AD OMBRA - 'Rites Of Genesis (Equinox Tremendum)' CD (War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden)
Romanian project Ad Ombra's debut album offers a suite in 15 parts of Dramatic Orchestral art, rooted in the timeless fragrance of Classical music, adorned with Eastern lullabies, funeral dirges, monumental choirs and operatic female chants, theatrical soliloquies, industrial hues of a dark disturbing manner, all coagulated in order to depict the aesthetical testimonies of the project's mastermind, George D. Stanciulescu. A spiral of emotions, thoughts, opalescent visions, essential recurrences, for Creation's shrine that stands as a living mirror where everyone can reflect the(m)selves. For fans of Elend, Stoa, Sophia and Chaostar. Digipak.
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ANDREA MARUTTI - ' The Subliminal Relation Between Planets - Live In Archiaro' CD (Nextera)
All music performed and recorded live by Andrea Marutti in Archiaro (Catanzaro, Italy) on August the 24th, 2007. "[Marutti] operates in the area that we could loosely identify as drone music, or ambient, but... this is of a much darker nature altogether. It's hard to tell what it is that he does; be it synthesizers, samplers, computer processing or just tons of sound effects, in the end the effect is a seventy-minute opus of dark, utter dark electronic music. The planets mentioned in the title may give away some of some of the darkness, and perhaps its all too easy to say that its pitch black as the stars by night, but on christmas eve, with stars bright and almost full moon, these sort of references may count. Think Lustmord meeting Mirror, the darkest fantasy of Klaus Schulze or such cosmic hero from yesteryear, and Andrea Marutti is your man" (Vital Weekly).
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ARKTAU EOS - 'Mirrorion' CD (Aural Hypnox)
Presented in seventeen chapters that can be approached as singular gateways or a slowly unfolding journey of epic proportions, the debut album of Finnish ritual act Arktau Eos is a challenging, complex work. Born of intense private musico-magical sessions held in places abandoned by man and further refined in the temple-laboratory of the duo, it is the distillation of seven arduous months of work. 'Mirrorion' is the music of stellar light thrown down from the Heaven's zenith and its eldritch reflections in the depths below, uniting atavistic elemental noise with serene passages of crystalline, spectral ambience. Comes in a six-panel, A5 booklet. Limited to 1000 copies.
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ATARAXIA - 'Concerto No. 6: A Baroque Plaisanterie' CD (Twilight Records)
Reissue of Ataraxia's 1996 album (Apollyon), remastered with an exclusive bonus track. Contain 9 songs taken from the original album, plus "Orlando, A Female" from the "Orlando" EP and Ataraxia's version of Franz Schubert's 'Ave Maria'. "Concerto No. 6" was inspired by Ataraxia's admiration for the stylistic canons of Baroque music, a music that incessantely pursued an aesthetical-formal elegance that was sometimes the mirror of an inner beauty. A deeply felt tribute to the Music Maestros of the past, a suffered research in the profound meaning of music, a personal homage to the impressive film of A. Corneau "Tous les matins du Monde", a dialogue between our earthly dimension and the ones we belong before being born and after death, an individual contribution to the Baroque harmonies and age, a subtle balance between formal beauty, passion and spontaneity, a singular excursion in the purity of sound. Digipak.
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BOYD RICE - 'The Way I Feel' CD (Caciocavallo)
This is an album about feelings. Those of you who only know Boyd Rice (NON) from his rather brutish and insensitive noise music will no doubt be surprised to discover the sensitive, at times passionate individual lurking beneath his often gruff exterior. Here, Rice opens up for us. He shares how he feels about a wide range of topics, and we bet you’ll be surprised just how often his thoughts and feelings mirror your own. “The Way I Feel” collects the best of Rice's collaborative tracks onto one album. Whether it’s with Coil or David Tibet, Douglas P. or Tiffiny Anders, every song is special, and the atmosphere is unforgettable. Comes with bonus CD-only track.
BOYD RICE - 'The Way I Feel' Picture Disc LP (Caciocavallo)
This is an album about feelings. Those of you who only know Boyd Rice (NON) from his rather brutish and insensitive noise music will no doubt be surprised to discover the sensitive, at times passionate individual lurking beneath his often gruff exterior. Here, Rice opens up for us. He shares how he feels about a wide range of topics, and we bet you’ll be surprised just how often his thoughts and feelings mirror your own. “The Way I Feel” collects the best of Rice's collaborative tracks onto one album. Whether it’s with Coil or David Tibet, Douglas P. or Tiffiny Anders, every song is special, and the atmosphere is unforgettable. Ltd x 500 copies on a full colour picture disc in a PVC archive sleeve.
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If you attempt to purchase more than 1 copy, your order will be refunded.
