Oophoi is Gianluigi Gasparetti , a composer of ambient electronic music using synths and sampling machines as traditional instruments but also singing bowls, flutes, special percussions (woodchimes, stones, shells, crystal chimes) and processed voices. All his music is recorded using analog-only devices in The Kiva, his studio, which used to be a stall in a XV Century stone country house in the hills of central Italy.
Faryus is Andrey Sadovnikov, an ambient composer from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He is the founder and director of Faria record company.
Forgotten Rituals was limited to 500 copies and included artwork with photos from the Metropolitan Museum Of Art and the British Museum.