Blind Cave Salamander is a project by Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (ex-Larsen) and Paul Beauchamp, backed up by sound designer, producer and engineer, Marco Milanesio, and legendary cello player Julia Kent. The music reflects an unusual mix of electronica, strings and guitars, drones and field recordings. A fine collection of sounds that at times lean towards hypnotic lullabies and at others towards abstraction. With their 2nd album, BIind Cave Salamander unravel shadowy, nocturnal landscapes, into lush, bucolic soundscapes. "Troglobite" also features experimentalist Michael Begg (Fovea Hex, Human Greed) as well as Little Annie's pianist Paul Wallfisch. 6-panel digipak.
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HUMAN GREED - 'Black Hill: Midnight At The Blighted Star' CD (Lumberton Trading Company)
The third album by Edinburgh's finest exponents of often haunting, yet always touching, ebb and flow. Michael Begg (Fovea Hex) with very special guest appearances by Julia Kent (Antony & the Johnsons, Blind Cave Salamander), Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (Blind Cave Salamander, Larsen), David Tibet (Current 93) and Clodagh Simonds (Fovea Hex). Gathering together material quite possibly amounting to their most accomplished yet, 'Black Hill...' is akin to being caught in the trail of a shooting star heading to the very place where dreams, fears, hopes and an overwhelming sense of helpless abandonment teeter over the periphery of yet another rather enticing void. At once beautiful, melancholic, slightly bruised and foreboding, the music here never fails to captivate.
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VA - 'Autumn Blood (Constructions)' CD (Lumberton Trading Company)
Collecting several artists LTCo has so far worked with and some of their affiliates, "Autumn Blood (Constructions)" mostly comprises exclusive material to this release by older hands and relative newcomers alike. Those featured are as follows: Lawrence English (Room 40 label owner), Peter Christopherson (Coil / Throbbing Gristle / SoiSong), Birds Build Nests Underground, Steven Severin (Siouxsie & the Banshees), Volga, Theme (Richard Johnson and Stuart Carter, both ex-Splintered), Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound), Zenial/Banabila, Formication, Sion Orgon, Human Greed (Michael Begg of Fovea Hex and Deryk Thomas), Colin Potter (Monos). Ltd x 500 copies - ACT FAST!
UK 10£
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VA - 'With Friends Like These...' 2 x CD (Tursa / Kaparte Promotions)
"With Friends Like These" is a double CD compilation by Tursa and Kaparte Productions who are jointly responsible for the successful "Ship Of Fools " club nights in central London. Oldies like Orchestra Noir, Sieben, Naevus, Tor Lundvall, Tony Wakeford, Andrew King and Arcana are joined by a roster of less gnarled artists from the UK, Europe and beyond. This is a compilation of artists not constrained by musical label or ghetto: Albireon, Alex Monk, Amber Asylum, Andrew King, Arcana, Art Immunda, Autumn Grieve, Brown Sierra, Christy & Emily, Cutty Sark, Eva Eden, Gargemella, Golgatha, Gregorio Bardini, Guy Harries, Heidika, Hekate, Hide & Seek, Hong Kong In The 60s, Human Greed, Man Eat Man Eat Man, Mercy Liao, Naevus, Orchestra Noir, Pilori, (r), Richard Moult, Rose Rovine E Amanti, Seventh Harmonic, Shining Vril, Sieben, Sonver, Susan Matthews, That Summer, The Hare & The Moon, Tony Wakeford, Tor Lundvall, Vega, Vultures and While Angels Watch.
