Dear friends,
We continue the archaelogical excavations in the subsoil of underground physical editions. Those who follow the Russian scene might be interested to check out the new editions by the labels
Status Prod.,
Provoloka,
Frozen Light,
Infinite Fog Productions,
Evil Dead Productions,
RWCDAXAGAIN,
[electrotapes archive],
BioSonar^Lo-End and projects
Kshatriy и
Uummannarsuaq.
International scene is presented by such labels as
VOLOK Records (UA),
Unexplained Sounds Group /
Eighth Tower Records (IT),
Reverse Alignment (IT/SE),
Nuit Et Brouillard / Force Majeure (FR),
Janushoved (DK), Telesterion Records (NO),
Freak Animal (FI),
Input Error (UK) and
:retortae: (EE).
This 47th issue celebrates a small five-year anniversary of the ZHELEZOBETON mixes series:
Please send your orders by e-mail
mm@radionoise.ru or
zhelezobeton@inbox.ru. Reservations are possible for a reasonable period.
Best wishes from St. Petersburg,
M.M.
13.08.2021
I. Forthcoming events
04.09.2021 – Water Circles XX
EGREGOROS, LYUDI NA LDU, DRONING ROOM, BƆː, FAKE MOVEMENT, CHEAP MUSIC FOR DANCES, ELECTRIC MAYHEM, JERICHO TRUMPET, KURTIAL
Moscow, "Stolyarka" bar. More info...
10-13.09.2021 - Sun Spirit - Atmospher Stage
NOISES OF RUSSIA, LUNAR ABYSS DEUS ORGANUM, HLADNA, SYMPHOCAT, TIM SIX, SIJ, RECONSTRUCTION OF MOSS, PODOZRITELNYJ PREDMET, ZHAVORONSKAYA, MYKORIZA, ABJECTIVE, DESSIN BIZARRE & more
Crimea, Cherkez-Kermen. More info...
II. New items in mailorder catalogue
CDs & CD-Rs
ALLERSEELEN -- "Morgenrote" -- CD -- €12
2021 :retortae:, arkaisk 4 / Aorta, AORCD 22, (ltd. 300)
Darkwave / Neofolk / Industrial. This full-length compilation combines two different periods of ALLERSEELEN's creative work. The first 10 tracks contain material recorded in 2020: alternative versions of the tracks from the albums "Venezia", "Flamme", "Rauhe Schale", a song originally recorded for the STURMPERCHT project, a cover version of "Als Wärs Das Letzte Mal" by DEUTSCH AMERIKANISCHE FREUNDSCHAFT, and a remix of the track "Dolce Vita" made by the German dark electro project PHOBOS REACTOR. The last 8 tracks are the shortened songs from the early ALLERSEELEN cassette "Morgenröte" (1988).
[bandcamp]
ATARAXIA -- "Prophetia" -- CD -- €10
1990/2017 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-72
Ethereal / Neofolk. The very first tape "Prophetia" (1990) released on CD by Infinite Fog Productions. To celebrate this album, in 2017 Ataraxia have recorded three exclusive tracks (written in 1989/1992) never released before. These old but new tracks keep the spirit of the 90ies with a nowadays feeling. Nicolas Ramain took care of the layout and design. Standard edition in jewel-case with 24-page booklet including lyrics, info details and two exclusive photo sessions from 1990 and 2016. Contains original 9 tracks from "Prophetia", remastered in 2016 + 3 new songs (The Garden of Cyrus, Dusky Daphne, Requiem). [label info]
[bandcamp]
BASTARD NOISE -- "Bastard Noise Hails The Finnish Sound Masters / The Symptoms Of A Failing Equilibrium" -- CD -- €12
1999/2021 Freak Animal Records
Industrial / Noise. Early Man Is The Bastard / Bastard Noise was well known for his passion and support of Finnish noise. Before anyone acknowledged the new era of the Finnish noise scene emerging in the 90’s, MITB/Bastard Noise support for the artists was crucial to introduce the names to global audience. Early MITB split ep’s included Aunt Mary (1992), Unseen Noise Death (1992), Bizarre Uproar (1993) and he continued later to collaborate with more people... One of remarkable releases of BN & Finnish noise art combinations, was 1999 CD album: Bastard Noise Hails The Finnish Sound Masters / The Symptoms Of A Failing Equilibrium. Still in 2021, this over two decades old album sounds fresh and interesting. High pitched doomsday electronic machines of Bastard Noise are combined with raw sounds submitted by Bizarre Uproar, Woundead, Order., Junkdrome, Grunt, Skin-Graft and All-Out. Every artists submits different type of material to work with, yet it sounds like proper album rather than fragmented compilation... Repress of the album has 100% same sound. No remaster. No editing. Reissue published as digipak CD, using the original cover designs. [label info]
[youtube]
THE BAYAN MONGOL VARIETY GROUP -- "s/t" -- CD -- €12
1980/2021 Ebalunga!!!, EBL/005 / Dundgol
Folk / Jazz / Ethnic. The long-awaited reissue of a unique and only album of legendary Mongolian ensemble. The self-titled album first time was released on vinyl in 1980 by Soviet label Melodia and due to a huge demand was urgently re-pressed again in 1981. A musical pearl in the vein of Dos-Mukasan, Firyuza, Soyol Erdene, and Gunesh. Now EBALUNGA!!! is happy to present the first CD version of the album and the first time with the correct photo on the front cover. Vinyl versions released in 1980 and 1981 were pressed with wrong photos on covers. Melodia has mixed-up photos of 2 Mongolian bands: Soyol Erdene and The Bayan Mongol Variety Group. So the Soyol Erdene LP was published with a photo of The Bayan Mongol Variety Group and vice versa: The Bayan Mongol Variety Group LPs with a photo of Soyol Erdene. [label info]
[bandcamp]
BOCCI, CRISTIANO / FRANCESCO ARRIGHI / MARA LEPORE -- "Anagrammi" -- CD -- €10
2020 Unexplained Sounds Group, USG064, (ltd. 200)
Neoclassical / Electroacoustic / Free Improvisation. The piano: the perfect balance between harmony and melody. Processing a piano is always an adventure; having 24 recordings of free improvisations performed by Francesco Arrighi and Mara Lepore is an incredible sound palette to have available. These recordings were deconstructed into individual phrases and micro fragments and then reassembled, both serially and in parallell, to follow a unifying compositional idea. At the same time the tracks were dilated and processed with filters, echoes and granulation techniques in order to create the right mix between the sound of the instrument and its electronic transformation. [Cristiano Bocci]
[bandcamp]
CHERVI -- "s/t" -- CD -- €8
1996/2020 Provoloka, prvlk 0014-0001, (ltd. 480)
Industrial / Darkwave. Recorded in May-August 1996 by Yuri Kovalsky at Bryanzeva Straße 6-66, originally released by the Ultra label on cassette in 1996, reissued by Ultra on CD-R in 1998. This is the most complete edition with 13 tracks, feauting several remixes and unreleased compositions. Remastered in 2019.
[bandcamp]
CHEUNG, ANJI -- "Annihilare" -- CD-R -- €7
2021 VOLOK Records, VR-56, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient / Drone. Annihilare started life as two separate three track projects, before finding its true anatomy as a combined release. Tracks 1-3 are inspired by the annihilation at the core of Marguerite Porete’s mysticism and 4-6 by Karin, the protagonist of Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly - two women with inner worlds that cannot be contained, whose outward expressions are received as heresy and madness... Originally available as digital only via Cheung’s Bandcamp, this is the first physical release of Annihilare. The audio was written and recorded between May 2019 and February 2020 - using a Fender Jazzmaster, field recordings from around West London, a transistor radio, her vox and Ableton run on a MacBook... Anji has previously had releases with Aurora Borealis Recordings and Utech Records. Her body of work which can be considered Post-Industrial, encompasses Drone, Ambient, Noise and occasionally Neofolk. Her influences are equally diverse, stemming from her magical praxis and travels, books, films and figures that touch on the occult and esoteric. She has opened for Stephen O’Malley & Peter Rehberg’s KTL and Merzbow/Pándi. Collaboratively she has worked with Tunnels of Āh, English Heretic and more recently dancer/choreographer, Alkistis Dimech of Scarlet Imprint. [label info]
[bandcamp]
FERN -- "Vascular Poems / Abstract Safari" -- CD-R -- €5
2020 Volok Records, VR-50, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient / Experimental / Drone. FERN is a Swedish drone and experimental noise project mainly focusing on organismic and electronic soundscapes beyond the traditional linear timeline of contemporary music. The source of inspiration (among other things) are the Swedish vast forests, urban scenery and abandoned buildings. During the year, FERN has collaborated with other fellow noise makers such as IDEAL FATHER (SWE) and YU (UK)... This compilation is a dark ambient journey through drone and noise via field recordings. Part of the material is previously released (digital and cassette) on Imperfect Noise. The instrument of choice for this release was the SOMA Labs Lyra-8 combined with various field recordings and other analog hardware. All tracks written and produced by Fern, performed without the use of a DAW. [label info]
[bandcamp]
GASPAROTTI, GABRIELE / CIULLINI, DANIELE / STANCATI, MARIO LINO -- "Portraits" -- CD -- €10
2021 Unexplained Sounds Group, USG069, (ltd. 200)
Experimental / Ambient / Electroacoustic. Portraits is a new series from Unexplained Sounds Group focusing on electronic and electro-acoustic music composers. Each release creates a 'portrait' of three musicians by showcasing representative pieces of their recent musical journeys, serving as a guide for further listening and a means of exploring their work. This first volume is dedicated to three Italian musicians: Gabriele Gasparotti, Daniele Ciullini, and Mario Lino Stancati. Gasparotti and Stancati are among the most talented emerging musicians on the Italian experimental scene, while Ciullini is a veteran of the post-industrial underground who, after a very long silence, returned to music in 2012. [label info]
[bandcamp]
GC / NC -- "Deprecated" -- CD -- €10
2021 Unexplained Sounds Group, USG067, (ltd. 200)
Experimental / Ambient / Electroacoustic. gc / nc is an electroacoustic duo based in Belgium and the Netherlands, consisting of Sjoerd Leijten and Patrick Bossink. They play instant electronic compositions using self-programmed software and self-made controllers... DEPRECATED is the result of a residency at studio Klangendum inside WORM in Rotterdam (NL). During this residency they explored the realm of broken, obsolete and unwanted sounds and experimented with various classic synths (a.o. ARP 2500, Serge), combined with bicycle wheels, guitars, radios and audio programming environment SuperCollider... Through the use of magnets, reed switches and arduino's (microcontrollers) in conjunction with audio coding environment SuperCollider, gc / nc turn bicycles into electroacoustic instruments. The wheels of the bicycle are controlling the sound of their instruments – a guitar and a synthesizer. The musicians have to spin the wheels to produce sound. The bicycle wheels open up new sound possibilities for the musicians, but function also as disruptive elements, a voluntary self-sabotage, since they are not able to play their instruments in the conventional manner. Piezo discs enable them to use the bicycle as a percussive instrument and to create tones with the spokes. A radio is used to record small fragments of radio channels which are directly used in the performances. When on tour, gc / nc always borrow a bicycle from a local, which they then prepare for the concert. [label info]
[bandcamp]
GILARDINI, JOEL -- "The Age Of Space" -- CD -- €10
2020 ZeroK, ZK02, (ltd. 200)
Dark Ambient / Drone / Experimental. Joel Gilardini is an experimental guitarist and sound designer, based in Zurich (Switzerland). His solo ambient oriented works are often based on the use of live‐looping and instant composition techniques. It’s a very unique biosphere of ambient, drone, dub, doom elements and morphing soundscapes... Joel Gilardini opens at MONTAGS for Nik Bärtsch’s RONIN / MOBILE on regular basis at EXIL club (Zurich/CH), and has taken part to Y2K International Live-Looping festivals in Zurich, Paris (FR), and Santa Cruz (US)... Furthermore Joel works as a composer and music performer for theater and dance acts. In this context he has collaborated with partners such as the Ballett Zurich, Swiss dancer Benoît Favre, and the collective House Of Pain. He is the mastermind behind the experimental-doom-metal act THE LAND OF THE SNOW and half of the noise-industrial duo MULO MUTO. [label info]
[bandcamp]
GNAW THEIR TONGUES -- "Eschatological Scatology" -- CD -- €13
2012/2015 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-54, (ltd. 450)
Black Industrial / Noise. First time on CD, the most mentioned album of this cult, darkest project from the Netherlands. The experimental, ambient, and frighteningly noisy musical project Gnaw Their Tongues moves into more of a straight up extra harsh, noisy black metal vibe with this new release, and it's lead to a much more intense experience. [label info]
[bandcamp]
HAMRE, KARSTEN -- "Through Alien Eyes Volume I" -- CD-R -- €7
