released September 16, 2016

Both visceral and reflective, PALM IN MIRROR is a lucid dream of an album conjured from a storm of driving beats and mirage-like transitions. With shimmering textures, intimate melodies, and a sense of slow revelation, it explores themes of identity, memory, and disintegration.

Credits:

All music composed, performed, and produced by Jon Bernstein.

Album art by Sumudu Welaratna

released October 13, 2015

FAITE invites listeners to step out into a new sonic terrain full of lush live instruments, industrial synth grit, and soulful vocal harmonies. Drawing from a broad palette of electronic textures, field recordings, and unexpected instrumentation, the album offers up dreamlike terrains colored by cinematic peaks of light and shadows.

Reviews:

“This album is a curious mix of dancing percussion, chanting vocals and haunting guitar—every song begins, grows and then changes into a new audio element that brings the listener further along in this adventure.”

- Seeth McGavien, Slug Mag

Credits:

Music and lyrics by Jon Bernstein

Art by Sumudu Welaratna
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Jon Bernstein - Piano, Synths, Drum Programming, Guitars, and Mandolin; Vocals on all tracks except "Pull"

Valerie Evering - Vocals on "Rise", "Faith", and "Remnants"

Dan Harpaz - Guitars on "Oath"

Henny Hendrix - Vocals on "Strength", "Faith", and "Oath"

Kyra Sims - French Horn on "Rise" and "Drift"; Vocals on "Pull" and "Fate"

Jeff Tobias - Saxophone on "Border" and "Drift"

Deepthi Welaratna - Strategy; Vocals on "Rise", "Faith", "Border", "Night", and "Drift"

released August 9, 2016

This expansive 80-track album collects the original score from part one of the acclaimed audio drama Alice Isn’t Dead. Haunting, cinematic, and unsettlingly intimate, FIRE NEVER CONSUMING weaves together ambient textures, minimalist melodies, and slow-burning tension to mirror the show’s themes of loss, paranoia, and resistance on the open road. It’s a sonic map of a dark and mythic America—written in static, silence, and fire.

Credits:

Composed, performed, and produced by Jon Bernstein.

Alice Isn't Dead is a serial fiction podcast from Night Vale Presents, written by Joseph Fink and narrated by Jasika Nicole.

Visit www.nightvalepresents.com/aliceisntdead for more information

released May 23, 2014

Double-album GRANICHA paints a picture of a world in which borders are erased, between nations and cultures, between myths and reality, between this world and others. A unique album spanning techno, industrial, experimental, ambient, jazz, and pop styles, GRANICHA addresses the elements of nature and supernatural and asks them to return to life. 

Reviews:

“Granicha is a production tour de force: this album is a massive, complexly structured, genre-hopping, multi-layered monster featuring everything from rappers to operatic sopranos, yet somehow it all holds together and sounds consistently assured, crisp, and vibrant.”

- Anthony D'Amico, Brainwashed

Credits:

Music and lyrics by Jon Bernstein

Valerie Evering - Vocals (1,9,12)
Mari Yamamoto - Violin (1,2,4,9)
Tim Monaghan - Percussion (1,5,8,9,11)
Henny Hendrix - Vocals (2,6,11)
Marnie Breckenridge - Vocals (3,13)
Deepthi Welaratna - Vocals (4,6,9,10,11)
Cecil Baldwin - Vocals (5,13)
Oswald Starr - Vocals (6,11)
Gabriel Royal - Cello and Vocals (8)
Jon Bernstein - Piano, Guitar, Synths, Loops, Percussion, Programming (all)

Symbols designed by Sumudu Welaratna

released July 2, 2013

A longform techno meditation on time, transformation, and the metaphysical unknown, MADOC spans just three tracks, each a sprawling, immersive landscape of rhythm, distortion, and spatial tension. Inspired by Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time trilogy, MADOC channels the emotional logic of L’Engle’s universe: collapsing boundaries between science and mysticism, movement and stillness, light and shadow

Credits:

Composed, performed, and produced by Jon Bernstein

Cover art by Sumudu Welaratna

released February 18, 2011

NEUKRK delivers a dramatic soundscape of psychedelic electronic music that maps the moody landscape of Brooklyn enriched with layers of Eastern European and occult histories. 

Reviews:

“Over the course of 18 tracks, Bernstein keeps things interesting and every piece comes off perfectly executed. Neukrk is an exhilarating, thoughtful and thought-provoking work–which is why it’s a Hypnagogue Highly Recommended CD.”

- John Shanahan, Hypnagogue

Credits:

composed, arranged, and produced by Jon Bernstein

released February 2, 2008

A portrait of the last days of the Communist era in Eastern Europe, 1989 takes its form and mood from the dramatic decline of the Ceausescu regime that dominated Romania for over two decades. The album combines compositions written and performed on an 80’s era synthesizer, samples of archival footage from the Romanian Revolution, and modern found sounds to create an aural investigation of history.

Reviews:

“1989 is a brilliant piece of ambient work that deserves attention by the hardcore ambient fan. Don’t miss it.”

