• Suzanne Ciani & Metropole Orkest conducted by Simon Dobson - CIANI/ORKEST

Suzanne Ciani & Metropole Orkest conducted by Simon Dobson - CIANI/ORKEST

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2-Disc Quadraphonic Vinyl limited to 1024 total number copies. The first 265 have an animated lenticular cover.

Release Date: June 4, 2026
Duration: 75 minutes 45 seconds
Recorded: Oct 19, 2022 at Melkweg Amsterdam during the Amsterdam Dance Event

Electronic music pioneer and five-time Grammy nominee Suzanne Ciani joins the internationally acclaimed Metropole Orkest, conducted by Simon Dobson, for the release of CIANI/ORKEST, a landmark live album composed entirely of new work, created specifically for this unprecedented collaboration.

Recorded at Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) before a rapt audience, CIANI/ORKEST is not a retrospective. It is a bold, immersive meeting of the Buchla electronic instrument and 50-piece orchestral sound. The result is a sweeping sonic landscape, at once intimate and monumental.

Under the direction of the Metropole Orkest, renowned for its genre-defying collaborations with artists from jazz to contemporary classical - strings shimmer, brass swells and woodwinds echo the organic, fluid qualities that have always defined Ciani’s sound. “This project feels like a homecoming,” says Ciani. “The Buchla was always orchestral to me, an instrument capable of infinite color. Hearing those colors unfold through the Metropole Orkest has been profoundly moving.”

At the heart of CIANI/ORKEST lies Ciani’s lifelong commitment to quadraphonic sound. From her early Buchla performances in the late 1960s to her 2018 release LIVE Quadraphonic, Ciani has treated space as a primary compositional parameter. Working alongside immersive producer KamranV, Ciani continues to explore immersive sound as both artistic and human gesture. Kamran’s decades of work in spatial formats, converge here in service of a singular goal: to let sound behave as it does in the physical world. “For both of us, quad is musical,” Kamran notes. “The way Suzanne works, quadraphonic is nested in — not the technology per se — but the intent you bring to the work.”

The recording stands as a meditation on legacy, evolution, and the enduring dialogue between technology and human expression. The live album captures the electricity of performance, the immediacy of touch plates under Ciani’s hands, the collective of musicians responding in real time, and the audience’s shared immersion in quadraphonic-inspired space.

CIANI/ORKEST is released by Atmospheric/AKP Recordings/CyKiK in multiple double-disc quadraphonic 12” Record packages designed by grammy-nominated designer Rebeka Arce: Lenticular Gatefold, 52-Page wooden agamograph-cover Book written by Jessica Hundley + designed with Knowhow Shop & a Bespoke, one-of one lacquer cut by Scott Sedillo at Bernie Grundman Mastering with in a custom Marquetary box designed with Mouret Lejeune. Each pressing is made regionally to minimize carbon emissions and also contributes to nature via Brian Eno's EarthPercent, the music industry's climate and nature foundation.

The release is encoded using the dublab Quadraphonic Universally Accessible Resource Kit (QUARK). QUARK enables binaural listening via standard 2-channel playback or 4-speaker playback via Involve Audio hardware decoders, vintage Regular Matrix quadraphonic receivers, Dolby Pro-Logic II/Dolby Surround Upmixer (DSU) receivers, or any multi-channel audio interface equipped computer. This album is immersive via all formats: digital download, streaming (Spotify, SoundCloud, Bandcamp), radio broadcast, vinyl and high-resolution Dolby Atmos (Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon HD), Sony 360RA  Nugs, Amazon HD) and Eclipsa Audio (YouTube).

Track Listing

  • A (15:34)
    • Section 1: Seashore (05:57)
    • Section 2: Ocean Moves (09:37)
  • B (18:55)
    • Section 3: Contrapuntal (12:12)
    • Section 4: Animal Kingdom (06:43)
  • C (22:16)
    • Section 5: Chase Scene (11:06)
    • Section 6: The Vamp (11:08)
  • D (19:02)
    • Section 7: White Noise (10:08)
    • Section 8: Back to the Seashore (08:54)

Album Credits

  • Produced by Suzanne Ciani, Simon Dobson & KamranV
  • Composed by Suzanne Ciani (ASCAP)
  • Conducted by Simon Dobson
  • Metropole Orkest Artistic Producer: Friederike Darius
  • Arrangers:: Section 1: Elena Abad. Section 2: Tom Trapp. Section 3: Damiano Pascarelli. Section 4: Magda Giannikou. Section 5: Simon Dobson. Section 6: Simon Dobson. Section 7: Jochen Neuffer. Section 8: Elena Abad
  • Performers:: Buchla 200e: Suzanne Ciani. 1st violin: Jasper van Rosmalen, Sarah Koch, Denis Koenders, Pauline Terlouw, David Peijnenborgh, Jenneke Tesselaar, Saskia Frijns, Esther Wüstenhoff. 2nd violin: Merel Jonker, Willem Kok, Ewa Zbyszynska, Ruben Margarita, Robert Baba, Xaquín Carro Cribeiro, Valentine Blangé. Viola: Norman Jansen, Julia Jowett, Iris Schut, Isabella Petersen, Ernst Grapperhaus. Cello: Joel Siepmann, Jascha Albracht, Susanne Rosmolen, Dionne Nijsten. Double Bass: Arend Liefkes, David Murray. Flute: Mariël van den Bos, Janine Abbas. Oboe: Anna Marieke Zijlstra. Saxophone: Marc Scholten, Paul van der Feen, Leo Janssen, Sjoerd Dijkhuizen, David Kweksilber. Horn: Hugo Freitas. Trumpet: Ray Bruinsma, Martijn de Laat, Nico Schepers, Rik Mol. Trombone: Ron Oligschläger, Maarten Combrink, Jan Bastiani. Bass trombone: Martin van den Berg. Percussion: Eddy Koopman, Frank Wardenier: Harp: Joke Schonewille. Drums: Martijn Vink. Piano/Keys: Hans Vroomans. Guitar: Peter Tiehuis. Bass: Aram Kersbergen.
  • Recorded by Dirk Overeem with Mic Technicians Stef Polderman & Alejandra Irusta
  • Mixed by Tom Gelissen
  • Mastered by KamranV. Sony 360 Mastering with Kevin Woods
  • Lacquer Discs Cut by Scott Sedillo at Bernie Grundman Mastering
  • BGM Chief Engineer: Beno May
  • Art Direction by Rebeka Arce & KamranV
  • Design by Rebeka Arce
  • Liner Notes by Jessica Hundley
  • A&R by Scott Osgood
  • Thank you Rachel Aiello, Alma Albronda, Troy Barrott, Ale Cohen, Michael Bierylo, Jan Bastiani, Richard Carrick, Matthew Davidson, Iris Groenhout, Farbod Kokabi, Georges Kool, David Mash, Luca Ronner, Gregor Samsa, Shevy Shovlin, Micah Silver, Robert Soomer, Peter Walker.

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