2021 VOLOK Records, VR-53, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient. Karsten Hamre – a Norwegian musician, photographer and designer currently based in the Philippines – needs no special introduction. He is well known to all for his numerous projects such as PENITENT, DENSE VISION SHRINE, ARCANE ART, VEILED ALLUSIONS and this is not a complete list. Karsten Hamre is a very productive and talented musician, since 1994 he has released more than fifty albums in such genres as experimental, dark ambient, industrial, dark wave, neo-classical, drone, gothic... The material presented by VOLOKRecords is the ninth full-length album of the Karsten Hamre's project titled Through Alien Eyes Volume I, which sounds like a kind of journey in the twilight. Dark silhouettes of synthesizer passages, seasoned with noise pulsation, appear one after another against the background of industrial colossi. The contours of alien landscapes, dilapidated cities, the reflection of fire in the blind eyes of a suffering creature. These are the souls of the titans, sunk into the deep darkness of nothingness. This is the world seen «Through Alien Eyes». [label info]
[bandcamp]
HAMRE, KARSTEN -- "Through Alien Eyes Volume II" -- CD-R -- €7
2021 VOLOK Records, VR-58, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient. Through Alien Eyes Volume II is a borderland between worlds, between past and future, between present and nothing. It is frozen time. The imprint of memory. As the final proof of the truth of being to itself. The album continues the somber wanderings of the first part into the otherworldliness, through the looking-glass into the underside of the world of the living. The author will lead you among the colonnades and dusky halls of bygone eras. Among the lifeless faces of former heroes and the ruins of grand plans. You will descend into Hades and soak your feet in the waters of the dead sea. It will reveal to you the impenetrable veil of the future. You'll find out at the end what awaits you beyond the line of the mortal world. [label info]
[bandcamp]
HOSIANNA -- "Borderline" -- CD-R -- €5
2021 Red Engineering Production, REPR-26, (ltd. 20)
Power Electronics. Borderline is an album about mental disorders. When consciousness freezes and the destructive forces resting inside the mind are released. The album was recorded using a Moog Mother synthesizer and a goatskin drum. The cover features a photograph of the author himself at a tragic moment in his life. The musician was treated in a psychiatric clinic. So we can say that the material of the album is autobiographical. Some sounds were recorded before the hospitalization, but the main part was accumulated after the incident. [label info]
[bandcamp]
HOSIANNA -- "Untier" -- CD-R -- €6
2021 VOLOK Records, VR-57, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient / Experimental. Untier is the story of the alienation of people from one another. The story of human relationships that fall prey to habit, routine and a series of stupid and sometimes horrible actions that essentially render them meaningless. The German word "Untier" means something like "anti-animal," "monster," or a person who has fallen into disgrace... Many different recording techniques were used to create the album: there are field recordings, junk metal percussion, a lot of analogue synthesizers, rearanged and stretched found sounds, bass guitar, a Roland TR8 for some of the percussion and a bit of modular synthesis. [label info]
[bandcamp]
KEIN Z. NECRO -- "Sturm - Licht" -- CD-R -- €6
2021 Evil Dead Productions, EDP 027
Modern Classical. The second solo album of the Yekaterinburg-based musician Kein Z. Necro (SOL MORTUUS, CHURCH OF HOWLING DOG, CHAOTIC BOUND SYSTEMS, etc.) performed entirely on a grand piano. This is basically the continuation of the musical and visual aesthetic lines started on the disc "Tränen - Tau". Utterly abstract compositions with highly charged energy. We see menacing cumulus clouds on the cover, and there's reason for that – this music is just as monumental and amorphous at the same time, discharges of millions of volts are riping in its depths, sometimes it falls on the listener with a wall of chromatic rain, or it may shine as a ghostly black rainbow somewhere on the horizon of perception. Kein is not shy about pushing the extremes of the grand piano's sonic spectrum, hovering tightly on the lower register and tracing out stabbing sharp edges with high notes, but never slipping into frankly noisy cacophony. This kind of music can hardly be heard in a conservatory, and if you get the scores and practice at home, be sure to wait for the crazed neighbors to visit.
[vk.com]
KSHATRIY -- "Do It With Magic!" -- CD-R BOX -- €45
2021 self-released, (ltd. 10)
Ambient / Experimental. The new album by the Russian project KSHATRIY diverges from pitch-black space dark ambient to more bright pulsing electronics with refined sound. The album is recorded on a special hi-end CD-R (24 karat gold discs by Mitsui MAM-A, designed for creating audio masters, estimated lifespan – over 300 years!) and released in an extremely limited edition of 10 copies in wooden boxes with golden print and hand-made herbarium.
[bandcamp]
LEBEDEV-FRONTOV, ALEXANDER -- "Nichevo" -- CD -- €8
1993/2020 Provoloka, prvlk 0015-0001, (ltd. 480)
Noise / Experimental / Sound Collage. Some of the early recordings by Alexander Lebedev-Frontov (LINIJA MASS, STALNOY PAKT, VEPRISUICIDA, VETROPHONIA) made in 1987-1991. Collage noise music.
M. BRYO & D.M.T. -- "Things I Was Due To Forget (1979 - 2005)" -- CD -- €10
2018/2019 Nuit Et Brouillard, NB.CD.07
Minimal / Synthwave. M.BRYO & D.M.T. was one of the musical projects of the Antwerpen based multimedia artist Mark Burghgraeve. In the late seventies Mark followed Art school and from young age tempered with electronics. He formed M. BRYO & D.M.T., his first synthetic band that time with some fellow students. M. BRYO & D.M.T. played from 1982 till 1984 in clubs, cultural centers, chapels and at art exhibitions sometimes complete with the D.M.T. line-up, sometimes solo. Among other things, Mark constructed the original KLINIK with Marc Verhaegen and collaborated with the artist Jan Fabre... "Things I Was Due To Forget" is a record of songs that appeared on K7 and vinyls or came from M. BRYO's personal archives of unreleased tapes. As a whole this is an inspired release conceived as the full-length album that never saw the light of day that time. It can be seen as a kind of "anthology" of what the artist composed under M. BRYO moniker... All tracks were remastered by the artist especially for this release. This timeless jewel is now available as double LP, and also as a CD packed in an elegant digisleeve with retro-design and a 12-page booklet. [label info]
[bandcamp]
MARIBOR -- "Cross" -- CD -- €10
2020 St.An.Da., 2031, (ltd. 200)
Ambient / Experimental. "Cross" is the final release by MARIBOR. It contains recordings made in 2011 - already released on the cassette "X", which was part of "Collezione del silenzio" series issued by Silentes Tapestry - and three new tracks. MARIBOR was a project conceived by Stefano Gentile with the collaboration of Giuseppe Verticchio (NIMH / HALL OF MIRRORS), Andrea Marutti (AMON / HALL OF MIRRORS), Gianluca Favaron (UNDER THE SNOW / ZBEEN), Maurizio Bianchi and Pierpaolo Zoppo (MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA). Pierpaolo passed away in 2012 and "Cross" is dedicated to his memory. [label info]
[youtube]
MLEHST -- "Deep Throat and Felching" -- CD -- €10
1995/2021 Input Error, IE-09
Experimental / Drone / Noise. CD reissue of an early Mlehst tape released on Smell & Quim's Stinky Horse Fuck label back in 1995. The first track 'Everything I Touch Turns To Shit' was released on 'The History Of Mlehst - Chapter 5' but this reissue brings together the full album in its original form. Ranging from musique concrete, drones, tape manipulation and noise to fry your melon. Remastered by Grant Richardson and featuring new artwork by Al Brentnall. [label info]
MLEHST -- "Her Single Desire Was Sadistic Pleasure" -- CD -- €10
1996/2021 Input Error, IE-08
Experimental / Noise. CD reissue of this long out of print cassette, originally released on the legendary Mother Savage Noise Productions in 1996. Two long form tracks of Mlehst material remixed by Joe Roemer of Macronympha. Remastered by Grant Richardson and featuring new artwork by All Brentnall. [label info]
MOOZZHEAD -- "Sideboob Shenanigans" -- CD -- €12
2021 Freak Animal Records
Noise. Since 90’s, Moozzhead has been lurking in Finnish noise underground. Couple tapes, couple collaborations, sporadically publishing something that went barely noticed. 2020 marked new era of this long standing noise project, and multiple tape releases appeared on notable labels, including Freak Animal. Freak Animal is proud to present the very first full length harsh noise CD of Moozzhead. Heavy bass loaded pedal noise frenzy, always going into place. 90’s spirit of restless noise combined with no bullshit attitude in composition and presentation. Sound and art by Moozzhead! [label info]
MUPSЫ -- "Ultra Primitive Compilation 1992-1994" -- CD -- €8
1994/2020 Provoloka, prvlk 0016-0001, (ltd. 480)
Minimal / Synth / Experimental. "With the sounds of MUPSY, you completely immerse yourself in the atmosphere of serenity and bright colors of childhood, the stylistics is a kind of psychedelic, "criss-cross" fusion of music like soundtracks to Soviet children's cartoons, western minimal electro or a new wave on the border of the 70s and 80s with antique music of the Renaissance, the fusion is quite organic. Everything is achieved by absolutely primitive handicraft methods (for example, a cheap model of Casio synthesizer with distortions of the Soviet masterpiece of the mixing console industry Estrada :)) Compositions are usually constructively capacious and short, most of them no more than a minute long, there was also the use of poems for children by various Soviet poets, mostly little-known, which were mostly sung by the maestro's seven-year-old brother..." [Yar Rost]
[youtube]
MURDEROUS VISION -- "Elemental Flame" -- CD -- €12
2021 Status Prod., SP 15 CD, (ltd. 150)
Dark Ambient / Ritual Ambient. Fire is a guide between the Earth and the Sky - its flames roar, devour, incinerate and purify. The sounds of the flame awaken fear and hope in the soul, inspire and drive away. Raising its tongues up like hands, the fire prays for human sins and points out the only right way... Voronezh-based label Status Prod. presents a new CD-album of the American old school death industrial/dark ambient project MURDEROUS VISION, led by its permanent leader, Stephen Petrus, "Elemental Flame". This monumental work lauds fire as what destroys the obsolete and creates a new life in its place. The album was released in an edition of 150 hand-numbered copies and packed in a fire-shaped folder made of craft cardboard, with the author's art applied to it by silkscreen printing. [label info]
[youtube]
NIHIL IMPVLSE -- "Stasis" -- CD -- €10
2018/2020 Eighth Tower Records, ETR 029, (ltd. 100)
Dark Ambient / Industrial. A deposition of cold electronics and harsh frequencies to testify to the perpetual stagnation of reality. Nothing ever changes except the means through which this successful illusion is maintained. "Stasis" is an exploration, in seven chapters, of the diagrams of the power mechanisms caging us in an invisible prison: civilization. From the anointing ritual of ecstatic pain engrafting the mental germ, to its own epiphany, and to the final revelation: the word "stasis" in ancient Greek meant not only stillness but also rebellion, and the realization of this leads the individual to struggle towards conquest and freedom. Put your hand on the pyre, life turns in an ordeal of awareness. [label info]
[bandcamp]
ORD -- "Comprehension & Gaining" -- 2 CD -- €23
2021 Status Prod., SP 16 CD, (ltd. 108)
Ritual Ambient / Tribal / Drone. When evil and violence fill the world, when people fall into barbarism and forget about virtue, spiritual degradation occurs - the era of Kali-yuga comes. Realizing the inevitability of the end and the subsequent beginning, a person finds peace. The label Status Prod. presents a new album of the Voronezh ritual / dark ambient project ORD "Comprehension & Gaining". The album consists of 5 tracks on 2 discs, united by a common meaning. The 4 compositions of the 1st disc turn to the memories of all four epochs (yugas) in the descending Hindu time cycle and lead to the realization of being in the age of Kali-yuga, which will be followed by the end as the acquisition of a new life. The only composition of the 2nd disc plunges into the depths of listener's own mind, embodying the absolute that inevitably follows the completion. This work was recorded as a meditative-trance album with distinctive tribal elements... The album is released on 2 CDs with a circulation of 108 hand-numbered copies in a DVD-box, supplemented with an attachment of naturally aged material and soft Indian incense. Cover art by PAINT-IN-BLACK DESIGN. [label info]
[youtube]
OVMN -- "Amerika: Die Ewige Senkgrube" -- CD -- €10
1996/2021 Input Error, IE-06 / Self Abuse Records, SAD-17
