Pablo Casares is the artist taking up our next mixtape instalment. Born and bred in San Sebastian and holding a degree in philosophy and masters in science, technology and communication, Casares had a long trajectory in poetry and illustration before turning to synths and sound. Since then, he has tried to learn about the complex world of sound using a media that suits him better to express himself, bringing him closer to creative worlds that he couldn’t reach otherwise".

The artist shares his most immediate challenge is to achieve sounds and sound environments so that people can listen to them and use them as a medium for their mind to expand. Nature and its poetic veils seem to be a regular inspiration in Casare’s productions, probably an influence of the Vasque Country’s dramatically beautiful scenery. The sound and music orbit in the ambient realms, creating dark musical landscapes and abstract industrial atmospheres, which some have defined in a magic suspension dream, where Casares finds his way. His most recent album, Naturaleza Fósil (Superspace Records 2020) is an exercise of psychedelic ambient. Sounds as telluric forces that seem to raise from the melted metallic earth core.

For this mixtape he says, I have placed songs that I listen to many times, you will not find big artists of ambient as Radigue, Basinski, etc. (that I love so much), I used tracks from people that you can find on youtube and other platforms. From Elliot Severence to Hakabune, Marcell.... and also one of my lastest track. My intention was not giving you something conceptually closed; I wanted it to flow like a river.

Tracklist:

Sea in exile / Máté Szabó

Digitone ambient emotive drone / Dustmotes

Snow / Hiroshi Ebina

El roble / Pablo Casares

The beginning / Pleg and Hakabune

Harmonic-clouds / Severence

Winter lullabies / Valotihkuu

Structure / Marcell

Per Aspera Ad Astra / Ygor Yalivec

Mahamrityunjaya Mantra / Sacred Sound Choir