The mystery of the ancient and puzzling magic Sator square is evoked through five dark tracks. Amon (Andrea Marutti) is and established Dark Ambient project and Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio) is a well-known and eclectic alchemist of electronic-ethnic-acoustic-ambient sound mixtures. Together they have produced massive magmatic sounds mixed with the technologic and synthetic vibrations of oscillating sinewaves and with frosty isolationist timbres programmed through fluxes of information written in binary code... Echoes of breathless and confused human activities falling into decay, the dark and deep sound of earth's abysses, scoriae of electric buzzes and synthetic microsounds, the warmth of subliminal melodies. Gatefold digisleeve.
UK 12£
Europe 13£
World 14£
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HALL OF MIRRORS - 'Altered Nights' 2 x CD (Malignant Records)
3rd CD from the acclaimed Dark Ambient duo of Andrea Marutti (Amon, Never Known) and Giuseppe Verticchio (Nimh). Spread out over two CDs and totaling over 100 minutes, there’s a lot to absorb here; organic, textural ambience that’s murky and abstract, uncurling like tendrils of smoke before coalescing into a simulacrum of shadowy figures, to turbulent, more immersive post industrial sounds that prowl the depths of subterranean caverns and forgotten, still radioactive ruins. At its core, this is dark ambient, but with its roughly edged, mildly corrosive machine edges and cascading factory whir, Hall Of Mirrors moves into a much more active and cerebral sonic realm. Features contributions from Vestigial, New Risen Throne and K11. A must for fans of Troum, Terra Sancta and early Zoviet France. 6 panel eco-wallet.
UK 13.50£
Europe 14.50£
World 15.50£
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MARIBOR - 'De Immenso' CD (Silentes)
Based on a concept by Stefano Gentile, this CD is inspired by the works and life of Giordano Bruno. In addition to Stefano Gentile himself, this new work includes contributions by Maurizio Bianchi / M.B., Mauthausen Orchestra / Pierpaolo Zoppo, Nimh / Giuseppe Verticchio, Andrea Marutti and Gianluca Favaron. Almost 80 minutes of driving and all-involving music where bleak and dark atmospheres alternate with consuming assaults of Industrial distorted sonic masses, cinematic and descriptive passages enriched by detailed layers of field recordings, throbbing electronic progressions, melodic inserts, strings parts, guitar arpeggios, soft, slow and hypnotic ambient stasis. A work that gathers together some of the most representative artists both of the historical and of the more recent groundbreaking experimental and industrial Italian scene. Outsize sleeve.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
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NIMH - 'Krungthep Archives' CD (Silentes Minimal Editions)
Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio) returns with 'Krungthep Archives', rediscovering the sounds of his oriental ethnic instruments, collected in the Far-East, mainly in Thailand. The recordings of these 'Archives From Bangkok' (the 'City of Angels' or 'Krungthep' in the local idiom) are often submerged with electronic sounds, drones, voices, urban noises, field-recordings, loops, rhythmic fragments, lively and dynamically reaching sound waves. Otherwise, traditional instruments and natural sounds emerge, giving life to suggestive and catchy semi-acoustic soundscapes.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
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NIMH - 'Travel Diary' CD (Silentes Minimal Editions)
Finally collected on a single CD, and released in a completely re-edited and re-mastered version, enriched with new sounds and parts, Silentes present all the music created by Giuseppe Verticchio / Nimh during 2001 / 2002 using ethnic instruments only, in a totally 'unconventional' way, with the addiction of treated / processed field recordings. A real challenge beyond every stylistic and 'geographical' borders; an original and evocative dark-shaded ethnic-electronic-ritual music, born from the 'voice' of ancient and often unknown traditional ethnic instruments mostly collected in the Far East, without using synthesizers and any other electronic / synthetic source at all. An absolutely original Travel Diary, unpredictable and unrepeatable.
The energy, genius and intransigence of the music of the historic "cult" power electronics project Mauthausen Orchestra (Pierpaolo Zoppo), united to the original, eclectic, rigorous experimental research carried on for 15 years by Giuseppe Verticchio, mostly with his Nimh solo project. Disturbing images of unhealthy places, nocturne landscapes covered with fog, psychotic nightmares, tormenting and delirious, described with sonorities of great impact and incredible dramatic force. A dark and long itinerary, to be wrapped in the spirals of a time that progressively seems to slow down and stop, folded in on itself... suspended in the void, without offering any way out. A sonic adventure for brave souls. Digipak.
