Drone Works International

Edition DWI is a series of recordings from Drone Works International. The releases focus on specific themes relating to nature and its secrets, its constant change, destruction and renewal. Each album is an acoustic statement that invites the listener to listen attentively and with quiet introspection. The second release comes from Kraut Sounds and Velo Di Nebbia. The album ‘Atmospheric Imbalances...

Edition DWI is a new series of recordings from the netlabel Drone Works International. The releases focus on specific themes related to nature and its secrets, its constant change, destruction and renewal. Each album is an acoustic statement that invites the listener to listen attentively and with quiet introspection. The first release on Edition DWI is by Polaroid Notes. The album ‘Two / Trees /...

‘Fractured Reality’ is Greek sound artist Substak's fourth release on DWI and features five drone compositions that reveal the truth behind the secrets hiding in the shadows. Tracklist: 1. Positive Drone / 2. The Uncertain Path / 3. Unseen Forces / 4. Shadows In The Haze / 5. Silent Screams Download @ https://droneworksinternational.bandcamp.com/album/substak-fractured-reality Release Date: Februa...

"Balance" is a new five-part album by US artist Blanket Swimming, with a focus on minimalism by exploring the limitations of a single instrument. Each track was recorded live in a single take, with the only sound source being the Critter & Guitari Organelle and effects pedals. "While this is perhaps one of my most minimalistic albums to date, each piece offers rich and calming textures that when l...

"Schemen" is the fourth release by Linearwelt from Munich and contains four tracks that alternate smoothly between gentle ambient soundscapes, drone structures and subsonic melodies. As on the previous EP "Zeit", Linearwelt is once again supported by the contemporary classical/ambient artist Polaroid Notes, who adds a special atmosphere with a few piano accents. Tracklist: 1. Schemen / 2. Windspie...

"On The Drone Of Solitude" is a collection of sonic narratives whispered through the gentle hiss of vintage tape, evoking solitary moments experienced during travels. From the labyrinthine backstreets of ancient Tunis to the haunting, long-forgotten sanatoriums of post-Soviet Georgia, from the tranquil serenity of a Singaporean airport to the bustling, chaotic streets of Ho Chi Minh, and to the se...

If you substract the piano sounds from Polaroid Notes there will be drones. In all its beauty and depth. German contemporary classical and ambient artist Polaroid Notes returns to DWI with another album of drone versions. The original sources for the tracks can be found on various releases of Polaroid Notes. Four tracks are unreleased. 1. Walk Away In Silence (Drone Version) "Walk Away In Silence"...

Gareth Farmer aka Carbonates On Mars returns to DWI with another longform meditative ambient drone. As the title "Dreaming Drone" suggests, it's a multilayered soundscape that is inspired by the intention to create an ambient drone piece that would reflect a dream world. Also that would help reach that dream world by sending the listener into a relaxed state to either daydream or to enter the drea...

Our 44th release welcomes again Silentwave from Yokohama/Japan. "Silent Night" contains four long drone soundscapes. Based on pipe organ sound sources, the tracks alternate between calm ambient sounds and slowly pulsating, hypnotic swirls. Recorded May 2022 and January 2023 Download @ https://droneworksinternational.bandcamp.com/album/silentwave-silent-night Release Date: 11th June 2023 Drone Work...

Deep drone music with brass instruments, a modular synthesizer and a couple of effects. Written and recorded by Deep Tremolo Sustain during autumn 2022 Mixed by Kraut Sounds Download @ https://droneworksinternational.bandcamp.com/album/deep-tremolo-sustain-brass-meditations Release Date: 19th March 2023 Drone Works International DWI 43

Linearwelt from Munich/Germany returns with its third DWI release "Zeit" - a find blend of slowly shifting ambient and drone soundscapes. On three tracks Linearwelt was supported by contemporary classic / ambient artist Polaroid Notes adding some soft e-paino sounds, which provide a particularly deep atmosphere. Tracklist: 1. Zeit / 2. Warmes Licht / 3. Traumpfad / 4. Parallelen Credits: Linearwel...

With "Subtle Movements" British artist Vinny Vortex makes his first full length album appearence on DWI. Some of you may remember Vinny from his contributions to our "Drone Works" compilations. With "Subtle Movements" he presents a great set of meditative ambient drone soundscapes. The concept behind the project was to try and strip things down to the bear minimum, and to create soundscapes for so...

With the EP "Nesto omileno za citanje" ("Some Favourite Readings") Boban Ristevski returns to the shores of Drone Works International. Boban's music is concentrated and based on exploring ambient, drone, industrial and noise with elements of minimalism, improvisation and abstraction. It is balancing between more structured forms and an improvised approach to music. FYI: There a two additional EPs...

