:: new in distro ::

KAPITAL - "Chaos to Chaos"

KAPITAL - "No New Age"

KREUZER - "Lilium"

NRYY - "Wind And Cloud" +
"Kiss" + "Red"

ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO - "Songs 4 Hate &
Devotion" [Limited] Gatefold LP

PHRAGMENTS - "The
burning world"

REFUSE TO DIE - "The Piper
At The Gates of Donna"

REFUSE TO DIE - "The
Penguin"

JARL / ENVENOMIST
- "Tunguska Event"

LA PIETRA LUNARE
– "Same"

MACHINEFABRIEK -
"The Measures Taken"

MACHINEFABRIEK - "Dubbeltjes"

MACIEK SZYMCZUK &
SLOWTION - "Ways"

MANINKARI - "Continuum
Sonore 7>1"

MARS – "Blood Is The
Food Of The Gods"

NAGAMATZU - "Neural
Interval"

ORRYELLE - "156 =
Musick = Babalon = Kaos"

OUROBOROS - "Opus
Tartari"

PHURPA - "Mantras
of Bon"

RAJNA - "Offering"
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JARL / ENVENOMIST
- "Tunguska Event" CD (Zoharum Records)
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11 euro - A long time ago we discovered little known musician called Erik
Jarl. We really liked his first albums and we were watching his
music mature over the years. So when Erik contacted us with the
offer concerning releasing his album we jumped at the chance.
Erik has teamed up with David Reed aka Envenomist to create a
sonic reenactment of the Tunguska event. It was ”was a large
explosion which occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in
what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, at about 07:14 on June 30,
1908” [Wikipedia]. It flattened 2,000 km2 of the forest and it
caused glowing sunsets on the horizon. There are many theories
concerning the cause of this particular event. Some scientists
claim it was connected with an asteroid or comet that burst in the
air above the region, others claim that it might have been a small
black hole passing near the Earth. The mystery is still unsolved.
The music, presented here in five parts, is full of oily drones
and industrial blasts intertwined with unsettling ambient textures.
The sound on this recording is of complex and mature nature, which
hardly comes as a surprise when thinking about years both
musicians spent mastering their skills (David with Envenomist and
Luasa Raelon; Erik both in IRM and Skin Area, and solo known
simply as Jarl). It is an interesting piece of work for those who
search for something on the fringes of electronic music.
The CD is housed in an ecopak sleeve and is strictly limited to
300 copies. The cover picture and design was made by Karolina
Urbaniak (responsible for the lastest covers Jarl, IRM and Skin
Area albums and widely known for here photographic work.) |
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JARL
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"Out
of Balance"
digipack
CD
(Malignant Rec.)
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11 euro -
17 tracks in total, each flowing into each other, with the early
pieces having an almost cosmic heaviness a la Inade. As it
progresses however, the seeds of profound sickness begin to
blossom as tones and textures become more surreal and unsettling.
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JAZKAMER - "Balls The Size Of Texas Liver The Size Of Brazil"
CD (Purple
Soil) -
SOLD OUT!! |
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JESUS OF NAZARETH / EXPLODING METH LAB –
"The
Seed Mouth Collection"
CDr
(Crucial Blast)
- 7 euro -
Total fucking blast noise armageddon !!! This disc has been in the
works over here for an eon, but we've finally gotten it together
and have this jackhammer assembled and ready to trepan any of you
mutants out there that might be looking for some extreme cut-up
grindnoise violence to ruin yer day. This is part split album,
part collaboration between two DC-area projects that have been
orbitting the underground grind/punk scene in the region since the
turn of the decade. The Seed Mouth Collection is packaged in a
foldout sleeve printed in high contrast red and black, with an
insert card and the disc affixed to the inside of the jacket on a
plastic hub. Limited to 300 copies... |
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JOB KARMA -
"Punkt" digipack CD 2010 (Obuh Records) - 11 euro -
Those who follow
post-industrial music know well (or at
least they should know) the name of JOB KARMA. We present with
utmost pleasure a still-hot fresh album of this merited duo, who
are gradually becoming the spearhead of landscapists of the genre.
These two brave-hearted boosters of post-industrial tradition are
now forging hit
by hit 8 well-shaped and perversely tuneful pieces, which
form an ideal
soundtrack for an apocalyptic soap opera that
eats up bits of
our lives every now and then. Escape from...but where? Everywhere
is the same in the giant guts of the mechanical Leviathan. Cosmos
serves more and more dark lards from the frighteningly far
galactic preserves, the black hole gets bigger and bigger. But do
not be afraid. The Mind Grinding and Oppression Machine (the
fearful
MGOM),
choking and wheezing with its own enormity,
gets jammed and broken
more and more often.
Somewhere in a System bowels a new Snake Plissken is born. The
fight goes on. As ever. And me... Well, I recommend to you the
most sensational album this Spring. Covered as it should be, in a
three-fold digipack with a phenomenal cover design by Arek
Bagiński, let happiness and joy be with him for now and ever.
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JOHNNY CASH –
"American
III: Solitary Man"
CD (American Recordings)
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10 euro -
All 14
songs from The Man in Black's 2000 studio album of covers,
featuring a mixture of the incomparable Cash singing solo with
guitar, and of inspired duets with the likes of Tom Petty and
Sheryl Crow. Includes: Before My Time * Country Trash * Field of
Diamonds * I See a Darkness * I Won't Back Down * I'm Leavin' Now
* Mary of the Wild Moor * The Mercy Seat * Nobody * One * Solitary
Man * That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) *
Wayfaring Stranger * Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone). |
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JOMSVIKINGA SAGA -
"JomsvikingaSaga"
digipack CD 2010
/ audiobook
(Walhalla Productions)
- 10 euro -
The Scandinavian
Saga Islandzak in the translation by Leszek
Gardeła.
"JomsVikingaSaga"
- the only translation on Polish, about the fortress
Jomsborg and living in of her excellent warriors, recorded as
audiobook - the radio play. Music by PERCIVAL,
digipack CD, total
time 87 min. |
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KAMIL KOWALCZYK -
"Aurora" CD 2011 (Prototyp
Produktions Ltd)
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5 euro
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A debut CD album from sound
artist/composer Kamil Kowalczyk. It contains two long tracks,
“model II” and “plasma”. The main concept for album was conspiracy
theory about Aurora – a top secret, ultra fast US Military
aircraft, also called TR-3B, which has very advanced technology,
and special engine driving by plasma… |
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KAPITAL - "Chaos to Chaos" digipack CD (Istant
Classic)
- 11 euro -
The album consists of 8 tracks recorded by the band and mastered
by Marcin Bociński. It’s a huge musical step forward from the
realms of drone that engulfed “No New Age” – it seems quite enough
to mention the vocal-centered single “The Music of Goodbye” with
it’s wide pallette of moods. A brighter and somehow more uplifting
cover art (courtesy of Joanna John) makes this unique enigma even
more compelling. |
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KAPITAL - "No New Age" digifile CD (Bocian
Records)
- 11 euro -
Kapital is an encounter of two artists that usually
penetrate different musical genres and ideas. It is an encounter
of two musical worlds: psychoactive electro-acoustic music
generated with electronic instruments and found objects and
extreme psychedelia based on the sounds of processed guitar.
Ziołek and Iwański worked together for the first time during
recording sessions of improvisational group Innercity Ensemble
formed in 2011. In August of 2013 they recorded in Bory Tucholskie
their debut album titled "No New Age", released on CD by Bocian
Records. |
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KARJALAN SISSIT -
"Miserere" CD (Cyclic Law)
- 12 euro -
Re issue of the second album by
Karjalan Sissit, originally release in 2002 on CMI, with
completely redesigned artwork and 2 additional tracks. A close
follow up to their 2001 self tilted debut. Blending unsettling
string arrangements and ambient passages with thundering
percussion and screeching vocal passages, this second installment
in the Karjalan Sissit discography definitely deserves to be made
available again and be rediscovered. Hate, humor and
disintegration really have established themselves as the essential
elements fueling this unique project.
Edition of 500 copies in A5 Gatefold Sleeve. 11 Tracks. Running
Time 49:30 |
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KARMA MARATA / KRISTIAN GIORGINI -
"And
still remain"
profi
CDr
(Skull
Line)
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KARSTEN HAMRE - "Through
the Eyes of a Stranger"
