New web address and 2010 news .

Hi folks

just a quick update to say firstly due to some web provider ' issues ' we now have switched for a while to

www.v-i-r-t-u-a-l-w-o-r-l-d.net

You can also find theVirtual site via the Ishq site at

www.ishq.org

which remains the same.

On the music front we have now being mastered a full length album as Ishq of mellow melodic music and full of eastern promise which is to be released by electronic soundscapes very very soon and called 'Sama ' .The music has left the studio which means its close to release......

www.electronicsoundscapes.com

On the virtual front we are close again to releasing , we had to put pack some albums due to the whole meltdown and economics of things and us feeling they needed more work and also suit the winter months more as releases but its all positive and were about 1 week away now from sending off a new Elve album for pressing of lush green soundscapes which has come out of the blue and is beautifully organic and emerald like and we also have the first Virtual forms release ready to press .We have a huge backlog of other material now also close to mastering and so releasing its now the main focus.

For now thats it but expect the unexpected and sorry were so sporadic with new music releases .Theres a new wave of both Virtual and Ishq music on the way.

best wishes from us - +

2009

happy 2009 to everyone and many thanks for the support and expect some new music and forms and soundscapes in 2009

X

Vs01 - Timelapse in Mercury

Vs01 - Timelapse in Mercury


The first release on our Virtual space series is due back any day from pressing.

This album was written about 1 month before Orchid was completed and originally ' found its way ' onto the web as a rough and ready demo version in mp3. Since then we had a few people ask us to release it as a finished version and on audio cd with artwork and so here it is.We have reworked and now finished this album fully and added new layers and mastered the original recording .The result is a beautifully deep and nebula ambient work and journey into a cosmos of monolithic shapes and space geometry.


A demo collage of the album can be found here


http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/ishq/virtual/mp3/vs01/Vs01demo.mp3


Limited edition of 500 copies on Glass mastered audio cd with 4 page booklet and case.

Heres some artwork and we will update this page and mailout to the list when its ready to ship.

Vr03 - Visions of Surya

Out now : Vr03 - Visions of Surya

This is the third album in the Virtualworld series and first collaborative work between Matt hillier and Jake stephenson on Virtual . Some may know Jakes musical work as Optic eye and Optica aswell as lots of other colourfull alter egos in the 90's . Jake passed away some years ago and this work was the last music he wrote with matt as Colourform ( which was to be there new project name )


The music itself is very colourfull and created as an imaginary series of Pipe dreams someone has when visiting an exotic distant land.The album has an exotic eastern feel and Kaleidascopic like quality and follows on in style and form from the previous 2 Virtual albums.

This release is dedicated to jake and released in his memory , he was very instrumental in encouraging us to make music and sold us our first synth and got us signed to our first label and so there would probably be no Ishq without him in some respect.

There is a demos mp3 / collage here of the album


http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/ishq/virtual/mp3/vr03/Vr03demo.mp3

and the album can be bought at

http://www.v-i-r-t-u-a-l-w-o-r-l-d.net/

Available as a limited edition of 500 copies on Glass mastered audio cd with 4 page booklet and case.

Open system

Open system is a collaboration with micheal martin from Indidginus and a project which mixes Idm and deep ambience and lots inbetween.Please checkout both the Open system myspace page and also the Indiginus site

http://www.deviantdidg.com

http://www.myspace.com/opensystem

for a taste of what micheal and open system are doing. An album is currently well underway for Virtual of our work and due out some time in the future.

A few freebies

Hi folks

weve uploaded a few free bits and pieces onto the website

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/ishq/virtual/free.html

including some images , mp3 audio tracks from the past , some sample packs for music makers and some esoteric correspondance charts for sound healers and experimenters .We'll try and expand the page eventually to a decent ftp space and front end.

matt

About the Virtual series

As a label Virtual now has 5 seperate series called

Virtualworld , Virtualform , Virtualspace , Virtualight , and Ishq.

The 5 series we hope will mean people can quickly relate to the different work were doing as its quite variable in musical style.

The Virtualworld series takes care of the detailed and complex soundscapes / music releases and is the main series and part of Virtual .To date this series has releases , Magik square of the sun and Infinite garden.

Virtual form will release the harmonising electrified forms of Ishq ( Ishqs contemporary sound sculpture work aswell as more contempory ambient electronica )

Virtual light will release Holistic music for meditation and contemplation of Ishq

Virtual space will release our deeper space music.

Ishq will host all future major Ishq albums and collaborations ( Orchid being the first album relative to these )

Visit http://www.v-i-r-t-u-a-l-w-o-r-l-d.net/ to see what we mean.It should make sense once we start releasing more :)