Snowflake Collections

My new E.P. "Snowflake Collections" is available now at Secret Station Records as a free mp3 download.

Also on the E.P. are 2 remixes by Electricwest and Benjamin Dauer.

Link to release page: http://secretstationrecords.com/freedownloa.htm

Direct link to the zip file: Specta Ciera - "Snowflake Collections"

Enjoy! :)

Lunar Testing Lab - The Twilight Fires: Volume Three

A remix I did for Lunar Testing Lab has just been released on I, Absentee. The album "Lunar Testing Lab - The Twilight Fires: Volume Three" can be previewed/purchased at: http://www.i-absentee.com/IA023.html

Third installment of The Twilight Fires, featuring remixes from Ten And Tracer (U-Cover), Maps And Diagrams (Moamoo, Awkward Silence), Drexon Field (Attack 9), Boreal Network (Moodgadget), offthesky (Databloem, Somnia) and more.

Very limited run packaged in a tin!

Enjoy :)

Various Artists . Ceci n’est pas une pipe

One of my songs appears on the new compilation "Various Artists . Ceci n’est pas une pipe" over at PublicSpacesLab. All of the other artists on it are amazing. Highly recomended release & netlabel.

Link to release: http://lab.pubspaces.com/2009/08/various-artists-ceci-nest-pas-une-pipe/

PublicSpacesLab website: http://lab.pubspaces.com/

"Lost to seasonal change"

After finishing up my ambient release "Mystic valley parkway", I had many new ideas as to how I would approach my next ambient project. One of those things was experimenting with using my A.R.T. tube amp & mics such as my AKG, sure m57/58, as well as some cheap phantom powered mics. Using all this equipment I began to capture music improvs around the house, including things like playing an electric guitar into an elaborate fx chain, then into a small smokey amp placed far away up a set of wooden stairs with natural echo/reverb. Some takes were done while the end of the dishwasher cycle was running, creating a soft, almost windy kind of atmosphere. Also recorded were long piano improvs that were then loaded into samplers for playing fragments of the original pieces, creating entirely new songs out of the improvs while keeping the original surrounding noises/nuances.

I began this project at the end of fall 2008 and finished it up right around spring 2009. Many of the sounds were captured from mini-disk recordings from those times such as a cold Halloween night, a freezing blizzard that blew cold wind into my house, to the song birds coming back to a sill frozen area in the spring.

"Lost to seasonal change" is available now on Distance Recordings as a free mp3/flac download: http://www.distancerecordings.com/dist014.php

My other release over at Distance Recordings, "Mystic Valley Parkway" is also available as a free mp3/flac download: http://www.distancerecordings.com/dist006.php

Hope you all enjoy and have a good summer. ;)

Electricwest - MOTH3R / R3MIXES [Drexon Field remix]

Hello all. :)

While working on my new Drexon Field album, I have also been hard at work on many remix projects as well. One of them is for the very talented Electricwest for his release "MOTH3R". The album, as well as remixes by Drexon Field and many others, is now available as a free mp3/flac download over at Archaic Horizon Records: http://www.archaichorizon.com/releases/ah033/ah033.html

Here is the info from the Archaic Horizon Records website:

After a three track sampler and a pay per download release on Rope Swing Cities, AH is re-releasing Electricwest's 'MOTH3R' along with a bonus album. 'R3MIXES' reinterprets the album's 11 songs through 11 different artists, including Electricwest himself. It features a mix of ambient drones to start the album off, flowing gradually into more beat-oriented, dub and idm.

'MOTH3R' stands strong on its own, with Electricwest's familiar rumbling bass and haunting tones invigorated from their own distortions. Disembodied voices become embedded within the dissonance and unearthed in the melodies. The album confronts listeners with a polarity between dark, anxious and crawling sonics against more calm and optimistic moments.

Extended thanks to all artist involved in 'R3MIXES' and to those who purchased 'MOTH3R' upon its original release.

Hope you all enjoy! :)

New (Free) E.P. "Technology and environmental health"

I have a new free mp3 E.P. available now at: Project 168

Project 168 is aimed at making musicians more productive. The concept is to make an EP in 7 days (168 hours). All the music you hear on their site has been made within that time.

http://www.project168.co.uk/

Hope you all enjoy my latest release! :)

"Galaxy Mishap Adventure - Level 1" - Available now!

I just self released my new electro E.P. titled Specta Ciera - "Galaxy Mishap Adventure - Level 1".

It is available now at:

iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=308730574&id=308730568&s=143441

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001YY5AYW/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&qid=1237669710&sr=103-1

emusic: http://www.emusic.com/album/Specta-Ciera-Galaxy-Mishap-Adventure-MP3-Download/11416364.html

Rhapsody: http://www.rhapsody.com/specta-ciera/galaxy-mishap-adventure



If you would like to preview more of my music before purchasing, feel free to check out all the free mp3 releases that I have put up. More info on that here: www.spectaciera.com
As well as: http://soundcloud.com/specta_ciera

Hope you enjoy and thanks for the support! ;)