ABANDONED PLACE - 'Shadow Of Memory' CD (Thonar Records)
The debut album from French Dark Ambient artist Abandoned Place (a side project of Romain L from March Of Heroes). Mastered by Frederic Arbour (Cyclic Law). "Shadow Of Memory" comes in a magnificent digifile with a beautiful artwork by Sperber Illustrationen.
DAHLIA'S TEAR - 'Under Seven Skies' CD (Thonar Records)
The 3rd album from Dahlia's Tear clearly differs from preceding releases of ambient dark project with the extension of new sound elements layered by masterful narrative layout. With seven ethereal and dark tracks, Dahlia's Tear creates an enigmatic story. The renewed sound bears hypnotic touch of dreamy mood and specific abstract atmosphere. Anil ED uses distorted guitars, skillfully embedded lush skin of strings, gloomy slow frequencies and twisted layer of vocal layers to combine different moods to entire conception of tiresome longing and adding a huge depth to the sound. "Under Seven Skies" album is bringing an atmosphere between harsh and haunting feeling. Limited to 1000 copies in a digipak.
North is the second full-length album from False Mirror. Whereas 'Chronostatic Scenes' dealt with a dreamscape atmosphere, 'North' is much colder and darker. The mood of the album is like an arctic expedition from somewhere into nowhere. Many of the sounds come from acoustic instruments like guitars, accordion, gongs and mouth organ, which were then processed, as well as everyday objects. There are also environmental recordings he made from the North Atlantic Ocean and during the European windstorm 'Kyrill'. Limited to 493 copies.
PANTHEON LEGIO MUSICA - 'Per Aspera Ad Astra' CD (Thonar Records)
Marching Drums, enchanting Flutes and Harps, epic Chorals and the strange feeling to live inside a movie which takes place in ancient Rome, somewhere between the legion’s march and the worship of a god, somewhere between Caesar and Marc Aurel, somewhere between the will for absolute power and the intuition of total decay, somewhere between history and imagination, somewhere between here and there is the Elysium of Pantheon Legio Musica and their house for all gods. Digipak.
TONAL Y NAGUAL - 'The Hidden Oasis' CD (Thonar Records)
The second album from Bavarian folk / Neofolk outfit Tonal Y Nagual, also members of Jägerblut. "The Hidden Oasis" features 17 more melodious and sombre songs in the darkfolk, chanson and ballad genre, mixed with some unexpected twists and turns. Digipak with booklet.
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.