- Matt Row, MusicTAP

“1989, the new CD from Disparition (aka Jon Bernstein) offers a soundtrack of sorts for the collapse of the Ceaucescu regime in Romania. Like any good physical production should be, the sonic play of 1989 is richly layered, diverse and gripping.”

- John Shanahan, Hypnagogue

Credits:

All music composed and produced by Jon Bernstein

released January 1, 2007

TRANSMUTATIONS merges downtempo electronic and ambient music with complex melodies inspired by alchemists and mystics of the 15th and 16th centuries.

Reviews:

“The tracks on Transmutations are catchy, involving, intriguing, and use a wild variety of textures. Fans of Amon Tobin and DJ Shadow's earlier work will enjoy this.”

Anthony Garcia, CD Baby Listener

Credits:

All music composed and produced by Jon Bernstein

released 2006

WHEN FOURTEEN SUNS is a collection of guitar-based ambient music inspired by the visionary art and poetry of William Blake. Composed as a companion for writing and deep creative work, the album is quiet but charged—full of shimmering textures, slow-burning resonance, and moments of lyrical intensity.

Credits:

When Fourteen Suns is a collection of guitar-based ambient music inspired by the visionary art and poetry of William Blake. Composed as a companion for writing and deep creative work, the album is quiet but charged—full of shimmering textures, slow-burning resonance, and moments of lyrical intensity.

released 2004

Disparition’s debut album, SATELLITE STATE, explores distance, transmission, and isolation through raw and atmospheric beats and synths.

Credits:

All music composed and produced by Jon Bernstein

released April 28, 2021

Composed for Troika Fest 2021, this collaborative EP sees Raqia bandmates Rhandir (Petrychor, Beware of Safety) and Disparition (Welcome to Night Vale) melding dungeon synth, prog, and the music of Tangerine Dream. Like Troika itself, the soundtrack is a diverse journey through science fantasy, exploring idyllic forests, expansive constellations, Giallo starships, and breezy JRPG villages. Rest well and travel far!

Credits:

All performance and production by Rhandir and Disparition save for additional vocals on The Keymaster's Dream by Dark Spring Thunder.

released October 2, 2020

released September 3, 2020

composed, performed, and produced by Jon Bernstein

released July 3, 2020

released June 8, 2020

music for piano

Credits:

composed and performed by Jon Bernstein

released May 25, 2020

“But, you know, the thing I take most pleasure in is the way we’ve managed to coax this world Ayewards. Gradually. Surreptitiously. When I was a lad, no one even considered there might be other universes, let alone talking of going to them. But now people write books about that ... Earth is one of the early worlds, you know – well of course you know – and we should be a long way further Ayewards than we are.”

Diana Wynne Jones, Deep Secret

Credits:

composed, performed, and produced by Jon Bernstein

released May 11, 2020

Greg Allison - violin
Tad Piecka - acoustic guitar

composed and performed by Jon Bernstein
mixed and mastered by Tad Piecka

released May 4, 2020

composed and performed by jon bernstein

released April 27, 2020

composed and performed by Jon Bernstein

mixed and mastered by Tad Piecka

released April 20, 2020

composed, performed, and produced by Jon Bernstein

additional vocal sample by Deepthi Welaratna

released September 20, 2019

composed and performed by Jon Bernstein

additional vocals and mixing by Deepthi Welaratna

mastered by Tad Piecka

from the forthcoming album Nine Courtly Dances

credits

released June 7, 2019

composed and performed by Jon Bernstein

released August 23, 2017

Credits:

Composed and performed by Jon Bernstein

Additional vocals on "If We Live" by Deepthi Welaratna, Henny Hendrix, and Valerie Evering

Additional guitar on "If We Live" by Dan Harpaz

Album artwork by Sumudu Welaratna

released December 22, 2016

Credits:

Jon Bernstein - piano

released August 18, 2015

Fate

There is no time here,
it is distance that pulls us
outward to our fate.
As flowers fall from our hands
the fires rise to meet us.

Credits:

Music and lyrics by Jon Bernstein. Instruments performed by Jon Bernstein. Vocals by Kyra Sims and Jon Bernstein.

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Je me souviens

Credits:

Music and instruments by Jon Bernstein. Vocals by Deepthi Welaratna.

released March 3, 2015

Faith

Awake in blue light
ashes on the wind send word
our faith burns again.
Fires underneath the earth
warm and stir old stillnesses.

Credits:

Music and lyrics by Jon Bernstein. Instruments performed by Jon Bernstein. Vocals by Henny Hendrix, Deepthi Welaratna, Valerie Evering, and Jon Bernstein.

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Recuerdo

We are made of fire.

Credits:

Music and instruments by Jon Bernstein. Lyrics and vocal melodies by Deepthi Welaratna and Valerie Evering.

released September 25, 2013

Ambient music inspired by Lombardia and Liguria

released July 2, 2013

Electronic music of mixed styles, influenced by the landscape of Gwynedd and Ynys Mon.