"Nous" is the third release by Greek sound artist Substak on DWI. Ten deep and spaced out drone soundscapes, both calm and disturbing. Nous is a term of ancient Greek philosophy and refers to the human ability to grasp something mentally, and the instance in man responsible for cognition and thought. In metaphysical and cosmological doctrines that assume a divine control of the world, Nous is also...

"Drone Works Vol. 5 - #3 Pure Drones" 1. Lofield – Gnostisism (Album “Impressions”, DWI 19, Oct. 2019) 2. Velo Di Nebbia – D’Inverno (Album “Cristallo”, DWI 16, April 2019) 3. Deep Tremolo Sustain – Raum-Zeit-Kontinuum (Album “Low Gravity”, DWI 22, Febr 2020) 4. Flavien Gillié - C’était mal nous connaître (Album “Distanciation Sociale”, DWI 24, April 2020) 5. Silentwave – The Bottom Of The Sea (EP...

"Drone Works Vol. 5 - #1 Ambient Drones" 1. Segue – Conscience (Compilation “Drone Works Vol. 2”, DWI 12, Dec 2018) 2. Deep Tremolo Sustain – Herbstlichter (Album “Drone Harmonics”, DWI 35, Oct 2021) 3. Kraut Sounds – Floating In Space (Album “Spaces”, DWI 20, Nov 2019) 4. Logic Moon – Northbound (Compilation “Drone Works Vol. 1”, DWI 03, Dec 2017) 5. Linearwelt – Presence: Evolution (Album “The I...

"Noctiluca" is a four track EP by Japanese artist Silentwave, exploring the mysteries of the deep sea. Track 1 to 3 are based on improvisation and a feeling for the deep sea, recorded October 2020. Track 4 consists of field recordings done March 2019 on the coast of Izu/Japan. The sounds were recorded on a very windy day and later on processed into a drone sound. Track list: 1. Noctiluca 2. Noctil...

Deep Tremolo Sustain hails from Munich/Germany and plays freeform minimal Kraut electronic and ambient drone sounds. Very 70ies alike, but with modern music in mind. Played live with passion, tensions and some German Unwägbarkeiten. "Drone Harmonics" is the second full-length album of Deep Tremolo Sustain. Ten ethereal tracks that develop slowly and dive deep into a very special electronic sound c...

Gareth Farmer aka Carbonates On Mars made his first DWI apperance on the "Drone Works Vol. 1" compilation end of 2017. Finally here's a full-length album with two outstanding tracks. Two longform meditative ambient drones with shifting multilayered soundscapes to dive in and drift away. About the tracks: How We Change And Stay The Same: "We constantly have to change the way we think to keep up wit...

Demetrio Cecchitelli (b. 1997, located in Rimini/Italy) is a musician, multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer and research artist. In his sound performances gestures and textures melt composing layers and timbrical juxtaposition. He uses lots of techniques from the concrete music's experience and both electroacoustic, where the usage of different sound sources, mixed to live electronics and i...

"Reality Diver" is the first album by the recently formed duo The Soft Capture (Copenhagen/Denmark). Even though the members have known each other for a long time, they only started producing music together recently. The first session was a challenge to find new musical expression liveprocessing a single sound source - the zither. It turned out to work very easily, and became the main part of "Rea...

"The Infinity Loop Project" is the first full-length album of Munich artist Linearwelt, assisted by Kraut Sounds. A project of slowly shifting minimal music and ambient drones, designed to be listened with an open mind and your eyes closed. Tracklist: 1. Origin: Earth 2. Mission: Transcendence 3. Presence: Evolution 4. Future: Cosmic Soul 5. Balance: Your God vs. Mine Linearwelt - Electronics, Loo...

"Drone Works Vol. 4 - A Compilation Of Contemporary Drone And Ambient Sounds" celebrates the fourth year of DRONE WORKS INTERNATIONAL with nine amazing artists playing lenghty ambient and drone sounds for meditation, relaxation, peace of mind and dreaming of better days to come. Tracklist: 1. Carbonates On Mars - How We Change And Stay The Same 2. The Soft Capture - Sigende 3. Velo Di Nebbia - Sch...

Obscure guitar bass duo from Munich which became later a well-know underground (Kraut)rock band in the late 1980ies and 90ies. The tracks were recorded in 1988 on tape and rediscovered more than 30 years later."Rauschen" is a document of timeless drone music. Everything's deeply inspired by drone and noise gods like Earth, Sunn O))), Zeni Geva and Feedtime. Tracklist: 1. Rauschen / 2. Schleife 1 /...

"Music For Modular Synthesizers" is a collection of generative performances by sound artist Tony James Morton from the UK. The work explores probably with human control. Constructed over a period of six months, each piece was created in a single sitting and deconstruction afterwards. Due to this, and the probabilistic nature, these works will never be recreated. Tracklist: 1. Swell / 2. Points / 3...