ARTEFACTUM - 'Foxgloves & Bluebells' CD (Old Europa Cafe / Ur Muzik)
As one of the very few representatives of what might be labelled as feminine ambient music, Artefactum remains the embodiment of unique characteristics: deep and warm ambient intertwined with sounds of nature, ritual bells, remote drumming and sensual vocals. While still within the borders of ambient, this release also contains a collection of beautiful songs inspired by old poetry and mysterious folklore. With wonderful guest appearances from neo-medieval The Soil Bleeds Black, British folk singer Andrew King and neoclassical Dawn & Dusk Entwined, “Foxgloves & Bluebells” is a must-have release for anyone into esoteric post-industrial music. 6-panel digipak.
The debut release on this Polish label comes from two well-known Swedish acts: Beyond Sensory Experience and Moljebka Pvlse. Both bands were invited in April 2008 to play a concert in Zielona Góra, Poland. After the concert the two bands joined together on stage and recorded the raw material for this release. This material was then taken to chilly Stockholm and reworked by the artists. The result is a monumental, 70 minutes long, dark ambient work that unifies the excellence of Beyond Sensory Experience and Moljebka Pvlse’s worlds. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
After producing their frozen trilogy of intoxicated dronemuzik for the Agency, these Scandinavian gentlemen have ventured into more absurdist territories through fictionalised soundtracks for imagined Mondo films and science fiction serials. It is in this context that BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa present the apparitional "Big Shadow Montana", an album of slow-motion delirium manifested in occluded smears, nocturnal gasps, and arcane tones from a variety of analogue synthesizers. A spiraling symphony of bubbling electronics and spectral drones that mutate on both sides of the record into lugubrious yet carnivalesque waltzes. A pyrrhic jubilation of calliope harmonies set down by organs and synths turning a pale-blue hue in the wake of all that white skin shivering underneath the arctic sky. Comes with a download code.
UK 14.00£
Europe 17.50£
World 21.00£
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DAVID E. WILLIAMS ENSEMBLE EXPERIENCE PROJECT - 'Untitled' 7" (Tesco USA / Ur Muzik)
Nearly a quarter-century into a staggering solo career, David E. Williams has decided to join a band. Granted, the David E. Williams Ensemble Experience Project is a band that bears his name, but it still signifies the first time the noir singer-songwriter has collaborated so freely on new songs with other musicians. He wrote these tunes as he normally does - at the piano, in the kitchen, under heavy sorrow - but the final arrangements represent the creative contribution of five people. The result is a David E. Williams release where his trademark absurdity ad profundum is equally matched by organic breadth, pop majesty and catchy subversion. Ltd x 300 copies.
UK 8£
Europe 9£
World 10£
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DER ARBEITER - 'Holzwege' CD (Ur Muzik)
Following the acclaimed debut album "Reflejos del Sol" (2004, Divine Comedy Records), Der Arbeiter release their second opus, "Holzwege". Ten songs conceptually inspired by the work of Chilean writer Miguel Serrano, and his conception of Minne ("a love at once illicit and morally elevating, passionate and disciplined, humiliating and exalting, human and transcendent"). In musical terms, Holzwege is an alchemical mix of electro-folk with a slight mediterranean taste, which gives it a unique and distinctive sound that moves away from the well known cliches of the neofolk-martial scene. An original and inspiring work, made in Chile, arising from the ruins. Digipak. Polish import.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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K. - There's A Devil Waiting Outside Your Door' CD (Ur Muzik)
Some of you may have already stumbled on K. – the enigmatic artist from Poland has released several tracks on different compilations and issued an MCD back in 2007. This is K.'s debut album. The obvious reference to Nick Cave is no accident here, but the music of K. also has similarities to such groups as Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore or Heroin And Your Veins. Having its own twist and character, the sound of K. takes you deep into smoky dens where spleen, existentialism, black and white cinema, jazz noir and pulp aesthetics meet in a decadent unison. Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
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MARIAE NASCENTI - 'Raise Your Paw To The Sky And Break The Truce' Enhanced CD (Final Muzik)
The second album from Italian Mariae Nascenti was produced by Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (Larsen), "Raise..." is arguably the best work of Mariae Nascenti: pain, loneliness, imagination, dreams, blood, souls and flesh collide together in this wonderfully emotional album. It develops though vital energy a devastating tabula rasa of feelings, through other-worldly melodies, "found" songs, silences, sudden spoken texts, obscure nightmare soundtracks and cold nocturnal music for black & white memories. Guests: Larsen, Northgate, Blind Cave Salamander, Femina Faber / Ludmila, DsorDNE and more. Includes a bonus video track. Ltd x 1200 copies in a digipak with booklet.
