Gianluigi Gasparetti (26 March 1958 – 12 April 2013), known by the
pseudonym
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Oöphoi, was an Italian
ambient music
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ian. He is perhaps best known for his role as the
editor
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of ''Deep Listenings'', an Italian magazine dedicated to ambient and deep atmospheric music,
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"Hypnos Artists"
at hypnos.com where he has featured interviews with many famous ambient artists including
Steve Roach[Deep Listenings Magazine, Spring 1995](_blank)
at steveroach.com and
Michael Stearns.
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Deep Listenings - The New Music Magazine
/ref> Oöphoi's music can be characterized as being static, organic and minimalistic. It has an overall solid and monolithic feel to it, often integrated in a meditative and spiritual context. Created by using synths, singing bowl
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s, flutes, and processed voices, his recordings have relatively slight harmonic variations. Gianluigi Gasparetti died in 2013 after a long illness.
Discography
Solo works
*1996 ''Static Soundscapes: Three Lights at the End of the World'' (Hic Sunt Leones)
*1998 ''Behind The Wall of Sleep'' (Due Acque)
*1998 ''Night Currents'' (Due Acque)
*1998 ''The Spirals of Time'' (Aurora)
*2000 ''Mare Vaporum'' (Due Acque)
*2001 ''Mare Tranquillitatis'' (Due Acque)
*2002 '' Athlit'' (Hypnos Recordings)
*2002 ''Bardo'' (Electroshock Records)
*2003 ''Mare Imbrium'' ( Nextera)
*2003 ''The Dreams of Shells'' (Mystery Sea)
*2003 ''The Rustling of Leaves'' (Due Acque)
*2004 ''Dreams'' (Umbra)
*2005 ''As We Slip Away to Dream'' (Penumbra)
*2005 ''Awakening The Nagas'' (Penumbra)
*2005 ''Hymns to a Silent Sky'' ( Nextera)
*2005 ''Khumba Mela'' 2005, (Penumbra)
*2005 ''Signals from the Great Beyond'' (Gears Of Sand)
*2005 ''The Sun is Falling in a Sea Of Blood'' (Penumbra)
*2005 ''Vertigo'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''Amnios'' (Umbra)
*2006 ''Aquos—the Complete Drones'' (Umbra)
*2006 ''Dreams Part One'' (Faria Records)
*2006 ''Dreams Part Two'' (Faria Records)
*2006 ''Dreams Part Three'' (Faria Records)
*2007 ''Arpe Di Sabbia'' ( Nextera)
*2008 ''An Aerial View'' (Glacial Movements Records)
*2008 ''Potala'' (Substantia Innominata)
Collaborations
with Mathias Grassow and Amir Baghiri
*1999 ''Upuaut'' (Due Acque)
with Klaus Wiese
Klaus Wiese (January 18, 1942 – January 27, 2009 in Ulm) was a veteran e-musician, minimalist, and multi-instrumentalist. A master of the Tibetan singing bowl, he created an extensive series of album releases using them. Wiese also used the hum ...
*1999 ''Wouivre'' (Aurora)
*2005 ''A Call, An Echo'' (Penumbra)
*2005 ''The Light Sweeps All The Mist Away'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''Cherua'' (Umbra)
*2006 ''Deva Mela'' (Penumbra)
with Tau Ceti
*2001 ''Celestial Geometries'' (Arya)
*2003 ''Subterranea'' ( Nextera)
*2004 ''Archaic Oceans'' (Umbra)
*2005 ''Le Torri Del Silenzio'' (Penumbra)
*2005 ''Lifting The Veil'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''Algol'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''Australis'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''Borealis'' (Penumbra)
with Louisa John-Krol
*2005 ''I Hear The Water Dreaming'' ( Prikosnovénie)
with L.E.M.
*2005 ''Leteph'' (Penumbra)
*2005 ''The Sacred Orbit'' (Umbra)
*2006 ''Aludra'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''Substrata'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''The Gates Of Aldebaran'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''Trifida'' (Penumbra)
with Netherworld
*2005 ''Postcards From The Void'' (Penumbra)
with Perceptual Defence
*2005 ''Where The Green Ants Dream'' (Penumbra)
with Paul Vnuk Jr.
*2006 ''Distance To Zero'' (Hypnos)
with Paradin
*2006 ''Nocturnes'' (Umbra)
with Faryus
*2007 ''Forgotten Rituals'' (Faria Records)
with Enrico Coniglio as AQUA DORSA
*2009 ''Cloudlands'' (Glacial Movements)
*2013 ''The November Earth'' (gterma)
with Seren Ffordd
*2011 ''The Martian Chronicles'' (Hypnos)
Compilations
*2001 ''Time Fragments Vol. 1 - The Archives 1995/1997'' (Due Acque)
*2001 ''Time Fragments Vol. 2 - The Archives 1998/1999'' (Due Acque)
*2001 ''Time Fragments Vol. 3 - The Archives 1999/2000'' (Due Acque)
*2004 ''Dust In The Wind - The Works, 1995 - 2003'' (Umbra)
*2005 ''Time Fragments Vol. 4 - Garden Of Earthly Delights'' (Umbra)
*2005 ''Time Fragments Vol. 5 - Wastelands'' (Umbra)
*2005 ''Time Fragments Vol. 6 - Between Nothingness And Eternity'' (Umbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 1'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 2'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 3'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 4'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 5'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 6'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 7'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 8'' (Penumbra)
*2006 ''EP Collection Vol. 9'' (Penumbra)
*2007 ''Whispers From The Noisy Void'' (Umbra)
References
External links
Sleepbot.com
Last.fm
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Dark ambient musicians
Italian electronic musicians
2013 deaths
1958 births
20th-century Italian musicians