This album is inspired by the life and works of Nika Turbina - a poetess who started to write grown-up tragic poems when she was only 4 years old, with her first book printed when she was only 9 (later translated in 12 languages). After living pathologically strange life, receiving the "Golden Lion" prize, and being held in mental hospital, at the age of 27 Nika tragically died falling down from the 5th floor window. The musical dedication of Bardoseneticcube is presented in 12 untitled tracks filled with surrealistic feelings and some childish morbidity. Obscure loops and industrial soundscapes are buried under a pile of rhyme wreckage, melody fragments and almost chaotic manifold of strange sounds. Ltd x 509 hand-numbered copies.
A Russian duo inspired by Angelo Badalamenti's score for the "Twin Peaks" TV series. The project's music is a cocktail made of dark jazz, ambient and modern experimental music which will appeal to the fans of such bands as Dale Cooper Quartet And The Dictaphones, The Necks, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, No-Man, etc. With some ambient and noise experiments this MCD brings an additional page to Twin Peaks world, telling a story of Dale Cooper (the main character) and the unique atmosphere of The Red Room. Fans of dark ambient will be pleased as well as fans of thoughtful, slow-motion music. 33 minutes of music. Ltd x 500 copies in a shrinkwrapped card sleeve.
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DMT - 'Selected Funbient Works 1-4' 2 x CD (Zhelezobeton / Aquarellist / Monochrome Vision / KultFront)
Dmitriy Tolmatskiy (1970-2009) - a journalist and musician from the city of Saratov, one of the first promoters of alternative intellectual culture and particularly industrial music in post-Soviet Russia. He was the creator of the RWCDAX website, which had certain influence on the mindset of many modern personalities of Russian post-industrial art. The compositions included on "Selected Funbient Works 1-4" were recorded by the Dmitriy in the first half of 00s. Initially it was planned to release four parts of "Funbient" on four separate CDs. However later Dmitriy selected the best for a double album release. The album vividly displays the complex music world of DMT, which, like everything innovative, exists on the crossing of several musical styles and directions: from dark-ambient and industrial noise sketches to technoid rhythms and pure sonic experiments. Ltd x 500 copies in a gatefold digisleeve.
Very raw ritual ambient / noise saturated with ultra mundane drones and metal rattles. Mostly meditative but sometimes brutal. This is primordial music. Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies in an outsized folder with stunning photography by Vladimir Manevtsov. Russian import.
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PHURPA - 'Nag bDud Ceremony' CD (Aquarellist)
This voyage began in the middle of the 1990's in Moscow, when a group of artists and musicians led by Alexei Tegin and based at the legendary Fabrique of Cardinal Art commenced their studies of traditional ritual music, drifting away from the field of contemporary electroacoustic and industrial music with the intent to delve deeper into the ancient musical cultures of the ancient Egypt, Iran and Tibet. The original 2003 lineup of the project that emerged as a result was dubbed Phurpa (one of the five tutelary deities of the Father Tantra in Bon tradition), and all the members have carried on with their research in the field of Tibetan liturgies up to the present day. Ltd x 500 copies in an outsized 6-panel sleeve.
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RAPOON - 'Media Studies' CD (Aquarellist)
Rapoon is Robin Storey (Zoviet France). This album is dedicated to the research of mass media’s manipulation of people’s minds. "These recordings include the voice of David Icke. They reflect on the role of the media in shaping and informing opinions (the war in Iraq for example showed the shameless use of the media by a government intent on war whatever the real facts were) and in furthering prejudices and persecution of those who have differing views and dare to express them... Any similarity to any one living or dead is entirely due to Quantum Physics, string theory and parallel universes". Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak with two artcards.
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RAPOON - 'Messianicghosts' CD (Aquarellist)
Dark / ethno-ambient / drone from Rapoon (aka Robin Storey, ex-Zoviet France). Reissue of a long time lost classic Rapoon album published in 2002 by the Austrian label Klanggalerie. This is a remastered and extended re-release of Rapoon´s CDR-only release "Messianic Ghosts" on Syntactic, plus the Birethen and Amüz 7" tracks from the Syntactic 7" plus two brand new tracks. Ltd x 430 copies in a digipak with 2 cards.
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RAPOON - 'Wasteland Raga' CD (Aquarellist)
Brand new release from ethno-ambient act Rapoon. "While I was recently traveling through Eastern Europe recently, I passed through an area of industrial decline that reminded me strongly of the devastation of the Industrial heartlands of the UK during the early Thatcher years. The broken windows and twisted metal of the abandoned warehouses, the derelict pit-heads and the ruined factories all brought back memories of that grim time when the divide between rich and poor was never so obvious. Yet amongst the derelict factories and the red-brick estates of the North of England new music and art sprang forth as if driven by the desolate conditions. Out of the darkness came forth beauty in many forms. Wasteland Raga is a remembrance of those times when art and politics held close and intertwined out of a real sense of purpose and unity... Viva revolution!!!". Ltd x 1000 copies in a digipak with two artcards.
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VRESNIT - 'Seed Solar' CD (Vetvei / Aquarellist)
The new Vresnit album was recorded in autumn/winter 2010 in cooperation with Kshatriy, Hladna and Neznamo. A five-part space ambient piece dedicated to the sun and the transformation and dissemination of seeds. Vresnit's art has turned to the research of primary experiences - the human consciousness and the human condition resonating with nature. Sparkling cosmic Drone Ambient created from voices, string and wind instruments, bells, singing bowls, electronic instruments and field recordings. Ltd x 484 hand-numbered copies in an outsized 6-panel card sleeve.
