Diego Arandojo (1978) is a writer, director and screenwriter. Author of "The Yibins" (2015), “Baton of command, a secret kept during 30 years” (2014) and “Corner 718” (2010), among others. He has directed the 3 documentary films: “30 years of silence, the secret of Guillermo Alfredo Terrera” (2013), “Opium, the beatnik Argentina” (2014) and “Alcatena” (2015). For television Arandojo wrote documentary series for Canal Encuentro as “The era of chiefs”, “Güemes” and “Battles of freedom”. In 2012 Arandojo was awarded with the “Best Screenplay of documentary” for the tv series “Argentine Presidents”. He currently works for the Spanish producer “Logia 933” and he’s the editor of the digital magazine “Lafarium”.
Francisco López is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. For more than thirty-five years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world. Destroying boundaries between industrial sounds and wilderness sound environments, shifting with passion from the limits of perception to the most dreadful abyss of sonic power, proposing a blind, profound and transcendental listening, freed from the imperatives of knowledge and open to sensory and spiritual expansion.
He has realized hundreds of concerts, projects with field recordings, workshops and sound installations in over seventy countries of the six continents. His extensive catalog of sound pieces (with live and studio collaborations with over 150 international artists) has been released by more than 350 record labels / publishers worldwide. He has been awarded four times with honorary mentions at the competition of Ars Electronica Festival and is the recipient of the Qwartz Award 2010 for best sound anthology. [Pedro Higueras, Sonom Studios]
Deleyaman – Fourth, Part One Label: Equilibrium Music – EQM026 Format: CD, Album, Digipak Country: Portugal Released: 2009 Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country Style: Modern Classical, Darkwave, Ethereal, Folk, Ambient
DELEYAMAN translate a sense of timeless spirituality into a contemporary and universal language. Hardly classifiable into a single genre, “Fourth, Part One” combines Darkwave with ethnic and ethereal elements.
Following the release of the album “3”, in 2006, over 25 titles were written and composed by DELEYAMAN. 11 of these compositions, entirely recorded, mixed and mastered in the band’s studio in Normandy, France, were presented as “Fourth, Part One”. The remaining material is set to appear later as “Fourth, Part Two”, a complimentary yet contrasting sister-release which followed in early 2011.
The overall mood of this album is different from their prior releases, yet the sincerity with which they continue to explore their art is a constant in DELEYAMAN’s work. Inspiration for the lyrics comes partially from the works of American poets E.A. Robinson, A. Hecht, R.W. Emerson, E.A. Poe, H. Crane and T. Stickney, but also from the Lebanese mystic poet Khalil Gibran. Most of the titles are sung in English, except for two tracks sung in Armenian and the track “Jardin”, sung in French, the words taken from the poem “Nous n’irons plus au bois”, by T. de Banville. The use of several languages by Beatrice Valantin and Aret Madilian, the two vocalists, has always been a distinct characteristic of the band, whose members all come from different backgrounds.
DELEYAMAN’s style, which to this day remains difficult to classify into a single genre, is further defined by the inclusion of the duduk, an Armenian wind instrument. More than simply adding an ethnic reference to their compositions, the duduk grants them a unique tone, emphasizing the ethereal and exotic qualities that allow the album to reach beyond the darker specter of alternative music from which the band originally derived. Through their art, DELEYAMAN translate a sense of timeless spirituality into a contemporary and universal language, carrying the listener into a mesmerizing world which still sounds comfortably familiar and close at heart. “Fourth, Part One” is presented in Digipak format, accompanied by a 32-page booklet.
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