CD
+ DVD /PAL/ 2009
(First Fallen Star) - 12 euro -
Having created music
for many years under such project names as Arcane Art, Penitent,
and Defraktor, Karsten Hamre returns with the "Through the Eyes of
a Stranger". Similar to his project Dense Vision Shrine, under his
own name, Karsten crafts desolate dark ambient sound structures,
ornamented by sampled sounds and experimental textures. The end
result of this process is an experience categorized perhaps too
simply as dark ambient, though it more closely resembles a dark
soundtrack to a movie, or to a life - as seen through the eyes of
a stranger. Ltd x 500 copies in a DVD case with bonus DVD that
takes the viewer on a visual journey of imagery used for live
performances. PAL Format, Region 0 (will play in all European DVD
players). |
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KAUNA TRAIPS – "Kauna Traips" CD
(Sturm) -
5
euro
- Experimental dark ambient release by Tarchoks and Koils. It all
started in 2006 when it seemed no longer possible to keep holding
all this within, partly due to the surrounding environment. Like
induction, shame - as masochistic means to feel strange guilt for
breaking imagined social and moral constructions, or making them
serve another purpose; and conservation of energy - the two minds
and bodies, often being intoxicated death close, transforming
energy into something else. A tranquil accompaniment for madness,
and information overload, pouring into your consciousness and
subconsciousness through every smallest crack. |
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KENJI SIRATORI -
"Dark Nature" CD (Sabbathid Records) -
5 euro
- A new
full-length recorded in 2010 by Kenji Siratori, known for the
cyberpunk writing (e.g. Blood Electric in 2002) as well as
many collaboration works with musicians from Experimental / Noise
fields.
In this work Siratori constructs cold, dissonant and stark Ambient
music by combining sepulchral sound waves and layers of dense
noise. At every moment the sound is dissolved to particles and
diffused to the maximum entropy, which would go best with your
deranged nerves. |
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KENJI SIRATORI -
"Spell of Pain" CDR (Sabbathid Records) -
3 euro - Dark Noise
created by a creative cyberpunk artist from Japan. |
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KENJI SIRATORI /
DAPNOM - "Nhir-otkiv Yima'k" CD (Sabbathid Records)
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5 euro - Ritual
Dark Ambient from France + Hyper Modern Harsh Electronics from
Japan. |
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KENJI SIRATORI vs.
BONEMACHINE - "Crypt Child" 3"CDR (Sabbathid Records) -
5 euro - Dark Industrial, Austria. Featuring a Japanese cyber-punk artist,
Kenji Siratori. |
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KREUZER - "Lilium" MCDR
(T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!)
- 5 euro -
The newest work of Israeli
power-electronics and ambient project Kreuzer—mini-album «Lilium»
is out now. It is the second mini-album released on T’an! Kaven!!
Ash!!! following «Noises Of Independence» |
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KREUZWEG OST - "Gott
Mit Uns" CD (Cold Spring) - 11 euro- 2nd monumental
album from Kreuzweg Ost for Cold Spring, headed by Michael Gregor
(SUMMONING / AMESTIGON). “We see a light through the dim and
cloudy shadows of our existence. In the electric field between.
Total faith and desperation, hope and doubt, eternal bliss and
delusion, we walk an unsure path to an unknown end. When the
clouds open, the light navigates. The loud music of the sky:
pounding drums surrounded by trumpets and swirling voices echoing
from a distance unknown”. Kreuzweg Ost rises again with God on
their side. “Gott Mit Uns” combines a variety of different musical
styles: from Martial Industrial to Classical sounds, from deep
Ambient to cinematic Pop music. These musical prayers are made for
those seeking salvation. |
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KRĘPULEC / OUTOFSIGHT - "Furious friends + bonus" Digipak CD
2007 (Twilight Records) - SOLD OUT!! |
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KRIEGSFALL-U - "s/t"
digipack CD
(Epidemie Records)
- 11 euro -
A new
eponymous album of Hungarian project KRIEGSFALL-U will be released
on the 31st of May 2011. Uncompromising sacral martial industrial
with apocalyptic neo-folk elements declaiming in Hungarian.
Delikatessen for lovers of old Derniere Volonte, Der Blutharsch,
Sophia. Luxurious digipack edition with 12 pages booklet. |
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KRISTOFFER NYSTROMS ORKESTR
/Megaptera/ - "Brakehead" digipack CD (Malignant) -
11 euro
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A must for fans of Megaptera/Negru Voda, with a battery of iron
fisted rhythms hammering down in a thunderous downpour, and the
caustic reverberations of the analog doom machine grinding and
screeching in a symphony of clangorous and distressed beauty. |
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L'EFFET C'EST MOI - "Les Voix De L'Apocalypse"
digipack CD (Midnight Productions)
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5 euro -
The brand new album from the Italian Medieval-Martial-Neoclassical
project! Greatly invoked by romanticism as well as a martial
spirit, "Les Voix De L'Apocalypse" is more epic sounding
music-wise than their last full-length "Tomber En Heroes" (War
Office Propaganda), with a great mix of more medieval melodies. CD
Reissue of the 2008 release on SkullLine (100 copies). Ltd x 500
copies in a digipak. |
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LA PIETRA LUNARE –
"Same" CD (Lichterklang)
- 11 euro -
La Pietra Lunare's debut is a concept
album dedicated to the mysteries of Italy. It tells how, in the
years between the two wars, in some small villages of the south it
was believed that magic rites and amulets could have some form of
will on daily life.Taking inspiration from some cult italian books,
such as Tommaso Landolfi's homonymous novel, these song show how
neofolk music has an esoteric origin through their real popular
beliefs. Recorded in five years, the album includes guests from
the italian neofolk scene, such as Egida Aurea, ZSP, Lupi Gladius
and Antiqua Lunae. Their genre could be a strange kind of neofolk
called "verist post-folk". |
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LAGOWSKI
PRESENTS LEGION - "False Dawn" digipack 2CD (Zoharum
Records)
- 13 euro -
LEGION came as a surprising side-project in comparison to
the British audio visual technician's regular tracks released up
to that date. "False Dawn" was an excellent venture into the world
of spacey electronica which might have served as a complement to
the dense world of techno on LAGOWSKI's early vinyl releases and
to the dark wave of NAGAMATZU. Containing two lengthy tracks ("Colossus"
and "The Plasma Pool") supported by a short rhythmic "Accurone",
it explored the potential of digital electronics in order to
create atmospheric soundscapes, for which it was critically
praised. The reissue is presented in a 2CD edition in a luxurious
6-panel digipak. |
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LAHARIS -
"Unpolitical Alchemy" CD (Vrihaspati
Records) -
5 euro - Laharis is the new project of Johan König who
was the original founder of A Challenge of Honour. After recording
the 'Wilhelm Gustloff' sessions, Johan left ACOH and gave the
Project to Peter, who is ACOH nowadays. In 2005 Johan started
working on his own music again under a name that he used already
several years ago: Laharis. On the new album "unpolitical alchemy"
he works again (for the first time in 5 years) together with Peter.
The sound is between the early ACOH recordings with modern
electronic influences. A beautiful album with many psychedelic
moments. the best soundtrack for long car-rides in dark nights.
ATTENTION: this CD contains a hidden VIDEO-CLIP! |
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LARVA 108 – "99.09 Inside the stones" digipack CD (Greytone)
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5 euro
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“99.09 Inside the stones” is a collection of the
most significant tracks made by LARVA 108 during the first 10
years. 12 songs for 60 minutes. A sountrack for walking alone
through a winter snowstorm or between the trees during a grey day
of november. Experimental, electronica, drones creates organic
gloomy atmospheres. |
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LARRNAKH - "Like the silken shrouds of loneliness"
digipack CD
(Epidemie Records)
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5 euro
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I founded
Larrnakh in 2005. I
wanted to incarnate a musical entity that is based on my own ideas
and conceptions alone. This is dictatorship. I am in control, I
make all the important decision. Of course there are friends, who
help me out. They provide their instrument skills or technical
support, and sometimes ideas too, under my guidance. I expressed
my musical ideas in a certain militant, heroic way from the start,
making them complete with a little lyric harmony. Mostly
