Ancestral Voices
Experimental electronic project Ancestral Voices was the second solo incarnation of Manchester's Liam Blackburn, formerly best known for his drum'n'bass work as Indigo.
Blackburn began his musical career as Indigo in 2008 with the single "Set to Cycle" on Mindset, which had more of a dubstep sound. Further singles followed over the next few years on Smokin' Sessions, On the Edge, OpenEarz, and Exit, during which time he gravitated toward a drum'n'bass style. After several collaborations with Synkro, the pair teamed up to form the duo Akkord, releasing their eponymous debut album in 2013 on Fabric offshoot Houndstooth. Through his friendship with Samurai Music's Geoff Presha, originally his agent, Indigo issued releases on the Samurai offshoot labels Red Seal and Horo. Always at the more experimental end of the drum'n'bass spectrum, he naturally gravitated toward these outlets, which at that time were pioneering the so-called "autonomic" or "grey area" sound, a stripped-down, skeletonized version of drum'n'bass which incorporated elements of techno. Eventually growing apart from the drum'n'bass scene and wanting to try something completely different, he abandoned the Indigo moniker and launched the ambient-leaning Ancestral Voices project. His debut album under this new moniker, 2015's Night of Visions, was inspired by his participation in a Shamanic ritual in the Amazon rainforest, and trod a middle ground between the grey-area style and more ambient soundscapes. In 2016 he released two more club-oriented singles on Samurai, "Old Earth Voodoo" and "Yantra." His sophomore album, 2017's Divination, was a sprawling, largely beatless, dark ambient affair. In 2018 he launched his own label, The Fifth Kingdom, with the single "Mycelia." His third album, 2019's Navagraha, had a complex harmonic concept based on ancient Sanskrit notions of the celestial bodies of the solar system.
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Discografia
11 álbum(ns) • Ordenado por Mais vendidos
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Divination
Ambient - Lançado por Horo em 5 de mai. de 2017
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Night of Visions
Drum & Bass - Lançado por Samurai Music em 27 de nov. de 2015
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Night of Visions Remixed, Pt. 2
Drum & Bass - Lançado por Samurai Music em 5 de ago. de 2016
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Old Earth Voodoo
Drum & Bass - Lançado por Samurai Music em 14 de out. de 2016
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Samhain
Electronic - Lançado por The Fifth Kingdom em 1 de nov. de 2019
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Divination
Techno - Lançado por Horo em 5 de mai. de 2017
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Mycelia
Electronic - Lançado por The Fifth Kingdom em 2 de mar. de 2018
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Beltane
Electronic - Lançado por The Fifth Kingdom em 15 de mai. de 2020
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Night of Visions Remixed, Pt. 1
Drum & Bass - Lançado por Samurai Music em 1 de jul. de 2016
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