Pharamond on Secret Music, WVKR-FM, Poughkeepsie, NY

Yesterday morning, Scott Raymond, New Age/Ambient/Electronic music DJ with WVKR-FM, played Luminescence, the opening track of Naturalis Historia, on his sunday morning show Secret Music.

Playlist :

09:07 am     Luminescence     Pharamond     Naturalis Historia        
09:33 am     High     Rene Van Der Wouden     Dreamspace        
09:43 am     To Have The Atmospherics In You     Rene Van Der Wouden     Atmospherics In A Nutshell
...

Pharamond on Syndae

Today, Stefan Schulz played an excerpt of Biophores, from Naturalis Historia, on his Syndae podcast.

About the show :

"I am not really into birthdays, but when it comes to the podcast anniversary, other dates of celebration pop up. Like the one by Klaus Schulze, which got celebrated by a tribute album, too. I'm also close to celebrate the weather turning milder, as me and my body are not made for hot temperatures. A big welcome to temperatures below 30 Celsius. Seems a good time to go party. Well, I kind of will for the release of the syndae CD, which will happen at Spaceworks in Hagen. I admit, it's a small location and occasion, but it's where it all started. The podcast's birthplace so to say. And I hope that some of you listeners will join me. But for tonight, let's celebrate with cool music brought to live by Klaus Schulze (Silhouettes), Ansgar Stock (In Love With the Moon), i-One (Singularity), Pharamond (Naturalis Historia), Sonic Chain (The Sound of Syndae)."

The podcast :

Episode 445

Tracklist :

Klaus Schulze - Quae simplex (excerpt) (Silhouettes)
Ansgar Stock - Jedy Cruiser 188 (In Love With the Moon)
i-One - Photosynthesis/Gravitation (Singularity)
Pharamond - Biophores (excerpt) (Naturalis Historia)
Sonic Chain - The Voice of Syndae (The Sound of Syndae)

Pharamond on Radio Sunrise

Yesterday, John "Waveman", one of the Underground Äxpärten, broadcasted on Radio Sunrise my track Luminescence, opener of my new album Naturalis Historia.

Tracklist :

Alphaxone - Environement / Edge of Solitude 2018
Carola Zauchner - Take me to the stars above / A Saucerful of Secrets(EP) 2018
Tom Hawkins - Nebular / Static 2018
EFSS (Erren Fleissig Schöttler Steffen) - Axis / Tidal Shift 2018
Pharamond - Luminescence / Naturalis Historia 2018
['ramp] - Orphelia / No Sleep 'til Wilmersdorf 2018
Carola Zauchner - A Saucerful of Secrets / A Saucerful of Secrets(EP) Idea by Pink Floyd 2018
Tom Hawkins - The Sound of Light / Nebulus 2018
Suit & Tie Guy - Fifty miles from Mankato (Part 2) / Sacred Earth 2018
Fabrizio Fornaci - Abstract Sounds / Abstract Sounds 2018
BK&S Feat. Ebert & Kagermann - Walker Under The Moon / Repelen Revisited 2018

Pharamond on Sequences

Yesterday, Sequences podcast played an excerpt of Biophores, taken from my album Naturalis Historia.

The podcast :

Episode 130 on Soundcloud or Mixcloud

The playlist : 