industrial, neofolk and noise influences dominate, with various
other tiny elements and ideas, keeping all in continuous formation.
After long preparations, the recordings of the Now will you
believe? album started in 2009. The album was released in 2010 by
the Austrian label Steinklang. The reputation of the 40 minute
long album was really good among both professionals and the
audiance too, so the band filled with self confidence and fresh
energy has started the next album. In May 2011 the second album
titled Like the silken shrouds of loneliness was released. As
previously, the disc contains neofolk rich in emotions and vivid
industrial elements. The dark ambient influences are less
dominant, making the music of LARRNAKH more explicit. |
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LARRNAKH - "Now will
you believe?" digipack CD (Steinklang
Industries) -
5 euro - Great NeoFolk album featuring (ex)members of CAWATANA, STURMAST
and SCIVIAS! "Now will you believe?" is a brilliant mix of
classical guitar-based NeoFolk with electronic elements, varied
and assembled with droning Ritual/Dark-Ambient tracks. the mix of
two completely different styles in music makes this album to a
outstanding new milestone of "crossovers". Dark and sometimes
frightening soundscapes with samples, trumpets and haunting drums
are compiled with beautiful harps, piano, violin and narrating
vocals, rounded by fine NeoClassical elements.
7 songs / 41 min. |
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LES COLONNES DE L'ÉTERNITÉ - "A Soldier Of Lifeforce" Digipack
CD (Lichterklang) Limited edition 300 copies - 11 euro -
LES COLONNES DE L’ÉTERNITÉ were founded in 2009, when Vilkas found
new forms of expression in the Martial Industrial-genre after
first musical experiences in the Black Metal scene. „Soldier Of A
Lifeforce“ now is his first step into public where powerful
drumming corresponds with melancholic melodies und muliple layered
passages, influenced by neoclassical orchestrations and choirs.
Conceptionalwise „Soldier Of A Lifeforce“ deals with the clash of
cultures in a global world, where the loss of cultural identitiy
is increasing day by day. LES COLONNES DE L’ÉTERNITÉ stand in the
tradition of bands such as Toroidh or Karjalan Sissit, but with
their own unique musical brand that makes „Soldier Of A Lifeforce“
nothing less than one of the most impressive Martial Industrial
albums of the year. |
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LIGHT COOPERATION - "Aliens From Planet Earth" CD (ReR
Megacorp) - SOLD OUT!! |
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LUFTWAFFE –
"Trephanus Uhr" digipack CD (Lichterklang)
- SOLD OUT!! |
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LUL & BETA CLOUD & ANDREW LILES - "Circadian Rhythm Disturbance
Reconfigured" digipack CD (Cold Spring) - 11 euro - From
England to the United States and back again… it all started as a
simple drone project between LULL (aka Mick Harris of Scorn,
ex-Napalm Death) and BETA CLOUD (aka Carl Pace), based on the
concept of how insomnia can effect your thought patterns. Billows
of powerful bass drones set to indistinct flourishes of temporary
insanity. The original track is there, but also included is a
fierce remix track by legendary sound artist Andrew Liles (NURSE
WITH WOUND). Fans of Lull and Beta Cloud will really sink their
teeth into this one; what Liles has created here is not a simple
remix but a raging, deconstruction as only he can do. Originally
released as a limited 3″ CD in 2008, now proudly presented in a
deluxe digipak edition with stunning new artwork. A captivating
listen for dark ambient and harsh noise fans alike. |
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MAAAA - "Sampo
Distortion" digipack CD 2010 24919 Records) - 9 euro -
New album of ex-Karelian
project Maaaa, now residing in Warsaw. Maaaa has created
completely pitiless thing, both in sound and in it's sense. The
mythical coffee-grinder of Kalevala like mighty annihilator rises
from the bottom of the sea and grinds all this ugly world of evil
and progress down. "Everything crashes, at out place everything
crashes, here, now and then" - as one unknown lady said. And she
was right, "Sampo Distortion" comes to you! This is a real CD,
digipack with 4 pages insert. Limited to 500 copies.
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MACHINEFABRIEK -
"The Measures Taken" CD (Zoharum Records)
- 11 euro -
After last year's
two releases (a compilation of rare tracks ”Dubbeltjes” and the
reissue of a collaborative album with Dag Rosenqvist entitled ”Vintermusik”)
a renowned sound artist Rutger Zuydervelt returns with a
completely new album called ”The Measures Taken”. It is the score
for a dance performance by choreographer Alexander Whitley and
visual artists Marshmallow Laser Feast. ”The Measures Taken” was
originally commissioned by the Royal Opera House (it premiered
there in May 2014). The spectacular performance involves a lot of
hi-tech interactivity between dancers and projected visuals. The
theme of man vs/with machine is magnified by the music, which
combines warm melodic pads with glitchy white noise and (more than
on any other Machinefabriek release) propulsive rhythms. Now you
can enjoy the music from the performance on a physical album which
is also striking without the use of the visual side. The album is
released in a 3-panel ecopak in a strictly limited edition of 300
copies. |
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MACHINEFABRIEK -
"Dubbeltjes" CD (Zoharum Records)
- 11 euro -
New compilation of rare
works entitled "Dubbeltjes". It consists of 11 track recorded
between 2008 and 2013. Rutger Zuydervelt talks about "Dubbeltjes":
Short playing time formats, like 7-inches and 3-inch cdrs, are
great to work with. More than on regular albums, the durational
limitations are useful to experiment with and to create really
focused, cristalised pieces.
Most of these tracks focus on a very limited palette of sounds.
"Hilary" and "Jeffery" for example, are constructed using solely
trombone recordings from (you guessed it) Hillary Jeffery (of The
Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble). "Huiswerk" Part 1 and 2 were made
using a simple setup of electric guitar and sampler. And probably
a suprise in my discography are "My Funny Valentine" and "Oh
Doctor Jesus", two jazz classics, in collaboration with bass
clarinet player Gareth Davis. All these sets of songs have a very
specific quality to them. These tracks are among my personal
favorites. Most of them aren't available on a physical format
anymore, so it's great to gather them on the album 'Dubbeltjes'.
The tracks are presented as pairs or trios, as they appeared on
their original releases. It's up to you, the listener, to either
experience these combinations seperatly, hear the album in
continuous play, or use shuffle mode to make new combinations. |
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MACIEK SZYMCZUK &
SLOWTION - "Ways" digipack CD (Zoharum Records)
- 11 euro -
Album was prepared together with a British artist hidden under the moniker
Slowtion. 'Ways' is a musical journey into the depth of your own
persona, the diary from spiritual journey in search of the answer
on the meaning of the human existence where, among the
complexities and blind alleys, one can find an element of sacrum,
the contact with the Absolute. Musicwise, 'Ways' show slightly
different traits of Maciek Szymczuk's work. It may have happened
this way because of the collaborative nature of the project and
Slowtion's involvement in it. Also, it may have been the character
of Joanna's voice-delicate, ethereal that resembles Bristol sounds
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MAEROR TRI -
"Meditamentum" digifile 2CD (Zoharum Records) - 13 euro -
Unavailable for many years, "Meditamentum"
is a collection of tracks culled from tape releases and rarities
hidden on many compilations. It spans the whole existence of
Maeror Tri, starting with 2 tracks from 1989 ending with 3 tracks
from 1996. It is a sort of "best of" Maeror Tri, as it tells the
story of the bands progress. From rough edges of "Peak Experience"
to dreamy soundscapes of "The Beauty of Sadness".
"Meditamentum" is also a document of the underground tape scene of
the 1980s and 1990s, and of a genius of MAEROR TRI as purveyors of
mind-altering sonic experience. It's "Music for the Brain" at its
best.
Each volume is extended with a bonus track making the whole
collection 155 minutes long and comprising of 23 tracks. |
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MAEROR TRI -
"Emotional Engramm" digipack CD (Zoharum Records)
- 11 euro -
The reissue of a long-forgotten
classic MAEROR TRI album with stunning new artwork and newly
remastered sound. Back in 1997, it turned out to be the last album
by this experimental trio of German droners composed of Stefan ‘Baraka[h]’
Knappe, Martin ‘GLIT[s]CH’ Gitschel and Helge Siehl. The former
two later formed TROUM and the latter 1000SCHOEN. During their
nine-year existence, they recorded a handful of albums and
cassettes with their unique mixture of minimalism, industrial,
ambient and drone, exploring the brains of potential listeners. „Emotional
