Donation & Download:
There is no minimum donation amount to receive the album; the links are given freely below. If you are unsure about an appropriate amount, remember that no amount is too small and every bit helps! And feel free to listen prior to making a decision about donating. Please direct any questions, comments, notes about "offline" fundraising, etc. to gagliardip **at** hotmail.com. (Ha! That "**at**" is sure to fool web scrapers!)

The initial download will be 192 kbps .mp3 option only, for 9 tracks. 4 to 6 more tracks will be completed in the first half of 2022, regardless of fundraising. Upon hitting the initial target of $600 USD, I will "unlock" the 320 kbps .mp3, .flac and .wav versions.

Download link (192 kbps .mp3):
https://www.mediafire.com/file/hx6quxy2x89u0ba/Pandora_Unlocked_-_Ocean_Blue_%2528192_mp3%2529.zip/file

The short story:
This is an Ambient album made with synthesizer settings from a particular, extremely talented, group of sound designers under the Luftrum banner (https://www.luftrum.com/). I am a hobbyist composer who can only budget for a very small fraction of the packs they release, but won access to all of them through a contest. I will not be using these on Hollywood blockbusters or E3-level video games, but I still wanted to do something to give back to the world; thus, I decided to make some charity release albums using these sounds.

Each track on the album exclusively uses settings from one particular pack, with minimal effects, effectively making them "demos" for these packs.

My Music:
Please go to https://petergagliardi.bandcamp.com for more of my music.

Album Art:
Album artwork uses image by Marina von Steinkirch (bt3gl), under the Pexels license.
See more of her stuff at: https://www.pexels.com/@innermostlimits or https://bt3gl.xyz/
Support her work by checking out her NFT collection: https://opensea.io/steinkirch?tab=created
(Including the image used for this album cover: https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/21217790705324758101175761062786421039733409879261131814667265908586393370625)

Pandora Unlocked - Other Albums:
There are 3 companion albums to this one, with different genres and charities (but overlapping sound packs):

Pandora Unlocked: Neon Pink (Synthwave) - for Equality Now (https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/peter-gagliardi)
Pandora Unlocked: Forest Green (Cinematic) - for Coalition for Rainforest Nations (https://secure.givelively.org/donate/coalition-for-rainforest-nations-secretariat/peter-gagliardi-s-forest-green-album)
Pandora Unlocked: Crimson Red (Psychill) - for MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières aka Doctors without Borders)

Charity:
I have chosen charity: water because there are still many people out there without reasonable access to one of the most basic human needs: water. There are too many who are at risk because of this; too many that can't experience all that life has to offer because of the time and energy required to fulfill a basic need that many of us can satisfy with hardly a thought.

More on charity: water:
charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries. Since charity: water was founded in 2006, we’ve been chasing one ambitious goal: ending the global water crisis. And while the water crisis is huge, we’re optimistic. We know how to solve the problem, and we make progress every day thanks to the help of local partners and generous supporters. If we work together, we believe everyone will have access to life’s most basic need within our lifetime.