02.00 Airsculpture ‘Travelling Light’ (album Travelling Light) *** www.airsculpture.bandcamp.com
13.39 Alexis Voice’ Terraforming’ (album Galaxian) alexisvoice.bandcamp.com
17.44 Alexis Voice ‘Hyperspace’
22.05 Earendil ‘The Divided Light from the Skys’ (album Shattered Memories) www.facebook.com/EarendilDani...
31.10 Earmake ‘Between Good & Evil’ earmake.bandcamp.com
36.00 Earmake ‘The Abyss’
42.50 EFSS ‘Movement’ (album Tidal Shift) efss.bandcamp.com
52.54 EFSS ‘Axis’
01.00.36 Steve Roach ‘Molecules Of Motion’ (album Molecules Of Motion) *** www.projekt.com
01.11.30 Cosmic Ground ‘Obscured’ (album Cosmic Ground IV) ***www.cosmicground.bandcamp.com
01.14.30 Cosmic Ground ‘Progeny’
01.27.12 Volt ‘Circadian Cycle’ (Album E-Scape, Various Artists) www.admusiconline.com
01.34.25 Stephan Schenkel ‘A Place Of Dream Logic’ (album A Place Of Dream Logic) stefancschenkel.bandcamp.com/
01.39.12 Stephan Schenkel ‘Last Sunlight’
01.43.26 Stephan Schenkel ‘Frozen Beauty: Feat Globotom’
01.46.31 Mario Raposo ‘Humanization’ (album Humanization) www.facebook.com/marioraposomusic
01.52.59 Mario Raposo ‘Machines For The Common Welfare’
01 59.00 Jupiter Panic ‘Days Of Sorrow’ (album Days Of Sorrow) jupiterpanic.bandcamp.com
02.02.15 Jupiter Panic ‘Return’
02.07.08 Thought Guild ’Time Warp 77’ (album Archiphonic) hrresonance.bandcamp.com
02.12.04 Pharamond ‘Luminescence’ (album Naturalis Historia) www.syngate.net
02.23.24 Thaneco & Dask ‘Air’ (album Elements) www.syngate.net
02.34.22 Monica Electric ‘Dripping 16mm’ (album Olympia) monica-electric.bandcamp.com/album/olympia
02.38.41 Mypan ‘Perpetuum Cosmicum’ (album Perpetuum Musica Momentum) www.syngate.net
02.44.49 Mypan ‘Tempestas’
02.49.55 David Wright with DJ Mass ‘Walking With Ghosts:Chill Mix’ (Walking With Ghosts:Remixes) www.admusicshop.co
02.56.55 Church Of Hed ‘Sandstoned’ (album Sandstoned) quarkspace.bandcamp.com
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Naturalis Historia review on Synth&Sequences

Sylvain Lupari wrote the very first review of my album Naturalis Historia on his blog Synth&Sequences.

"(...)This 2nd album of Pharamond meets our expectations with an EM as much well done than on Orbis Tertius and tied to a high level of creativity. This is great EM and an excellent album which transcends the usual genre while being rather accessible in its metamorphoses.  (...)"

Pharamond - Naturalis Historia

Album / 2018

1. Luminescence (18:00)
2. Conference of the Birds (8:47)
3. Faune (4:04)
4. Biophores (17:38)
5. Sequoia (11:14)

SynGate CD-R SM02

Almost four years after Orbis Tertius, SynGate Records, the label dedicated to the "Berlin School of Electronic Music" releases today my new album, Naturalis Historia. Artwork by Bertrand Thierry. Lots of sequencers again, with a hint of Roedelius atmosphere.

Available from :

SynGate Records
Bandcamp * also as download

Cue-Records

Pharamond on Alien Air Music, KXLU FM

Today (~ 9pm), Pat Murphy broadcasted one of my tracks, Idéal, on his well-known show Alien Air Music (KXLU 88,9 FM in Los Angeles). Here's the playlist.

Playlist for May 8, 2016
Artist	Song	Album	Country
Nulix	Traced (islands beat remix)	Toggle The Earth	Croatia
Xhin	Elliptic	The Realm	Singapore
Osch	Oshiah		Sweden
Maps and Diagrams	Valargo	In Circles	England
Othering	Zublio	100%-Xits	Russia
J. Chassagnard : J. Mathes	Purple fractal	Outer Dialog	France
Structural Fault	Throb (Logical Disorder remix)	Herbe	Argentina
Mint	Cyberknife (Alpturer remix)	Touched Two (The Remixes)	England
w1b0	Alternate sequence	Dave Clark-Fabric 60	Holland
Santinela	Moments	Between Reflections	Romania
4T Thieves	Cup of real time	Threads	England
Tangerine Dream	Genesis of precious thoughts	Quantum Key	Germany
Pharamond	Idéal	Orbis Tertius	France
Audiometría	Under the fog	Live in Keroxin	Canary Is.
Rainbow Serpent	Studio Session 01.01.2013		Germany
Gert Blokzijl	Jurei (excerpt)	Jurei	Holland
Bouvetøya	On the soul of the universe	Timeslip	Ireland

Perceptual Defence's "Time Lines" review on Synth&Sequences

Sylvain Lupari just put online on Synth&Sequences his review of Perceptual Defence's double album Time Lines, which I contributed the track Cosmic Time on CD 2. Here it is.

"(...) Cosmic Time, with Pharamond, is more audacious. After a very ambiospherical intro which is knotted in sizzling synth waves and in singings of flute, the sequences run away in keen pulsations which eat up their shadows, creating a starving and undisciplined structure of rhythm which finally converges into a beautiful Berlin School which is too short. (...)"

