Australis

Australis----最新升起的國際新世紀(jì)音樂界集傳播人、制作人于一身的新星。他是美籍西班牙裔人，幾年不斷的努力，他汲眾之長，利用傳播、交流世界NEW AGE資訊的便利，終于在今年8月份不孚眾望地推出了自己的杰作。 現(xiàn)在，在世界著名的Amazon.com音樂網(wǎng)站，他的首張專輯《Lifegiving 》各國樂評人士好評如潮，儼然排在包括滾石樂隊(duì)等眾多名家新碟之前，躍居8月Amazon.com人氣榜首。關(guān)于他本人的身世，我力圖去“看懂”他網(wǎng)站西班牙文的介紹，知道他從12歲起開始接觸并熱愛音樂，青年時代曾在安第斯山脈探索古老的民間音樂，70年代中期喪父以后，他陡然轉(zhuǎn)變了對音樂的隨和，轉(zhuǎn)而投向還很朦朧的新世紀(jì)冥想樂流派，從此奠定了他一生追求的方向。Australis說：“音樂就是靈魂的表白、是心臟的語言”，“我們總想去說明什么，但是，顯然，人類的語言遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠”，“音樂里那種神圣的模糊意境，可以為我們提供一切共悟的奧秘。?！庇谑?，他從一個曾經(jīng)廣泛熱衷于搖滾、流行、古典的多種愛好者，轉(zhuǎn)變?yōu)榱诵率兰o(jì)的集合者和創(chuàng)造者，成立了以他為核心為靈魂的Australis創(chuàng)作組。 在獲得了幾項(xiàng)北美“獨(dú)立音樂人獎”以后，他的名氣開始上升，他最大的成功并非是推出了自己的作品，而是，他默默無聞的把世界范圍內(nèi)能夠收集到的NEW AGE資訊，全部歸納起來，為著無數(shù)愛好它的人們作著幾年無名的奉獻(xiàn)。

Australis was officially created as a musical project in the U.S. on August 2004. In January 2005, he won the "2004 Morpheus Music's Best Independent Artist" award with material released only to selected online radio stations.

His debut album "Lifegiving" was independently released on May 2005.

By early 2006 "Lifegiving" was re-released in Southern Asia by the Orange Music record label. In August 2006 two tracks from Australis' debut album "Lifegiving" were included in the New Vibes Music's compilation Echoes of Tuvalu.

Work for Australis' second album, "The Gates of Reality", was announced on August 2005, and almost two years later on February 2007 two of its tracks were included in the audio compact disc accompanying the last issue (#16) of the now defunct Netherlandic publication "E-dition Magazine", despite the fact that the album was not yet released at the time.

"The Gates of Reality" was released on November 2008 under the label Essential Noises.

On June 13th, 2009 Australis' official website announced work for a third release has started. Although no official name has been revealed for this new work, Australis' Facebook page has mentioned "Human Genus" as its temporary name. No release data has been announced yet.

[edit] Musical Style

Under the wider New Age genre, Australis' music styles include Ambient music, World music, Electronic music, Ethnic music, Symphonic music and Soundtrack. Among other adjectives, his musical signature has been described as melodic, intense, contagious, emotional and meaningful.

Australis' style is characterized by very rich instrumentation present even in his most simplistic pieces: very melodic and clearly defined leads built over solid tonal bases (consisting of deep evolving pads or full orchestral arrangements), along with engaging rhythms, often ethnically influenced.

Instrumentally, Australis' music uses the expected electronic synthesizers and samplers, bringing unusual and interesting sound effects to blend with the main musical body. However, much of his material also exhibits classical instruments which include piano, strings (solos and ensembles) and winds (clarinets, oboes, etc). Additionally, he also includes exotic instruments for his more ethnic material: native winds and strings (zampona, charango) from the Andes regions of South America, and also from the Middle East (zurna, darbouka, etc).

Another interesting characteristic of Australis' music is the dissimilar styles he explores and compiles in his discs. For example, the album "Lifegiving" starts with a very soft, relaxing, nature-driven title track; but the second track carries a completely different more electronic flavor. Then the third track comes and it has yet another color that falls into the category of dramatic soundtrack. Later on the disc other styles are also represented, including quasi-techno-dance "Fire Tamer", classic orchestra "The Enchantment", and the ethnic "Sacred Earth".

According to an interview he did for Lost Frontier late 2005, this gathering of styles is a consequence of the messages he is trying to convey through his music: "I don't pay as much attention to styles as to the messages I am trying to communicate."

The release of Australis' second album, "The Gates of Reality", strengthens this feature through the fourteen tracks it compiles. They comprise a wide range of styles that go from the purely electronic, to the ethnic, to the epic.