Aqua Dorsa is a new Italian ambient project formed by Enrico Coniglio and Oöphoi. Their first work “Cloudlands” is a perfect mix of glitch, classical and orchestral glacial ambient soundscapes. Enrico Coniglio is a guitar player and composer, with releases on Touch, Crónica and Psychonavigation Records. Gianluigi Gasparetti (Oöphoi) started his own music experiments in 1995, trying to explore the shores of deep space-ambient. Oöphoi uses traditional instruments, synths and sampling machines, recording only using analogue only devices. Digipak.
BVDUB - 'I Remember (Translations Of Mørketid)' CD (Glacial Movements)
Bvdub (aka Brock Van Wey) 'translates' Netherworld's 2007 album "Mørketid" (Glacial Movements). From the opening notes of hearing the original he was mesmerised... " the music brought a flood of memories surging forth that I had long thought lost. It took me back to those times when ambient music was so pure, and so true". He used Netherworld's work as a base, interweaving narratives on those memories and feelings... memories of dreams lost, and never fulfilled… but also the beauty in knowing that dreams exist. Digipak.
UK 12£
Europe 13£
World 14£
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FRANCISCO LOPEZ - 'Amarok' CD (Glacial Movements)
Two years of hard work have been employed using sounds and processed field recordings. It’s a unequalled conceptual soundscape in this artist’s huge discography and it perfectly joins to Glacial Movements aesthetics. After a few seconds from the track beginning we are dip into an arctic trip which lasts more than an hour and in which tangled weavings in a masterly fashion handled by the Spanish artist appear, develop and dissolve. Gusts of arctic wind, the Amarok’s wheezing breath (Amarok is the name of a gigantic wolf in Inuit mythology) and the sense of loss in the polar night are only some of the sensations that this cryogenic hallucinatory acoustic is able to evoke. Digipak.
LOSCIL - 'Coast / Range / Arc' CD (Glacial Movements)
This Canadian artist perfectly merges glacial and isolationist ambient music. Coast / Range / Arc is centered around the coastal mountains of the Pacific Northwest, studded with glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, canyons and epic views. The majestic ranges form a striking mountain landscape. These tracks explore the timelessness of mountainous elevations; oxygen deprived and surrounded by boundless skies. Mountains are hardly static - in fact they are dynamic on a time scale beyond the human experience. They grow, buckle, twist, erupt and erode at an epic pace. The Coast / Range / Arc is filled with such mountains and valleys, their dynamics nearly imperceptible. They evoke awe and a connection to an imperceptible past. They are constantly changing, yet represent such a seemingly stoic fixture in our relatively short lives. Digipak.
After a long period of silence, we welcome the return of one of the most important representatives of the ambient isolationist world: the wonderful UK artist Lull (aka Mick Harris of Scorn, Painkiller, Napalm Death). "Like a slow river" is a work characterised by sharp and minimal atmospheres but also dark, cold and huge such as large bodies of ice which slowly move, carried by an endless river. These five compositions reach the high expectations of Lull's previous works, such as "Cold Summer", "Continue" and the "Murder Ballads" trilogy with Martin Bates. With no doubt, this is the coldest and darkest work ever composed by this pioneer of industrial-ambient music. You will all be led to the oblivion of your existence....the freezing darkness of these glacial night is going to come down on your bodies and minds... you'll fall in your deepest sleep with the far echo of glacial runnings... the way to eternity is in front of you. Presented in a gorgeous 6-panel digipak. Highly recommended!!
First offering from the 'Würm Series', based on the world's most recent glaciation (10,000 years ago) and asking each artist to describe this endless Ice Age. "When I’ve been asked to describe the Ice Age with an uninterrupted drone, I knew I wanted to avoid the cliches of the genre: dark rumblings, massive low frequencies, cold atmospheres. I had to describe with sounds the white landscape, the blinding light reflected by the frozen oceans, the abyssal silence. I have imagined myself in flight over this Sleeping Earth, a solitary winged-being surrounded by winds, air, water and ice. This led me to compose an airy drone with minimal variations and delicate tones, an hommage to a pure, uncontaminated and remote land" (Oöphoi). A singular 65-minute track presented in a digipak. Ltd x 750.
The latest edition of UK mag Rock-A-Rolla features Italian avant-rockers Zu. There's also interviews with Dälek, Gnaw (former Khanate frontman Alan Dubin), Glacial Movements, Ocean, Enablers, Randall Dunn, Ephel Duath, Glissando, and a Q&A with Zombi. This month's Label Focus is on Alone Records. Also included is the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Highly recommended!
UK 5.00£
Europe 7.50£
World 10.00£
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SKARE - 'Solstice City' CD (Glacial Movements)
Skare is the collaboration of Swedish droners Mathias Josefson (Moljebka Pvlse), Per Åhlund (Diskrepant) and Fredrik Olofsson. The members of Skare are all fascinated by the circulation of water, snow and ice. The metamorphosis from gas to floating liquid to snow to solid ice through freezing, the light reflecting from the snow and filtered through the ice as a prisma and - most of all - the sound of this ever ongoing circle. "Solstice City" is an interpretation of a journey through a shifting landscape where the city meets nature. The vehicles used by Skare on this journey are field recordings, found sounds and treated and manipulated instruments. Digipak.
Stormloop is electronic / ambient / visual artist Kev Spence from Leeds, England. "Snowbound" is a collection of tracks that was recorded in late December 2009. Deep snow had fallen that stayed for over two weeks. Composing late into the night, watching the heavy snowfall, was the inspiration for these tracks, and the feeling of being lost in some remote cabin, safe but warm, with good food and drink, staring out at the depths of winter snow that covers the land. These crystalline soundscapes take us from the cold winter nights, then out towards the bleakness of space. "Snowbound" is an authentic full-immersion into the cold, and you can really feel the snowflakes on your skin. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
Vicki's 2nd release pulls together material laid down over the past 2 years, pieces that have found their rightful home. Hypnotic and transporting ambient, electro-acoustic psycho-sonic visualisations captured in ephemeral movements and fortunate organic folds with ethereal violin, keys, bass, post-rock guitar, theremin and vinyl. "Seas & Trees" is filled with the spaciousness of desert expanses, moving at a glacial pace, yet filled with momentum at the same time. Presented in a matt digipak.
