Atriohm

The story behind Atriohm

Atriohm began in Skopje in 2003 as the shared project of brothers Sashe and Leonid Golcev. Their music grew out of a specifically Macedonian setting as well as the broader psychedelic-trance underground, using dark tonal colour, dense naturalistic detail and long-form arrangement , not the brighter formulas that dominated much of mid-2000s psytrance. The brothers became part of the Parvati Records orbit, where their work quickly stood out for its unusually immersive sense of space.

The defining early release was Ukalen, the 2009 split album with Encephalopaticys. It became an important reference point for the emerging forest-psytrance vocabulary: shadowy without being merely aggressive, intricate without losing physical groove, and structured as a continuous psychedelic environment , not a sequence of obvious peaks. After the brothers’ paths diverged, Leonid developed the Tengri project while Sashe continued Atriohm as its principal creative force.

Later releases such as Million Years Dance, Reality Intolerant and 20 Years Journey Of Discovery preserved Atriohm’s patient approach to production. The project’s influence comes from that consistency: a recognisable language of distorted organic texture, unusual rhythmic motion and narrative sound design that helped define the darker, more cerebral side of forest trance. Atriohm remains active within the Parvati network and continues to appear at specialist psychedelic festivals.

Origins of Atriohm

Created in Skopje in 2003 by brothers Sashe and Leonid Golcev. Parvati’s history ties the sound to Skopje and the dramatic Macedonian landscape instead of presenting it as a generic international project without regional roots.

The early years

The project entered the Parvati network in the mid-2000s. Ukalen (2009), a split album with Vasko Velickovski’s Encephalopaticys, combined four tracks from each project with one collaboration and became the defining early release.

How the career developed

After Ukalen, the Golcev brothers pursued separate creative paths. Leonid/Leo continued through Tengri, which spans psychedelic chill and trance, while Sashe developed Atriohm as a solo-led project. Later EPs preserved the project’s slower, highly detailed release cycle and deep Forest-oriented sound design.

Atriohm sound

Atriohm’s sound is strongly associated with Forest Psytrance: layered, organic and highly detailed, with brooding atmospheres, elastic bass movement and evolving psychedelic narratives. The music can be dark and night-oriented, but its construction is more specific than a generic Darkpsy label suggests.

Place in psytrance history

Atriohm is a major representative of the Macedonian/Parvati Forest Psytrance lineage. Parvati describes the project as highly influential within contemporary Forest and repeatedly treats Ukalen as a milestone release in its catalogue.

Connections and influence

Atriohm is especially useful for explaining Forest vs Darkpsy: the music can be dark, brooding and night-oriented while remaining rooted in Forest’s organic, layered psychedelic language.

Atriohm today

Active/current. Parvati maintains an artist booking page and Galichnik Gathering lists Atriohm for its September 2026 edition.

How the sound changed over time

Selected releases in the archive

Festival connections

Related projects and collaborations

Artists with overlapping styles