Deep Drone Space Music | "Structural Tendency VII-XI" by Super Fata

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Super Fata is the music project of norwegian composer and musician Jan Roos.

The style ranges from ambient bliss to drones of the deepest abyss, sometimes harmonic, sometimes atonal, or seamlessly moving between the two.

The approach to music is heavily influenced by an extension of synesthesia, where senses and sensations are intertwined; everything experienced as an aspect of something else.

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This is the follow-up album to Super Fatas 2013 debut album “Structural Tendency”.

About the album:
"Music is our oldest form of expression, older than visual arts, older than language. From our need to reach out to others, starting with our voices, It touches us directly in deep, emotional and sophisticated ways.

I believe music predates man, which may be why it has such a profound impact on us; resonating with an animal core within our human core.

Animals communicate in musical ways; having signature calls telling the world they´re here. With a vast range of sounds they attract mates, warn competing animals that enter their territory, express emotions and navigate within complex social structures.


For this album I wanted to compose a soundscape where both the primal and the sophisticated, the subconscious and the visionary, was represented within the same expression."

Ambient music includes forms of music that put an emphasis on tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. Ambient music is said to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality. To quote ambient pioneer Brian Eno, "Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting." This is perhaps one of the main areas where ambient differs from space music. Space music may very well, though not necceserally, work on a more active level. In my opinion, “ambient” has become a label used by far too many who make music not ambient at all. Slapping a reverb on a guitar does not make a rock song “ambient". I think people are often using the word “ambient”, when they actually mean “atmospheric”.

So what is space music?

John Diliberto, the host of the radio show, Echoes, and creator of XPN's Star End, has stated that space music is related to electronic music as has Bay Area musician, composer and sound designer Robert Rich, who considers space music to be a combination of Electronic music influences from the 1970s with world music and "modern compositional methods". Forest, host of Musical Starstreams refers to Space music as a separate genre along with Ambient music, and others including dub, downtempo, trip hop, and acid jazz in the list of genres he calls "exotic electronica".
Steve Sande, freelance writer for the San Francisco Chronicle considers space music to be "Anything but New Age," and writes that "spacemusic is also known as ambient, chill-out, mellow dub, down-tempo."
One misconception, in my own opinion, is that space music generally relates to outer space. While outer space and cosmos very well can be themes for space music, as I see it; the term “space” refers to an inner space heightened by the aural space created by the space music soundscapes, thus enhancing the potential and mood for contemplation, meditation, visualization, drifting away, tuning in or dropping out. It's multi layered quality translates well to otherworldly realms, deep meditation, spiritual and psychedelic experiences. There is often a feeling of vast spaciousness and multidimensionality.

I use the term “Ambient Space Music” because much of my music have the qualities and key elements of both genres. It is not to define a limit for my music, it's just a basic guideline for people searching for this style of music.

- Jan Roos / Super Fata