Engramm” is MAEROR TRI 's most refined effort to date.
After years of experimenting, the group came to a characteristic
sound composed of layers of electrically / electronically-treated
acoustic instruments. Their organic sound achieved the most
accessible form on „Emotional
Engramm”;. Clocking in at just under 80 minutes, the seven
tracks presented here show Maeror Tri at its best.
The reissue is presented in a lavish 6-panel digipak.
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MANINKARI - "Continuum
Sonore 7>1" CD (Zoharum Records)
- 11 euro -
Maninkari, a duo hailing from France, should be a well-known one
for ambient lovers. They have already released six albums on
renowned labels such as Conspiracy, Neuropa or Basses Frequencies.
Their influences range from classical music through jazz and free
improv ending with ambient and drone. Therefore, it is not easy to
classify them as a modern post-industrial electronica combo.
The duo works quite intensively. They have just prepared the
second volume of their 2012 ”Continuum Sonore” album. What
enchanted us about Maninkari while listening to part 7-14
”Continuum Sonore” compostion of is their easiness in creating
beautiful, but haunting melodies drowned in cinema-like atmosphere.
It is not surprising as the duo have created music for films of
Thomas Pantalacci. Their other advantage is varied instrumental
textures. Apart from regular synthesizers and not so common
persussion, they use atypical instruments, such as bodhran, viola,
cimbalom, santoor. It brings them closer to the neoclassical
genre.
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MARS – "Blood Is The
Food Of The Gods" digipack CD (Lichterklang)
- 11 euro - ‘Blood is the
Food of the Gods’ - MARS, a pagan brotherhood founded in 2011,
present their third release after the folk-debut ‘Sons of Cain’
and the powerful vinyl-e.p. ‘Sacrifice’. Inspired by American
pagan folk and apocalyptic philosophy the sound of MARS is
dominated by purely acoustic arrangements using guitars, various
percussions and two male voices. Their drum-driven hymns tell of
the persisting powers of nature, of the ancient breath of the gods
and of the Eternal Cyclic Law of life. This is no simple escapism
into dreamy realms, it’s a multifaceted journey into the
subconscious parts of the human spirit, driven by pounding rhythms
and accentuated guitars. With ‘Blood is the Food of the Gods’ MARS
has become a powerful force in the European pagan underground.
Their songs are energetic rituals to awaken the forgotten powers.
Like the 12” ‘Sacrifice’ before this album displays unique
hand-painted artwork by Nadine O. Demmler. Featured are new
interpretations of ‘Icarus Falling’ (:Golgatha:) and ‘Man is
Disorder’ (Aeterna). |
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MEJDANEK WALZ - "Ophelia" CD (Wroth Emitter) -
5 euro
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"Ophelia" is the second part of a trilogy by Majdanek Waltz. This
disc can be considered as evolution of the musical and lyrical
essence of the band introduced by the "Hamlet's Childhood" album,
and is based on original acoustic music of the band coupled with
the lyrics of the German early XX century expressionist poets Paul
Zech and Georg Heym. All compositions are published for the first
time. |
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MEPHI - "MoRgAnIuM Ad AyLaNiUm" digipack CD (MidNight
Productions) -
5 euro
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The debut album from the swedish
neo-classical project MephI, sparkling like a crystal, melancholy
like in a moon-night, 2 souls of solitude present you this
sorrowful love poem which interweaved by full moon and numerous
stars. Limited to 500 copies,digipack CD. |
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MERZBOW - "Scene" CD
(Waystyx) - 12 euro
- Recorded in November 2004, this material is not remarkable for
it's brutality, rather on the contraty, sometimes it reminds quite
normal music. The album is filled with straight rhythmic moments
and ambient diffusions, but of course Masami Akita couldn't do it
without good noise flavouring even here. |
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MERZBOW & Z'EV –
"Spiral
Right / Spiral Left"
CD
(Cold Spring)
- 11 euro -
In
the planning (and many faxes, emails and discussions in person)
for 20 years, finally this stunning collaborative release for Cold
Spring from Japanese Noise king Merzbow and legendary elemental
sound artist Z'EV is here. The tracks were created in London and
Tokyo, with each artist remixing the other's original sounds. Two
tracks weighing in at 22 minutes apiece! Dark Ambient Noise in a
special textured card digisleeve. |
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MERZBOW - "Camouflage" CD (Essence Music)
- 12 euro - We salute
the ferocious torrents of abused, imploding and exploding
electronics, the sharp, pulverizing and abrasive high frequencies
and the unrelenting punishment of frenzied throbbing
machine-screams witnessed in the controlled cacophonic environment
of the latest Merzbow offering! "Camouflage" plays by the straight
MERZBOW rules, going back to his comfort zone of audio barbarism.
Ltd x 800 copies in a deluxe gatefold hardback sleeve. |
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MERZBOW - "Anicca" CD (Cold
Spring) - SOLD OUT!! |
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MERZBOW / SUTCLIFFE JUGEND / SATORI - "split" CD (Cold Spring)
- 10 euro -
Released on the occasion of Merzbow, Sutcliffe Jügend and Satori
at ULU, London, 19th April 2008. Japanese Noise, Power Electronics
and Fortean Electronics from these 3 giants of the Noise /
Industrial scene, with one exclusive studio track from each act.
This CD is presented in a full colour card slip and is
shrinkwrapped. Limited to 1000 copies only! |
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MICHAEL MANTRA - "D#m/Gm" CD (Purple Soil)
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5 euro
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"D#m / Gm" is an
album of extended ambient listening of sonic icebergs, slowly
shifting over time. The album is based in ultra minimal
atmospheric dronecore - an exploration into the dark unknown of
sombre sonic states, of the mysterious unknown, leveraging changes
in states of feeling and states of consciousness. Presented in a
stunning 6-panel digisleeve with images courtesy of NASA. |
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MICHAEL MANTRA - "Mobius Logic" CD (Silentes)
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5 euro
- Evocative and crepuscular atmospheres, tenuous sounds from the
inks color pastel, minimalistic melodies acclimatized on
background of "discreet" but wrapping field recordings... Evoked
and surrealistic soft sonorous landscapes with warm synthetic
sounds, mixed to crystalline natural noises, concrete sounds,
breaths... A fascinating classic "and" quiet "album of" ambient
music, to work of one of the greatest and "historical" masters of
the sort... |
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MIEL NOIR - "Der Honigflügel" CD
(The Eastern Front)
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5 euro
- Another,
absolutely different project of Dimo Dimov (Svarrogh, Sturmpercht,
Allerseelen, Saggitarius). Brilliant piano symphony with
industrial elements and samples from Russian movies inspired by
classical Russian novel "Crime and Punishment" written by Fyodor
Dostoevsky and Goncharov novels. Edition of 500 copies. Special 3
panels folded cardboard packing. Released on CD format. |
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MIXTURIZER - "Senile
Dementia" CDr 2009 (Mask of the Slave) -
3 euro
- Noise /
Experimental project based in Canary Islands, Spain. Started on
summer 2006 by Manuel M. Cubas as a scape from music to pure sound
and noise experimentation to express and creating through a
personal point of view on surrealistic/ abstract/ non conventional/
anti-commercial and personal ways. Also defined as a multi-layered
noise act combining unsightly sound forms with Harsh Noise,
Experimental, Industrial, Ambient elements. CD-R in normal
slim-jewel case, limited to 60 copies. |
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MIZAR - "A View to a Flower Garden" Digipak CD (Corvus
Records) - 10 euro - The return of a classic dark wave band from the 80’s,
this time with a more minimalistic approach (in the vein of Joy
Division, for instance), but quite dark, elegant, melodic, very
gothic and still sweetly melancholic. |
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MOLJEBKA PVLSE –
"Zojo" digipack CD (Greytone) -
10 euro
- The Moljebka
Pvlse album Zojo was recorded during the Mathias studies at the
Royal Institute of Art. He was inspired by the longest night of
the year in Stockholm, the day when there is almost no daylight.
His ambition was to make an acoustic album of minimal music
without any musical instruments. Moljebka Pvlse setup long nylon
strings across his entire studio at school, which he then plucked
and bowed and recorded with his favorite contact microphones on
that very night. These recordings became the fundament of the
album and set the tone for the rest of the work. Moljebka Pvlse
