Arovane

Zahn grew up in Hameln and began making music in the basement of his parents house in the early 80s, using microphones, a cassette deck, and a cheap Casio keyboard player. By 1985, the future musician had already managed to exchange part of his modest equipment for analog, and then for a digital synthesizer with an effects processor, and realize his first experiments with friends. In 1988, he moved to Hanover and there he began to work closely with vinyl record players and clarinet . In 1989, the musician again changed his place of residence, this time he moved to Munich . There he joined the musical group Six And More, from the name of which it follows that they recorded their works no less than six. The composition of Six And More was uncertain, and its members were proponents of lively, electronic improvisation and performed in Hamburg , Munich, Berlin , Frankfurt and Mainz . The team released several CDs at Archegon Studios. In 1991, Zang, having accumulated a hard drive over the years of his work, full of drum and bass music, an advanced studio and love for everything that sounds electronically, moved to Berlin, where he has lived since then in an old building in the district Prenzlauer Berg. Since 1993, the musician began experimenting in the breakbeat genre and in 1995 received attention from the Berlin radio station Kiss FM, and specifically for Radio Massive, Zahn wrote several of his compositions. In 1997, the musician associated his activities with the DIN studio and in 1998 released his first mini-album IO ^[1]. Since 1999, the composer, starting with the mini-album Occer / Silicad , has been publishing his music on the then-newly created Studio City Center Offices. The albums Tides and Lilies became classics of her catalog. At this time, Tsang is fond of motorcycles and may soon begin work on a new album. ^[2]

Albums

• Atol Scrap (2000, DIN)
• Tides (2000, City Center Offices)
• AER (Valid) (2001, Vertical Form; with Phonem)
• Icol Diston (2002, DIN)
• Lilies (2004, City Center Offices)
• Ve Palor (2013, n5MD)

Singles and EPs

• IO (1998, DIN)
• Occer / Silicad (1999, City Center Offices)
• Plnt (1999, [FWD :)
• Arovane & Christian Kleine (2000, Awkward Silence Recordings; shared with Christian Kleine)
• Cycliph (2002, DIN)
• Minth / Neel (2003, City Center Offices)

Under the pseudonym Nedjev

• Heofonrice (2000, Lux Nigra)
• Amoe / Cane (2001, Engelszorn)

Arovane music is mostly ambient music with typical IDM music effects (clicks). The musician often experiments not only with samples , but also with analog synthesizers. The beat is traced in almost all compositions, which allows us to attribute the music to both IDM and Downtempo . Collaboration with Phonem Aer (Valid) is considered one of the most significant in experimental music in the direction of Glitch .

• Studio City Center Offices claims that the Lilies album is one of the most significant records ever released on it. The album is delivered in a snow-white digipak and was written by a musician under the influence of his trip to Japan . Here and there in the album you can hear folk motifs and local speech. Like, for example, an ad in a high-speed train in the composition “Passage To Nagoya”. In the album you can hear the singer Kazumi , who performed the vocal part in the composition "Pink Lilies", using such an exposition of Japanese speech , which can amuse many speakers of this language.

The album can be considered quite a deep work, in which Tsang put more effort than in his previous albums and after its release, the musician took his boxed home studio to take a long vacation. ^[3]

• Zang does not use computers in the process of making music, only musical equipment. Also, the musician does not use the preset synthesizers.
• According to Tsang: “As a musician, I do not earn anything, as a musician I only spend.” He is constantly employed in a rehabilitation center for patients who have suffered serious brain injuries, and this earns his living. ^[four]

• Official website
• Arovane on the Discogs website
• Arovane, Interview in Russian