Noise. A brand new compilation featuring classic OVMN tracks from split tapes with Kadef and Audible XXY. Over 75 minutes of crushing harsh textures, noise walls and metal crash. [label info]
OVMN -- "You Will Never Escape This" -- CD -- €10
2021 Input Error, IE-07 / Self Abuse Records, SAD-18
Noise. Newly unearthed and unreleased OVMN recordings, proving once again their mastery of the harsh noise craft. Featuring recordings of the Joe and Rodger lineup from the mid 90s, coupled with recordings the later lineup with Leo Sabatto from the early 2000s. [label info]
PAIN INJECTION -- "Deadlife" -- CD -- €12
2021 Frozen Light, FZL 082, (ltd. 200)
Dark Ambient / Death Industrial. Frozen Light presents the debut album by PAIN INJECTION - follower of great and mighty ZOLOFT EVRA. "Deadlife" brings a strong mixture of Dark Ambient, Industrial and Black Metal. Deep sadness, razored emotions, Beauty and Emptiness. Death for Life and Life for Death. Released in 3-folders digipack. [label info]
[bandcamp]
PHANTOMS & MIRAGES -- "Thermal Anomaly" -- CD -- €10
2021 Frozen Light, FZL 081, (ltd. 100)
Dark Ambient / Drone. Frozen Light presents a long-awaited debut album by mysterious Phantoms & Mirages – “Thermal Anomaly”, warm and ghostly Dark Ambient with calm noises and drifting minimal melodies, field recordings and strange samples. Nice soundtrack to our post-industrial (or even post-apocalypse) present. Open your window, hear the wind and sound of the traffic and play this music loud. Limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies in 6-panel digipack. [label info]
[bandcamp]
POST INDUSTRIAL BAND OF CHAOS BOO BOO -- "Cibum Legentis" -- 2 CD-R -- €10
2021 VOLOK Records, VR-52, (ltd. 20)
Industrial / Ritual / Metal. Post Industrial Band Of Chaos BOO BOO is originally from Moscow, Russia. The group has existed since 2005 and works in such musical genres as Experimental, Industrial, Noise. The structure includes; Nikolay Klishev - scrap metal guitar, electronics, springs. Member of the FRENCH RESISTANCE group. Alexey Frolov - metal trash bass guitar, installation of metal springs, electronics. Founder and member of the group DIE SCHWARZE KATZEN. Arat Ak Ool - throat singing, scream noise, sampler. Adept of Tuvan folk music, founder and member of the OLCHEY group, producer and organizer of the festival of Traditional music and throat singing of Tuva: Kyzyl-Moscow... "Cibum Legentis" is a kind of compilation of previously unreleased material in physical media. The album features live performances from 2017-19. Plus two bonus tracks "Prayer" and "Kollaps II" from the 2009 album "Kollaps", which was also not released on physical media. [label info]
[bandcamp]
RHAD -- "Metamusic" -- CD -- €10
2021 Unexplained Sounds Group, USG066, (ltd. 200)
Musique Concrete / Sound Collage. RHaD (Research for Historical Audio Documents) is a side project of Raffaele Pezzella (better known as SONOLOGYST). Metamusic is a 40mn sound collage of mysterious radio transmissions, found vocals, spoken words, vintage electronic sounds and a number of guest stars on classical music instruments like organ, guitar, bass or piano – respectively Michael Bonaventure, Stefan Schmidt, Daniel Barbiero, Francesco Arrighi and Mara Lepore. Adroitly avoiding any ca 2021 digital artifact along the way, Metamusic's sound design is bringing the listener back to the glorious 1960s and '70s, yet the music sounds rather timeless to these ears. Metamusic recreates the sound of early European avantgarde with plenty of tape manipulations, sound collages, buzzing sounds, French spoken word and contemporary classical music instruments. The sound crafting is superb, the collage technique creating an ever-changing musical soundscape full of weird sounds, grotesque sound manipulations and Surrealist juxtapositions. What's not to love? [Laurent Fairon]
[bandcamp]
SASCHA -- "Seeds On Talk" -- CD -- €13
2021 Fact Of Being, FOBS1, (ltd. 100)
Ambient / Drone. After two EPs well received by the ambient music lover, Sascha presents the first CD of his project. 13 songs with the most varied sounds, memories and images of the last 7 years transformed into sounds. Relaxing melodies, experimental recordings in the field, guitar accompaniments, or with the flute, thanks to the presence in the album of the guest Valera Hip. Released in A5 digipak with 20-page booklet, limited to just 100 copies. [label info]
STIFF AND COLD -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €5
2010/2021 VOLOK Records, VR-54, (ltd. 20)
Drone / Doom / Noise. The material of the first album Stiff and Cold was recorded back in 2009 and until that moment had not been released on physical media. In 2010 the album was released digitally by aReWrecordings. This release is a remastered reissue of the 2010 album. The material is a fusion of drone ambient noise music, which laid the foundation for all subsequent sound of the project. Stiff and Cold is a side-project of Dispersive Light by the Ukrainian musician Pavel Burgela. [label info]
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STIFF AND COLD -- "Demons Of Alfred Kubin" -- CD-R -- €5
2021 VOLOK Records, VR-59, (ltd. 20)
Drone / Doom / Noise. Demons Of Alfred Kubin is a look inside yourself. A look at the one problem that troubles a person. A look at oneself. Genesis is an endless picture of horror. The human being tries to solve this conundrum of existence. But the answer cannot be found within being. So all that remains is to change shape and put on a new mask of horror. The album was recorded in 2011 at BurgelART Studios. It is a kind of the final work of Stiff and Cold's early period of creativity. A long period of silence and rethinking would follow. The next full-length album won't be released until six years later in 2018. [label info]
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STIFF AND COLD -- "Dress Of Flesh" -- CD-R -- €5
2021 VOLOK Records, VR-55, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient / Drone / Noise. Reissue of the second full-length album by the Ukrainian project Stiff and Cold - Dress of Flesh. In this material, Stiff and Cold goes to a new level of experiencing the mystical reality of all things. It brings into the paradoxical world the only true knowledge that this world is able to perceive. This is the knowledge that "I" is not any of the attributes of death. The knowledge that "I" is death! [label info]
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SVETЪ -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €5
2021 Red Engineering Production, REPR-25, (ltd. 20)
Drone Doom / Black Metal / Experimental. There is no need to awaken the ancient powers of the earth with your prayers. They are beyond your control – the author of the project SVĔTЪ tells us in his creation. Pristine, furious nature will consume everything and everyone. Once emerged from the primordial chaos, everything will return to it in due time. Do not indulge your illusions, you are nothing but dust in the wind. SVĔTЪ is a drone, doom, black metal project of a musician from Kramatorsk, Ukraine. He uses guitar, field recordings and samples in his albums. We offer you the first album of the project. Uncompromising and harsh, a monolith of sound, seasoned with anger and indignation! [label info]
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UNPURE -- "бомжам бог судья, а НАМ Д.Ь.Я.В.О.Л." -- CD-R -- €4
2006 De Profundis Productions, (ltd. 40)
Lo-Fi / Experimental / Martial / Noise from the depths of Russian underground of mid-00s. "UNPURE is a project formed by the CYNIC KILLER and LIQUIDATOR in the summer of 2004, which aims to intensify the fight against persons without a definite place of residence. We have developed a unique style, the so-called RAB (Rock Against Bottlehunters - rock against the homeless). Our project has no analogues, both in a textual and musical context. We play for those who is fed up with poverty. Everything is capacious and simple, the main essence of our ideology is set out in the articles and our texts. Support us, enter into an unequal battle against misery, withstand the battle against poverty." [from the authors] Hard, aggressive and at the same time melodic, solemn RAB. RELIGIOUS ANTI-BOMGISM! For fanatics only! [label info]
UUMMANNARSUAQ -- "Eternal Ice In The Polar Seas" -- CD-R -- €6
2021 Voices Of The Abyss, VOTA002CDr, (ltd. 10)
Dark Ambient. Uummannarsuaq is a young dark ambient / drone / atmospheric project from St. Petersburg, the idea of hich was to collect all the chaotic surrounding noises into one soundtrack. The project bears the name of the southernmost point of the icy island of Greenland, Cape Umanarssuaq or Farvel (Dan. Kap Farvel, Nor. Kapp Fervel). The cape is also famous for the fact that many submarines sank near it during the World War II. The gloomy and cold unknown of the mysterious icy vastness is the main source of inspiration for the Uummannarsuaq project. The debut release of the project is published in CDr format in a slim-case, contains a double-sided booklet and sleeve patch, unique for each copy, limited edition of ten hand-numbered copies.
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VOLOK -- "Dushenka" -- CD-R -- €5
2020 VOLOK Records, VR-51, (ltd. 20)
Dark Drone Folk. An interesting combination of almost monotonous dark drone background and otherworldly low-pitched voice singing a sort of Russian traditional mournful songs. Like creeping thoughts reluctantly twisting in a head of a forester, locked down in his hut because of endless blizzard... "VOLOK is fear, despair, horror of imminent death. These are chimeras and ghosts that prevent us from sleeping. This is superstition and prejudice, desperation and hopelessness. VOLOK is a mental disease of a prisoner trapped in a dungeon of his own nightmares. VOLOK is lamentation and moaning and gnashing of teeth. VOLOK is the inner darkness." [label info]
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WAVESKANIA -- "Broken Dream Walls" -- CD-R -- €7
2021 VOLOK Records, VR-60, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient / Drone / Experimental. We present you the project Waveskania from Krivoy Rog, Ukraine. The project creates its music relying on old-school sampler techniques and understanding of classical subtractive analog synthesis combined with empirical experience with almost any kind of synthesis and sound sources, so the music of the project is very diverse - from non-aggressive industrial electro-downtempo to ambient, techno and drone glitch... The album Broken Dream Walls appeared during the period of increased interest in the study of sleep processes, their phasing, control and other factors that help to better understand the nature of this mysterious phenomenon. The interest was also sparked by the author's personal problems in this area, so concerned with both the scientific and existential aspects of the issue... "I relied in my work on the experience that Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche set out in the book Tibetan Yoga of Sleep and Dreams," the author informs us. The results of the study of this work are reflected in the music, combined with the basic ideas of the project. As well as the post-industrial context and the abundant use of electronic instruments (both virtual and real) as an artistic inventory and expressive palette. [label info]
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WHEN THE MOON IS IN HER SECOND QUARTER -- "Like Dead Leaves" -- CD -- €11
2020 Status Prod., SP 14 CD, (ltd. 200)
Ritual Ambient / Death Industrial. The deaf darkness of the chthonic forest gives birth to hitherto unseen monsters and their moans, like dead leaves, are carried by the wind between the skeletons of trees, as ancient as the Earth itself. Lost souls sigh, wheeze, howl, revealing their essence, when the Moon is in her second quarter... Status Prod. presents new CD-album of the anonymous ritual ambient / death industrial project When The Moon Is In Her Second Quarter “Like Dead Leaves”. Two nameless hymns–rituals are dedicated to the memory of Yevgeniy Yufit, the founder of the genre Necrorealism in cinema, painting and literature. The record features guest appearance of Ord Err (ORD). The album was released in an edition of 200 hand-numbered copies in a foldout folder made of brown designer cardboard with the art by PAINT-IT-BLACK DESIGN, applied by silk-screen printing on it, in silver color. [label info]
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VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "Anthology Of Post Industrial Music From Balkan Region" -- CD -- €10
2020 Unexplained Sounds Group, USG061, (ltd. 200)
Industrial / Experimental. Unexplained Sounds Group exploring the Balkan post industrial scene. Artists coming from Greece, Romania, Turkey, Serbia, Bulgaria, Albania, Slovenia, Macedonia, introduce us to their vision of post industrial music and culture. The perspective of a region where musicians are growing with their own sonic and artistic identity. CADLAG, KAOSMOS, ONTERVJABBIT, MYTRIP, PUREH, PLAMEN VECNOSTI, ATOUCK AND ZIAZIN, JETON HOXHA, MØRKET, ADONAI ATROPHIA, SIBERIAN SAGA.
