D I S C O G R A P H Y
THE STORY
A Neo-Classical pianist, and a progressive electronic and acoustic composer.
Attuning between two music worlds, clubbing and concert halls, Mischa Blanos is set to instill his own view on the well sought-after alliance between classical and electronic music.
Music Activists #2
2020
To create is to resist. •
After our astonishment, and in order to overcome the violence of the situation, it was necessary to unite, to feel that we were alive, to emancipate ourselves from the news that shears through our days. Very quickly, our desire to act became apparent. Which underpinned a feeling of urgency to follow up our first compilation ‘Music Activists’ released in 2018 which brought together lullabies for a suffering planet.Today, the planet is still mistreated and we are accelerated life that endangers creation and artists.
The value of creation •
We are all actors in this new world, and we must revaluate the scale by which we measure the value of creation, currently ravaged by the imposed digital model. No, music is not a decorative element that a brain reaction is enough to alternate. It is the fruit of human memory, rich in differences, sometimes a painful learning process, a palimpsest of emotions, anger and love, risk-taking and encounters..
As said by David Byrne «music can help us cross deserts.» Who can say what we would resist without it? For that, we need artists to invent it and passionate teams to help make it blossom. It’s time, now that the tours have been stopped in their tracks, to consider the abnormality that has been developing since the start of the death of the CD format domination: the time to listen, and the number of people listening to music, is rising exponentially everywhere, but the income for its authors and producers is melting as fast as Antarctica.
We regret that we do not have our ‘credits,’ as they do for films: this is one of the roles of the vinyl cover, to list the names and functions of all the actors involved with the process. Maybe you have ignored that if you have grown up through this digitised music world, but the energy needed to create and distribute a musical works still exists.
Constructors of imagination •
All of us together are implicated in innovation, and the emergence and advancement of diversity . Otherwise there can be no varying rhythms, no memories, no discoveries, no new flavours.
Said well by physicist, Aurélien Barrau: ‘rewriting a new mythology and working on symbols is the most important thing because many of our actions are implemented not for what they are but to buy the other’s gaze.’
Mischa Blanos, Dragusin • The Four Seasons.Altered
2020
A four piece ambient & downtempo album shaped by the cycles of seasons, where Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter are embodied through piano, synths, computer and modular. This collaborative project of Alimori and Dragusin is equipped with our modern gear - acoustic manipulation by electronic means and charged with the pressing activist message - altered nature. If you think climate change doesn't exist or that our relationship to nature doesn't drive pandemics, this piece of work will not make you a believer. But if you do, you may feel a part of a larger we.
Alimori, aka Mischa Blanos, is one of those artists who are tirelessly working to escape the tedium of composing around a single genre. With each migration he brings something new into the next one as if hunting down moods, feelings and soundscapes in a nomadic way of life. This is his first migration into the ambient genre.
With his extensive expertise as a sound engineer, Dragusin is meticulously weaving the complex fabric of percussion, loops and modular synthesis, as well as creating rich and organic sounds with his own field recordings.
Mischa Blanos, Khon Ander • Crossrhodes
2020
Mischa Blanos is one of those artists who are tirelessly working to escape the tedium of composing around a single genre. It's boredom that makes him rage against the creative plateau; it's fatigue that drives him to immerse himself into manifold richly-hued projects. With each migration he brings something new into the next one as if hunting down moods, feelings and soundscapes in a nomadic way of life.
In Crossrhodes, he brings contemporary classical music from his neoclassical acoustic-electronic solo project and gracious patterns from his techno endeavors. Here you have a gentle Mischa Blanos struck in awe by the sounds of the clarinet, sometimes weaving around threads with his Rhodes, so careful not to touch the fragile silky core and sometimes lending a child-like hand smoothly guiding the story with his piano and synths into places of sincere curiosity.
Khori Ander embodies the alias of Horia Dumitrache, triggering the leap to cross the borders of the familiar. While the contemporary clarinet performer got his international kudos on well-known stages and along with much acclaimed classical orchestras around the world, Khori Ander is convinced that focusing in a single musical direction would make him feel a stranger in his own house.
In Crossrhodes he dives headfirst into composition and improvisation quenching that intense thirst of discovering what his wind instruments would sound like in the hands of a liberated performer.
ALIMORI • Chair in the Museum
2020
Walking in a museum seems like binging on movies, sliding from one story to another, searching to untangle threads of narratives, and feeding your eyes and mind with whole worlds in a single instant view. With each track, A chair in the museum invites the listener to take the dance floor and move himself to techno as if contemplating in front of a painting. Sounds become visual, stillness becomes motion, unfolding four stories guided by kicks and beats, diffused themes and twisted fibres of melodies.
Its title invokes the perfect proportions of the Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci's translation of the universal man. As it happens with the whole album, it incites one's imagination to overprint visual art stories. Walking in a museum seems like binging on movies, sliding from one story to another, searching to untangle threads of narratives, and feeding your eyes and mind with whole worlds in a single instant view. "A chair in the museum" is a melody driven techno album and tribute to meditation on the dance floor.