are very grateful for the contribution by the Japanese artist
Michiko Kashiba on this album. |
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MOON FAR AWAY - "Minnesang" CD
(Ahnstern / Steinklang)
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10 euro -
Brand new album from cult Russian Neofolk act Moon
Far Away! "Minnesang" is an album of 21st century ritual music
encased in a unique fusion of the most diverse and
zeitgeist-capturing musical styles, from neofolk, dark folk and
post punk to practically future pop. The theme of the album, the
deep-rooted feminine archetypes in contemporary art, is embodied
in the title, which identifies a genre of medieval knight lyrics.
At the same time, most of the original Russian lyrics on the album
are drenched with the trademark Pomor flavours, emphasising the
pride that the band has always taken in its cultural roots that
extend deep into the epic traditions of the Russian North.
"Minnesang" is a new milestone achieved by a cult group who
already gave contemporary art scene a number of discoveries and
revelations. This Ahnstern version has partly different artwork to
the Russian edition and the last song is completely different to
the Russian version. |
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MORTUOR - "I'm
Waiting for You" CD (Syzmic Records)
- 10 euro - Debut release from this
US act. The stale state of experimentalism has forced this; the
union of sickness and sound. A tribute to the forerunners of
power-death electronics. Pure emotion. Pure sickness. Pure power.
Nothing compromised. Classic Death Industrial, dedicated to and
inspired by the works of the late Marco Corbelli (Atrax Morgue)
and the Italian Death Industrial Movement. Ltd x 250 copies in an
outsized gatefold sleeve. |
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MOST OF THE TACITURN - "Nan King" CD 2009 lim. 400 copies (Dying
Art Productrion)
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MULTIPOINT INJECTOR - "Digital Ownerless" CDR 2009 (Mizantrophy)
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3 euro
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The gathering of chosen compositions from last
years of the creation this project. Experimental and
postindustrial collages, something for fans Thomasa Konera! The
outlay limited edition to 50 copies. |
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MURDEROUS VISION - "The Times Without Gods" CD (Live
Bait Rec.) - 11 euro - Deep layers, melodic
keyboards, classical samples, some ritualistic percussion here,
some low-pitched echoed plus chorused voices there, and a good
dose of darkness via reverb and minor chords; you already know the
formula, don't you? But the fact is that, even if Murderous Vision
repeats the patterns of an established genre with a superb
accuracy .. and then, maybe you can infer that this is the case of
a perfectly planned album, which lacks an own soul, and that's not
precisely what surrounds me .., Mr Petrus demonstrates that it has
an identity as a composer. And moreover, I would describe some
parts of the recording as highly emotional, giving that somewhat
special touch to the album; the quality all art should transmit
and something that some technically depurated musicians tend to
forget nowadays. Add to it a few carefully arranged pictures (layout
work of the acclaimed Michael Riddick) in a standard jewel case,
but with a professional appearance, and, as a whole, here you have
the reasons why an edition like this couldn't keep on passing
unnoticed for the average fan of the more listenable side of
Industrial. A perfectly designed product and an infallible bet,
which surely decided the artist to give its best in all senses
once he realized what he had between hands. A moment of brilliancy
and a high mark difficult to be surpassed in the near future, but
that can set a new beginning for the band. |
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MUSSORGSKI -
"Chaos and Paranormal Divinity" CD (East Side)
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5 euro
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20 years after first
demo and 16 years after the dubut album MUSSORGSKI is back! New
Album 'Chaos and Paranormal Divinity' brings 46 minutes of dark
Doom / Black Metal with industrial touch. Let the Chaos begin!!! |
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NADJA –
"Desire
In Uneasiness"
digigatefold CD
(Crucial Blast)
- 10 euro -
Following a wave of recent reissues and re-recorded versions of
older CD-R titles, Desire In Uneasiness is an album of all new
material from the acclaimed Canadian dreamsludge weavers Nadja.
Five colossal jams of eternally-fuzzy, ethereal dirge that are
powered by the interlocking bass guitars of Leah Buckareff and
Aidan Baker, who set loose a wave of monstrous grinding bass riffs
amidst a fog of beautiful, swirling electronic effects. Desire
also marks the first Nadja album to feature a live drummer in
place of the drum machine programming that has driven the band's
previous recordings, and the difference in the band's sound is
apparent from the first crushing beats of album opener
'Disambiguation'. The organic drumming here takes Nadja's music
into new realms of spacious jazzy exploration, dubby rhythms and
cavernous psychedelia, while also delivering some of the band's
most grooving, crushing hypno-bliss yet. Desire also stands out
from the rest of the Nadja catalog for it's bizarre artwork that
Aidan commisioned from his friend The Reverend Aitor. Aitor's
bright, bold lines and textured magic marker artwork gives the
gatefold jacket we've presented this disc in the look of a twisted
children's book on acid, with weird images of chickens, trees
growing through chairs, and more. The package is a sturdy 4-panel
gatefold jacket printed by Stoughton, and it looks killer. |
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NEKRASOV - "The
Ever-Present" 2xCDR + ART ZINE (Crucial Blast) -
10 euro -
Harsh noise into his miniature holocausts of hellish
speakershred isn't news to anyone who has been following his body
of work over the past few years. From the beginning, Nekrasov's
mechanized black blasts and sprawling abyssal soundscapes have
been infested with the most caustic forms of electronic abuse and
frequency terror. But starting with the extremely limited disc In
Solitude And Darkness, The Last Step Is Made that came out on Void
Séance last year, Nekrasov has now also started to work with the
rigid aesthetic of the "wall", sculpting brutal, immersive
infernos of extreme static noise that are reminiscent of Vomir.
The mindset is certainly similar; going for extremely long
unbroken tracks of churning high density distortion that remains
unrelenting and unchanging, Nekrasov's efforts in HNW drag me down
into the same sort of depressed, lightless Zen state that the
French master is so adept at invoking. This is no small feat.
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NIEMANDSVATER - "Zeitenlos"
Digipak CD (Lichterklang) -
9 euro-
In the beginning, “Niemandsvater” was the
result of a collaboration involving Markus Stäritz, Christoph
Lotte and Niklas Schäpsmeier. Between 2009 and 2010, they created
a cycle of interpretations for William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence
and Experience” with the musical support of Torsten Jeschke and
Magdalena Dieke.
After that, Niklas Schäpsmeier and Christoph Lotte worked on own
ideas for Blake’s “Europe a Prophecy” and set some works from H.P.
Lovecraft’s Cthulhu myth to music.
Finally, “Zeitenlos” was composed by Christoph Lotte and his wife
Julia Hayn who also wrote the lyrics for the album and provided
its artwork and cover design. Niklas Schäpsmeier and Sven Luhman
also contributed to the creation of “Zeitenlos”.
“Zeitenlos” is a reflection on the aesthetics of time, its
transience and the inevitable fate of mankind while it reveals the
love for a concept of an idealised human greatness that is
considered to be lost. Myth-like, the album’s topics twine around
timeless ideas in an ideal time and, thus, constitute a quest for
the cultural and spiritual beauty of man.
With minimalist approaches to classical music and inspired by the
sonorous landscapes of the Greek and Roman antiquity, “Zeitenlos”
unfolds a reverie transcending time in an unreal atmosphere.
Piano, lyre, trumpet, percussions and subtle ambient effects
accompany Christoph Lotte’s dominating vocals. |
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NIHIL NOVI SUB
SOLE - "Jupiter Temple" digipack CD
A5 (Licherklang)
- 11 euro -
At some
point during
the year of 2009, My Kingdom Music sent me a rather interesting
4-track EP. Only 17 minutes short, it was a magazine-only
foretaste of Marco Kehrens (ex-Deinonychus, ex-Bethlehem, ex-Dark
Sanctuary) new project - Nihil Novi Sub Sole (Nothing New Under
The Sun). Now in early 2010, Marco has released his debut under
the new moniker. A new moniker - a new kind of music. Let me tell
you that 'NNSS' really doesn't have anything in common with metal.
Instead the project focuses on industrially tainted ambient
compositions. The most defining aspect is the drumming. It's very
loud in the mix and rather monotone and serves the purpose of
