AUBE - 'Le Syndrome Aquatique' 2 x CD (Silentes / Amplexus)
(2008) Reissue of Aube's 1997 album "Aqua Syndrome" CD (Manifold) with a bonus CD of unreleased live material from Aube's "Aqua Syndrome" tour. Another concept album from Akifumi Nakajima, where all sounds are processed sounds, using only water as source material. 5 lengthy abstract and minimal ambient tracks. Presented in a super jewelbox.
UK 13.50£
Europe 14.50£
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AUBE - 'Metal On Metal' 2 x CD (Silentes / Amplexus)
(2008) Great reissue of Aube's seminal 1996 album "Métal De Métal" (Manifold), with a bonus disc unreleased live material from Aube's "Metal De Metal" tour. All sounds are processed sounds of metal, but the material here is taken beyond the obviously abrasive possibilities and reworked into something more - from cold metal to soft repeating clouds with friction at their core. Presented in a super jewelbox. Our favourite of all the Aube albums. Recommended!
UK 13.50£
Europe 14.50£
World 15.50£
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AUBE - 'Reworks Nimh Vol. 1' CD (Silentes / Amplexus)
(2007) Ethno-electronic sound sources (as with "The Missing Tapes" by Nimh), transfigured and remodelled into completely new sonic lifeforms with state-of-the-art audio processing algorithms by Aube. Residual fragments of the original sound sources occasionally appear in the mix, like aquatic fauna swimming to the surface for a brief second. A magnum opus in four movements. A minimal mosaic of sound that takes the listener on a slow-motion expedition into the very fabric of tone. An ocean of sound grains for the listener to swim in.
UK 10£
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AUBE - 'Reworks Stefano Gentile II' CD (Silentes / Amplexus)
(2008) Second meeting of Kyoto-based Japanese artist Aube and experimental Italian artist Stefano Gentile (Seamus, Seele). Once again, the Japanese master of contemporary electronic and experimental music develops original sound material from Stefano Gentile. Glacial sonic tensions, hypnotic electronic sequences, loops, alienated stratifications, isolationist dark atmospheres, slow and progressive accumulations of changing sonic masses.
UK 10£
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AUBE - 'Reworks Stefano Gentile' CD (Silentes /Amplexus)
(2005) Kyoto-based Japanese artist Aube has makes a restoration and revision of original material by Stefano Gentile from 1989. Glacial sonic tensions, hypnotic electronic sequences, loops, alienated stratifications, isolationist dark atmospheres, slow and progressive accumulations of changing sonic masses. An extraordinary work by Gentile, developed by the great Japanese master of contemporary electronic and experimental music.
UK 5£
Europe 6£
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M.B. + NIMH - 'Together's Symphony' 4 x CD Boxset (Silentes / Amplexus)
An extraordinary collaboration between the hystorical Italian de-composer Maurizio Bianchi and the eclectic, experimental, ambient artist Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio). An unmissable 4CD box that's a long and kaleidoscopic journey at the edges of sound; from the dark-industrial feelings of 'Together's Symphony' (the CD that gives the box its title), to experimental-lyric-introspective atmospheres of 'Secluded Truths', to the sonic multicoloured collages of 'Niddah Emmhna', (M.B. solo), and the electronic-acoustic-ambient visionary suggestions of 'Subterranean Thoughts' (Nimh solo). Endocrine insulation for diagnostic firabilities. Ltd x 300 copies only! Silentes is a sub-division of Italian label Amplexus.
UK 36£
Europe 38£
World 40£
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI & ATRAX MORGUE - 'M. Plus T.' CD (Silentes / Amplexus)
Just before leaving this world in 2007, Marco Corbelli (Atrax Morgue) made a series of recordings in collaboration with the old Italian master of pre-industrial culture Maurizio Bianchi (MB). The end result is this devastating album, centred around morbid themes of 'mord' and 'tot'. "Germinal murders... A betulinic bath of hydrocloric acid... Coprological Isomorphism... It is with deep grief that... Terminal death!"
UK 10£
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Dead Colours' CD (Silentes / Amplexus)
(2008) This is the reissue of a limited release published by Silentes (2005) in an edition of only 120 copies. "Dead Colours" shows the more quite side of MB, with an incredible dark melanchonic though in vein of David Lynch's atmospheres. This CD is part of a trilogy entitled "An Absurd Trilogy". Now finally available on CD with restored artwork by Akifumi Nakajima, MB and Stefano Gentile.
UK 10£
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'The Testamentary Corridor' CD (Silentes / Amplexus)
Three months after the acclaimed "Niddah Emmhna" release, the Silentes label releases a new five track CD of 'suggestive twilight sounds' by MB. Visionary electro-acoustic ambience by the most eclectic Italian decomposer / inventor / manipulator of sounds: Maurizio Bianchi. Alternating between lighter atmosphere, and darker isolationistic moments, Bianchi penetrates deep into the most subtle essence of sound, rearranging it's elemental particles / grains, and creating unbelievable sonic-washes.
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MICHAEL MANTRA - 'A/B' CD (Silentes / Amplexus)
(2005) Two long tracks of obscure and haunting drone-based atmospheres. Layers of slowly morphing sound-streams, electronic waves, natural ambient feedback, deep rumbles and distant echoes of metallic clattering masses in motion. An unbelievable sonic trip into the deepest darkness. Composed to be listened to using headphones, as a way of isolating yourself from the world. A work of epic ambient majesty.
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MICHAEL MANTRA - 'Boolean Languages' CD (Silentes / Amplexus)
(2005) "Boolean Languages" is a Dark Ambient album that is sombre in approach and mysterious in overtones. A combination of digital and analogue synthesizers, musique concrete and drones creates an album that is an ambiedelic brew of sonic excursions into the dark unknown lands within. This album is dedicated to world peace and the end of all suffering for all sentient beings. Silentes is a sub-division of Italian label Amplexus.
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MICHAEL MANTRA - 'Mobius Logic' CD (Silentes / Amplexus)
Evocative and crepuscular atmospheres, tenuous sounds from the ink colour pastel, minimalistic melodies acclimatised on a background of discreet but wrapping field recordings. Surrealistic soft sonorous landscapes with warm synthetic sounds, mixed to crystalline natural noises, concrete sounds, breaths. "Mobius Logic" is a fascinating, classic and quiet album of ambient music, and a work of one of the greatest and historical masters of the genre.
UK 10£
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ONTAYSO - 'Magical Tone Tricks' CD (Silentes / Amplexus)
"Magical Tone Tricks" was created during the silent night hours by the two core members of Ontayso, Koen Lybaert and Esther Santoyo. For this release they mainly focused on electronic manipulations and field recordings. The overall atmosphere spread over the 4 long tracks comes close to the well known early Basic Channel sound, but "Magical Tone Tricks" still keeps it's unique experimental Ontayso sound. It is also their response to Rod Modell's releases on Silentes and shows their mutual love for this early 90's Berlin sound and their joy of working with field recordings and minimal sound manipulations.
(2005) Kyoto-based Japanese artist Aube has makes a restoration and revision of original material by Stefano Gentile from 1989. Glacial sonic tensions, hypnotic electronic sequences, loops, alienated stratifications, isolationist dark atmospheres, slow and progressive accumulations of changing sonic masses. An extraordinary work by Gentile, developed by the great Japanese master of contemporary electronic and experimental music.
