Dronal - If We Land

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Released: 3rd April 2025
Format: CD, Digital

Written, produced and mixed by Dronal (Alex Leonard)
Cover Design by Supple 9
Mastered by Porya Hatami

This new EP serves as a companion piece to Dronal's 2023 release Whilst We Fall, offering 5 tracks of lush, rich, and beautifully textured ambient/drone music that, while containing some notes of warning, tends towards a more hopeful overall tone.

As with Whilst We Fall, a myriad of layers are blended together: field recordings of both the natural and human worlds; analogue radio recordings; analogue and digital synths; and improvised takes routed through unusual effects chains - all resulting in a fluid feel.

Reversing the concept of the Whilst We Fall cover - which took a visual representation of data and altered it to appear as a sunset - the cover for If We Land takes a photograph of a tree against a blue sky, taken with deliberate camera movement, and further blurs and distorts it to appear almost as a representation of data.

It all ties in with the influence of the natural world on Dronal’s work. A feeling that if he can create a lifelike sounding fusion of the organic and the constructed, then perhaps there is hope that we too can find a way to balance our lives with our impact on the planet. Maybe then, we can come in to land without leaving destruction in our wake.

The EP has been beautifully mastered by Porya Hatami, who has mastered albums by the likes of Arovane, Aidan Baker, Pausal, Andrew Tasselmyer and many more.