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VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "Demonology In Dante's Inferno" -- CD -- €10
2020 Eighth Tower Records, ETR027, (ltd. 200)
Experimental / Dark Ambient / Electroacoustic. Dante's Inferno, widely hailed as one of the great classics of Western literature, details Dante's journey through the nine circles of Hell. The voyage begins during Easter week in the year 1300, the descent through Hell starting on Good Friday. After meeting his guide, the eminent Roman poet Virgil, in a mythical dark wood, the two poets begin their descent through a baleful world of doleful shades, horrifying tortures, and unending lamentation. During their journey, Dante and Virgil meet a series of diabolical and demonic figures that characterize, in a highly expressionistic way, the various stages of the descent that will lead them to the end of the journey... Here at Eighth Tower Records, we invited a group of musicians (RAPOON, SONOLOGYST, SAMUEL GOFF, GIANLUCA BECUZZI, DANIEL BARBIERO, CRISTIANO BOCCI, COBI VAN TONDER, MARIO LINO STANCATI, KAMMARHEIT, LARS BRÖNDUM, DEAD SPACE CHAMBER MUSIC), interested to hear what those demonic (and of course allegoric) figures from the Dante's poem would inspire to them. [label info]
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VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "Drone Islands - The Lost Maps" -- CD -- €10
2020 Eighth Tower Records, ETR024, (ltd. 200)
Drone / Dark Ambient. 2nd volume of the series Drone Islands, "Drone Islands - The Lost Maps" continues Eighth Tower Records' deep explorations into the realm of "droning music". Alongside drone ambient music masters and well known dark ambient projects, the volume presents experimentalists as well extremely interesting young musicians. Solid realities and new promises is a sign of the best international drone music. RAPOON, GASPAR PERALTA, BEDOUINDRONE, SIMON BALESTRAZZI, TRAUMATERRESTRIAL, TROUM, AUTOPSIA vs INSTINCT PRIMAL, SCHLOSS TEGAL, TAPHEPHOBIA, TUNNELS OF ĀH, MARTYRIA, ALPHAXONE, BLOODKRY. [label info]
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VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "Drone Islands - Stellar" -- CD -- €10
2021 Eighth Tower Records, ETR031, (ltd. 200)
Drone / Dark Ambient. Third volume of the series Drone Islands, "Drone Islands - Stellar" continues Eighth Tower Records' deep explorations into the realm of "drone music". The volume mainly focuses on drones inspired by astronomical events, and were originated through various musical approaches, from the well established synthesizer sounds and onto orchestral arrangements sounding like drones; furthermore, it showcases many young and talented musicians involved in the latest "drone dreamers" wave: INFINEXHUMA, PLUHM, MLS, TARME TIL ALLE, KLOOB, SIMON MCCORRY, GREY FREQUENCY, NIHIL IMPVLSE, BLACKWEALD, VERONICA MOSER, THOMAS GRENZEBACH, TITO+. [label info]
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VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "New State Of Flux" -- 2 CD -- €15
2021 Reverse Alignment, RA51, (ltd. 200)
Dark Ambient / Drone / Experimental. New State Of Flux was conceived by Raffaele Pezzella, head of the Unexplained Sounds network of aural disorientation, after Swedish label Reverse Alignment became a part of the network at the beginning of 2021. The extremely fine work released by label founder Kristian Widqvist from its inception in 2007 and over the next 13 years is a rare example of integrity and quality in terms of aesthetic choices, creating a collection of minimalist and isolationist gems by releasing a series of albums by musicians that have constituted a new paradigm in minimalistic ambient music. The New State Of Flux compilation has been curated with the intention of continuing that tradition in the same spirit of sonic exploration and philosophy, and adding some new names that we hope will be appreciated just as their predecessors were. Many of them will be the launch-pad for a new Reverse Alignment trajectory. JARL, TAPHEPHOBIA, VELGENATURLIG, RNGMNN, HENRIK MEYERKORD, SONOLOGYST, JOÃO SOUSA, B°TONG, VONGOIVA, FREIBAND, AJNA, SITKA, ANDREAS RÖNNQUIST, DISKREPANT, BRIAN C. SHORT, MATS UNDÉN, DÖDSAPPARATEN, EQUAL STONES, ZUHÉ, BLEAK FICTION. [label info]
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Vinyl
ADMIN DADA -- "The Hypnagogic Traveller" -- LP -- €20
2021 Hammerstein & Waldteufel, H&W018, (ltd. 100)
Dark Ambient / Experimental. First of all, you should know that the hypnagogic state characterizes a phase between wakefulness and sleep: that of falling asleep. So, as an insomniac who has trouble falling asleep, I was curious to see how Admin Dada would put all this to music. On a purely sonic level, we sail aboard rather spatial electronic drones, sometimes disturbed by more abrasive sound frequencies. It is true that when listening to this opus, one enters a form of psychedelic trip, as if the brain was following the modulations of the music, which becomes almost meditative and brings us closer to a shamanic trance state. It's a bit of a sound illustration of this particular moment when we leave the state of pure awakening to become more cottony, to feel the sensations of our body evolve, the noises gradually fade away, the breathing slow down... Although generally calm, this work can become darker at times ("Vouivr") and approach a form of dark ambient rather psychedelic. I am well aware of Sheitan's creativity and his talent for handling atmospheres and melodies, even in quasi-atonal moments, but I find that he has surpassed himself here: this album settles in itself as a great pleasure that one immediately wishes to repeat. In addition to the digital version, the album is also available on vinyl, which will allow you to appreciate the very nice artwork. [Le Scribe Du Rock]
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CENT ANS DE SOLITUDE -- "En Concert - El Diablo, Lille, France 29.11.14" -- LP -- €20
2020 Force Majeure, FORCE 012, (ltd. 270)
Industrial / Experimental. Created in the mid-1980s, C.A.D.S. is a French one-person musical project, originally based in Tours. Being on the sidelines of the first "hard" industrial wave, the group sets up dark atmospheres by developing long ambient electronic ranges, repetitive and cinematic, sometimes with snippets of minimalist melodies. Whether in the studio or in concert, the approach of this "sound craftsman", as he defines himself, remains the same: to develop very evocative atmospheres evolving between darkness and melancholy. To do this, he uses pre-recorded electronic layers and sounds on which are grafted acoustic, concrete sounds, resulting from live manipulations of objects diverted from their original functions: scraped metal, struck stone, battered springs, etc. The work on sound taking place mainly at the level of the vibrations of objects. The group invites you to take part in a journey, a journey halfway between consciousness and unconscious. Rust-marbled vinyl, limited edition of 270 copies, special silk-screened folding cover. [label info]
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KOPP, HERMANN -- "Tiffauges" -- 7" -- €10
2020 Ultima Ratio, UR 003, (ltd. 200)
Industrial / Neoclassical / Darkwave. A meeting between a man of excess and an experimental musician. This is the story of Gilles de Rais told musically by Hermann Kopp. "Tiffauges" is pure melancholy. [label info]
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KOPP, HERMANN / FUSILLER -- "Les Naufragés" -- 12" -- €17
2020 Ultima Ratio, UR 001, (ltd. 200)
Industrial / Neoclassical / Darkwave. Best known for his scores to Jörg Buttgereit's cult films "Nekromantik", "Nekromantik 2", and "Der Todesking", this split vinyl (featuring with one with track with dark ambient artist Abattoir) sees German artist Hermann Kopp paired with Parisian electronic artist Fusiller (aka Jo Tanz). "Les Naufragés" ("The Shipwrecked") features geometric loops, dead melodies, synths, noise and vocals... Hermann Kopp started recording songs on tape in the 70's, combining his violin with a Moog imitation in a very personal and minimal approach to music, with lyrics that bordered on surrealism. In the mid-80's he became the fifth member of the experimental synthesizer band Keine Ahnung. Ltd x 200 copies with artwork by Piet du Congo. [Cold Spring]
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MUNDAL, ARE -- "Interloper" -- LP -- €23
2021 Telesterion Records, 002, (ltd. 100)
Dark Ambient / Industrial / Experimental. Dark atmospheric Ambient / Darkwave / Experimental music from Norway's Are Mundal, who has written songs for albums such as ENSLAVED's "Isa" and IMMORTAL's "All Shall Fall", but who is probably best known for his photography of Fantoft stave church on the day it burnt down in 1992 which ended up as a cover photo for BURZUM "Aske" EP. "This album is dedicated to the fight against christianity, religion in general, and all destructive ideologies". Beautifully presented in a matt sleeve featuring cover paintings by Mundal. Ltd x 100 hand-numbered copies with printed inner sleeve and full size insert, plus an artcard with artwork by Stephen Fabian. [Cold Spring]
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MUNDAL, ARE -- "Nocturnal Perambulation" -- LP -- €23
2020 Telesterion Records, 003, (ltd. 100)
Dark Ambient / Industrial / Experimental. Dark atmospheric Ambient / Darkwave / Experimental music from Norway's Are Mundal, who has written songs for albums such as ENSLAVED's "Isa" and IMMORTAL's "All Shall Fall", but who is probably best known for his photography of Fantoft stave church on the day it burnt down in 1992 which ended up as a cover photo for BURZUM "Aske" EP. "This album is dedicated to the fight against christianity, religion in general, and all destructive ideologies"... The 2020 album from Norway's Are Mundal - and his first solo vinyl release. Beautifully presented in a matt gatefold sleeve featuring cover paintings by Mundal. Ltd x 100 hand-numbered copies with printed inner sleeve and full size insert. [Cold Spring]
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THE TALK OF CREATURES -- "Identifications" -- 2 LP -- €30
2018 Le Horla Music Production, (ltd. 100)
Avantgarde / Experimental. A little-known project from France, similar in style to THE RESIDENTS (from whose composition they took their name and to whom they dedicated one track on this album). Double LP: white & transparent red vinyl, limited edition of 100 copies.
