With many quality independent productions, 21 Gramms has garnered so much praise from so many quarters in the past years. “Water- Membrane” is the second CD album from Poland’s 21 Gramms. Seven extended pieces of sublime orchestral dark natural ambient, generated a truly wonderful album. “Water-Membrane” sounds like a last hope inner movement into the most unknown decadency of the soul. Discouraging, shining, naturally isolationist. Digipak.
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ASTROWIND - 'Kaidanovsky' CD (Greytone)
This Latvian sound designer creates amazing, deeply emotional and romantic music with help of vintage analogue synthesizers and an open-reel tape recorder. There is a feel of escapism with huge chords of hissing analogue synthesizers, and a special kind of Baltic melancholia. This first Astrowind CD is a tribute to Aleksander Kaidanovsky, worldwide well known and seminal Russian actor and film director. The album consists is eight tracks filled with mind-floating constructions and de-constructions that will bring the listener to a wider dimension. ”Kaidanovsky” sounds like an oppressive, yet captivating, music experience surfing from a lysergic and mutant electronic textures to a degraded samples and hypnotic voices of the universe. A really amazing and impressive album for one of the most talented artist coming from Baltic area. Digipak.
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LARVA 108 - '99.09 - Inside The Stones' CD (Greytone)
'99.09 - Inside The Stones' is a collection of the most significant tracks made by LARVA 108 (aka Guido of Corpoparassita) during their first 10 years. A soundtrack for walking alone through a winter snowstorm or between the trees during a grey day in November. Sounds inspired by nature - a soundtrack for landscapes, moments, or just to escape from the world for a few moments. Experimental, electronica and organic drones create gloomy, psychotic, dark ambient atmospheres. 12 songs over 60 minutes. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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MOLJEBKA PVLSE - 'Zojo' CD (Greytone)
This album was recorded during Mathias Josefson's studies at the Royal Institute of Art. He was inspired by the longest night of the year in Stockholm, the day when there is almost no daylight. His ambition was to make an acoustic album of minimal drone music without any musical instruments. Moljebka Pvlse set up long nylon strings across his entire studio, which he then plucked and bowed and recorded with his favorite contact microphones on that very night. These recordings became the basis of the album and set the tone for the rest of the work. Features Japanese artist Michiko Kashiba. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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REFORMED FACTION - 'Until...' CD (Greytone)
"Until..." is a new set of dark ambient recordings built around the ideas of abstract compositional instructions similar in meaning and intent to those used by Karlheinz Stockhausen in such works as “From The Seven Days” and the nature of auditory vibrations. Eager to create a diverse and ever changing catalogue of works Reformed Faction here embrace improvisation, a feature fundamental to all their recordings, with a different focus and sensibility allowing sounds to evolve slowly and sub-consciously across a unrestricted timescale. Reformed Faction are Robin Storey and Mark Spybey, both ex-members of zoviet*france and both with long established and productive solo careers as Rapoon and Dead Voices On Air respectively. Digipak.
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TAPHEPHOBIA - 'Access To A World Of Pain' CD (Greytone)
The Dark Ambient musician Taphephobia (aka Ketil Søraker, ex-Northaunt) makes is mostly based on manipulated guitars. Taphephobia tries to express the feelings Ketil has at the moment he composes his music. The idea is to create an atmosphere that is sometimes scary and sometimes beautiful, like, for example, a good thriller movie. Taphephobia is very skilled in the creation of cinematic atmospheres, combined with personal feelings of fear, hope, hate, regrets etc… The main goal is to make the listener able to dream away with the music. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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TOPOGRAFIA - 'Genius Loci' CD (Greytone)
"Genius Loci" uses deep drones, ambient soundscapes, acoustic instruments alongside field recordings captured near Jaworzno, Poland. The project was inspired by the author’s personal fascination with the diversity of nature and the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who considered nature to be one of the most primaeval manifestations of a blind and aimless will, a will which we too are a part of. Topografia is Maciej Banasik (founder of Atum). Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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TRAMA AFONA - 'Trama Afona' CD (Greytone)
Trama afonA is the sound/visual project by Lorenzo Scacchia - an attempt to tramaphonise (convey) what he sees in the dark and hears into silence. This Cinematic Dark Ambient album constitutes the first official release, gathering tracks composed between 2005 and 2008. TA pays particular attention to individual and specific human stories, rather than to history… focusing on what happens behind the scenes, aside, beneath. Opening doors and drawers using the sole curiosity as tool, walking backwards the traces of memory, wandering amid shades and details given by mystery, decadence, abandon, romanticism. Carefully delving into psychological dynamics. Openly denouncing the social plagues, but often humbly providing just visual and sound suggestions. Digipak.
