BAD SECTOR - 'Chronoland' CD (Power & Steel / Loki Foundation)
This new album of Massimo Magrini is the soundscape for a mind movie and another masterpiece that picks up where the previous work "CMASA" left off. 12 beautifully crafted chapters of music segueing between morphing layers of thick drones, haunting melodies and crackling vocal transmissions. "Chronoland" unfolds a fascinating and cinematic atmosphere of frightening ambient melodica with dark soundwaves deeply embedded in the music and bursts of electro-acoustic effects. This release is another step forward into the sound cosmos of Massimo Magrini with new directions but always in the unique way of Bad Sector. Comes in a 6-panel outsize digisleeve.
DALINA - 'Cold Mysteries...' CD (Casus Belli Musica)
Slavonic Folk Ambient from Belarus. Dalina is a project of Darkut (Bardjar, ex-Zmrok). Prolonged, unhurried songs, melancholic and pensive with a leading role here played by acoustic guitar, crystal clear flue, harp and natural sounds such as running water, birdsong, the creaking of trees in the wind and the rustling of leaves. Imagine yourself sitting at nighttime in a snow-swept cabin, watch a trembling candle and listening to ancient tales of the outside world. Ltd x 500 copies.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
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LARVA 108 - '99.09 - Inside The Stones' CD (Greytone)
'99.09 - Inside The Stones' is a collection of the most significant tracks made by LARVA 108 (aka Guido of Corpoparassita) during their first 10 years. A soundtrack for walking alone through a winter snowstorm or between the trees during a grey day in November. Sounds inspired by nature - a soundtrack for landscapes, moments, or just to escape from the world for a few moments. Experimental, electronica and organic drones create gloomy, psychotic, dark ambient atmospheres. 12 songs over 60 minutes. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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MICHAEL NORTHAM - 'Suhina' 10" (Substantia Innominata / Drone Records)
"Suhina" is a notion for the sound of the wind moving through the trees. Instead of capturing field recordings of wind, Michael Northam tried to capture this feeling and the essence of this process through instrumental recordings from Indonesian flute and keyboard. Natural phenomena seen as the true manifestation of the Unknown. Stunning full colour artwork by Indian artist Rohini Devasher. Ltd x 500 copies on white vinyl.
UK 11.00£
Europe 13.50£
World 16.00£
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SHIFTS - 'Trees / Leaves' LP (Entr'Acte)
After a decade, this record is Shifts’ probable farewell. Initiated by Frans de Waard (Kapotte Muziek, Freiband, Goem etc and label boss of Korm Plastics) for a ‘soft guitar’ record on Fourth Dimension label in 1995, the project has evolved to include many releases, all distinguished by their singular instrumentation (including two deviations from the guitar - Sonates and Interlude uses the piano, while One Piece for Cymbal has a single cymbal). 'Trees / Leaves' was made with a four-string Spanish guitar de Waard bought for 1 Euro on Koninginnedag (Dutch Queen’s Day) in 2004. Ltd x 200 copies in a heat-sealed sleeve.
UK 13.00£
Europe 16.50£
World 20.00£
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TINKERSCUSS - 'Nine Trees' CD (Fae Folk Music)
Debut album from a band many of you will recognise from our award winning compilation "John Barleycorn Reborn". Tinkerscuss are an English folk duo comprised of sisters Bryony and Erin Holden. "Nine Trees" features an enchanting combination of rich vocals (sung in English, Gaelic and Cornish), acoustic guitar, mandola, harp, shruti box, accordion, violin and viola. Weaving a musical path to the twilight world of dreams. "There’s a growing force in folk that’s steadily developed in the South-West. That force is Tinkerscuss... Each song fits into the whole as the trees fit the forest and the grass the meadow. This is fey folk with fire... “Nine Trees” stays with you from the first hearing. It sheds a pale light on the far dark side of mystical while exploring the wild reaches of nature’s cyclic death and resurgence." (Folkwords).
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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TREES - 'Freed Of This Flesh' CD (Crucial Blast)
The mysterious Portland ensemble Trees return with their second offering - two new fetid death rituals scraped from the crypt. Black glacial riffs suspended in space, tectonic percussive rumbles, anguished shrieks of torment, deep guttural demon throat singing, and endless sheets of glistening metallic feedback that spill and drift to the far edges of their time-stretched ambient doom, a crumbling, blighted majesty, noxious ambient blackdoom adrift on putrescent tides. Austere slabs of crushing heaviness arranged into ghoulish constructs of atmospheric dread, moving so slow that the music seems to lose all sense of propulsion at times... the guitars stretched into massive decomposing drones, the spaces between infested with controlled bursts of incredibly slow and ponderous drums. "Freed Of This Flesh" inhabits the same depths as Burning Witch, Monarch, Khanate, and Bunkur. Digipak.
2010 edition in a digipak. The debut album from the Portland quartet Trees delivers two epic tracks of monolithic, blackened doom metal with a twisted, noise-damaged approach and a dank basement vibe. Trees craft glacial abstract riffs and rivers of ashen amplifier goo that fans of feedback-laden heaviosity will find highly satisfying - a kind of grinding, slow-motion black hole psychedelia that has a similar hypnotic death-ritual quality as artists like Bloody Panda and Khanate, but with their own unique trance state of swirling guitar textures, horrific jet black dronescapes and ghoulish, excoriating vocals.
Oak Folk is a CD anthology compiled by Gerhard Hallstatt (Allerseelen) with exclusive contributions by numerous European and North American groups who have one thing in common: a close connection to nature, to trees and woods. All the groups were invited to write a song about the sacred oaktree. The result is a wonderful compilation with songs with an atmosphere somewhere between Dark Ambient, Folklore and sometimes even a slight Black Metal touch. Features: Agalloch, Allerseelen, Àrnica, Changes, Dânnâgôischd, Fräkmündt, Hrefnesholt, Klammheim, Splinterskin, Sturmpercht, Waldteufel and Werra. 6-panel digipak. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
Vicki's 2nd release pulls together material laid down over the past 2 years, pieces that have found their rightful home. Hypnotic and transporting ambient, electro-acoustic psycho-sonic visualisations captured in ephemeral movements and fortunate organic folds with ethereal violin, keys, bass, post-rock guitar, theremin and vinyl. "Seas & Trees" is filled with the spaciousness of desert expanses, moving at a glacial pace, yet filled with momentum at the same time. Presented in a matt digipak.
