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Labores Somnium
12+ albums
acousticelectronicambientinstrumentaldark ambient
about
Labores Somnium is the not-for-profit multimedia project founded by Ley Shade, as an outlet for his own mental health problems and partial psychosis. Labores Somnium is funded by donations raised from operating art and music therapy workshops with 50% of all the project's surplus income donated to partner-charities. At the start of 2014 the Labores Somnium project recinded it's former Last.FM exclusive status and began use of a creative commons licence allowing users to copy, use, remake and upload Labores Somnium works to other mediums, services and productions for non-commercial purposes. The project encompasses artwork, fictional stories, music and animations primarily from Ley Shade, and a small group of related sub-projects he runs on a non-profit basis fueled by amatuer and upcoming artists from varying mediums, with the aim of improving and adapting the project for different audiences while developing the individual skills of those working on the collaborations. Some examples of the types of music that have been illustrated and combined in an experimental, conceptual and lo-fi style (sometimes featuring Ley's harp), include; Psychedelic music, (psytrance, psydub, psychedelic rock), Ambient and ethereal music, (dark ambient, drone ambient, darkwave), chillout and downtempo music, (new age, trip hop, lounge), Electronic music, (Dubstep, Synth Pop, EBM, 8bit), Accoustic and Folk music, (piano rock, neofolk, indie, world music), while also offering covers of songs in al