dragging the listener throughout the eerie atmospheres set by
various orchestrations and samples. Vocals are completely replaced
by samples speaking about great sins of humanity - most of them in
German about national socialist atrocities - and a few choir
samples. The atmospheres this record conveys are powerful and
picturesque and as such the whole music has a certain intriguing
gloominess to it. It's rare that the chiming of a bell paired with
a simplistic keyboard build-up can carry such a strong mood by
themselves (Totgeborener Lebensmut). With this album Marco Kehren
proves how effective music based solely on atmosphere can actually
be. However the music doesn't offer anything apart from that. The
musicianship is rather minimalistic and while no two songs are
completely alike, the CD as a whole sounds very samey, which is
probably its biggest shortcoming. As background music for moments
of solemn reflection, this record seems almost perfect though. |
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NIKITA GOLYSHEV -
"Solaris" CD (Monochrome Vision)
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5 euro -
The debut CD album of one of the most promising
russian underground musician, presenting his own unique vision of
ambient music. Combining the deep layers of machine-like hum and
minimal melodic keys, Nikita creates highly emotional and dramatic
journey to the netherworld. Two parts of this one hour long suite
are the partly presented in the program of
Add Noise II festival on May 15th,
2007. |
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NOSENS - "The
Final Step" CD-R 2009 (s/t) -
3 euro - This is debut
releases of French project
Neoclassical / Ambient / Orchestral / Industrial. Sound on myspace>
http://www.myspace.com/nosenshails |
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NORTHAUNT - "Istid
I-II" digipack 2CD
(Cyclic Law)
- SOLD OUT!!
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NRYY - "Wind And Cloud" +
"Kiss" + "Red" 3xMCDR (T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!)
- 8 euro -
Weird guitar
industrial album from Japanese project NRYY. Mix of guitar
industrial sounds and melodic noise. Released as 3 parts, each
under its own title, come on 3″ CD-Rs with avantgarde
artwork. |
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OBOZDUR – "Winter Canabinol Essence""CD
(Nihil Art Records)
- 4 euro -
lim. 500 copies, jewel box, style: noise. 6 tracks… which
will penetrate deeply into your mind & stay there for long time…
leaving unique feeling of novelty & at the same time immersing you
in depths of style… in a word… noise… free comments… |
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OF SWINE AND SWILL - "Of Swine and Swill" CD (Live
Bait Rec.)
- 5 euro
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Like an ancient bottle of Absinthe found buried in some
dark cellar, you’ve discovered something very unique here.
Elements of the classics, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and Hawkwind
perfume the air as an aural louche, sonic clouds swirling with
Industrial soundscapes a la Deutsch Nepal or In Slaughter Natives,
with a touch of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Stephen Petrus (Murderous
Vision) and John Potter (Flintknap/Murderous Vision) created the
initial concepts for Of Swine and Swill as childhood friends.
Musical discussions turned to all night experimentations.
Recording sessions turned into weekends, then weeks of nothing but
the music. Over the course of the summer of ’08, Stephen and John
blended their rock and electronic roots into a finely honed
project, with over an hour of material recorded. With the addition
of Rick Pfluger (Reichardt Van Grieken, Rambler 454) contributing
vocals on two tracks, and eventually joining the project full
time, the circle has been made complete.Without the constraints
nor boundaries of any one genre, the music of Of Swine and Swill
is very personal, introspective and emotional, a palette of color,
aggressive yet subtle. Atmospheric, yet never a passive listen!The
album features a 8 page full color booklet, which includes all
lyrics and artwork by both John and Stephen. Limited to 1000
Professionally replicated copies. |
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THE WAND & THE MOON - "The Lone Descent" CD (Tesco Organisation)
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ORCHIS - "A Thousand
Winter" digipack CD
(Infinite Fog Productions)
- 11 euro -
"A Thousand Winter"
it is improbable result of the deep mystical experiences embodied in
studio work! It's a сonceptual album, with Grand Theme: The story of one
part of Europe is extraordinarily like every other part; a thriving
pagan culture that at first laughs in derision at the priests of the
desert messiah, and then is slowly submerged by the rising tide of
christianity until all that remains is folk memory and old tales and
songs. The cult of the Nazarene has built many truly awe-inspiring
cathedrals from the blood of the people of Europe whilst incorporating
and subverting their culture into that of the Blood of the Lamb. Now
this album also the important part of history Neo-Folk of music to which
we again have possibility to touch... So, ORCHIS again with us and
returning begins with "A THOUSAND WINTERS" which we with pride represent
in 6 pannel-digiCD with a bronze stamping. |
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ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO - "Songs 4 Hate &
Devotion" [Limited] Gatefold LP (Out of line)
- 23
euro -
Strictly limited
edition VINYL in deluxe GATEFOLD-Cover, featuring an alternative
track listing.
Crossing the borders between art, rebellion, passion, apocalypse
and sex, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio have managed to settle in their
very own musical niche with their opulent and intense sonic
sculptures. “Songs 4 Hate & Devotion” is an emotional
rollercoaster ride driven by the intense voice of Tomas Petterson
that alternates martially majestic monuments of orchestral sounds,
marching drums and percussion with very intimate and fragile
moments, mingles Cold-Wave-, Shoegazing- and Minimal-elements with
folkloristic structures and that manages to slip in the odd
musical quote as well. The Swedish duo has carefully opened and
evolved its unique sound into a wholly exceptional epic that
consequently evades any easy categorization. Pop music for
non-conformists. |
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ORRYELLE - "156 =
Musick = Babalon = Kaos" digipack CD (Zoharum Records)
- 11 euro - The
Silver Dusk's 156 = Musick Project is an experiment of Process:
Magickal Musick was recorded by members of The HermAphroditic
ChAOrder of the SILVER DUSK -usually in ritual context or with
invocational intent- then posted on CD to other member/s in
another country for them to add more layers to. This continued
progressively until completion. The style of music ranges from
neoclassical ambient orchestral multi-instrumental corroborations
and layered electronic experimentations to simple primal ritual
corroborees with sticks and bells and harmonious voices around a
fire by the Hekate Tree. |
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OUROBOROS - "Opus
Tartari" digipack CD (Zoharum Records)
- 10 euro - Album of Italian dark
ambient project which - in its leader's own words - after years of
esoteric and alchemist studies decided to transfer his own
experiences into music. Ouroboros should be then treated as a
medium used in search for its own philosophical stone.
Compositions included on the album lead the listener into the
world of antique and medieval times due to their tunes and the
singing in Latin. Mystical, slightly sacral character of the
tracks has become its leitmotif recognisible for the band.
Marco Grosso known for his collaboration with many session
musicians (with Claudio Dondo of Runes Order) asked a lot of
vocalists (Nuna Luna - soprano voice, Sorath Isis, Aleph Zero,
Malice) to participate in the recordings as well. This resulted in
the creation of 'Opus Tartari' - an intriguing, emotional, full of
unsettling beauty and esoterica journey. The album can be likened
to early releases of Diamanda Galas, The Moon and the Nightspirit
and The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud. |
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OUROBOROS - "Lux
Arcana" CD (Sabbathid Records) - 10 euro - Full-album / Esoteric
Dark Ambient from Italy. |
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OUTOFSIGHT / KRĘPULEC - "Furious friends + bonus" Digipak CD
2007 (Twilight Records) - SOLD OUT!! |
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OXYD - "Liveforms"
CD (Aliens Production) -
5 euro - Oxyd follows up their 2009
release, Astral Border, with Liveforms, a rare recording of live
performances showcasing this talented duo's ability to drift
somewhere out in the darkest waters of ambient and IDM. Oxyd
delivers dark tones and mysterious twists that balance seamlessly
to create hypnotic sequences and atmospheric soundscapes that
surge beyond the typical industrial voyage. Features several
unreleased tracks along with songs selected to elicit a new