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Cassettes
ECHO COMA -- "s/t" -- C-91 -- €8
2021 RWCDAX Again, rwcdax 002, (ltd. 30)
Dark Ambient / Experimental / Industrial. The debut album of the St. Petersburg project Echo Coma. 81 minutes 40 seconds of psychoactive electronics, noise and drone, ghostly voices and rustles. Four improvised tracks. 30 black cassettes. [label info]
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GERSEMI -- "Ajna" -- C-26 -- €9
2021 Janushoved, Janushoved no. 134, (ltd. 110)
Ambient / Synth / Experimental. "The spring comes and settles in a careful and weightless manner, encasing each pause in glass, in a shallow ocean blue color..." [label info]
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HERCEGOVINA -- "Locusts Of The Summer" -- 2 CS -- €18
2021 Janushoved, Janushoved no. 133, (ltd. 110)
Ambient / Synth / Experimental. "This multiplicity blends with red sirens. A drama of nature unfolds around us, always and forever. Steadfast and bound to each other... For the serpents of the grass, for the locusts of the summer..." [label info]
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PUSTOTA -- "Fields Rp-89" -- C-46 -- €6
2021 BioSonar^Lo-End, 119/2021, (ltd. 10)
Minimal / Noise. Completely spontaneous interpretation of the field nature of sound and noise. Fields: magnetic, radio fields, psycho-social... everything that can affect the sonic texture is used and documented, fed through the chains of sonic equipment, collecting interference and distortions along the way of relaying. This program of recording can be used as a background for wide range of activities, playing with pets, feeding birds and casual relaxation. Limited edition in paper sleeve. [label info]
RADIOSTALKING -- "August" -- C-60 -- €7
2021 BioSonar^Lo-End, 120/2021, (ltd. 13)
Radionoise. Night radio flow of noise space. The recording was done on a countryside terrace using an open microphone and five radio receivers. A meditative immersion in the nature of radio noise and residual phenomena of radio broadcasts. Limited edition in paper sleeve. [label info]
VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "Synchronicity" -- C-26 -- €8
2021 [electrotapes archive], [ETA-TAPE-03], (ltd. 20)
Experimental. "Memory is like dust on the mirror of doubt... the synchronicity of events of the past and the present. Everything repeats itself like a four-dimensional spiral winding in loops the brief flashes of our lives. We carry the memory of things and ideas. Those that were, those that influence what is happening through viscous time. Signals from the past bear evidence of the future... "Synchronicity" is a collection of forgotten and newfound pieces, recorded here and there, in different states and for different purposes. Different from birth, almost lost, they synchronized in their thirst for being and sounding, reinforcing each other many times over. From scattered and lonely elements a new wholeness has appeared, spontaneous naturalness, which cannot wait to declare itself... 20 copies with a piece of paper containing a mysterious number, a code to the doors to the Inside Out." ALEXANDER NACRAPTOR, ELECTROSON, GREZYASCHIY GOROD, AUTISM & WINE. [label info]
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ABOVE THE RUINS -- "Songs Of The Wolf" -- CD -- €13
1984/2018 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-85
New Wave / Post-Punk. A long-awaited reissue of the important album in early Neo-folk history, which sold out more than 20 years ago. This for sure will be interesting for those who are deep in the new wave/post-punk/neo-folk music and interested in the history of genres. The album was released by legendary “World Serpent” in 1995 but recorded in far 1984 after Tony Wakeford left Death In June. A splendid mix of post-punk, new wave and slightly folky, sound bears resemblance to early Death In June, Tony Wakeford's future project Sol Invictus and Joy Division. “Songs Of The Wolf” was released as a tape in 1984 and as LP in 1986, both well acclaimed and sold out immediately. A new version includes the complete CD album plus two rare bonus tracks. This is absolutely everything that recorded by that short-time project, ever. This is music by very young people with a hot blood and raw energy. The album like a trip back in old times, makes you feel young again... but not too much and only for a while. Part the money from sales will be donated to charities like “Hunt Saboteurs”, “Southall Black Sisters” and "Animal defense community"... We tried to publish this album since the 2009 year and happy that that is finally done. Now we can enjoy music (!) again and some collections became more complete. [label info]
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AGHAST MANOR -- "Gaslights" -- CD -- €10
2012 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-18 / Eternal Pride Productions, EPP-19
Dark Ambient / Darkwave. Aghast Manor is a creation of Andrea Nebel (Aghast, Hagalaz Runedance, Nebelhexe) who - after working for quite some time on dark movie soundtracks - recently also re-introduced her old Aghast songs to actors and filmdirectors such as Scott Derrickso and David Lynch. As a result, Andrea got received new inspiration and she decided to work again on a full album with dark tracks! Aghast Manor is inviting you to haunting darkness and decadent visions, providing perfect soundtracks for dark disturbing atmospheres. With a blend of sinister ambient and classical tunes the first album 'Gaslights' is giving you images of industrial lunacies, victorian visions of opium smokes and dark poetry, femme fatales, Jack the Ripper and Lovecraftian occult experiences... Travis Ryan from Cattle Decapitation has submitted a song called 'Suck My Drain', vividly describing the atmospheres within slaughterhouses and other death camps. Aghast Manor's 'Gaslights' must be enjoyed at night, either in darkness or with candle light. [press-release]
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AJNA -- "An Era of Torment" -- CD -- €10
2017 Reverse Alignment, RA-39, (ltd. 300)
Dark Ambient / Drone. 2016 saw the release of Ajna's debut on Reverse Alignment; "Inevitable Mortality". An isolationist journey through desolate landscapes. External, but most of all internal. On "An Era of Torment", Chris F plunge deeper into the darkness of the soul. This time derived from psychological battlefields contemplating on lo-fi textures, blackened drones and abandon hopes. [label info]
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AND REMAIN THERE FOREVER -- "Silence" -- CD-R -- €5
2019 VOLOK Records, VR-28, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient / Drone. AND REMAIN THERE FOREVER – a project of Ilya Gorlov from Kramatorsk, Ukraine. This is a dark ambient drone with a gloomy chilling atmosphere. Just what you need for fans of the genre. «After 5 years, the ghost mechanism of otherworldly visions started working again in a rotten station. Broadcasting the silence of the places left, which breaks the dances of ignorance in irreversible chaos, supressing hatred towards the system. By that indifferently prompting the void to meditate in the void». [label info]
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ANDROMALAR -- "Nunquam" -- CD -- €10
2018 Reverse Alignment, RA-44, (ltd. 200)
Ambient / Drone. Reverse Alignment welcome ukrainian Andromalar to the fold. After three self released titles this magic drone act now found it's way to our label. Vast, dreamy soundscapes is expected. Listen and you'll understand what Andromalar is all about. [label info]
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AS WE LAY -- "Sacrilege" -- CD-R -- €5
2018 VOLOK Records, VR-15, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient / Drone. A dark, monotonous canvas, frightening with its infinity. Sucks you down into a black hole of a disturbing dream. Filled with unclear images. Only for real connoisseurs of the genre. [label info]
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BLACK PURIFICATION -- "Nothing But Pain" -- CD-R -- €5
2020 Red Engineering Production, REPR-19, (ltd. 20)
Noise / Power Electronics. If you do not want to lose peace and peace of mind, do not listen to “nothing but pain”! This is an audio tale of pure violence! About the perverted fantasies of maniacs and psychopaths! You will feel the pain and horror of the imminent death of victims of serial killers. Power Electronics, in its extreme and aggressive incarnation, is waiting for you in the BLACK PURIFICATION album - Nothing But Pain. Have a nice listening! [label info]
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BLASTERKORPS -- "Nos Annees Mortes" -- 2 CD -- €15
2015 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-48
Complete anthology of Blasterkorps, project created by Geoffroy D. (DERNIERE VOLONTE, POSITION PARALLELE) and Leonce B. (I-C-K, NIHILTRONIX, SOLDAT ARNAUD, CAGE APOTHEEK). Depth of analog minimal synth, electro and raw industrial with voice of Geoffroy D.! First time on CD and many unreleased tracks! 25 composition, almost 100 minutes of music. [label info]
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BVDUB -- "A Thousand Words" -- CD -- €13
2017 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-73 / Fact Of Being, Fact-001
Ambient. A Thousand Words is my longest, largest work to date, and what we can likely all agree this was all coming to - one, single 77-minute piece. Much more than one single narrative, however, it is comprised of 19 movements, and over 500 channels of audio... all performed in one take, live. Combining a colossal library of pre-recorded and treated loops, samples, beds, and instrumentation, in concert with live arrangement, synthesis, loop creation, instrumentation, and even vocals, A Thousand Words is about as raw and unapologetic as anything I have ever made - as well as the most challenging, requiring more equipment, instruments, and dexterity than I have ever attempted before... as well three keyboards, six live instruments, and two samplers, all running through two computers and a phone, simultaneously... [from the author]
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CARBON BASED LIFEFORMS -- "VLA" -- CD -- €14
2011/2016 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-77, (ltd. 1000)
We’re happy to welcome legendary Sweden space ambient project in our roster. Special album, different from earlier works of CBL, one hour of deepest space ambient tunes, one hour snatched from eternity, one hour of ethereal oblivion... Very Large Array (VLA) is a radio astronomy observatory located on the Plains of San Agustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, some 50 miles (80 km) west of Socorro, New Mexico. It comprises 27 25-meter radio telescopes in a Y-shaped array and all the equipment, instrumentation, and computing power to function as an interferometer. Each of the massive telescopes is mounted on double parallel railroad tracks, so the radius and density of the array can be transformed to focus on particular bands of wavelength. Astronomers using the VLA have made key observations of black holes and protoplanetary disks around young stars, discovered magnetic filaments and traced complex gas motions at the Milky Way's center, probed the Universe's cosmological parameters, and provided new knowledge about the physical mechanisms that produce radio emission. The VLA stands at an elevation of 6970 ft (2124 m) above sea level. It is a component of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). [label info]
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DAX-MA -- "Depth" -- CD-R -- €5
2020 VOLOK Records, VR-40, (ltd. 20)
Ritual / Dark Ambient. Continuing the ideas embodied in previous works, in the new album DAX-MA musicians explore the realities of the sound fields of water and earth. Water as a source of life and sensations. Earth as a symbol of depth, upon reaching which we are reborn. Sound is a trace of ritual going deep into these images and elements. Andrey Vstrechnik (synths, percussion, mixing & mastering) and Pavel Selchukov (strings, drones, pipes, voice) are responsible for the sound in the project. To achieve a special atmosphere, project participants use ethnic instruments (Telharp, Flute) and DIY instruments (Iron resonator boxes, Springs). [label info]
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DAX-MA -- "Pluto in Capricorn" -- CD-R -- €5
2020 VOLOK Records, VR-42, (ltd. 20)
Ritual / Dark Ambient. Pluto needs about 248 years to complete its circumsolar orbit. It destroys the established order, awakening powerful energies that bring death to everything that has exhausted itself, without knowing pity. Usually, such processes occur gradually, almost imperceptibly, but sometimes very violently, especially when Pluto moves to another zodiac sign. Sound constructions were created during the difficult transitional period and bear the imprint of many events and impressions. One of these events was the death of the composer Krzysztof Penderecki, whose work we are inspired by. [label info]
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DEMONS THAT DROVE -- "A Dormant Sensory Organ" -- CD-R -- €5
2020 Red Engineering Production, REPR-18, (ltd. 20)
Dark power electronics with noise elements. The oppressive atmosphere of the album plunges the listener into the depths of the subconscious. The contemplator falls into the abyss of loneliness. In an individual vacuum against a background of mystical visions. The author explores the nature of fear, the nature of man, which originates in the emptiness of an undeveloped world. [label info] А project of Krister Bergman (POSITIVE ADJUSTMENTS).