UK 10£
Europe 11£
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MORTIFICATION TO THE FLESH - 'Le Tresor Maudit' CD (Final Muzik)
Reissue of the 1988 LP (Bog-Art, Ltd x 300). “Le Trésor Maudit” reached a huge cult-status within the industrial scene. Following the best 80′s German music tradition, the band put together different styles into an unique sound, strong and suggestive at the same time. Rhythmic, hypnotic “new wave” (with female vocals) meets courageous experimental music, classic industrial and art-electronics. Mortification To The Flesh features, amongst others, contributions by Al Margolis and Giancarlo Toniutti. An essential album for the fans of German industrial music and underground new wave. Ltd x 600 copies in a digifile with all 6 tracks from the original vinyl plus 3 bonus tracks.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
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NOCTURNE - 'Vers Le Vide' CD (Final Muzik)
A patient, careful, dark ambient / apocalyptic work by Nocturne, requiring a deep, contemplative listing. This is at first a music of tension with an atmosphere of imminent disaster. And yet, from this magma of telluric electronic shocks and drones, emerges sharper, harsher sounds. An album embodying the unity of opposites, leading us to perceive a struggle between what's buried and what arises... between annihilation and the revelation of a hidden light. Ltd x 600 copies in a gatefold digifile.
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NOSTALGIE ETERNELLE - 'Notre Debut' CD (Final Muzik)
Nostalgie Éternelle was a German duo active from 1986-91. Stefan Heinze ( Inox Kapell) and Dieter Mauson (Delta-Sleep-Inducing Peptide). “Notre Début” is a collection of twenty remastered tracks from Nostalgie Éternelle's solo cassettes and compilation tapes, 1988-91, now available on CD for the first time. Classic 80′s dark minimal synth-wave, distant obscure vocals, thrilling synthscapes, including influences from icy electronic music and d.i.y. industrial. A cold, dark “Goodbye!” to the 80′s and a claustrophobic “Hello!” to the upcoming 90′s. “Notre Début” is the best introduction to this precious, interesting, original 80′s electro-wave band. Ltd x 600 copies in a hand-numbered digifile.
UK 10.50£
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VELEHENTOR - 'Dyatlov Pass' 3 x CD (Infinite Fog Productions)
Originally released in 2003 by Fight Muzik. This reissued album is available for the first time in the full 3CD version. A true monument and a masterpiece of ritual-shamanic drone ambient music. The album is devoted to the mysterious death of nine professional hikers on the Holat-Sjahl slope (Mansi for "Mountain of dead") on 1st February 1959. Investigations into the deaths suggest that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot in heavy snow; while the corpses show no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue. According to sources, the victims' clothing contained high levels of radiation, but no one from group worked with radioactive objects. Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths. Velehentor will take you on a sonic journey through the infinite, dangerous and remote Snow-covered Northern Ural Mountains. The 2nd disc is a collaboration with Ad Lux Tenebrae. Ltd x 493 copies in 6-panel digipak.
UK 26£
Europe 28£
World 30£
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VISHUDHA KALI - 'The One Not With U.S.' CD (Stigmata Release)
Vishudha Kali is a Russian ritual industrial / orchestral / ambient artist, whose work is devoted to the total genocide of human society, dedicated to humanity's aim for self-liquidation and destruction. This album is dedicated both to the XXth century totalitarianisms and to the people that lived in times of ideological dictatorships. Reissue of extremely limited "The One Not With Us Is The One Against Us" package (Ltd x 38 copies, Fight Muzik, 2004). Ltd x 500 copies.
