~ April 17, 2007 ~
Symbiotic Spaces is now available!
Symbiotic spaces is a collection of previously unreleased material and a few re-mastered tracks from the mp3.com days that are unavailable elsewhere. The music on this collection spans 8 years and it's been a wonderful musical journey for me. Many thank yous to the fans and friends for the continued support and appreciation for the music I create. I look forward to the next 8 years music!
~ February 13, 2007 ~
Shift to the Ghost is now available! It's a bit overdue, but it's here and available directly from Numinamusic.com and Hypnos.com.
In other news, "Symbiotic Spaces" is in the final stages of art production and ready to go to print.
~ January 31, 2007 ~
The third, and ultimately final collaboration between Numina & IXOHOXI titled "Megaliths & Monoliths" is now available for release through Numinamusic.com. This is, by all accounts, Dan Russo's final musical work to be released and the last known that he had worked on. Rest in Peace, Dan.
~ January 20, 2007 ~
It is with great sadness I report the passing of Dan Russo AKA IXOHOXI on 1/15/07.
I knew very little of Dan's personal life, however he and I worked closely on two collaborations. We were our first collaborators together with our Starfarer's Tales series (Dan's vision and concept). It was a great moment in time preparing and producing those albums with him. A very talented and kind soul. I spoke with him on rare ocassion via telephone but we had a lot to talk about and good stories to share.
Dan, you will be sorely missed. Your music will live on in our hearts and ears and minds. Now you are travelling the great vastness of your visions of space and enjoying the beauty of another realm. We'll see you soon my friend.
R.I.P.
Jesse
~ December 6, 2006 ~
Work has wrapped up on my production of "Symbiotic Spaces", a 2-CD release of 20 tracks, 15 of which are previously unreleased and the other 5 tracks have been re-mastered - these 5 tracks were previously were released on mp3.com back in the old days when it was good. Note that the title of this 2-CD release has changed. I orignally planned to title the album "Anabiosis" but I felt that title was too cold or medical sounding. In fact, "anabiosis" means 'a bringing back to consciousness; reanimation after apparent death' which is why I originally chose that title - in the sense I re-vived some old tracks that I had worked on over the years and brought them back to life with new mixes and mastering.
In other title-renaming news, I recently prepared a unique long-form piece for the Ambient Ping Radio. Its title originally was "Symbiotic Space", but just to make things confusing I'm changing the title of that to "Sound Symbols". So, bear with me, choosing titles can be difficult at times, and pretty much all of my releases have had title changes after discussing the music under a working title name. "Sound Symbols" is something will be released some time in 2007, but will be quite different than the version that was playing on the Ping.
In other release news, "Shift to the Ghost" is still being finalized at Hypnos Headquarters. Shouldn't be long folks. Keep your ears peeled.
I recently got an e-mail from an independent film producer whom several years ago asked for some music and sound effect production. I sent him some material and after a long wait I have learned his film has been finished an can be downloaded here: http://www.cinematographer.tv/video/SarahsDemons.mov
Fin.
~ September 29, 2006 ~
Greetings. I hope you're all enjoying the Fall/Autumn weather. This is an update to announce a few things. First, "Shift to the Ghost" is in the hands of Hypnos and is currently being mastered. A special thank you to Kati for the magnificent artwork for the cover. Hopefully this will be released some time no later than the end of November.
Here is the album cover for "Shift to the Ghost"
As an added surprise, I've been working on a 2-CD release for Gestalt Signals titled "Anabiosis" consisting of rare and unreleased material from 2000-2006. Including re-masters of some of the mp3.com tracks as well as brand new songs. All of these tracks are currently unreleased and not available anywhere. This will be released on Gestalt Art Forms (real CD) with initial orders available exclusively only through numinamusic.com.
Also, due to demand and requests, I have re-issued my very first release, "Dreamsleep". It is available as a slimline CD-R for $10.00 USD.
As always, thank you all for the contact, comments, and support.