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DIETER MUH -- "The Bjorn Tapes" -- LP -- €15
1999/2018 Force Majeure, Force 009, (ltd. 320)
Industrial. This is an entire reissue of a limited to 50 copies C45 audio cassette originally released by Xerxes (Japan) as ES-27 in April 1999, later re-released as a limited CDr by Blade Records (Italy) in 2004. All material recorded live on 30 January 1999 in Nottinghem, U.K., edited and produced by Dave Uden during February 1999, re-mastered in September 1999. Using electronics, samples, tapes, bass-guitar, vocals, the English duo created here three long tracks of hypnotick electronic music / ambient noise in the "old-school" experimental genre. White vinyl housed in a three-panel folded silkscreened cover released in a limited edition of 320 handnumbered copies. [label info]
DISPERSIVE LIGHT -- "Tangible Blackness" -- CD-R -- €5
2020 Volok Records, VR-39, (ltd. 20)
Dark Ambient / Industrial / Doom. The album "Tangible Blackness" was recorded in 2009. But later it was lost. This record is a matrix of the lost material restored bit by bit from different sources. Tangible Blackness is a kind of beginning, the source of Dispersive Light. The sound of the project was constantly changing, but it is still only a bass guitar and nothing more. All material was played and recorded in the studio "Burgelart" in 2009, Kiev. [label info]
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FLUXUS -- "Mental Illness" -- CD -- €10
2013 OPN, OPNCD0023 / Unknown Pleasures Records, UPR 002
FLUXUS - "mental illness" collaboration work between Pedro Penas Robles aka HIV+ and MAURI featuring Arturo Lanz from legendary industrial pioneers ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO and guest vocals by Vera from BLACK EGG. As the gloomy asylum depicted on the front cover, “Mental Illness” is haunted by eleven experimental tracks mixing minimal beats, cold music, white noise, abstract vocals by Pedro, Arturo Lanz and Vera. CD is housed in a three panels digisleeve with high quality artwork with selective brilliant varnish laquer. [label info]
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GERRARD, LISA & MARCELLO DE FRANCISCI -- "Departum" -- CD -- €14
2010/2018 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-84
Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner singer/composer Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance) and film composer Marcello De Francisci have joined forces to bring you their first collaborative album work titled "Departum". This album is a collection of pieces, which are filled with lyrical soundscapes, orchestrated with vocal chants, cimbalom, guitars, percussion, modern instruments and orchestra. An effort that took two years in the making moreover a journey inspired by ancient world cultures (Mesopotamia, Europe & Asia)... After the groundbreaking album "The Trail Of Genghis Khan" written in collaboration with an Australian artist Cye Wood, Lisa Gerrard returns to Infinite Fog with the long-awaited complete extended edition of the album "Departum". Highest quality sound, ambient drifts, soft tribal rhythms, touching melodies of Cymbylom and 144-Strings Yang Chin played by Lisa Gerrard and transcendental vocals. All this gives even more in sum and makes "Departum" pure pleasure listening... The album recorded with Marcello De Francisci, a well-known American composer /visual artist with an Italian-Argentinean background, based in Los Angeles, California. Marcello De Francisci is a big name in soundtracks industry, in 2006 he won the best soundtrack of the year G.A.N.G. award for his work on SCEA's "God of War" game. His music has been used in major theatrical movie trailers such as "Avatar", "Prince Of Persia", "Monsters VS Aliens", "Seven Pounds", "Hellboy" to name a few. Moreover, we can remember his mesmerizing music in the sequel to "Baraka" art-house documentary, "Samsara". In 2009, Marcello and Lisa started to work together and recorded several soundtracks for major and art-house movies. Besides that, their creativity also found a realization in a common album "Departum" which became one of the most top-rated albums in Lisa Gerrard discography. Attentive listener may remember Marcello as co-creator Lisa Gerrard's album "Twilight Kingdom"... CD released in a digipak with massive 20 pages booklet. [label info]
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GERRARD, LISA & MARCELLO DE FRANCISCI -- "Departum" -- LP -- €25
2010/2018 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-84 LP
Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner singer/composer Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance) and film composer Marcello De Francisci have joined forces to bring you their first collaborative album work titled "Departum". This album is a collection of pieces, which are filled with lyrical soundscapes, orchestrated with vocal chants, cimbalom, guitars, percussion, modern instruments and orchestra. An effort that took two years in the making moreover a journey inspired by ancient world cultures (Mesopotamia, Europe & Asia)... After the groundbreaking album "The Trail Of Genghis Khan" written in collaboration with an Australian artist Cye Wood, Lisa Gerrard returns to Infinite Fog with the long-awaited complete extended edition of the album "Departum". Highest quality sound, ambient drifts, soft tribal rhythms, touching melodies of Cymbylom and 144-Strings Yang Chin played by Lisa Gerrard and transcendental vocals. All this gives even more in sum and makes "Departum" pure pleasure listening... The album recorded with Marcello De Francisci, a well-known American composer /visual artist with an Italian-Argentinean background, based in Los Angeles, California. Marcello De Francisci is a big name in soundtracks industry, in 2006 he won the best soundtrack of the year G.A.N.G. award for his work on SCEA's "God of War" game. His music has been used in major theatrical movie trailers such as "Avatar", "Prince Of Persia", "Monsters VS Aliens", "Seven Pounds", "Hellboy" to name a few. Moreover, we can remember his mesmerizing music in the sequel to "Baraka" art-house documentary, "Samsara". In 2009, Marcello and Lisa started to work together and recorded several soundtracks for major and art-house movies. Besides that, their creativity also found a realization in a common album "Departum" which became one of the most top-rated albums in Lisa Gerrard discography. Attentive listener may remember Marcello as co-creator Lisa Gerrard's album "Twilight Kingdom"... [label info]
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GERRARD, LISA & CYE WOOD -- "The Trail Of Genghis Khan" -- CD -- €13
2010/2017 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-75
With the greatest pleasure Infinite Fog Prod. presents "The Trail Of Genghis Khan" by Lisa Gerrard & Cye Wood! Whatever you know about Mongolia, hardly you could tell more than an Australian traveler Tim Kop, who left 3 years of his life in the marvelous Mongolian steppes, certainly taking with him far more impressions than many can take in his entire life. The film about this nomadic journey was released by the ABC Television Group, and has received many awards, including National Geographic (Australian Geographic)... The album ‘The Trail of Genghis Khan’ made by Cye Wood in collaboration with Lisa Gerrard sourced from material that Lisa and Cye produced for the documentary series ‘The Trail of Genghis Khan’. This album is an emotive interpretation of Tim Cope’s epic journey on horseback from Mongolia to Hungary. Drawing on inspiration from this rugged & majestic landscape and the culture & inhabitants of this unique part of the world, they have allowed their intuition to be the guiding force in the creation of these works... Lisa Gerrard, widely known for her magical voice, by the work in Dead Can Dance and the grandiose soundtracks, together with the Australian violinist multi-instrumentalist Cye Wood, currently based in Berlin, portrayed the emotions and impressions of the epic journey in musical form... Cye and Lisa, both extraordinary musicians who have devoted their entire lives to music since the early years, and it's no surprise that they could find the perfect mutual understanding and create such a wonderful album worthy of being named one of the best in the discography of both authors. Cye already had experience working with Lisa Gerrard as a violinist on her solo album "The Black Opal" 2009. And a year later the first full-length joint work "The Trail of Genghis Khan" was ready. Charming melodies, excellent arrangements, perfectly balanced atmosphere and a bewitching plot of songs, all this in a compartment with the inimitable vocals of Lisa Gerard is "The Trail of Genghis Khan". [label info]
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GERRARD, LISA & CYE WOOD -- "The Trail Of Genghis Khan" -- LP -- €25
2010/2018 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-75-LP
With the greatest pleasure Infinite Fog Prod. presents the first vinyl edition of the highly acclaimed album "The Trail Of Genghis Khan" by Lisa Gerrard & Cye Wood! Whatever you know about Mongolia, hardly you could tell more than an Australian traveler Tim Kop, who left 3 years of his life in the marvelous Mongolian steppes, certainly taking with him far more impressions than many can take in his entire life. The film about this nomadic journey was released by the ABC Television Group, and has received many awards, including National Geographic (Australian Geographic)... The album ‘The Trail of Genghis Khan’ made by Cye Wood in collaboration with Lisa Gerrard sourced from material that Lisa and Cye produced for the documentary series ‘The Trail of Genghis Khan’. This album is an emotive interpretation of Tim Cope’s epic journey on horseback from Mongolia to Hungary. Drawing on inspiration from this rugged & majestic landscape and the culture & inhabitants of this unique part of the world, they have allowed their intuition to be the guiding force in the creation of these works... Lisa Gerrard, widely known for her magical voice, by the work in Dead Can Dance and the grandiose soundtracks, together with the Australian violinist multi-instrumentalist Cye Wood, currently based in Berlin, portrayed the emotions and impressions of the epic journey in musical form... Cye and Lisa, both extraordinary musicians who have devoted their entire lives to music since the early years, and it's no surprise that they could find the perfect mutual understanding and create such a wonderful album worthy of being named one of the best in the discography of both authors. Cye already had experience working with Lisa Gerrard as a violinist on her solo album "The Black Opal" 2009. And a year later the first full-length joint work "The Trail of Genghis Khan" was ready. Charming melodies, excellent arrangements, perfectly balanced atmosphere and a bewitching plot of songs, all this in a compartment with the inimitable vocals of Lisa Gerard is "The Trail of Genghis Khan". [label info]
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HARVEST RAIN -- "Blood Hymns" -- CD -- €10
2006 OPN, OPN CD 05
Neofolk. These Midnight Sessions began within the Winter Solstice and the recordings continued during the 12 Nights of Yule in 2002. 'Blood Hymns' is a personal soundtrack to the search for Thule/Hyperborea. The Spirit's journey back to the lost homeland. A "musical diary" of the blood answering the Pull of Magnetic North's Most Northerly Midnight. Where one finds the 13th Hour. These Midnight Sessions began after 'A Frost Comes with the Wind' and should be considered the follow-up to that album. The largest line-up for a Harvest Rain album yet. Special preparations and work with the Chilean artist Juan Almarza Anwandter of Der Arbeiter without whom this album would not be. 'Blood Hymns' is for all those on the Path of A-MOR. Expect simply the best with this new collection of heathen folk music anthems... [press-release]
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HEKSEMOTE -- "Abominio Celato" -- CD-R -- €5
2019 Red Engineering Production, REPR-10, (ltd. 20)
Occult Noise / Ambient Noise Wall / Dark Ambient project from Italy.
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HIP, VALERA -- "Mountain Of Fugitives" -- 2 CD -- €14
2019 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-90, (ltd. 400)
Ambient. In June 2013, our friends brought us an album by the man named Valery. More than 30 years ago (after 15 years of wandering), he settled in the distant Altai village - Zamulta and did not leave these places anymore. You cannot get there either by plane or by train, and you can only drive by car in summer and autumn. Valery is engaged in homemaking musical instruments like pipes, harps, flutes; he breeds bees and leads the household, which forms the basis of his life. With his minimal resources, he recorded an album that fell into our hands. The recordings united under the name " Mountain of fugitives" turned out to be hypnotic ambient compositions built on drawing lo-fi drones, pipes, harps, nature breathing, field recordings, sounds of the surrounding life and the author's voice, occasionally filling the space with references to ancient Chinese and Japanese poetry like Mèng Hàorán and Matsuo Bashō, as well as quotes from the Norwegian writer Hans Burley, or his own verses... Valerych discovered "ambient" for himself as the most suitable form for self-expression without regard to any standards. The serenity of nature, the simple tranquility of a secluded lifestyle, the purity of a self-contained existence and the tension of daily physical labor, all here in these sounds, in the originality, naturalness, and softness of the sounds, which literally disarm and necessitate to play the record over and over again... It took 5 years to prepare all the material for publication. In the meantime, the album has grown to a dilogy with a total duration of more than 150 minutes. Now its 2CD and eight long nameless tracks instead of four... Enjoy by pure rural ambient music. [label info]
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HLADNA & ORD -- "Tunottauan" -- CD -- €11
2018 Status Prod., SP 07 CD, (ltd. 200)
Ritual Ambient. When the connection between the Earth and the Cosmos is established, the balance is restored, the merging of reality and subtle worlds occurs, the image of Tunnotauan appears, the symbol of duality, polarity, harmony of the universe... Status Prod. presents a collaborative album of Russian ethno - industrial projects Hladna and Ord, recorded during a private session on July 28, 2017 and now, due to the label, this record became available on CD. The ritual ethno-industrial noises and singing of Tibetan bowls, the tinkling of the bells and the clatter of the shaman's tambourine, merge into a single sound canvas, enveloping the whole, leaving in the depths of the subconscious and causing unknown hitherto images... Two-headed God Tunottauan came to Koloyar, the leader of project Hladna, during the deep immersion into the subtle worlds, his image was reconstituted from memory and used in the design of the album. The album released in a gate-fold format, made of design cardboard, with an attachment from naturally aged material, circulated of 200 hand-numbered copies. [label info]
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IINEY + UL.V. -- "Vyaz'" -- CD -- €11
2019 Status Prod., SP 11 CD, (ltd. 150)
Dark Ambient. Status Prod. presents a collaboration album of Russian noise projects IRINEY and ULTRAPOLYARNOE VTORZHENIYE (UL.V.). Recorded over a period of five years, working separately and together, using field recordings, digital techniques and studio hardware, the album is finally complete. "Creaks and whispers, deaf, viscous drones, breath of a swamp immerse the listener in an ancient ritual, attach to it through understanding of a fairy tale, through an ancient chant, through contemplation of sacraments of the untouched nature. Vyaz' is released in an edition of 150 hand-numbered copies, presented in an outsized silkscreen-printed gatefold card cover with a silkscreen-printed card attachment, made of designer cardboard, featuring the art of Nizhny Novgorod artist Elena Lisitsa. [label info]
KANTER, ADRIEN -- "Infinites Reflexions" -- LP -- €15
2017 Nuit Et Brouillard, NB.V.03, (ltd. 382)
Ambient / Post-Rock / Experimental. Adrien Kanter is an eclectic, self-taught musician, who made his debut at the age of 20 (guitar, trumpet and synthesisers). Equally comfortable playing electronic music or rock (improvised or otherwise) he has formed the bands Trésors (Electro), Le Réveil des Tropiques (Psychedelic Rock), Deux Fois Deux Fois (Folk), Testa Rossa (Rock) and Eddie 135 (Ambient). He frequently works with stage directors of theatre companies such as Das Plateau, Si vous pouviez lécher mon cœur or Le Service des Urgences poétiques. He also composes soundtracks for live performance arts (dance and theatre), radio plays and for films. «Infinites réflexions» is his first solo album... For this first solo album, Adrien Kanter invites us to an intimate exploration of his imagination, offering here all of his sensitivity. Synths, guitar, voice, field recordings, microphones etc are all ways to an universal hypnotic and sensorial introspection. His music was born from a rewriting of his own improvisations gathered at some places or during encounters, simple moments, or when back from travels or tours the head full of images and the mind excited. They were then cut and arranged as a whole nourished by the years he spent in the bands of different styles he is a part of. Elaborated during a period o six months at his home studio, the 10 tracks included in this album convey this fragile intimacy inherent to its completion. Infinites Reflexions is a night tour, an interrupted moment during which Adrien Kanter defies places, repetitions and textures while sonorities evolve depending of the titles or the instants of life crossed by these vibrations expressed by colours and rhythms harmony... Infinites reflexions is a kaleidoscopic sonorous dream, a psychedelic, hypnotic and sensorial film score on the boundary of ambient, krautrock, drone, post-rock and experimental music. Vinyl is housed in a silk-screened fold-out cover on deluxe textured paper and comes in an edition of 382 copies. [label info]
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KESAR -- "Epitome" -- CD-R -- €5
2019 Red Engineering Production, REPR-13, (ltd. 20)
Ritual Industrial from Ukraine. Reminds of somehow even more brutal and primitive version of early Trepaneringsritualen...