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COELACANTH & KEITH EVANS - 'Wrack Light In Copper Ruin' CD & DVD (Seal Pool)
Jim Haynes & Loren Chasse collaborate with Keith Evans to create Coelacanth's 4th and most complex record. Culled from two performances, 'Wrack Light in Copper Ruin' meditates on the space of performance, the tactile nature of the creation of sound, and its ephemeral, elusive and entirely subjective character. The visuals of Keith Evans further the exploration with their organic, nocturnal, energy. More delicate than Coelacanth's previous recordings, 'Wrack Light' inhabits a space where artists such as Jonathan Coleclough, Andrew Chalk, Mirror, and MNortham can be found, yet it maintains the mysterious, oceanic nature its name implies. Features a guest appearance by Matmos. CD & DVD in a jewel case.
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COLD FUSION - 'Simmetria' CD (War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden)
Symmetry perceived as some kind of balance and harmony. Symmetry between surrounding world and its "mirror reflection", which sticks in our minds. Symmetry of left and right side, day and night, birth and death. Symmetry of buildings, objects, bodies. The fifth album from Cold Fusion reflects this theme with dynamic, marching atmospheres on one side, and melancholy and reverie on the other. A lack of symmetry or rather its confirmation? 11 tracks overall, presented in a nice digipak.
FALSE MIRROR - 'Derelict World' CD (Malignant Records)
After three years of intense work, Dark Ambient disciple False Mirror returns with his third full-length journey. With the timeless drones of his debut "Chronostatic Scenes" and the icy soundscapes on his highly acclaimed sophomore masterpiece "North" still resonating through space, solo artist Tobias Hornberger delivers "Derelict World", his most massive and epic undertaking so far. Dark drones, frostbitten soundscapes and warm vibrating tones from the deep bowels of the earth. From the sheer force of a tornado set loose to the beguiling calm within the eye of the storm, "Derelict World" is a 74 minute long sonic journey into a desolated, depopulated world. In a digipak containing a 20 page booklet with a conceptually linked short story written by author and journalist Bjørn Springorum. The album contains a number of hidden messages that lead to a rewarding "Bonus World" on falsemirror.de. "One of the best dark ambient releases in recent years" (Orkus).
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INADE - 'The Incarnation Of The Solar Architects' 2 x LP (Loki Foundation)
There is a world that shadows our world; a world of mysterious design and unspoken secrets; of space that breathes and infinite echoes that never cease to cry. Mirrors that refract images into dark pools of cosmic nothingness. Inade explore these worlds on their latest masterpiece, in which sound is utilised in a transformative manner, not only to focus on that which lies beyond and that which has never been seen, but to embrace the Darkness and let it wash over one's soul. The mythology that Inade has created touches that place beyond forever, yet now, through the insistence of that which lurks in the margins, a metamorphosis has transpired, in which the cosmos of self has awakened. Inade provide the soundtrack... the frisson of unease is abundant, a churning, seething dread that veers into awe. It's up to the individual listener to listen intently, behind shuttered eyelids... to see and experience the true labyrinthine hierarchy of black splendor that awaits. Ltd x 344 copies on black vinyl in a stunning gatefold sleeve.
INADE - 'The Incarnation Of The Solar Architects' CD (Loki Foundation)
2nd edition in jewelcase. There is a world that shadows our world; a world of mysterious design and unspoken secrets; of space that breathes and infinite echoes that never cease to cry. Mirrors that refract images into dark pools of cosmic nothingness. Inade explore these worlds on their latest masterpiece, in which sound is utilised in a transformative manner, not only to focus on that which lies beyond and that which has never been seen, but to embrace the Darkness and let it wash over one's soul. The mythology that Inade has created touches that place beyond forever, yet now, through the insistence of that which lurks in the margins, a metamorphosis has transpired, in which the cosmos of self has awakened. Inade provide the soundtrack... the frisson of unease is abundant, a churning, seething dread that veers into awe. It's up to the individual listener to listen intently, behind shuttered eyelids... to see and experience the true labyrinthine hierarchy of black splendor that awaits.
KAZUMOTO ENDO & KAZUMA KUBOTA - 'Switches And Knobs' CD (Phage Tapes)
The follow-up to the live recording on released on Noise Ninja in 2009. This material is a joining of two Japanese Noisers: Kazumoto Endo (Killer Bug) and Kazuma Kubota (Blood Letter, The Cracked Mirror) in their usual fashion - lots of starts and stops, blasts of sound and silence. 2 long tracks: 1 studio (25:50) and 1 live (18:36). Ltd x 500 copies.