"(...) There are some very beautiful moments in this album which is a real demystification of the Arpeggiator. (...)"

Contribution to Perceptual Defence's album "Time Lines"

Today, SynGate Records released Perceptual Defence's new album, Time Lines. I contributed one of the tracks, called Cosmic Time. Perceptual Defence (musician Gabriele Quirici from Rome) asked ten friends to contribute his music on CD 2.

CD 1
1. Dreaming Time (08:43)
2. Time Travelers (08:44)
3. Time Lines (09:14)
4. Meditative Times (12:43)
5. Hypnotic Lines (08:16)
6. Walking Time (08:39)
7. Child Time (06:40)
8. The Circular Sound (Healing Time) (06:35)
9. Saluto ad una persona importante (Sad Time) (04:56)

CD 2
10. Inner space Time (with Syndromeda) (09:36)
11. Friends Time (with Waveman) (09:04)
12. Metaphysical Time (with Gerd Weyhing) (09:20)
13. Ricochet Time Lines (with Rewo) (04:09)
14. Subway Time to Castro Pretorio Station (with Ian Keely) (07:03)
15. Silence Time (with Alluste) (11:27)
16. Cosmic Time (with Pharamond) (05:16)
17. Rainy Time (with Michael Brückner) (11:16)
18. Reflection Time (with Tau Ceti) (04:48)
19. Moments Frail (with Antara Annamarie Borg) (06:47)

Pharamond on Radio Modul

Today (~ 17h), Radio Modul303 (Berlin & Duisburg) began to play some of my tracks on the occasion of the special 48-hours marathon broadcast dedicated to the Schallwelle Awards nominated musicians.

>> On Air

Featured Tracks:

• Berliner Schule Teil 2
• Anschlag bei Nacht
• Uqbar II
• Hidden Scheme
• Uqbar

Orbis Tertius review on EMpulsiv.de

Yesterday, well known musician Stefan Erbe, editor of EMpulsiv.de, one of the most comprehensive website dedicated to traditional electronic music, finally published his own review of Orbis Tertius. Here it is.

" (...) Sein faible für die traditionelle Berliner Schule, durchzieht das gesamte Album und manifestiert sich in der intensiven Anwendung von ausgeprägten Sequenzer-Elementen, die vielfach hübsch in Szene gesetzt werden und native Veränderungen erfahren. (...)"

Pharamond on Secret Music, WVKR-FM, Poughkeepsie, NY

Yesterday morning, Scott Raymond, New Age/Ambient/Electronic music DJ with WVKR-FM, played Hidden Scheme, the opening track of Orbis Tertius, on his sunday morning show Secret Music.

Playlist :

Artist	Song	Album
Syndromeda	The Smell Of Fear	Connected
Markus Reuter	Cagliari	6 Reflections
Loscil & Fieldhead	With Northerly Winds	Fury And Hecta
Loscil	In Threes	Sea Island
Urenga	Lemuria	Mu (The Lost Continent)
Seetyca	Sonnenstropffen	Lieder Zum Summen
Gleisberg & Grassow	Nova Incognita	Gleisberg & Grassow
Pharamond	Hidden Scheme	Orbis Tertius
TM Solver	The Dream	Namaste
Robert Rich	The Gate Is Open	Ambient Music To Heal
Dave Luxton	Inside Of Us	Remnants
Emerald Web	Starsail	Whispered Visions
Antonio Testa & Michel Moglia	Through The Fire	Forget The Past
Subradial	Dance Of Shadows	Ice Diving
Dave Fulton	Dread Not	Of Those Things Left Unsaid
Kaki King	Zamzam Well	Everybody Glows
Harold Budd	Jane 13	Jane 12-21
Neil Tatar & David Darling	Where Did The Time Go	Where Did The Time Go
Tom Teasley	Dance Of Aphrodite	The Love Of The Nightingale
Denise Young	Passionata	Passionata

Pharamond on "Schwingungen Radio auf CD"

Idéal, the second and shortest track of Orbis Tertius, made it on last november's issue of Cue-Records' Schwingungen Radio auf CD.