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LAW -- "The Black Lodge" -- CD -- €7
2001 Nuit Et Brouillard, NB CD 04, (ltd. 500)
Industrial / Dark Ambient. Third and final CD by this great American sound artist. Oppressing, frightening and chilling atmospheres, nightmarish samples, distorded guitars and more vocals and orchestral parts than usual melting into subtle soundscapes full of latent violence... Housed in a special fold-out package featuring full colour images captured and designed by the artist. Limited ed 500. [label info]
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M. BRYO & D.M.T. -- "Things I Was Due To Forget (1979 - 2005)" -- 2 LP -- €30
2018 Nuit Et Brouillard, NB.V.04, (ltd. 439)
M.BRYO & D.M.T. was one of the musical projects of the Antwerpen based multimedia artist Mark Burghgraeve. In the late seventies Mark followed Art school and from young age tempered with electronics. He formed M. BRYO & D.M.T., his first synthetic band that time with some fellow students. M. BRYO & D.M.T. played from 1982 till 1984 in clubs, cultural centers, chapels and at art exhibitions sometimes complete with the D.M.T. line-up, sometimes solo. Among other things, Mark constructed the original KLINIK with Marc Verhaegen and collaborated with the artist Jan Fabre... "Things I Was Due To Forget" is a record of songs that appeared on K7 and vinyls or came from M. BRYO's personal archives of unreleased tapes. As a whole this is an inspired release conceived as the full-length album that never saw the light of day that time. It can be seen as a kind of "anthology" of what the artist composed under M. BRYO moniker... All tracks were remastered by the artist especially for this release. This timeless jewel is now available as double LP in a run of 439 copies. This version features one black and one white LP in a fold-out sleev with silk-screen printing. [label info]
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MAEROR TRI -- "The Beauty Of Sadness" -- CD -- €15
1996/2019 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-97
Drone / Industrial. IFP's next step in re-publishing albums by drone-ambient heroes Maeror Tri. Obviously it would be redundant to introduce this legendary trio to you yet again. Over the seven years of its existence, they have recorded genre-defining material that has lost none of its relevance even after more than a quarter of a century... We are pleased to announce "The Beauty of Sadness" - one of the band's most striking albums. An emotional, melancholy, sentimental, melodic drone ambient album, which can be considered a classic of the genre on a par with "Myein". You will search in vain for industrial or noise elements, as featured on the group's more heavy releases, herein the eponymous beauty and sadness reign supreme. This release comes highly recommended for any listener with only a passing interest in Drone-music, be it guitar- and electronic-based... Recorded between October 91 and September 93, "The Beauty of Sadness" became the 11th full-length Maeror Tri tape, which was released in 1996 shortly before their breakup on the very peak of the group's strength. The bonus track "Immersion in Emotion" was recorded around the same sessions as the album itself in October 1993, and first appeared on the video collection "From the Hills of Dream"... 15 years have passed since the only CD reissue of the album on the Tantric Harmonies label, during which time the album has become a rarity, completely absent from the market, and one of the group's most sought-after albums... Our new version of "The Beauty of Sadness" has been fully remastered in 2019 by Peter Andersson (raison d'etre) resulting in a literally shockingly improved sound experience, the erroneously added silent tracks from its earlier CD incarnation have been deleted and the overall previously ubiquitous surface noise removed... The design has again been created especially for the album by the artist and designer from St. Petersburg Anton Bogdanov, the winner of the Hermitage competition, who previously worked on the reprints of "Mind Reversal", "Peak Experience", "Venenum". [label info]
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MAEROR TRI -- "Venenum / Timeless Transcension" -- CD + DVD -- €18
1992/2018 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-86, (ltd. 300)
This is our 4th step in reissues of Maeror Tri albums and obviously, there is no sense to present to you this legendary ambient/industrial trio, again. This time in our Digibook reissue series we glad to announce "Venenum" - a peaceful analog drone album recorded between 1989 - 1991 years. A first-time "Venenum" was released in 1992 as a tape and reissued on limited 200 copies CD in 1999 by very nice short-living France label ÜNE (r)ecords. New version carefully remastered and packed in a Delux hardcover Digibook with booklet. Beside of CD album, there is also a great surprise for all band-fans - bonus DVD with "Timeless Transcension" - an experimental video created and released by the band in the 1992 year on VHS. The outstanding artwork was created especially for the album by a young painter and designer from Sanct-Petersburg Anton Bogdanov, who did a great job for "Peak Experience" and "Mind Reversal" reissues before. [label info]
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MANIFESTO -- "Hive" -- CD -- €10
2018 Reverse Alignment, RA-43, (ltd. 200)
Industrial / Dark Ambient. Magnus Zetterberg is returning with a new haunting opus of darkest industrial ambient accompanied by Axel Torvenius wonderful art. "Hive" is a ghastly exhibition into the foul world of humanity. A soundtrack to devastation. [label info]
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MINAMATA -- "Fukushima" -- CD -- €10
2017 Force Majeure, Force 011, (ltd. 500)
Industrial / Soundscape. This album by the industrial French project was inspired by the disaster at Fukushima nuclear plant initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tōhoku earthquake on 11 March 2011. The Fukushima disaster was the most significant nuclear incident since the Chernobyl event on April 26, 1986... Huge waves of dense sound rise and fall, creating a symphonic feeling for this industrial soundtrack filled with shredded voices, pounding beats and screeching loops. Four lengthy tracks clocking in 48 minutes. Limited edition of 500 copies in 6-panel digifile.
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MOSCOW HOLOCAUST SOUNDTRACK -- "s/t" -- CD -- €8
1998/2018 Provoloka, prvlk 0009-0001 / Moscow – 0001, (ltd. 480)
Industrial / Drone / Noise. In 1998, the Moscow Holocaust Soundtrack cassette was released on the Moscow label Insofar Vapor Bulk. Side one contained the experiments of Ivan Kirichenko (LYUDI NA LDU) with feedback and noises, side two - a recording of joint sessions of Ivan and Evgeny Voronovsky (CISFINITUM). "There was no equipment, except for a microphone, a speaker and a cassette recorder, everything revolved around this simple combination. I was very fascinated by the idea of feedback. Just a microphone, a speaker and a guitar pedal..." [Ivan Kirichenko]
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NEUTRAL -- "Luisenkirche, Konigsberg" -- CD -- €10
2006/2013 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-23
A very anticipated release from one of the best Dark Folk bands! Neutral was founded in 1993 by a singer and composer known as ASH, later Evgeny Voronovsky (Cisfinitum) joined the band. Literally every song of this project features delicate guitar and violin tunes, touching lyrical images and deep vocals. Neutral have never released too many albums, actually their recordings are big rarity... Aside for some demos and mini-albums, during the 20 years of existence only 2 studio albums were recorded: "...Of Shadow And Its Dream" (2004) and "Serpents In The Dawn" (2008), and also 2 live albums: "Walpurgis Night At Luisen Kirche Koenigsberg Live" (2000) and "Luisenkirche, Konigsberg" (2006). And if "Walpurgis Night" was released twice, in 2000 and 2008, "Luisenkirche, Konigsberg" was kind of lost in the history. It was published in 2006 by a cult and now deceased German Dark Folk label Eis Und Licht, but only on CDr/DVDr limited to 35 copies, which were actually sold out immediately. There was also a CDr version without bonus video, but those 100 copiesalso quickly found their places in cozy collections. After that the original masters were lost and we spent almost 2 years trying to find them and luckily we made it! Now this recording is reissued on factory pressed CD and DVD packed in heavy digibook, and light remastering work was done by Peter Andersson (raison d'etre)... [press-release]
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NOISESMETANA -- "Space 43 / Is it your future??" -- CD -- €8
1996/2019 Provoloka, prvlk 0011-0001 / Bryansk – 0001, (ltd. 480)
Noise / Cut-Up / Sound Collage. NOISESMETANA is a mythical project. According to the apt expression of one of those interested, "only those who read old noise fanzines from the 90s know about NOISESMETANA." For the first time the name was found in the catalog of the St. Petersburg label "One Touch" 10-15 years ago. After asking Philip Wolokitin (as the person behind One Touch), I learned that “yes, there really was such a project”, “it was quite a long time ago” and “contact with the author was lost”. A dozen years later, thanks to Alex Alexeev, a cassette with a demo of this project fell into my hands and later I managed to communicate with the author. As it turned out, it all started in the first half of the 90s, in the city of Bryansk - after the author got acquainted with the 7" by AUDIOSTENCH / SATANIC DEATH and the DISPHAGIA band of the Alexeev brothers (SOI tapes). After some time (namely in 1995) Sergei himself decided to try his hand in the field of harshnoise and in 1996 released a demo record "Space 43" on his own label Miasma tapes. This was followed by both standalone releases and splits with various noise projects - among which there were no less mythical St. Petersburg TALONOV NET, Canadian DAN-CHARGE with "Humpty Dumpty", ERIK DISORDER with "A cunt with a bowl of reefer in it" and the aforementioned Alexeev brothers with LLG and WEAK ANAL MUSCLE. In addition to Smetana, Sergey organized several more projects - THREE CRIPPLE FREAKS (harshnoise), G.N.P (lofi / shitcore), also the Miasma tapes label is mutating into the publishing house Oral Diarrhea tapes (there were about 20-23 releases in total), releasing several more splits with LLG and Barnaul-based project LANAKROMOLEB. This disc contains tracks taken from the "Space 43" demo and from the triple split "Is it your future?" also featuring GOREGOD and LLG. [label info]
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NORTHAUNT -- "Barren Land" -- 2 CD -- €20
2004/2013 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-34
"Barren Land" was the second full-length release from Northaunt (originally released 2004 on Fluttering Dragon). Recorded 2002-2003 in Spitzbergen, an island in the arctic region north of Norway; a desolate place that inspired the most arctic album by Northaunt. "Barren Land" is a masterpiece of nature-inspired ambience; a release that returns the listener to the icy floes of Norway, not only figuratively but also literally, with samples woven into a poignant ambient work that is a worthy heir. Seeking to underpin humankind's intrinsic relationship with nature, the music delves far more than simple reverb and endless drone; melodic guitar performs contrapuntal to glacial drifts groaning as giants, evanescent lisps of male and female voice grace the skies like aurora, plaintive piano swirls in the eddies of gelid and industrial storms. In addition to the "Barren Land", you will find extra CD including the mini-album "In The Midst Of Life, We Are In Death" (2004), the unreleased track "Winter II" (2004), as well as an absolutely new composition "Hopeless Dreams", the first track recorded by both members of Northaunt since 2006. This expanded edition is presented in the in finest digibook with a 12-page booklet, including additional information and photos from 2002-2003 by Haerleif. Highly recommended! [press-release]
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ORD -- "Avalokiteśvara" -- CD -- €11
2020 Status Prod., SP 13 CD, (ltd. 108)
Ritual / Drone. Status Prod Label. presents the new album of Voronezh ritual / dark ambient project ORD "Avalokiteśvara". Avalokiteśvara is a bodhisattva, the embodiment of infinite compassion of all Buddhas. The Dalai Lama is considered his incarnation and regularly conducts Avalokiteshvara initiations. The material was recorded on 06.07.2019, the Dalai Lama's Birthday, at a private session at the "Yunost" music center, and was finalized with field recordings and modular synthesizers in the winter of 2020. As a result, there were 5 compositions united by a common meaning, a meditative-trance sound, opening new facets of sound shamanism. The album was released in an edition of 108 hand-numbered copies, in a poster with the author's design, supplemented with a patch. [label info]
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PAAR -- "s/t" -- CD-R -- €5
2020 Red Engineering Production, REPR-11, (ltd. 20)
Musique Concrète / Experimental. "Sound is a physical phenomenon representing the propagation of mechanical vibrations in the form of elastic waves in a solid, liquid or gaseous medium. In the narrow sense, sound means these vibrations, considered in connection with how they are perceived by the senses." With the help of a camera, a mobile phone and a small synthesizer the PAAR project from Kiev, Ukraine recorded its debut album of the same name. The album contains four compositions with an average length of 13 minutes. What do the authors themselves say about their work? “We tried to create an atmosphere of artificiality, not naturalness of what was happening. Indeed, in fact, we are playing out a representation from the visual sound series, the cause and effect of which we ourselves are. Sound is us. These are the senses capable of perceiving it. If we consider sound as a physical phenomenon, then it does not exist at rest. Just as we cease to exist at rest. We compare the nature of sound – silence with our nature of emptiness. In fact, this is one thing." [label info]
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PETROGRAD DRONE GATHERING -- "17022017" -- CD -- €11
2020 Status Prod., SP 12 CD, (ltd. 150)
Drone / Experimental. "Streams of sounds of winter ice-covered rivers, the rumbling of mountains and frozen forests in the snow are tightly intertwined with iron loops and electric current. Intertwined, tangled, rooted with age-old roots in the concrete walls..." Label Status Prod. presents the album of Petrograd Drone Gathering "17022017". Petrograd Drone Gathering is an improvisational orchestra of experimental Petersburg (and not only) musicians with non-permanent membership, widely known in Russia and abroad. All performances of Petrograd Drone Gathering are distinguished by an unusual sound, a subtle interweaving of forest noises and urban hum, the unique charm of ambient and the strict rumble of drone... Album contains a recording made at a concert at the Sound Museum (Art Center "Pushkinskaya 10") on 17.02.2017, Saint Petersburg, Russia. The unique atmosphere, captured on the CD, was created by: SNEZHANA REIZEN, UHUSHUHU, LUNAR ABYSS DEUS ORGANUM, OGNI VIDENIY, MIRA DREVO and NEZNAMO... The album was released in an edition of 150 hand-numbered copies and is a folder made of designer cardboard with a curly card-attachment. [label info]
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POMNI IMYA SVOYO (REMEMBER YOUR NAME) -- "Inye (Others)" -- CD -- €11
2017 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-70, (ltd. 300)
Neoclassical / Neofolk. With joy we realize that the magic of the amazing Neo-Classical band REMEMBER YOUR NAME did not stop happening, IFP presents the third studio album, already known to the listener under the name "OTHERS"... On "OTHERS" you'll find 9 tracks. The band continued the beginnings of the last album and part of the lyrics from the songs are now composed by themselves. Additionally you can hear the works based on the poems by I. Brodsky, V. Tok, O. Skorokhodov, O. Pas, R. Rozhdestvensky. Obviously, it's no exaggeration to say that "OTHERS" is one of the main musical albums of the last year, especially in the Russian-speaking segment. [label info]
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PSYCHOGENIC PAIN / BLACK PURIFICATION -- "Stages Of Eclipse" -- CD-R -- €5
2019 Red Engineering Production, REPR-10, (ltd. 20)
Split of two Russian projects. Three tracks from Psychogenic Pain – cut-up / harsh noise. Four tracks from Black Purification – also harsh but in more primitivist lo-fi style.
