Biography

Uprane is an Avant Garde project started and led by the mexican multi instrumentalist and composer Rodrigo T. Fonseca in 2014.

Uprane has released two demo albums; The Screamer (2015) and Alters The Shining (2016), as well as two demo EP’s; How To Stop Time? (2014) and A Thunder Inside (2015).

In the beginning the project started under the sound of Experimental Rock but the music has evolved into more heavy, dissonant and progressive sounds. The last album Alters The Shining is a bridge between the initial Experimental Rock concept into an Avant Garde/Progressive Metal approachment.

Uprane is working in the upcoming album Been Among Shadows wich will be a big evolution of the sound mixing progressive, experimental, psychodelic and stoner sounds. The new album will be released in the first months of 2020.

Biography:

Rodrigo T. Fonseca started his solo project in 2012 under the name of The Raven Music Project recording a big amount of experimentations that were lost forever in an old hard disk, the only few things that were recovered from this period are included in Needles as Painkillers, the first release of The Secret Garden Series. During 2013 and 2014 the evolution of the project started to go into the Electronic and Psychodelic Rock direction.

In 2014 the project changed it's name to Uprane and Rodrigo started to compose music in order to concieve his first album. After composed 50 songs all the music were distributed in 5 initial albums, 3 of them the official releases; How To Stop Time? EP, A Thunder Inside EP and The Screamer. The other 2 albums were never released but some of the music is included in the first 3 albums from The Secret Garden Series.

The first EP How To Stop Time? was released in December 2014 planned as a special gift to someone and had non intentions to be a “debut” for the project, just a week later in January 2015 Uprane released his second EP A Thunder Inside wich was originally made as the debut EP as a statement of the real initial sound of the project. Four months later in May 2015 the first album The Screamer was released as a solid statement of the project's sound of that time period mixing Avant-rock, Electronic and Experimental Music recieving good reviews in the underground context of the genres.

In 2016 Uprane released his second album Alters The Shining, an album written as experimental movements using automatic writting and following the Cut-Up theories inspirated by William S. Burroughs. This album marks the evolution of the project's sound moving to the Avant Garde Metal mixing binaural sounds, ambient and experimental music with Thrash Metal. This is one of the strangest and creepiest music albums making itself a conceptual experience.

In 2019 after a long innactive period Uprane announces the re-edition of all the first albums anticipating the upcoming plans for new music. Also in this same year The Secret Garden Series was launched as an "alternative discography project" for music made with no experimentation limits, this is the place for albums with music styles that doesn't fit with the musical evolution from the official releases, also in some of this albums are included unreleased music from the past or demos. In September were released the first 2 albums; Needles as Painkillers and Clank, Clank, You're Dead!

After almost 4 years without new music, Been Among Shadows finally will be released in 2020