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MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / STEVE RODEN - 'Cosmic Debris Volume II' CD (A Silent Place)
CD re-issue of the second installment in the "Cosmic Debris" split ART-LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, on their own Opax Records. California visual / sound artist Steve Roden's contribution represents the unique experience of hearing him literally 'playing' guitar chords. MCIAA deliver another piece of 'cosmic debris', centered on multilayered echoes of voice, toy piano, space drones raising from a distant horizon, and their own physical gestures performed during the recording, which reproduce themselves through the air, re-play and give birth to echoes of real time that overcomes its own essence, becoming field recording itself, mirror and spectre of its immutability. Their track entitled also features Ramona Ponzini's Japanese bells contribution. Digisleeve.
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PSYCHIC TV - 'Mr. Alien Brain Vs The Skinwalkers' CD & DVD (Sweet Nothing)
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle) and her reactivated Psychic TV aka "PTV3" release their second album. Most of these tracks were recorded live for NPR's "World Cafe" programme in Philadelphia, May 2008 or at Galapagos Arts Space, Brooklyn, New York 2007. This initial pressing includes an exclusive DVD boasting 30 minutes of unseen Psychic TV / PTV3 live, on the road and in the studio by filmmaker Marie Losier and other surprises. For this project Psychic TV / PTV3 were: Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, Edley ODowd, Hanna Haddix, Marrkus Aurelius Cirkus Maximus Fabulous Perrson, David XXX Maxxx, Alice Genese and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. NO overdubs, no remixing. What you hear is what the band played. Includes "I Am Making A Mirror", Lady Jaye's song / poem for Genesis previously only available on the vinyl version of "Hell Is Invisible...", the previously unreleased mix of "New York Story" by Michael Gira (Angels of Light, Swans), live recordings from PTV3's residency at Galapagos Art Space as well as 2 entirely new tracks: "The Alien Brain" and "I Love You, I Know". This album is lovingly dedicated to Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge: 1969-2007.
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REUTOFF - 'Reutraum IV' 7" (Drone Records)
As one of the pioneers of the Russian industrial-scene Reutoff create an ultra dark visionary music, using elements of ambient as well as rhythmic industrial. A perfect example of the group's ability to build unsettling and sinister dark ambient industrial sounds, with an overall atmosphere of despair and deep melancholy, maybe mirroring today's "Russian soul". There is no light in this darkness, maybe only behind it. Second edition of 300 copies on brown / black marbled vinyl with full-colour gatefold sleeve and an insert.
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REUTOFF - 'Three Withered Souls' 2 x CD (Ewers Tonkunst)
Reissue of the first two Reutoff albums - “Das Absterben” and “Three Souls For A Reasonable Price” - both originally released as C60 tapes back in 1998 on Reutoff's private label House Of Mirkmoon and later re-issued as very limited editions by Blade Records. This CD edition contains all the original tracks, newly mixed from original sources and carefully mastered. The result sounds quite different from the original mixes, giving the chance to hear finally the full complexity of the initial ideas of this early Reutoff material. The four bonus tracks included are new versions of compilation tracks from same period, including “Black Mirror”. A whole new look at the very roots of the most well-known Russian industrial band. Ltd x 500 copies in a gatefold digisleeve. Russian import.
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SEELENTHRON - 'Wege' CD (Heimatfolk / Steinklang)
Second full-length album from the two former Dies Natalis protagonists, Norbert Strahl and Alex Meier. "Wege" is a classical Neofolk album in best tradition. Some songs mirror a sad, sometimes even gloomy picture of the world inside and outside of ourselves, other songs are just filigree Folk-ballads, as beautiful and dreamy as one could imagine. Nevertheless all nine songs always stand strong and powerful, showing a path to the listener, never to turn back and never to lose his courage. Martial rhythms drum stirringly to neoclassical compositions, united with impassionate piano and guitar playing and electronic sounds. The challenging lyrics on "Wege" deal with the stages in one's life, our path through time and the questions for the meaning and the purpose of life. Digipak with booklet.
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SKIN AREA - 'Rothko Field' CD (Malignant Records)
3rd full length release from this acclaimed Martin Bladh (IRM) project (in conjunction with Magnus Lindh), following two albums on Cold Meat Industry. Like previous works, "Rothko Field" is a visceral auditory experience... mind bending and turbulent sonic explorations that are grainy, abstract and tense, where uneasy frequencies intersect with caustic drones, insectile buzz, swelling drifts, and slow motion, percussion driven sludgery. "Rothko Field" is more structured than in the past, coming off as both spacious and yet suffocatingly claustrophobic, suggestive of a spiral downwards into mental decay and degradation, and further enhanced by Martin's uniquely distressed and provocative vocalizations. 9 tracks in total, broken into two "mirrored parts", with track 5, "Void" acting as the actual mirror itself. Digipak with 24-page booklet.