Schwingungen Radio auf CD, Ausgabe Nr.234 11/14 Tracklist :

	Artist	Album	Titel
1	Otarion	Genius	New Visions
2	Weedekind	Garden Eden	Begierde
3	Michael Brückner	R is for Rocket and S is...	The Million Year Picnic
4	Alerick Project	One Way	Emotional Drop
5	Sayer	Sounds of Atom	Cosmic Rays
6	TM Solver	Polymorph	House-Reflections
7	Baltes	Bochum Sky	Bochum Sky 3
8	Pharamond	Orbis Tertius	Ideal
9	Stockman	Part of the Industry	Industrial Hauntings
10	Hypnosphere	Timedrift	Emphasis
11	Walter Roos W.O.S.P.	Midnight Tracks	Sequences all night long

Orbis Tertius review on MusikZirkus-Magazin

Stephan Schelle, editor of the well known MusikZirkus-Magazin, published today the first ever german review of my album Orbis Tertius. He also sums up very well Jorge Luis Borges' short story, which provided me both the concept and inspiration. Here it is.

" (...) Nachdem ich Sylvain Mazars als Berichterstatter der elektronischen Musik kennen gelernt habe, muss ich gestehen, zeigt er sich auf „Orbis Tertius“ von einer ganz anderen Seite. Er beweist, dass man nicht nur über Musik schreiben, sondern sie auch sehr gut selber machen kann. Hut ab, vor diesem Debüt. Sehr zu empfehlen."

Pharamond on Radio Sunrise

Yesterday, John "Waveman", one of the Underground Äxpärten, broadcasted my track Tlön on Radio Sunrise, maybe the most "ambient" tracks of my album Orbis Tertius.

" Wavemans Underground from the Underground ÄxpÄrten and Radio Sunrise presents 4 hours of the best EM etc. Friday 28 november 20.00 - 0.30 (...) New releases and some real "Kraut" to hear in this show, highlight of this evening wil be the release of Phrozenlight's - Skyriders and a (to be ) released double CD from Perceptual Defence - Time Lines on Syngate label. Playlist: Devine Matrix, Max Corbacho, Stockman, Defile Andante, Kwook!, Ran Kirlian & Jaja, Zanov, Phrozenlight, Eensdenkend, Walter Christian Rothe, Dirk Serries, grum-pe, David Wright, Richard Schoenherz, P'cock, Cosmic Ground, Cosmic Hoffmann, Patrick Kosmos, Cosmic Angst, Brückner & Everling, Frederich Shuller, Perceptual Defence, Pharamond, Pollard Daniel Booth, Sensory++, Steve Orchard. "

Pharamond on Sequences

Yesterday, Mick Garlick played Hidden Scheme, taken from my album Orbis Tertius, on his Sequences podcast.

The podcast :

Episode 56 on Soundcloud or Mixcloud

The playlist : 

Steve Baltes  ‘Bochum Sky 1’  2.08 (album Bochum Sky) *** http://www.mellowjet.com
TM Solver ‘House-Reflections’ 12.09 (album Polymorph) http://www.syngate.net
Gorgon Nebula ‘Cronus And Zeus’ 19.19  (album Gorgon Stare) http://gorgonnebula.bandcamp.com/album/gorgon-stare
Fratoroler ‘Quarks’ 25.00 (album Nano) *** http://www.syngate.net
Erik Wollo & Bernhard Wostheinrich  33.39  ‘Gales’ (album Weltenuhr) http://www.din.org.uk/din
Erik Wollo & Bernhard Wostheinrich Oculus’ 36.59
Otarion ’New Visions’ 44.32 (album Genius) http://www.mellowjet.com
Stray Theories ‘Even Though We Sleep’ 49.00 (album Even Though We Sleep)
Stray Theories ‘Breathless’  53.53 (album We Never Left) http://www.straytheoriesmusic.com
Michael Neil ‘Swirl’ 59.27 (album Swerve) http://www.michaelneil.eu
Nattefrost ‘Dance Of The Elves’ 67.04 (album Homeland) http://www.nattefrost.dk
Nattefrost ’Norse’  70.26
Sensory++ ‘Concealed DNA’ 76.45 (album Planet) http://www.jegelie.bandcamp.com
Csillagkod’ Nap’ 84.19 (album Silent World) http://www.spottedpeccary.com
Csillagkod  ‘The Birth of The Solar System’ 88.27  "
Peter Mergener  ‘Lost Paradise’ 90.34 (album Passage In Time) http://www.bscmusic.com
Peter Mergener ‘Eternal Flow’ 98.52
Gorgon Nebula ‘Aphrodites Tree’ 101.49
Ari Porki & Christopher Alvarado Barometric Pleasure’ 106.27 ‘feat: Jack Hertz http://675093429378322893.weebly.com
Ari Porki & Christopher Alvarado  feat: Void Of Realms  ‘With’ 110.10 (album Halla)
Syndromeda ‘They Live In The Black Hole’ 117.12 (album Connected) *** http://www.syngate.net
Stockman ‘ Monto’s Production Line’ 125.25 (album Part Of The Industry) http://www.syngate.net
TM Solver ‘Tranquillity’ 133.46 (album Namaste) http://www.syngate.net
Stan Dart ‘Coastline’ 141.58 ( album Pictures At An Exhibition)
Lutz Thuns & Wolfgang Gsell ‘Bright August Day’ 148.27 (album Somnambulist’s Dream) http://www.youtube.com/user/wolfganggsell
Lutz Thuns & Wolfgang Gsell ‘ Lights Of Summer’ 151.51
Pharamond ‘Hidden Scheme’  155.50 (album Orbis Tertius) *** http://www.syngate.net
DigitalSimplyWorld ‘Passenger’ 162.39 (album Neutrino Passenger) *** http://digitalsimplyworld.bandcamp.com
David & Steve Gordon ‘Faithkeeper Earth Pulse’ 169.59 (album Drum Cargo- Rhythm of Earth) http://www.SequoiaRecords.com