Mischa Blanos • Indoors
2019
Indoors", despite the title, is an album to listen outdoors because it embraces all our visceral feelings that life pushes us towards to. In every track, different layers of melodies embark us on journeys that define the rhythm of a day of each one of us. From sunrise to sunset, every second, every moment, every fraction in Mischa Blanos' music finds an answer or a beat that can describe it. Exploring our scattered and frenetic era is a tough task, but yet, even though his young age, Mischa finds himself comfortable in directing us in this hectic composition that is life. "Chatting In 21st Century", based on Bach, questions our ability to connect without words but with images and icons. "Am Wired" tries to pierce the bubble of glass behind our phones and their cameras, in which we hide in a vertiginous abyss. "Habits" is a melancholic ballad of all the regrets and the "what if" that we left behind us.
But as in 24 hours, there is light and there is darkness, "Indoors", in the same way, also reminds us of our humanity and its tender beautiful fragility as in the after-love of "Two Sugar Cubes" or in the melodic piano "Forebodings", both tracks that leave us with a sense of peaceful restored faith and desire to experience life. A desire that drags us until the last bits of a sunrise either in solitude as in "Pillow Talk" or in a party on Hamburg rooftops’ as in "Hammock On The Roof".
A M O R F • Shattered Glass
2020
The first track, "Glass", debuts with a subtle piano motif that sets the mood, paving the way for a wide array of musical instruments to come into play. Throughout its steady development, rich modular sounds, rhythmical bass sequences, and synthesizer lead sounds can be easily discerned. A pivotal point of the track is its middle part, defined by the intertwining of a second rhodes motif and a distorted synth lead. Going full circle the track ends with a similar motif. "Shattered" is mostly based on improvisation and spur of the moment ideas. Quirky break beats and dense textural pads blend together to create an exciting pattern that immerses you further into the soundscape. The arrangement is a bit more straightforward and, because of that, the track's dynamics keep you invested from beginning to end."
“Recall” exhibits a dynamic playfulness of instruments, the arrangement materializing into a complex narrative that takes you on a whimsical quest, with enigmatic piano excerpts and colorful percussions. Ambient delayed textures add up to the overall feel of the track, making it a multifaceted composition.
“Momentum” is more introspective and takes its inspiration from the name itself. As the force that keeps something in motion, the track’s entire concept is built on balance. The piano motif with its distinct sound, mellow bass grooves, and intricate rhythm sections all fuse together to create a laid-back frame of mind.
A M O R F • Dimensions
2018
The two tracker EP entitled "Dimensions" links different points on the electronic music map. Both sides rely heavily on synths, complemented by a wide range of dynamic percussions and solid bass lines.
"Reflections" displays a brighter tonality with its shifted rhythm and playful low-end work, flowing through a canyon like sonic landscape. This stream of sounds meet at the apogee of the track, a carefully crafted and tensioned buildup, pushing you further until the end.
"Manifold Surface" leans toward a more graceful touch. It begins with a gentle synth motif, helping to introduce the main character and theme of this track. Shapeshifting sounds with background spatial elements create a wide frame that keeps you locked in. Towards the final stages, this movement morphs slightly to an ambient sounding composition.
A M O R F • Ancient Future
2018
The EP anchors itself on the organic juxtaposition of traditional elements, like piano bits and long-winding pads, and futuristic soundscapes. Starting off with a suspenseful, eerie combination of pads and bass lines, it leads you on through an airy section, only to end up in complete contraposition.
“Recall” exhibits a dynamic playfulness of instruments, the arrangement materializing into a complex narrative that takes you on a whimsical quest, with enigmatic piano excerpts and colorful percussions. Ambient delayed textures add up to the overall feel of the track, making it a multifaceted composition.
“Momentum” is more introspective and takes its inspiration from the name itself. As the force that keeps something in motion, the track’s entire concept is built on balance. The piano motif with its distinct sound, mellow bass grooves, and intricate rhythm sections all fuse together to create a laid-back frame of mind.
Mischa Blanos • Second Nature
2018
Second Nature is the fruit of experience and creative freedom to formulate a paradox: in listening to classical piano, but feeling the sense of propulsion transmitted via electronic music.
Music Activists #1
2018
8 tracks as a portrait; to give a view of our present and to get a vision into our future. "Music Activists" captures the essence of our activity.
InFiné has always stood behind those who were different, who took the risk of re-imagining the future. To advocate diversity is vital to us, more than ever. For us, the artists that we surround ourselves with, and you, give us the power to do more and go further!
It's good to dance, but can we stay blind in front of the confusion around us? This world is changing and our artists are confronting this impalpable uneasiness that surrounds us.
Moving forward, InFiné is proud to be alongside these talented artists who know how to listen to the world, to breathe humanity, poetry, and love into it, and sound the alarms.
It is our priesthood, we are "Music Activists" since 2006; it’s now up to you to take part in this mission by helping us to share these values.
#EXPLORER3
2016
Explorer goes beyond the frontiers to discover emerging artistic personalities on new territories. From Pakistan to China through Argentina and Turkey, a new generation has integrated several decades of electronic music thanks to internet and is now producing thanks to modern tools. Because it is not only in Occident that new avant-gardes are defined and because some compete equally in terms of quality and technical finesse with prominent figures of the international scene, Explorer offers a third sonic journey in 12 tracks and 9 countries to his listeners.
A M O R F • Blending Light
2017
While following a normal catalog order, the Live Series is a parallel line of releases that will bring to fruition more acoustic-electronic crossbreeds as well as other sonic experiments; each release will also benefit from a special type of artwork. Blending Light is the first in the series and it's also Amorf's debut, a collaborative project connecting three musical minds and exploring the converging areas between acoustics and electronics, neoclassicism & techno.