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STILLBIRTH / PRURIENT - 'The Mirror Of Purification' 7" (Semata Productions)
The first vinyl release for Stillbirth unfolds with complex guitar work, tape manipulation, shortwave radios and clever synth leads, giving 'The View Untangled' an almost musique concrete feel at times. 'Where Secrets are Guarded' brings forth new techniques in the Prurient sound. Melodic vocals mix in with pitch shifted dialogue and spiralling synth lines. Harmonic shapes take form within the electro-acoustic mist underlining this exceptional text. A work that deems repeat listening. Two innovative artists at the top of their game, paving the way - there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Ltd x 500 copies on randomly mixed coloured vinyl.
THE SOIL BLEEDS BLACK - 'Lead Into Gold' 10" (Lichtbringer)
RARE! Highly regarded USA act The Soil Bleeds Black recorded this limited edition record with new original songs along with other traditional tunes. The Neofolk sound of "Quintessence" meets the pure medieval style of "Mirror of the Middle Ages" on this release. Presented on marbled vinyl in a stunning gatefold sleeve with gold print. Hand-numbered edition of 484 copies! ACT FAST!
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THE SOIL BLEEDS BLACK - 'Mirror Of The Middle Ages' CD (The Fossil Dungeon)
The sixth full length album from TSBB presents a unique combination of contemporary and traditional songs representing the Middle Ages. Non-purist music capturing the essence of times past. The Soil Bleeds Black immerse you into a sonically rich tapestry that is both archaic and timeless. This is their most medieval work to-date. Presented in a digifile.
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TROUM - 'Ryna' CD (Transgredient)
This is the much-welcomed re-release of Troum's debut album, first released in an edition of 500 copies on Myotis Records in October 1998. "Troum is the next step in the evolution of Maeror Tri, taking the highly processed guitar ambiance of their previous venture and channeling it through a more tumultuous, volatile outlet... The general feel of the sounds here is reminiscent of the earth moving, tectonic plates in constant shuffle, the tracks building and then either shifting or worn away via attrition. It‘s as if Maeror Tri learned to fly through ingenuity, smoke and mirrors, while Troum has taken the ingenuity, smoke and mirrors and, somehow, grown wings." [Side-Line]. Presented in a stunning digipak.
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VA - 'Dark Ambient Radio Vol. 1' CD (Dark Ambient Radio)
A genre compilation that emerged around the web radio of the same name. 72 minutes of the finest dark ambient, with each of the eleven tracks having been created exclusively for the release. From established acts to relative newcomers, this completely self-produced collection is a gem waiting to be discovered! Features: Ah Cama-Sotz & All Sides, Dark Muse & Nihil Communication, Evoke Scurvee, False Mirror, Megatone, Mytrip, Nagual Art, Phelios, Phobos, Stephen Parsick and Svartsinn & All Sides.
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VA - 'New World Order' 2 x CD (Thonar Records)
First compilation from German label Thonar Records. A nice mix of Dark Ambient, Neofolk, Martial Industrial, Experimental, Industrial and Noise from: A Challenge Of Honour, Atomtrakt, Atrox, Brachial Palsy, Camisole, Erik Ursich, False Mirror, Flutwacht, Galaxia Obscura, Institution D.O.L., Invisible Front, Izanami's Labour Pains, Kreuzer, Maya Nadir, Moon, My Asphyxia, Nebelkorona, Noisewerrrrk, Phragments, SKM-ETR, Sky Burial, The Alison Project, The Sounds Of Earth, Thomas Nöla Et Son Orchestre and Tonal Y Nagual. Limited to 999 copies in a stunning gatefold digipak.
VA - 'Whom The Moon A Nightsong Sings' 2 x CD (Auerbach Tontrager)
"Whom The Moon A Nightsong Sings" is a two-CD collection defined by (mostly) acoustic musical settings of nature's scenery and impressions, or of personal sentiments mirrored in nature. This profound respect and a deeply romantic magical and mystical perception of nature are the common denominator of all the featured artists and the thematic foundation of their contributions. The fact that nearly all of the songs included here are either exclusive to this project or rare tracks that aren't otherwise available anymore serves to emphasize the extraordinary character of this release. Over 100 minutes of rare and exclusive tracks from Ainulindalë, Bauda, Dornenreich, Empyrium, Havnatt, Les Discrets (2 tracks), Lönndom, Musk Ox, Nebelung, Nest, Neun Welten, Nhor, Nucleus Torn, October Falls, Orplid, Syven, Tenhi, Ulver and Vàli (2 tracks). Presented in a stunning hardback digibook.
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WALDCHENGARTEN - 'Distractions' CD (Phisteria)
Really low-end ambient, sporadic humming pulses and blasting noise from this Danish artist (who recently released a 7" on Drone Records). “The senses are hit by a typhoon of charged electricity which sends your mind into a cabinet of mirrors where darkness folds and unfolds. The sound image presents itself as an inseparable unity in which myriads of parallel sequences are constantly undergoing transformations. Transcend through ethereal radiation!” Mastered by renowned Norwegian artist Lasse Marhaug. Nice piece!