emotion with each listen. Ltd x 333 copies in a square DVD case.. |
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PARHELION - "Midnight
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PBK & Josh Lay -
"Split" CDR (Syndrom Records) -
4 euro - American composer,
Phillip B. Klingler, better known as PBK, has been active in the
experimental music underground since 1986. His soundwork
correlates to electroacoustic, classic industrial and free jazz
genres. PBK has fashioned a noise-based music that doesn't rely on
power electronics process, but rather, by placing noises
themselves into ambient/atmospheric sound environments. His
soundworks are composed from turntable manipulation, sampling and
analog/digital synthesis. Improvising spontaneously and with
little preconception, PBK creates pulsing, echoing, organic
soundscapes of unknown sonic origin. Josh Lay combines his
horror-noise approach with PBK's psychedelic synth improvisation
into a deep, forbidding soundscape. |
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PBK / TELEPHERIQUE - "Noise Ambient Connection" CD
(Monochrome Vision) -
5 euro
- This
particular album is the first ever collaboration between american
soundartist Phillip B. Klingler and german band Telepherique, it
represents yet another breakthrough in the search for a music that
is comprehensively exploring 21st century ambient music, an
essential listening experience which is absolutely unique for the
whole genre history as well as for both artists. |
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PERSONA - "Ruines" digipack CD (Marbre Negre) -
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PHASE II -
Afterglow" digipack CD
(Ahnstern /
Steinklang)
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5 euro -
It has been a little over 32 since the inception and all-too-brief
life span of Phase II, the prog-folk band founded by Mark Andrews
(Blue Grass) and Nicholas Tesluk (Changes). "Afterglow" introduces
modern listeners to Phase II's unique and timeless mixture of
varied musical styles. Included in this expansive release are 6
songs from their original repertoire, all recorded here for the
very first time. As a special reprise, all songs from their only
release ( a long out of print 7" blue vinyl) have been enhanced
and included on the album. To bring things full-circle, Phase II
is also proud to present a recording of its first all-new song of
the 21st century on this CD. The 69 minute album concludes with "Candle
in the Night", their complete pre-progressive, conceptual radio
program from 1978. Digipak with booklet featuring full lyrics, as
well as an anecdotal history of the band in text and photos. |
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PHRAGMENTS - "The
burning world" CD
(The Eastern Front)
- 11 euro -
Coming in oversized (almost
A5-size) 3-panel cardboard packaging, limited to 1’000 copies. New
powerful and emotional full-length album by Slovakian Martial
bombast project PHRAGMENTS. 7 orchestral / industrial compositions
heavily accented by dark ambient and martial atmosphere. Majestic
orchestrations, industrial machinery and noisy outbursts. This
second full-length album by this gifted act is a dramatic vision,
a sombre view of a world that is burning… |
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PHRAGMENTS - "Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood" digipack CD
(Malignant) - 11 euro - You’ve seen it
before. Certain bands or artists delivering their finest work with
their first recording. Then, in futile attempts to capture some of
the same magic, becoming formulaic and stale, rehashing ideas and
never really achieving the same caliber of work. Others, expanding
on the elements of their prior releases, and through a natural
maturation process, get stronger with each release. That would
certainly be the case with Phragments. With their third full
length studio CD, this Slovakian duo have made remarkable strides
not only in quality but in scope. Equipped with an enriched sonic
palate, Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood mixes forceful brass and
dark orchestral strings with rolls of powerful tribal percussion,
somber wind instrumentation, ominous atmospheres, industrial
clangor, and a strong and commanding vocal presence, particularly
on tracks like “Over Deadlands” and “The Kin of Cain”. Cohesive,
complete, and epic, this is a release that will open some eyes to
new found authority of Phragments. Yours to discover. In 6 panel
digipak |
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PHURPA - "Mantras
of Bon" CD
(Zoharum Records)
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11 euro - The magic and strength of their music has been
appreciated by Stephen O'Malley among others, who released one of
their albums on his own label. Zoharum would like to present the
latest album by the band entitled "Mantras of Bon." It is an
extraordinary release, even for such an extraordinary and unusual
project as PHURPA. More than 70 minutes of music here is divided
into two parts. The first one, featuring Alissa Nicolai on vocals,
shows the band from a completely different angle; the other one
presents the most important and interesting sessions recorded over
the past few years, with a recording from CTM festival where they
impressed the audience with "kuntunzangpo."
"Mantras of Bon" is an excellent introduction into the adventures
with PHURPA, the world of Tibetan music filtered by contemporary
reinterpretation free from rigid rules. It may enchant both those
looking for interesting sacral music and the ones searching for a
new form of sonic statement. |
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PHURPA - "The
Magic Rituals" CD/DVD
(Cyclic Law)
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PHURPA - "Trowo
Phurnag Ceremony" CD
(Sketis Music)
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PIEVOS
- "Paprastas
pasualis"
digipack CD (Dangus Records)
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11 euro -
New album!! Folk-rock from Lithuania:
see video on
Youtube
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PIEVOS
- "Mėnuli
baltas"
CD (Dangus Records) -
10 euro -
The original Lithuanian group's second
album shines with a strong poetry and ancient folklore, dark
alternative rock, acoustic tunes. The rich female singing of
vocalist Virginija is impressive indeed, accompanied with solid
guitar lines, melancholic violin, flute and accordion harmonies
which add a fine neo-folk feel. Tinted with exciting strokes, the
poetical music of Pievos carries us on the wings of soulful
harmonies to the northern Lithuania, where one can find answers to
all the questions of life among the charm whispering meadows,
praying trees and lurking mires. Lyrics in Lithuanian. CD comes
with a nice wrapper, 11 songs. |
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POETS TO THEIR BELOVED - "Embrace the Fool" Digipak CD
(Equilibrium Music)
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10 euro -
Debut album by the German/Dutch duo who conquered physical
distance through proximity of hearts. On the verge of neo-folk,
Poets to their Beloved offers a unique atmosphere built on
stringed instruments such as acoustic guitars, cello, violin and
bass. |
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PSYCHOMANTEUM - "Oneironaut" digipack CD (Cyclic Law) -
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RAISON D'ETRE - "Mise
en Abyme" digipack CD (Transgredient Records) -
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RAJNA - "Offering" Digipak CD (Equilibrium Music) -
12 euro - With "Offering", their 9th album and their first for
Equilibrium Music, Rajna continue their musical and cultural quest,
crossing the Mediterranean and taking us over the Aegean islands,
the Cyclades, Crete and Greece, towards Turkey. |
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RAPOON & PROMUTE
- "Machine River" CD (Zoharum Records)
- 11 euro -
Not only is Robin
Storey aka Rapoon a very prolific solo artist, but also he
collaborates with many musicians from all over the world. He has
already worked with Mykel Boys, Wyrm, Pas Musique, Kinder Atom,
Cisfinitum, Pacific 231 et al. This time he teamed up with Shaun
Sandor aka Promute to create 8 haunting tracks. This is the story
of their meeting in the words of Shaun Sandor: This collaboration
between Rapoon and Promute is a direct result of the 2011 Endless
Form Tour. For several nights in a row in different cities I sat
in a swirling mist of sound conjured by Rapoon. The music easily
generated notions of timelessness and seductive landscapes. In all
of this, I was realizing that the electro-acoustic set that I was
performing seemed to be a natural compliment to the music of
Rapoon. I created several dozen tracks of homemade instruments,
prepared guitar and bass, and sitar and sent them to Robin Storey
to manipulate, process and edit. I asked my friend Des Kashyap to
contribute some vocals as well, and he agreed. Robin added his
music and vocals as well and did the arranging and mixing. The CD
is housed in an ecopak sleeve and is strictly limited to 500
copies. |
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RAPOON - "Seeds
in the Tide Volume 3" digipack 2CD (Zoharum Records)
