilst watching the sky and clouds change from sunset melting into twilight and fading into night in a gradual, hypnotic, and psychedelic shift of colour and mood, amorphous clouds gently drifting from neon pink to a backdrop of watercolour gradients...I found myself entranced. I’d leave these recorded sounds looping in my studio all day and night, just immersing myself in these calming soundscapes, away from all the chaos and noise of the outside world whilst I’d putter around in my own little oasis of sonic bliss…”

As a result the three selections from these sessions presented in this album aptly reflect those feelings, colours and moods in 45 minutes of aural iridescence and heavenly sound.

Opener “Bliss Waves'' gently drifts into being with undulating cloud swirls that softly intoxicate the listener whilst sub bass binaural oscillations massage the mind into blissed out ecstasy. This is followed by the hypnotic arpeggiated tone clusters of “Haze Cascade,” spinning out in a swirling daze recalling Oneothrix Point Never’s earlier headier workouts. Closing the journey, and taking up the whole flip side, “Oceanic Boundlessness” (named after a term used in Macarte’s Sound Therapy work to describe a state of consciousness that Transcends time and space) does exactly that, in epic proportions. Prismatic harmonics ring out to infinity, vocal loops phase in and out of existence, whilst deep throbbing and all encompassing sub bass sine waves keep one afloat in a state of heavenly statis that at once feels celestial and timeless.

Released through french label ZamZamRec, physical copies are materialized on ltd translucent sunset pink 180g Vinyl cut by Mark Ernestus’ Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin, and with considered mastering by LA’s Leaving Records Matthew David “Mindflight” McQueen for heightened Psychoacoustic impact. BLISS WAVES (From The Heart Realm) is ecstatic music to transcend the earthly boundaries of body and mind.

Released on the Summer Solstice for maximum energy.

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released June 21, 2021

Created, Recorded and Mixed by A P Macarte during lockdown daze
using synthesisers, loops & voice
April / May 2020

Mastered by Matthew David "Mindflight" McQueen
Cut at D&M, Berlin

Cover photo by Destiny Pierce
Cover Artwork by Héloïse Zamzam
Artwork & Layout by H&O ZamZam & Ahrkh

Thank you all... inner vastness of the Heart Realm exceeds Cosmos

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Dieu Lune et La Grenouille

Apr 2024
Six Crossings

Mar 2024
APOCRYPHA

Feb 2024
ABRACADABRA

Jun 2023
Solstices

Mar 2023
𓇕

Oct 2022
Kaûma

Jul 2022
LP 12" AUTUMN'20

Jun 2022
Collection Particulière

Jun 2022
Ifera

Apr 2022
BOUSTROPHÉDON

Mar 2022
S☉N RISE / S☉N OF THE SUN

Feb 2022
OTIUM_CREATURES

Dec 2021
replicare

Dec 2021
Alarmante

Oct 2021
LA CONSOLATION DES VIOLETTES

Sep 2021
BLISS WAVES (FROM THE HEART REALM)

Jun 2021
Kabukichō

Mar 2021
Hello Sunny

Feb 2021
LULLABIES

Dec 2020
For Joy

Nov 2020
Prepared Rain

Oct 2020
United Color of Black Metal

Jun 2020
fume flamme ce feu me dit-il

Mar 2020
GNOD/ZOHASTRE split

Feb 2020
Corps-pi

Sep 2019
Tendresse, Encore

Jul 2019
LE COURONNEMENT DES SILEX

Apr 2019
Super Barbu

Feb 2019
Dream Of The Sleeping Stones

Nov 2018
The Greedy Raven And The Four Branches

Oct 2018
Pan And The Master Pipers

Apr 2018
Brumas, Nieblas, Neblinas

Mar 2018
ZIM ZUM

Feb 2018
Out / In

Jan 2018
Spacelight Shines Through Us

Oct 2017
New Primitive

Sep 2017
cheesy dreamin'

Jul 2017
Zohastre /\ Nibul

Jun 2017
Monstre_Compilation

Nov 2016
"Sciences et Voyages"

Nov 2016
X

Sep 2016
Vista Kula

Jun 2016
Hverir

May 2016
Quark Star //\\ Etoile Etrange

Apr 2016
MY FATHER MY SUN

Nov 2015
TONE MANTRA

Jun 2015
Oboustranně dvoudílný

Apr 2015
ADVENTURES IN MODERN MUSIC

Mar 2015
Dream Drafts

Dec 2014
JUPITER

Nov 2014
We Are One

Oct 2014
ユーフォー

Sep 2014
Naive I-V

Jul 2014
Astral Voyages

Jun 2014
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Mental Transmutation Music

Mar 2014
Andreas Brandal and Urthsla

Feb 2014
SNAKES ON A PLANE

Jan 2014
O.T.A. On The Air

Nov 2013
))) fire is queen (((

Oct 2013
APHELION

Oct 2013
"PHEASANT"

Aug 2013
The upward-downward path

Jun 2013
I WILL ATTACK YOU

May 2013
Plan Z

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Mount Koscuisko

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JOY THIEF

Jan 2013
Sonic Birds

Dec 2012
TIM DRAGE

Dec 2012
First Takes

Sep 2012
SUPER RACKET GO ZONE!

Jul 2012
shimmering reflections of the endless myriad moment

Apr 2012
African Witchcraft

Mar 2012
remintonoise

Mar 2012
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Nov 2011
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Nov 2011
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Oct 2011

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