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La Valle dell'Inferno

by Lensflare

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LA VALLE DELL'INFERNO

Berlin school inspired cosmic music made in home studio in Guidonia (Rome - Italy) during 2017.
Freely inspired by the "Inferno Valley" in Tivoli (Rome, Italy).
lensflare@hotmail.it

Gear used:

Access Virus TI2
Arturia Matrixbrute analog matrix synthesizer
Creamware Minimax ASB (Minimoog Clone)
Korg Kaossilator PRO+
PreenFM2 synthesizer
Novation Supernova 2
Oberheim OB12
Analog modular synth system
Prepared Lap Steel Guitar

SWs:

Ableton suite
Arturia V Collection
Moog Modular V
ARP2600 V
Minimoog V
Buchla Easel V
Synclavier V
Fairlight CMI V
Solina string Ensemble V
Oberheim SEM V

BlueArp 24 tracks sequencer
EMS VCS3
Tuebohm synths
U-He synths
FM Synthesizer
Additive Synthesis synthesizer
Wavetable synthesizer
... and much more...

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released January 8, 2018

La Valle Dell’Inferno – (The Inferno Valley)

The ancient Tivoli acropolis dominates the “Aniene Valley” opening towards Rome.
The river Aniene crosses the city and its waters are used to feed the wonderful fountains of “Villa d’Este”, among the others.
Then it flows to the great waterfall which is part of “Villa Gregoriana”, directly in the “Inferno Valley” which, being full of luxuriant and exotic plants, and immerged in the mist created by the waterfall, remembers the Dante’s Hell to the visitors.
It’s the meeting point of the two side of the Catillo mountain which protects the Acropolis. It’s like a large cleft in the rock hundreds meters high, opening towards the Aniene Valley.
This is an inspiring place, full of mysteries and which provokes strong feelings to the visitors due to his deepness, his obscurity and dominated by the Great Waterfall which fill the landscape with its majestic.
From here, the Aniene rivers flows into the following Aniene Valley, where after some kilometres meet the River Tevere in Rome.

1 – Acropoli 09:06

(Acropolis)

The track opens with windy effects that lead the listener directly on the panoramic view on the Aniene Valley that the Acropolis gives to the visitors. The wind raising from the valley takes the vital moisture from the Tyrrhenian sea.
A gentle arpeggio duets with delayed synths to deliver memories of times passed, while crossroads of analogic and digital prepared synths creates the path you are walking in history.
While walking towards north, across the city, the windy effect disappears being shielded by the city walls.
The harmony remains cyclic as the time itself is.
Every wall, every street, every building here is a witness of thousands cultures and years passed.
When arriving to the other side of the acropolis, under the mountain Catillo’s side, the windy effect comes back, raising from the Inferno Valley.

2 – Il Tempio della Sibilla 16:03

(The Sybil temple)

The Sybil Temple is the first building the visitor can see here, miraculously protruding towards the cliff.
Atmospheres are deep and scary. The Sybil was the expression of God’s will, and you are entering her home.
Reverberating riff from a faint synth voice talks like a prophecy, while distant bass rhythms rebound in the air all around.
Mysterious semblances wave all around, and the mysticism of a scared place is perfectly tangible, represented by Solina strings sections intertwined with Wavetable oscillator sweeps.
At the end, the Sybil has released her prediction. Announced with a bass synth glider, the chant of the Sybil herself expresses itself in an Ionian scaled analogic synthesizer voice.

3 – La Grande Cascata 13:09

(The Majestic Waterfall)

At the right of the Temple the river Aniene falls with astonishing power within the Inferno Valley.
Airy and spatial pads open the track, while a synth staccato marks the steps of the visitor while climbing down the Villa Gregoriana’s gardens.
The mighty waterfall unveil itself in a triumph of Mellotron choirs and Synth base. Mist is all around and a swirling synth effect reproduces the estranged feeling of the visitor in front of such a powerful natural show.
A constant sequencer base, modulated in filter cut-off frequency opening accompanies the visitor through the descent and prepares him to the sight of the waterfall from its middle section.
Here the tone remains epic, revealing the majestic of the view in all its strength.
Finally, the descent comes to its end and the view of the waterfall from its base is a syncretism of water mist and terrific vegetation all around. Plenty of synth pads swell all around rocking the listener as immerged in a primordial broth, while intersecting with some “Wakeman Style” moogish synth and FM-prepared effects.


4 – La Grotta delle Sirene 07:46

(The Sirens’ Cave)

The last act of the experience is in front of the “Sirens’ cave”.
Here underground rivers flow into the light and enter in the Earth’s womb again.
String sections rise in the quiet of the cave, protecting the visitor from the waterfall’s racket.
Melodies of synths dancing together in a slow and gentle ballet reproduce the water’s sinuous movement between the rocks.
The sight of the water flowing out and in the cave is rhythmed by the bass sequenced and transposed between the notes. The Symphony is brought by a square wave based synth playing on LFO’ed effects waving all around, leaving the visitor with the awareness to be part of something bigger than himself.

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