- 13 euro -
The third
volume in our ongoing series of albums collating Rapoon's rarities
from 2003 and 2004. As always it's composed of 2 discs. The first
one features two rare releases; number one is ”Monomyth: Par Avion”
CDR (limited to 199 copies only) is a source material for a
collaborative album with Birds of Tin, and number two is ”Jane
from Whitley Bar” 7” vinyl plus a number of tracks from
compilations. The second disc is a real treat as it contains a
previously unreleased recording from a 2004 gig in Vienna. The CDs
is housed in a digipak sleeve and the album is strictly limited to
500 copies. The cover was designed by Maciej Mehring based on
Robin Storey's paintings. "Seeds in the Tide Volume 3" was
mastered by Łukasz Miernik. |
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RAPOON - "To
west and blue" CD (Zoharum Records)
- 11 euro -
"To West and
Blue" is 50th RAPOON album. And this one will become a staple in
our CD players for long time. 7 long, slowly evolving tracks
appealing to your subconscious side. An album that is definitely
not to everyone's tastes. This one gradually grows on you until
you are captivated by its haunting beauty. But there is an
underlying uneasiness in it. A sort of clash between reality and a
ghost world or a world that is long-gone. With choral voices
hidden beneath layers of treated sounds, "To West and Blue" is a
stand-out album among RAPOON numerous releases.
Robin Storey talks about this album: These pieces are about the
area grew up in in the UK. A peninsula of land which stuck out
into the Solway Firth. Surrounded by the sea when the tide was in
and surrounded by endless mudflats when the tide was out. When the
water covered the ground the line between the sea and the sky was
almost non-existent. A diaphanous boundary. The sea came in from
the West where the huge skies hung without end in a vault of blue. |
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RAPOON
- "Vernal Crossing Revisited" digipack 2CD (Zoharum Records)
- 13 euro -
The
double album celebrates the 20th anniversary of "Vernal Crossing"
release, Robin Storey's third album. But it's not a mere reissue.
The artist revisited the original and adapted it for the 21
century,hence the title. "Vernal Crossing Revisited" is two sides
of the same coin: the first disc contains the original album and
the other one being the 2013 reinterpretation of the original.
This is Rapoon at its most rhythmic stage. Prepare yourself for
the journey to the desert. |
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RAPOON -
"Seeds in the Tide Volume 01" digipack 2CD (Zoharum Records) -
13 euro -
"Seeds
in the Tide" will collect all the rare tracks released on
compilations, small or limited formats. The first disc entitled "Keepsakes
and Oddities" contains tracks recorded between 1993 and
1999. The second one is a reissue of the ultra-limited CDR version
of the well-known "Messianicghosts"
album which inclides the original version of the four tracks from
that album that are significantly different from their later
variants.
The tracks were faithfully restored by Maciej Bartkowiak. The
paintings on the cover is by Mr. Robin Storey himself. |
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RAPOON -
"Time-loop anomalies" digipack CD (Zoharum Records)
- 11 euro -
"Time-Loop Anomalies",
the next RAPOON album after "Disappeared
Redux", contains more than an hour of eerie, ethereal music
lingering on the borderlands of dreamworld and reality. Robin
Storey, the man behind the moniker, delivers yet again a subtle
woven masterpiece, both being a bold step into the new world and
in the vein of his earlier projects continuing recurring themes in
his artistic work. |
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RAPOON -
"Disappeared Redux" digipack CD (Zoharum Records)
- 11 euro -
Album
by the legendary avant-garde project. Robin Storey, the man behind
the moniker, has been creating music incessantly for more than 3
decades and is responsible for inspiring legions of other artists
with his music released together with Zoviet France and then with
Rapoon, New Cult of the Sun Moon, Hand & Slim, and also under his
own name. With almost 50 releases under his belt, Rapoon is a
household name in the ambient world. 'Disappeared' is not entirely
new album. It was first released in 2010 as a download and as an
extremely limited CDR edition. Now it has been remixed and partly
re-recorded especially for this Zoharum release totalling to 72
minutes (the original album was 7 minutes shorter). Hence the
title, "Disappeared Redux". |
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RASALHAGUE - "Theories Behind Chaos" 3'CDr (Rasalhague
Music) -
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RECLUSA - "The AntiConscience" CDR + ART ZINE (Crucial
Blast) -
9 euro
- ...a new offering of vile, absurdly heavy
low-fi mechanized horror from this cult Ohio outfit. A
seventy-seven minute descent into filthy sub-Godflesh / (early)
Pitch Shifter machine pummel, putrescent guttural vocal-fumes,
ultra bleak dark ambience, diseased dub, deformed deathdoom,
blasts of orchestral terror, & murky industrial noisescapes.
Hopeless, terminally nihilistic ugliness from the bowels of the
American Midwest. The disc comes with a 20-page chapbook of
nightmarish artwork and writing... |
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REFORMED FACTION - "Until..."
digipack CD
(Greytone)
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REFUSE TO DIE - "The Piper
At The Gates of Donna" CDR (T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!)
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8 euro
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Weird
experimental work «The piper at the gates of Donna» of
acknowledged Israeli industrial avant-garde project Refuse To Die.
Comes in white digipack with disco styled artwork. |
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REFUSE TO DIE - "The
Penguin" CDR (T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!)
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8 euro
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Weird
experimental work «The Penguin» of acknowledged Israeli industrial
avant-garde project Refuse To Die. The conceptual album consists
of four parts: «The Penguin: Spring», «The Penguin: Summer», «The
Penguin: Autumn» and «The Penguin: Winter».
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RITUAL – ":08:16:02:"
digipack CD (Lichterklang)
- 30 zł - 7pm Ritual is the new project of
the founding Stein members Norbert Strahl, Nic Sender and Oliver
Sittig who reunited for spontaneous jam-session after a couple of
years, which finally resulted in “:08:16:02”. The album is a
dedicated and conceptional piece of work, based on one of the
biggest tragedies of the past millennium. Musicalwise 7pm Rituals
debut is the perfect blend of songs, influenced by Neofolk and
orchestral, cinematic sounds bands that sometimes remind of early
recordings of In The Nursery, but with a more folky edge. The
songwriting as well as the sound quality are outstanding and
there’s no doubt that 7pm Ritual and their musical diversity will
leave a deep impact throughout the different genres mentioned
before.
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ROSEGARDEN - "Novenna" CD
(Dying Art Production) -
10 euro -
Dark Medieval & Dark Neo-Classic. Rosegarden, famous dark
neo-classical project from Poland and formerly named Rosegarden
Funeral Of Sores, re-issues their all-time classic album NOVENNA
through Dying Art. NOVENNA, which was originally released by
German dark music tower Hyperium (closed down now) in 1997(10
years ago!!), is regarded as the darkest and most romantic album
of Rosegarden's, and had been out of print for a long time. The
new edition is with 3 bonus tracks, manufacted in formal disk
factory, limited to 500 copies and luxuriously packed in
A5
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ROTO VISAGE - "Where The Mandrakes Grow" digipack CD (Autumn
Wind Productions)
- 11 euro -“Where
the Mandrakes Grow” is conceptualized around autoerotic
asphyxiation, forming an abstract narrative into a singular
autoerotic experience. A singular moment in flux within the body.
The sound compositions consist of consciousness cut ups – flashes
of memory and anomalies of the moment interweaving. Dark drone and
experimental ambience. Mastered by the legendary Robert Rich.
Beautiful 6-panal digi-CD designed by Anastasia Sarandou limited
to 1,000 copies. 64 minutes. |
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HARD ART 11 -
magazine|
informant
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HARD ART 10 -
magazine|
informant
of independent culture |
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MORDFABRIK-
"Obscure the Sun"
CDR 2014 |
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HARD ART 09 -
magazyn / informator kultury niezależnej |
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IN SCISSORS -
"The Circus of Ichneumons"
CD 2014 |
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ELECTRIC
URANUS / XNAVI:ET - "Voices of the Cosmos II" digipack CD 2013 |
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