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Perigee

Perigee is a work about closeness and the patterns that enable the connections between each of us and our environment. The seven tracks explore distance through time, place, and opportunity. Drones evolve into patterns that morph and disappear into an expanding soundscape. Each song represents a personal connection, an internal demon, and the relationships that were embolden by, or lost to, the progression of time.

Perigee, the fifth album from Los Angeles based musician Nicholas Ruva’s Lake Onondaga moniker, teeters between slow drifting calm and deep turbulent waves, pulling the listener through layers of feedback and sound. The album combines guitar and synthetic elements to build a landscape of rhythmic loops and walls of sound.

Perigee is available now at Bandcamp, and releases to Spotify and all major online stores November 7th, 2019.

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Limited Edition Cassette Available Now!

A cassette release of The Shortest of Years, the Longest of Days is available now at Bandcamp.com. The tapes are being professionally printed and duplicated onto a limited ruby red tape in an edition of only fifty pieces. The entire fifty-three minute album is duplicated on both sides of the tape so you can drone out for hours on auto-reverse.

The wonderful folks over at Duplication.ca helped make this physical release possible by offering tape duplication services at a good price, and enough options to make it viable for such a limited release. Depending on how things go with this cassette there may be future (and additional forms) of physical merchandise from Lake Onondaga in the future.

I’m completely psyched to be able to release this album on tape, and I’ll start shipping the cassettes around the second week of June.

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The Shortest of Years, the Longest of Days

As the days toil, lost are the months to the progression of time. Years pass until memories are but waypoints dotted throughout a lifetime.  Reflection, a blurring of movement, yields a moment touched and obscured by the scrim. These are the shortest of years, the longest of days.

24bit FLAC version is available exclusively from Bandcamp, mostly because they rock and are great to work with, but even more importantly they support single files larger than 250Meg.

Available April 26th, 2018

 

 

All songs written and recorded April, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA.

All content, sounds, and photo, copyright 2018 Nicholas Ruva and Lake Onondaga.

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Summers in Waiting

A journey through summers past. Eyes open, under stars. All energy. All pulses. Left longing. Left wanting. Wanting more. Older now, but still longing. Always wanting more. This is my song to you, for summers in waiting, until I’m once again home.

Available July 22nd, 2017 from:

 

 

All songs written and recorded between March and July, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA.

All content, sounds and photo, copyright 2017 Nicholas Ruva and Lake Onondaga.

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Twilight Fades to Incandescent Light

Twilight Fades to Incandescent Light captures a vibrant section of downtown Los Angeles as it comes to life with early evening energy, and blends the sounds of the city into an evolving ambient soundtrack.

The music pulses between bursts of environmental sounds and melodic instrumentations that envelop the listener in the ever-present grittiness and stark beauty of urban Los Angeles.

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released February 20, 2017

Lake Onondaga is the ambient and modern classical moniker of Los Angeles based musician Nicholas Ruva.

The field recordings on this release were captured on an Olympus LS-7 linear PCM recorder in downtown Los Angeles on February 13th and 14th, 2017.

All songs recorded February 2017 by Lake Onondaga

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Tide

Tide is a forty-odd-minute five track companion for chilly fall nights, creative bursts in the wee-hours, or getting lost in headphones daydreaming.

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released October 14, 2016

Lake Onondaga is the ambient and modern classical moniker of Los Angeles based musician Nicholas Ruva.

All songs recorded October 2016 by Lake Onondaga