ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. - '41st Century Splendid Man Returns' CD (Essence Music)
(2007) Finally make available on CD (original released as a picture disc on Tumult) is one of the most captivatingly beautiful recordings from The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. line-up! Motorik krautrock rhythms work side by side with interstellar signals, ghostly female voices and analogue synths. Bursts of damaged psych brilliance and free guitars open and seal the album, healing the aural wounds for / from the mammoth droney, mysterious and transcendental ambient experience of the title track, built with the aid of a non traditional array of instruments, like sarangi, sitar, zurna and Tibetan trumpet. Definitely not of this world. Guest stars Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins). This extended CD edition features two extra tracks and new artwork and comes in a deluxe, miniature LP gatefold packaging! Ltd x 1000.
NOISEGATE - 'Suspended Animation Ambient Vol. I' CD (Tumult)
For their second full length album, this East Bay ambient act abandon the violent, corrosive noise that peppered their first full length and instead have created a dark and barren dronescape of ominous, almost imperceptibly shifting, deep, resonant rumbles. Shimmering luminescent shards of low end flow effortlessly through the glistening darkness while hazy tonal reverberations reflect microscopic textures, grey and austere. Breath-taking arrangements of hum and buzz, chime and soothe. Reminiscent of the isolationist experiments and drone investigations of Lustmord, Organum, Zoviet France, Andrew Chalk and Jonathan Coleclough.
NORDVARGR Vs DRAKH - 'The Betrayal Of Light' CD (Tumult)
Nordvargr once again joins forces with fellow MZ.412 cohort Drakh, for another essential output. Delicately balanced between dark ambience and grim blackness, 'The Betrayal Of Light' is one massive sonic event - a black cloud of sound. Slow beautiful crawls, murky soundfields and a delicate web of softly plucked guitar strings are swallowed by massive mournful dirges and majestic, funereal doom. An intense and overwhelming sonic journey, as heavy and brutal as it is delicate and beautiful. Doomy and blackened, drifty and droney, soft and hazy, dense and devastating. Captured in a stunning 6-panel digipak.
SKULLFLOWER - 'Orange Canyon Mind' CD (Crucial Blast)
2005 full length from the legendary UK free / drone / psych outfit Skullflower, featuring some of the most searing, synapse scorching droneworks that Matthew Bower (Hototogisu, Sunroof!) has unleashed to date. "Orange Canyon Mind" is the follow up to 2002's awesome "Exquisite Fucking Boredom" (Tumult), and continues that album's utter mutation of stoned out riffs pulled taffy-like into eternity / oblivion and star-rupturing blasts of sonic white light. Over the 8 tracks / 60 minute running time, Bower and cohorts build massive horizontal drones and melodic supernovas. Superb, beautiful, brain melting stuff.
SOLAR ANUS - 'Skull Alcoholic: The Complete Solar Anus' 2 x CD (Tumult)
All published recordings ever made by Solar Anus and their very last recording "Skull Alcoholic", which is previously unpublished. 'Skull Alcoholic' chronicles the band's dizzying trajectory, from stumbling, buzzing, bloody-stumped, sludge doom behemoths to druggy, tranced out psychedelic outer space visionaries, swinging wildly toward both extremes the whole time. One of the weirdest, wildest, heaviest collections of druggy, dreamy, dirge / drone / doom / psych / kraut / space / noise / sludge rock ever! Ltd x 2000 copies with booklet, deluxe die-cut slipcover and sticker.
The stunning, formal debut of Australia’s Terra Sancta. A descent from air to earth that comes bearing down with a crushing, cosmic weight, sending out cataclysmic eruptions of blinding sonic dust across an already wind swept and barren landscape. Four tracks, each track aptly named ("Cold Light Infusion", "Black Sun", "Blood Red Sea", "Drowned - Desert Earth II") and each track a vibrant, kinetic piece climaxing time and again in tumultuous, majestic patterns. Rarely has a dark ambient release come forth with so much unbridled power and depth, a sound so expansive it blasts forth in wide screen, cinematic proportions. Recommended!
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
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VA - 'A Selection Of Drones Past: Singles 1993-2000' 2 x CD (Tumult)
This compilation serves as a digital introduction to the analogue world of DRONE RECORDS. "A small sampling of wondrous sounds from this ongoing series of limited, lovingly hand assembled 7" singles." Featuring: Alio Die, Aube, Delphium, Die Feinen Trinker Bei Pinkels, Dronæment, Dual, Francisco Lopez, Inade, Kallabris, Klood, Maeror Tri, Osso Exotico, Reynols, Spear, Tarkatak, Toy Bizarre, Ultra United, Vance Orchestra, Vir and Yen Pox. Packaged in a gatefold digisleeve with a poster showing the sleeves of the 7" records, from which the songs are taken. A true gem for non-vinyl fans and drone fanatics alike.
UK 13£
Europe 14£
World 15£
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WEAKLING - 'Dead As Dreams' CD (Tumult)
The one and only album from this cult San Francisco band. Grim, hypnotic, repetitive, Norwegian-styled buzzing Black Metal. "The shocking depth of emotion, sheer musical ability and keenness of ear for all things destructive displayed on this masterpiece should be the goal for all Black Metal bands wishing to transcend mediocrity" (Chronicles Of Chaos). Features members of The Fucking Champs, The Gault and Asunder. Weakling draws upon inspiration from 90's BM in the Norwegian tradition (Darkthrone, Burzum, Mayhem and Immortal).