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Pharamond on Syndae

Yesterday, Stefan Schulz played Uqbar, another excerpt from Orbius Tertius, on his Syndae podcast.

About tonight's show :

"Back to school tonight, the Berlin one of course, having lots of nice soundscapes and sequencing tonight. I usually call it traditional electronica, not because people wear strange dresses and dance in circles, but because that's where EM started out. Quite a hand full of great such tracks tonight, half a dozen to be precise. It all begins with a new name to syndae, WellenVorm with Toene des Nebels. Also new, Pharamond and his album Orbis Tertius. Then, a look back on the Schallwelle compilation from August this year, with a mesmerizing track by Synchronized. We then have the new album Frames by Rene Splinter. Followed by the collaboration project Gorgon Nebula and their album Gorgon Stare. Closing up this show with Nano by Fratoroler."

The podcast :

Episode 278

Tracklist :

WellenVorm - Sonnenstahl (Toene des Nebels)
Pharamond - Uqbar (Orbis Tertius)
Synchronized - Das Rennrad (Schallplatte XVI / Sampler)
Rene Splinter - Celluloid Skyline (Frames)
Gorgon Nebula - Gorgon Stare (Gorgon Stare)
Fratoroler - Nano (Nano)

Orbis Tertius review on Synth&Sequences

Sylvain Lupari wrote another very nice review of my album Orbis Tertius on his huge blog Synth&Sequences.

"(...) A very beautiful album which has all the ingredients to please to those most demanding fans of vintage Berlin School EM. Sylvain Mazars shows a stunning maturity and a sense of writing which is quite disconcerting with all those music turnovers which bring the listener in his sonic heaven. You have guessed that to me “Orbis Tertius” is wonderful surprise! (...)"

Orbis Tertius review on MusicZeit

First review of Orbis Tertius by Dave Law on MusicZeit (where the album is also available)

"The final album uploaded by Syngate since the last update ‘Orbis Tertius’ is by a new artist Pharamond. Again sequences abound. It does have some Berlin School moments but also covers wider ground. Indeed it can be quite inventive while at the same time never becoming a difficult listen. The opening track is probably the one with the greatest punch, the others chugging along nicely with pleasant melodies. The third and fourth tracks ‘Uqbar’ and ‘Uqbar 2’ are probably my favourites, To sum up, Pharamond does have a sound of its own but there is also enough familiarity about it to avoid sounding alien. A superb debut."

Pharamond on Radio Happy

Today, Yolande will broadcast Hidden Scheme, a track from my very first album, Orbis Tertius, on Radio Happy.

Tonight's tracklist :

BatteryDead - Sands of Deception Part 1
Realtime - Sunlight Reflections
Lamp - Serendipity-MS
Gert Emmens - A First Encounter
Pharamond - Hidden Scheme
Perge - Mythos Rouge (edit)
Gravityslip - Orphanoid
Stefan Erbe - Remembering the Future
Ian C - Magnet for Lost Souls
Moonbooter - Schnurstraks