"Gulan composes hypnotic and emotive music that interacts with the listener's spirit" Terry Hawke.

Gulan is the pseudonym of a composer from Latvia who creates wide-ranging electronic music - ambient, meditation, space music, instrumental, film music, new age and progressive electronica. He was born in Latvia in 1974. After finishing a music-school on a class of the piano, Gulan took private lessons on playing electronic key-instruments.
The introducing himself with synthesizers and playing on them have allowed the young musician to plunge into the world of synthetic sounds and harmony of electronic music.
The first piece of music composed by him in 1993 was named Airway. Some more beautiful songs followed already in the same year, Electronic symphony, Sunrise, Electronic etude among them.
His compositions are full of nice sounds and phrases creating cosmic associations. Interesting combinations of synthetic and acoustic sounds and effects, unusual constructions of musical phrases and melodies give to his music its originality and mysteriousness. Gulan devoted much time to practical experience of meditation as well as for creating the background music for those activities. Such music is also called ambient or meditation music, the task of which according to Gulan is to help to relax the mind and to plunge into the depths of consciousness. Gulan's music easily performs this task and help people to reach meditative condition-those ambient songs, so abstract and atmospheric, help the mind and body to be relaxed, simply-to be.
The musician records CDs with ambient music separately from all other songs that are made in the new age style. Such compositions as Sphere, Altai, Cosmophonia, Aqua belong to ambient style and they together with many other songs are really appreciated by practitioners of meditation.
Gulan's music was broadcasted on the Minsk radio program Music of spheres and afterwards also on Los Angeles radio program Alien air music as well as on Rotterdam's TC Spacemusic show, Australian Worldwide Independent Ison Live Radio, AiiRadio (UK) , StillStream live ambient radio, Spirit Within Radio (USA) , ARFM (UK), Happyday New Age Radio (South Korea), American radio show The Cosmic Eye, Toxicant ambient space music radio (USA), SynthHeaven show (Scotland), Terry Hawke spacerock & ambient radio (UK), Inner Space radio in Croatia, Hearts of Space radio show (*a one hour program airs weekly on about 230 NPR affiliate stations (FM) , including three of the top five U.S. radio markets and a majority of the top fifty. The program is also heard nationally seven nights a week at 8pm Eastern/11pm Pacific on XM Satellite Radio's 'AudioVisions' Channel 77), Ambient Ping radio (Canada), Lounging Sound (USA), EER-music radio (USA), Digitally Imported Radio, CoolStreams internet radio (USA), Danish radio show Electroland ('Elektroland' is broadcasted through more than 15 different radio stations all over Denmark). Lovers of electronic music were greatly impressed by the wonderful sounds of his compositions.
New Vibes Music (USA) signs up Gulan for oncoming New Age album compilation "Echoes of Tuvalu". This album was ranked # 1 during the month of August on the Top 100 New Age/Ambient/World Radio/Internet Airwaves Chart. The New Age Reporter (NAR) is a major resource for new age, ambient, world radio /Internet airwaves chart. The top 100 charts is compiled from radio playlists submitted each month by over 100 broadcaster around the world that report to the NAR network. Lately Gulans's music has been airplayed by 400 radio stations all over the world and got a great number of good references.

www.gulan.us
email:gulanmusic@gmail.com

Reviews:

Gulan – Sphere.

Another release by Gulan whos work is inspired by the music of Klause Schulze, Michael Stearns, Robert Rich, Tangerine Dream. Nothing wrong with that I here you ask and as It happens I like them as well.

The tracks range from ambient electronica to more of a Berlin-school feel. His compositions are full of nice sounds and phrases creating cosmic associations. Interesting combinations of synthetic and acoustic sounds and effects, unusual constructions of musical phrases give to his music its originality and mysteriousness.

“I am not usually into “meditation” music, and frankly bought Sphere because I liked the sound clips that I heard. But, after listening to the CD front to back, I was amazed at the journey that this music takes you through. Unlike other ambient music that sounds like “repetitive sheet music”, this album comes off like a work of art with great ingenuity.

Beautiful passages with slight variations that sweep your mind into the journey that is Gulan.

The first two tracks start with much motion and activity, the long third track Altai changes the mood with placid tonal passages, then tracks 4-6 bring you back into a flurry of mind trips. The last track, Synthetic-x is a fitting poignant ending. I just hope that there is a sequel to this album – I will certainly buy it!”

© Elton Baermon


Gulan - Cassiopeia

Gulan's super-cool voyage through spatial and galactic soundscapes is quite extraordinary

Beautiful spherical and cosmic sounds full of enigmatic music constructions give to a listener a chance to touch the mystery and infinity of the Universe. This album consists of songs both with dynamic sounding and with mellow ambient effects. These songs will send you to a distant and unforgettable space journey where you will relax, dissolve and sink into delight and pleasure…
But no worry – you will be surely back on Earth keeping warm memories and experience. Just put the music on, close your eyes… and happy journey!


“Cassiopeia” is an album filled with 71 minutes of very interesting electronic space music. It is nicely kicked-off by the title track, split in three parts. Some grand velvet textures merge with some twinkling sequencing while some light solo’s float on top. This rather active part is counter pointed by the free form soundscapes of the second part, which float on in gentle ways. Next comes the lofty excursions of two-fold “The Infinite” before we arrive at the excellent “Return Home”. This piece has a beautiful fairytale-kindred flavour with nice expanding textures. This highlight is followed by the same titled second chapter, another strong, drifting piece featuring melancholic undercurrents, entering heavenly spheres. “Delerium” is again a sequenced, more active track, after which the cd ends with a remix-version of the title-track.

“Cassiopeia” is rather stunning release, so ambient/space fans out there: make sure you don’t miss this one!

© Bert Strolenberg
SONIC IMMERSION