u-he have released Panora, available for €39.00.
Panora takes its cues from a particular strain of ’70s and ’80s electronica: imagined journeys, fantastic landscapes, distant worlds… and the occasional brush with period library music. The soundset follows this arc quite deliberately: Its ’70s side is a little rougher around the edges — warmer, dustier, less perfectly tuned and more willing to drift. The ’80s side clears the haze, being cleaner, tighter and more polished, without losing the overall plot.
Echoes of synth-based vinyl with covers promising vast horizons, glowing skies, strange planets with impossible alien architectures. Panora doesn’t attempt to recreate one artist or style, but to share a taste for atmospheres that feel as if they belong in a parallel universe…
Expect dusty, windswept vistas, gentle pads, quirky “found instruments”, alien percussion, strange melodies from the unfamiliar to the quietly menacing — all sitting somewhere between movie soundtrack, electronic concept album and the more eccentric side of functional music.
Panora is less about nostalgia for its own sake than about using the vocabulary of two innovative decades of electronica as starting point for a journey into the future.
Watch the intro video HERE.
Panora requires Diva version 1.4.8 or later.
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