Vitali's solo vessel — from 2013's Monome-built ambient meditation 'All' (Nanobox NB006) to the IO666-forged heavy of 'Arrows & Oaths' (ARC MEDIA 0026).
HYBRID — legit disclosure: includes ghostwriters, AI enhancement, and advanced production tools. Recorded, engineered, and produced at STUDIO IO666, NY, NY. All songs © ARC MEDIA.
Asvara is Mike Vitali's solo vessel, and it has two lives — the meditative and the massive. It began in 2013 as a minimalist ambient practice: after years fronting and driving Ajna Chakra, Great Day For Up, and Ironweed, Vitali turned to electronics and the avant-garde. The debut 'All' (Nanobox Records NB006, released digitally April 9, 2013) was written and recorded during the first nine days of April 2013 — a daily morning meditation based on Enkyo Roshi's Heart Sutra Talks, followed by direct composition and performance on a Monome 64. Gathering the mind, receiving the mind: nine tracks for listeners raised on Brian Eno, Nine Inch Nails' 'Ghosts,' and Steve Reich, released under Creative Commons because the practice mattered more than the paywall. The second life is loud. Asvara returned in December 2020 with the self-titled record cut at IO666 — Vitali on guitars and keys, three tracks culminating in a seventeen-minute closer, the Marshall full stack in the warehouse doing the talking the Monome once did. 'Arrows & Oaths' (ARC MEDIA 0026, April 2026) is the newest entry in the entire label catalog: five tracks from the bow-cut opener 'Where We Cut the Bows' through 'Praesidium' and 'Divine' to 'Camouflage,' forged at IO666 with the full modern toolchain and labeled hybrid accordingly. One name, thirteen years, both edges of the Vitali catalog. Asvara is where the label's oldest discipline — sit down, record what is true that morning — meets its newest machinery.
Debut 'All' released April 9, 2013 on Nanobox Records (MER sub-label, NY/Chicago) — written and recorded in the first 9 days of April 2013. Daily meditation on Enkyo Roshi's Heart Sutra Talks, then direct composition on a Monome 64. Ambient, electronic, minimalism; Creative Commons release.
The heavy rebirth: self-titled record released December 9, 2020 — Mike Vitali on guitars and keys, recorded that same December at IO666. Three tracks, the last one seventeen minutes long.
'Arrows & Oaths' (ARC MEDIA 0026) released April 28, 2026 — five tracks cut at IO666 Studios, the newest record in the American Record catalog. The project's two lives finally share one sleeve.
Nanobox Records NB006 | UPC 887516965661 | Released digitally April 9, 2013 under Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0. Written and recorded during the first 9 days of April 2013 — a morning meditation on Enkyo Roshi's Heart Sutra Talks followed by direct interpretation and composition on a Monome 64. Filed under ambient, electronic, minimalism.
First pressed via Nanobox Records (NB006), 2013
The heavy debut, released December 9, 2020 — credited 'Mike Vitali — Guitars/Keys,' recorded December 2020 at IO666. Three tracks that abandon the ambient practice of 'All' for amplifier physics: two short movements, then a seventeen-minute closer that earns its runtime. Written and recorded in the same month it was released — the 2013 nine-day discipline applied to a wall of guitars.
First pressed via American Record, 2020
ARC MEDIA 0026 | Released April 28, 2026 | IO666 Studios. The newest record in the entire American Record catalog — five tracks that open where the title does, 'Where We Cut the Bows,' and move through 'Praesidium' (sixty-five seconds of shield-wall), 'Divine,' and 'I Fall' before disappearing into 'Camouflage.' Arrows and oaths: projectiles and promises, the two things a solo artist lives by. Cut with the label's full modern toolchain and disclosed as hybrid, because that is how this house works.
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