Inspired by and a tribute to A. Tarkovsky's movie "Stalker" (1979). Stalker is an elaborate puzzle. Its pieces are always scattered, and the listener is relied upon to bring the final element of the puzzle along with him. Stalker invites you to get carried away into your own thoughts, flowing with the images as it provides new questions to ponder. In that sense, the album is very much like a philosophical poem: a very simple surface covering innumerable layers of meaning. One long ride in a cart, with clunking metal and water-whooshing sounds. Altogether fascinating and hypnotic. "Welcome to your Self, an alien place guarded by barbed wire". Ltd x 500 copies in foldout sleeve. Ukrainian import.
UK 10£
Europe 11£
World 12£
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FILIVS MACROCOSMI / CHARADRIIFORM - 'Ex Vivo' CD (A5 Production)
One long collaborative dark ambient / drone track from two Ukrainian projects. "Since the beginning of time mankind has been fascinated by Space. In 1961, the technical genius of Soviet scientists proved that man can master the cosmos. But how many people think about the fact that in addition to the celebrations, glory and indescribable feelings, a flight beyond Earth may bring pain, suffering, madness? In our work Ex Vivo (Lat. "from life"), we would like to reveal all the faces of flights, which are not talked about - loneliness, isolation from the usual things, the incredible closeness of death and an endless cold abyss of the universe, which stares at an astronaut. We have tried to convey and express the feelings that a person experiences at start of the machine and to the point where he can no longer distinguish the picture generated by his imagination from reality. The tranquility that ends the album in any case should not be understood as an obituary. It is rather a hymn of praise to the birth of a man who understood and took for himself a place that was defined for him by the universe." Ltd x 500 copies in a clear clamshell case.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
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VA - 'Secret Assembly' DVD (OMS Records)
A live document of a gathering of fine post industrial projects met in Ukrainian city Zhytomyr in May 2009. Camaraderie of Swedish act Deutsch Nepal, Russian act Noises of Russia, Ukrainian acts First Human Ferro and Filivs Macrocosmi assembled for an old school dark ambient / death industrial / experimental déjà vu. Deep isolationism, misanthropic / sociopathic dark industrial, religious noise mantras, and erotic mechanica crisscrossed to form an unforgettable pattern of the night to remember. Ltd x 500 copies in a discbox slider.
PAL, Region 0 (will play in all European DVD players).
