Imaginary Landscape

Artist: Imaginary Landscape
P: 2023
A story about the search of the lost silence that could not really be found. This album is not another meditative soundcarpet to find your inner peace. The musicians instead work on the question, if there is any silence at all in our society full of civilization garbage and background noise everywhere. Even despite understanding, no absolute silence is possible at all (think to John Cages self-experiment in an anechoic room) any attempt to find this in the nature is reduced to absurdity.
With this the album presents sound images with field recordings as well as calm passages which are interrupted by commenting and contrasting elements. Be open for surprises during the search.

Artist: Imaginary Landscape
P: 2019
„In his album „Nothing left behind“ Hans-Dieter Schmidt continues the idea of „Cinematic Ambient“, which he already arranged in his cooperation with Michael Brückner as the duo „Bridge to Imla“ in the CD „Radiant Sea“. Deep drones embedded in neoclassic arrangements of strings  interweaved with field recordings result in a soundscape of a fictive movie  At „Nothing left behind“ this is the dark apocalytptic vision of the human end. After the planet Earth has been wiped out, nothing remains from human existence.

“… In one of the countless billions galaxies of the universe lies a medium-sized star…”
Only a small, black flake. If you have eyes to see.  Or a heart that feels.
“And one of its satellites, a green, insignificant planet …”
Empty, white, garish
“…is now dead.”
Silence. There is nothing left. Nothing has remained. As it was in the beginning. At the beginning of all times. Desert ...
From Michael Avallone, „Beneath the planet of the apes”

Artist: Imaginary Landscape
P: 2021
Imaginary Landscape, HaDi Hans-Dieter Schmidt's solo project, is a galactic journey to distant planets whose known existence of currently around 5,000 objects we know in view of the enormous advances in astronomy. Nevertheless, it is unlikely that we will even reach the closest, Earth-like exoplanet Proxima Centauri b in the foreseeable future. But the album "Undiscovered Landscapes" enables us to have a poetic experience, a mental journey to these exotic places, so that we can get a mental picture of these heavenly bodies. Hardly anything seems more suitable than electronic sounds, played on synthesizers, ambient sound generators and the EWI, an electronic wind instrument: the best mental cinema with orchestral passages, silvery sequences and unusual soundscapes.