Marc-Henri Arfeux

Cat # ... DNA 102
Release Date ... 30.01.2011
Genre ... Abstract, Ambient
Type ... FLAC Lossless

Since the XVIth century, the river Loire has always been a poetic emblem in French culture and arts, for the beauty of its slow waters and landscapes. In the second part of the XXth century, the great painter Olivier Debré who lived on its banks often refered in his subtle abstract way to its moving lights and colours along seasons and hours.
This album expresses my own tribute to Olivier Debré and his Loire paintings I admire deeply, in the form of a symphonic poem for synthesizers and various electronic devices, divided into seven parts. Each one has a title Olivier Debré could have chosen and conveys into music an imaginary Loire vision he could have painted. Has the most feminine of the French rivers, music is a constant metamorphosis of miraculous unique instants in progress.

Marc-Henri Arfeux

Cat # ... DNA 91
Release Date ... 15.07.2010
Genre ... Abstract, Ambient
Type ... FLAC Lossless / mp3 VBR

Myrrha refers to a greek legend. According to this story, Myrrha, victim of her incestuous father, Cinyras, king of Cyprus, implored the gods to banish her from the world of the living and the dead, after a nine moons restless wandering in the woods. They changed him into a tree. The myrrh is said to be the loading of her tears during her transformation.
In the end, through a split in her bark, she gave birth to Adonis, a major god representing death and renewal, who is associated to roses and myrtle.

Although this album is inspired by this legend, it does not follow the purpose to depict the sad adventures of Myrrha, but must be interpreted as a symbol of creation. The music, changeable and always unexpected, begins to develop its mental flow and carries our deep emotions. One hears distant whispers, the breath of wind and the things coming to life from the very core of their stillness, to create a sound painting of man's and nature's most secret inner forces.

Cat # ... DNA 88
Release Date ... 07.06.2010
Genre ... Drone Ambient, Dark Ambient, Experimental
Type ... FLAC Lossless / mp3 VBR

This compilation combine sombre and intense dark/drone ambient tracks with experimental and avantgarde works. Such combination can express better that negative emotions children experience in discovering the world around.

"Infinite Depression" by Aevum Spiritus is an unconscious and irresistible fear of the unknown resulting in lack of self-confidence, reticence and depression.
Ultra low-frequency "Home" by Raspad Atoma is a gasping for breath in horror of darkness, claustrophobia and suppressed fears.
Composed in the way of recently released at DNA Production "Nasca Lines" album, "Utkha" by Indo is a panic and impetuous run away, consciousness quelled by instincts, convulsive breathing.
Track included in "House Of Morpheus" released in March, "Chora" by Marc-Henri Arfeux is an expression of childish dreams, sometimes naive and light, sometimes anxious and disturbed, sometimes utterly nightmarish. Relief for child mind, these dreams are factor of secondary negative influence on children's psychics.
"Non C'è Più Niente" by Behind Formal Face (J Orphic dark ambient side-project) is a child's horrible nightmare, his heavy breathing, desperate attempts to escape from this cold well of irrational fears, crying and perspiration when awaking.
"Endorphin Haze" by Red Fog is a catatonic state after experienced nervous shock when child's mind can't overcome the emotional overload and escape to embryonic unconcsious state with minimal and elemental perception.
Another track by Aevum Spiritus, "Sna" is grotesque and morbid pictures in teenager's dreams, repeated nightmares caused by forgotten irrational children's fears.

Cat # ... DNA 81
Release Date ... 20.03.2010
Genre ... Ambient, Abstract, Experimental
Type ... FLAC Lossless / mp3 VBR

The "House Of Morpheus" is not only a realm of sleep and dreams, but also deals with the wide awake concentration of the meditating and creating conscience when inspired by its inner lamps, darkness and dawns. The pieces of music gathered in this album are some of the many rooms in this infinite mental house.
"Scansion" is a ritual of rising light, a call to the horizon and a celebration of this world's enigma.
"La Seu", inspired by the cathedral of Palma de Majorque, enhances this spiritual dimension. In the huge mysterious stone vessel, a music of ceremony intertwines with the acoustic presence of the invisible, and dissolves in it, as if the cathedral's roof slowly opened on a deep mystic night sparkling with stars.
"Kozan-Ji" refers to a mountain buddhist temple of the district of Kyoto. Its solitude and serenity, expressed by an almost monophonic horizontal line, leads us to pure quietness through a central and symbolic fight for deliverance.
"From The Realm Of Morpheus" is dedicated to the eponymous novel of the American writer Steven Millhauser. It is a journey in the underground world of mysteries, nightmares, haunting memories, whispering intimate ghosts, and imagination, everyone holds in his mind.
"Chora" ends this visit in the secret house of soul, with a thanksgiving music offered to the daylight and the beauty of this unbelievable mysterious world. The title of this piece hides a double meaning by its reference to the Greek word "khora" (space), and its allusion to the french words "choral" (a religious kind of music, often for voices) and "chorale" (a choir). It is indeed an ode of joy leading to a final poem.

Marc-Henri Arfeux, 16 January 2010.

Cat # ... DNA 72
Release Date ... 23.12.2009
Genre ... Drone Ambient, Dark Ambient, Field Recordings, Experimental
Type ... FLAC Lossless / mp3 VBR

This compilation is dedicated to DNA Production second anniversary. Two years ago the first DNA Production release was out.
Despite label's traditions, we invited mainly foreign musicians who aren't in DNA Production catalogue before.
This huge, almost two hours long compilation is created in drone/dark ambient way, and certain tracks with noise and field recordings elements point out compilation's own distinctive ambient style.