Jesse
~ July 28, 2006 ~
The forthcoming album on Hypnos will officially be titled "Shift to the Ghost". It is a long-form piece with indexed track points and each song is distinctly different than the other but the songs evolve seamlessly into each other. The concept for the album was originally produced for a long-form mp3 release with StillStream.org and working with that core track I re-mixed and extended the piece to become something more thorough than the original long-form piece. This album in many ways is about the life and death of the physical self, hence the title "Shift to the ghost". No solid release date at this time is available, but the master and artwork has been settled. Hopefully a release some time in September will happen.
If that wasn't enough good news, due to popular demand and the desire, a 2-CD collection of previously unreleased material and new material will be available some time in October or November on the Gestalt label. This collection will consist of material which was available for download back in the mp3.com days (and will be high-quality audio versions) with some tracks being re-mixed and some brand new tracks both recorded recently and recorded in the past.
Also, the 3rd collaboration release between Numina & IXOHOXI is nearing a close. Watch here for news on this release.
~ July 3, 2006 ~
Greetings. I must apologize for the long delay in updating this news section. Many of you probably think I fell off the face of the earth, of course that may be appropriate for a "space" musician. Truthfully, not much news has occurred until just recently which really is the reason for the delay in addition to several personal concerns which quite honestly has stifled any motivation to maintain things with regard to my music. Alas, life must go on and those who are now passed would want the music and creativity to continue.
First bit of news to report is a recent interview I did with Kristen Tilbury from Deep Intense. You can read the interveiw here: Numina interview.
Secondly, an exclusive Numina track is featured on the Australian compilation Chasing the Dawn: Ultima Thule Ambient. Also featured on this comp are Kelly David, Steve Roach, and Robert Rich to name a few of the high profile talents. Also by purchasing this CD you support a great readio station based in Australia.
Currently, when time permits, I am working on the third collaboration with IXOHOXI which is called Megaliths and Monoliths. A release date is not confirmed but likely some time late summer or early Autumn.
I recently made a personal visit to Backroads Music near San Francisco, CA. Please support Backroads by checking out their website and ordering a few CDs. It is a great store and the only one of its kind in the U.S. with a diverse a selection and deserving of our support within the electronic, ambient, ethnic music community.
I have submitted a new full-length release to Hypnos but have sat idle on a few details with it. When I work things out on my end the release will shortly get into production. It is a re-worked and extended album which some of was featured as an exclusive mp3-based release with Blue Water Records. The track has been reworked considerably but there are a few similarities, however the Hypnos release will be re-titled. More news about this will follow as soon as I pin down the final details.
My next plan is to begin working on a more tribal/rhythmic based release. I want to deeply explore this territory more than I have in the past. Some well-known names may be contributing their mastery of acoutic instrumentation. Many details are to be worked out, but it is my next course of action after wrapping up with the IXOHOXI collaboration. This release may be put out on the highly regarded Spotted Peccary label some time in 2007. Once again, a great label which deserves our support.
Tara VanFlower who I've worked with in the past a few times has released a novel titled Violent Violet.
Lastly, I made an update to the note about insurance costs. I continue to have a lot of trouble with mailing to places outside of the U.S. 1 out of 5 or so packages to anywhere outside the U.S. either becomes lost, stolen, or confiscated by customs. I do not understand what is going on but the post office says it's a lost cause to try and find out what happens to my packages. Due to this problem I may ask that anoyone ordering outside the U.S. wanting to purchase a larger order pay a $20.00 insurance fee (which is the actual cost to me) in addition to the shipping fees and/or pay for delivery confirmation which means you will have to be available to sign for your package. I am unable to keep sending two orders out, it's simply too expensive for me. However, I will always replace your order if something does happen, but may ask for a partial payment for the replacement.
Thank you for reading and as always, I appreciate comments and correspondence and support.
~ Jesse
~ December 24, 2005 ~
I have to add the following information on the order page in order to make
it clear that ALL FOREIGN ORDERS MUST PAY SHIPPING FEES.
ATTENTION Foreign orders: Shipping to Europe, Scandinavia, South America,
Australia, Asia, etc. is expensive. Orders shipped outside the Continental
U.S. must include additional shipping costs. Please select the additional
shipping fees based your order amount. If you have any questions, please
e-mail me at numina@frii.com and I'll gladly help you with your questions.
Also see my note about insurance on this page below.
!!!!NOTE/ACHTUNG!!!!
~ December 10,
2005 ~
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