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PURBA -- "Tubes I" -- CD-R -- €7
2020 VOLOK Records, VR-33, (ltd. 20)
Ritual / Industrial. Purba - a musical and theatrical project created in Moscow in 1996. Their music is based on the ancient sacred ceremonies of the Bon tradition (the pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet) and the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Musicians play authentic Tibetan traditional instruments, use overtone singing, noise, electronics, drone, industrial and ritual performance. "Tubes I" was recorded live on 22.06.2017 at "DOM" cultural center, Moscow. [label info]
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RAISON D'ETRE -- "Collected Works" -- CD -- €12
2013 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-30
As the title suggests 'Collected Works' is not an album with new material of raison d'etre (Peter Andersson). It is a collection of tracks from between 1999 and 2010 that has appeared on various compilations or other external projects. Suprisingly, despite the collection fact, these tracks form together a unity like if they were material for a conceptual album and presents a memorandum of a past.Death, decay, melancholia and sadness is the common attributes and this is also beautifully rendered in the images by Martin Bladh (Irm, Skin Area) used for the artwork. His premature death masks sequence is based on different aging faces of Peter Andersson and works as the perfect facade for this kind of soundwise journey and exposure. [press-release]
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REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM -- "Live in Youth Theatre on Fontanka 13.03.98" -- CD -- €8
1998/2017 Provoloka, prvlk 0007 / Leningrad - 0003
The recording of the first of only two live gigs by an old Russian noise act Reductio Ad Absurdum, digitized from the cassette release by Ultra label, complete and authentic copy from R.A.A. leader - Kirill Stoukaline. Contains bonus-track "Brain Impulses Absistence" from the tape compilation "Ultragamma" (1999, Ultra, U35).
ROSSIGNOL, FRANCOIS -- "Butoh Vol.1" -- CD-R -- €5
2019 VOLOK Records, VR-26, (ltd. 20)
Modern Classical / Experimental. Music for Butoh dance by the Canadian composer Francois Rossignol, with quite dark and ritualistic atmosphere.
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SEKTA PHOENIKSA -- "Vozdeystviye (Impact)" -- CD -- €8
1999/2009 Provoloka, PRVLK 0001 / Tomsk - 001, (ltd. 250)
Old-school industrial band from Siberian city Tomsk, Russia. First album was recorded at 1999 and reissued on 2009 on CD. Insane synth pulses and mad psychedelic guitar sound - if you love old Throbbing Gristle sound (end of 70') - this is for you! [label info]
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SRUB -- "Chton" -- CD -- €10
2015/2017 FireStorm Production, FSP-029-17 / Infinite Fog Productions, IF-82, (ltd. 500)
Folk Rock / Post-Punk. The forest is full of mysteries. There are a lot of black trails and unseen night creatures. If they bring you to a foggy meadow, know that the amulet has saved you. Or you'll be buried in a thicket and never return home. And there, at the end of the path, there is a laughing silence, placing spider webs. Waiting for you. Chthonic... Surprisingly, SRUB mix European post-punk with the spirit of a dark forest, rhythmic shamanism with a meditative occultism, the uncertainty of the future with the sincerity of children's fears. SRUB already irretrievably led secret paths into the wild thickets most fans chthonic and unknown. SRUB is one of the leading groups of modern post-punk, the shadows of long-forgotten beliefs come to life in their songs, melodies burst into the very soul, and the live energy of their concerts makes even Death itself dance, which has already been verified many times. Coming "Sunrise", and let it be revealed to us. [label info]
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SRUB -- "Pesni Zlyh Tsvetov (Songs of Evil Flowers)" -- CD -- €10
2016/2017 FireStorm Production, FSP-030-17 / Infinite Fog Productions, IF-83, (ltd. 500)
Folk Rock / Post-Punk. Songs of evil flowers is an Ouroboros-album. The eponymous final composition brings us back to the beginning: "We must find the way back." The album is as integral and conceptual, as it is eclectic and dichotomous. Through the whole album several antagonisms are to be found: reality and dream, truth and lies, good and evil. The central key to unraveling this image is faith: "Do you still believe in fairy tales?" Everyone must find the answer to this question himself. Mysterious images are hard to understand: is it reality or is it a dream? And is the fear of thickets made up by ourselves? Or do the goosebumps appear on skin for real, in our reality? Invisible, but noticeable presence. Obviously. A different force awaits our decisions: "And with an invisible hand bears the light over you", "His shadows sang in a fog," "And over a long road He will silently set us the cross". Whose image one can see in these songs? Who is He? Should we go after Him or is He a phenomenon of evil forces. We do not give answers. We do not know the answers. Songs of evil flowers is an album of secrets. The choice of the right path does not exclude the acquisition of sacral knowledge. We are all looking. We are all alike, and we follow exactly in footsteps. We are revealed but we come in dreams. Our log house is abandoned, but full of evil flowers. Singing these songs. [label info]
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SRUB -- "Top' (Bog)" -- CD -- €10
2014 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-47
Occult Rock / Post Punk / Dark Folk. "ТOПЬ" means SWALE on english. The first part of the trilogy "Swale. Shadow. Fog." Swale - first simbol. First step in dark. Dive into the limbo. Songs of dying herbs. Anticipation of the night. Twilightn. One of the faces of YOU, who going "By The Secret Paths". [label info]
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TURMAN, ROBERT -- "Way Down" -- CD -- €10
2014 Infinite Fog Productions, IF-42, (ltd. 400)
Originally released as a small run cassette in 1987, only to fall into tape label obscurity, Robert Turmans industrial genre-bending masterpiece album Way Down finally has been excavated for a proper vinyl reissue after twenty-three years in the shadows. This album solidifies Turman as a cut above the rest with respect to his talent and his natural ear for experimental composition. Turman first came onto the industrial scene in the late 70s as the ominous other half of legendary noise outfit NON, alongside Boyd Rice, together releasing the now classic first NON single, Mode of Infection/Knife Ladder 7" in 1977. After parting ways, Turman went on an excursion of self-released cassettes to which he fused every possible influence at his disposal, culling together past habits of experimental know-how and going forward into uncharted terrain. After his previous experimental efforts included on his Flux release in 1981, and even later in the prolific Chapter Eleven boxset, Turman turned the tables with the creation of Way Down, using synthesizer arrangements and drum machines alongside guitar solos, piano chords, tape loops and primitive sampling to create a whole new concoction of dance-like minimal synth blended together with the industrial darkwave noise he was mostly known for. After almost vanishing from the music scene, Turman resurfaced in 2005, teaming up with seminal noise musician Aaron Dilloway to not only reissue previous recordings, but to record and perform once again with new releases out on Hanson and Medusa. This reissue of Way Down serves as the blueprint of what Turman sought to render as a very accessible minimal synth/industrial album, yet keeping it just obtuse enough to make it one of the most brilliant and engaging albums to be ushered into the canon of 80s experimental culture. Regular Jewelcase edition. [press-release]
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USHERSAN & HIV+ -- "Black Monolith EP" -- 12" -- €14
2012 OPN Records, OPN EP04, (ltd. 100)
New Wave / Minimal / Industrial. NORMA LOY's old fan since the mid 80s, Pedro Penas Robles aka HIV + could not help crossing the road of Anton Usher Shield at a given time... From this encounter four tracks as well as cover of "I remember" from the legendary band SUICIDE (New-York duo loved by both characters since their younger years) saw the light on the "Black Monolith EP" released in France on OPN Records. An amazing project, that offers original compositions based on sounds and analogical or industrial electro rhythms strewed with the voices of HIV+, Ushersan or Vera... A sometimes vindictive haunted music, with a particular view on the madness of our world and on the human relations, often undermined by the emotional, spiritual and social disorientation from our times. On this album (strictly limited to 100 numbered copies) you will find dazzling tracks materialized, all apart from glaring influences, except maybe those of LSD and post punk electronic sounds. The whole album has been mastered by Normotone, and will please as well fans of Suicide as those of TIMOTHY LEARY, CLOCK DVA, SKINNY PUPPY, TRISOMIE 21, HAUS ARAFNA, THROBBING GRISTLE, ALDOUS HUXLEY, FACTORY FLOOR... and necessarily NORMA LOY. [press-release]
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VELGENATURLIG -- "Anahata" -- CD -- €10
2019 Reverse Alignment, RA-47, (ltd. 200)
Dark Ambient / Drone. VelgeNaturlig has been in our view for some time now. Somewhat underground until recent when releasing "Opalescent Pust" (2017) and "Kundalini" (2018) on dutch Winter Light label. When approaching Reverse Alignment we didn´t hesitate to take care of the experimental soundpiece "Anāhata". Staying true to the VelgeNaturlig format "Anāhata" is another field of soundbits that've been put together to manifest a holistic work. Carefully carresed, VelgeNaturlig deliver an almost hourly long hypnotic track, peeking and depthing. Most easily described as a ocean, waving back and forth, "Anāhata" has to be explored. And felt. [label info]
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VARIOUS ARTISTS -- "Museum" -- CD-R -- €6
2017 Evil Dead Productions, EDP 020, (ltd. 50)
A compilation of Russian artists close to the Yekaterinburg-based label Evil Dead Productions: ZINC ROOM, CARVED IMAGE OF EMPTINESS, SOL MORTUUS, VESICATORIA, CHURCH OF HOWLING DOG, ORD, ANDREW KEIN, KROMESHNA, LEMNA. From industrial and dark ambient to rituals and sonic experiments. All tracks were recorded specially for this compilation and never released before.
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