A MINORITY OF ONE - 'Bathe In Fiery Answer' CD (Autumn Wind Productions)
A Minority Of One is Jason H. Craban (Waldteufel), Markus Wolff (Waldteufel, Blood Axis), Arrowyn Craban, Jason O'Neill-Butler and James Woodhead (Blood Of The Black Owl). AMO1 play a unique brand of ambient music... representing feelings of the forest, the wind, natural sounds, your mind wandering, folk of past and peasant lives. "This Collection of recordings is an exploration of decline and sickness, compost and collapse. Facing my own sickness and my relationship to that of close friends and family members. Contained here is the story of Nidhogg, who undermines and fells the world Tree. Gnawing at its roots exposing the rot of every choice made against our higher values and better intentions." Guest appearance from John Murphy (KnifeLadder, SPK, Death In June etc). Ltd x 1000 copies in a digipak.
UK 11£
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BIRCH BOOK - 'Fortune & Folly' LP (Ahnstern / Steinklang)
This classic Folk milestone was recorded on San Juan Island of the Pacific Northwest. "Fortune & Folly" is the fitting second volume of Birch Book (aka In Gowan Ring). Assuming the allegorical emblems of The Wheel of Fortune and The Traveling Fool, Fortune & Folly distill the introspections of a perennial rambler reckoning the Bitter and the Bliss of The Road Less Traveled. Drifting away from the overtly psychedelic, medieval, and soporific atmosphere which typified In Gowan Ring, Bee (Jon Michael Beirth) displays a more organic, individualistic approach to songwriting. Fortune & Folly blends elements of idiosyncratic folk-pop and outcast-country with brooding layers of sound and sense, yielding a spectral ethereality in a captivating chiaroscuro thick with the visionary allusions of a haunted wanderer. Ltd x 400 copies on black vinyl in a heavy gatefold cover, with 2 exclusive bonus tracks.
UK 15.00£
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CIRCLE - 'Miljard' 2 x CD (Ektro Records)
Exploding walls of psychedelic guitars, "ingenious pop compositions", motorik krautrock, melodic harmonies, intensive riffs and ecstatic vocal performances? This album does NOT contain any of the things previously mentioned! Slow-moving abstract atmospherics, inspiring and determined wandering and a stagnant universe of winter are present on Finnish act Circle's double release "Miljard". New Wave of NWOFHWM! The album was produced by Mika Rättö. Rocking has been traded for some quiet reading on the couch at home. Comes with a 20-page booklet.
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CORVUZ - 'Invisible Landscapes' CD (Zhelezobeton)
"Invisible Landscapes" is dark ambient created with a typical Russian approach, combining an homage to native traditions, deeply melancholic contemplation and powerful thirst for the beyond. Dark red embers, twilight, wind swaying over tree tops, wandering in forest labyrinths and gradually dissolving in the infinite circle of life and death. Rich sounds are created with Soviet analogue synthesizers, some field recordings, voice samples and digital processing. The music of Corvuz is inspired by the project Staruha Mha, with a cover-version of the 'Thawing In Fog' rounding up the album. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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DAWN & DUSK ENTWINED - 'Cathédrales De Brume' CD (Aube Et Crépuscule)
Dawn & Dusk Entwined keeps following its path with a soundtrack to the sci-fi novel "Cathédrales de brume" by the French authors Oksana and Gil Prou. The album succeeds in crystallizing and magnifying the various adventures of a surreal plot, creating a soundtrack about the destiny of a human condemned to wander simultaneously in the arcanes of space and of his inner psyche. Creating such a soundtrack allows more freedom to explore alternate musical fields and schemes, offering here a full instrumental album with often shorter tracks but also far more different and surprising atmospheres, ranging from the recognizable D&DE trademark martial and symphonic sound, to dark ambient through lighter melodic pieces and onirical fantasies. Digipak.
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DOLORISM - 'Wandering In Eternal City' CD (Reminiscences Production)
Dolorism is a French Dark Ambient / Industrial project based on various inspirations, gnosis/kabbale mix and Kult cosmology. In an eternal and nightmarish city, survivors of hell, spirits of dead bodies on battlefields and simply tortured human souls are wandering in a world of despair and chaos. Mixed and mastered by Lord Evil (Melek-Tha), who also features on 1 track. 78 minutes of music. Ltd x 300 copies.
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ENEMITE - 'Wuyuan' CD (Dying Art Productions)
Enemite offer angry and dense atmospheres; more of a ceremony, a circle of forming. Lost in the noise of hell, an evil creature wanders up and down forever. “Please close the doors and windows to turn off the light and listen alone!” Dark, gloomy and sinister. Death-inspired Ritual Ambient with an inherent Chinese feel. Comes in a stark A5 B&W gatefold sleeve / "ecopack" with insert and Chinese text throughout. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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FORMICATION - 'The Eyes Of Erodern Riviema' CD (Small Doses)
Formication is Alec Bowman and Kingsley Ravenscroft, the miraculous electric musical ensemble from Nottingham. They create unique rhythmic, chaotic yet structured works, twisting a variety of sounds into creeped-out electronica, frozen ambience and sporadic wayward beats. Described by The Wire magazine as ‘sonic occultists’, they can be found “wandering a dream landscape somewhere between the ritual ambience of Coil and the electronic space drift of Tangerine Dream”. "The Eyes of Erodern Riviema" is their most realised work to date and a masterpiece start to finish. Ltd x 407 copies.
Frederic Nogray diverts his rock crystal crucibles from their usual function in the silicon industry to generate tactile music, a music that succeeds as much in making the listener's intellect wander as it does in moving the material itself. Although entirely acoustic, this music is powerful, the different-sized bowls being generators of distinct waves operating in the range of frequencies from infra- to ultrasonic. Because of their superimposition and the acoustics of the space they are in, chimeras or interferences are born. A musical event partaking simultaneously in the creation of perception and corporal experience. Digifile.
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GRUNTSPLATTER - 'The Aberrant Laboratory' CD (Dark Vinyl)
The fourth release from Gruntsplatter builds a more transcendent atmosphere, weaving together a sustained darkness that conceals the grimy implements of the taboo nestled in the din. The brooding ambience and cutting frequencies combine with odd melody and an enveloping, fluid mix that lead you through the dirty laboratories and hovels of forbidden science where genius and atrocity meet on level ground. The familiar components of subtle detail, amorphous depth, and seething moods of Gruntsplatter are intact and further evolved here to allow the listeners thoughts to wander. Comparable to Blackhouse, Hunting Lodge, Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Lustmord etc.
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HROSSHARSGRANI - 'Sanguis' CD (Beverina & WAR Productions)
In the cold winter of 1998 a.d. the Austrian battle machine Hrossharsgrani formed for their first release in shape of the demo 'Blut'. In the beginning Hrossharsgrani (feat Hugin of Uruk-Hai) wandered the worlds of dark ambient music to tell stories of creatures that walked by night, the undead, the vampyres. He paid tribute to the bloody heritage of Lord Byron and Bram Stoker. On the 10 year anniversary of "Blut", this gem, which was lost for a decade, is now digitally remastered and released once again. Prepare for the birth of a new Hrossharsgrani era! Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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LIHOLESIE - 'Boundless Thirst For The Outside' CD (Assault Rex)
The transient serenity of Liholesie's previous album has gone. More Angst, more drums, more thrilling tunes! Go ahead! Beyond horizons! This is the fourth album of the Russian project Liholesie. More Industrial-Neofolk with barbaric drum patterns but keeping to the previous melodic / lyrical lines this time. Enigmatic, dark and mysterious, with atmospheric ambience, industrial layers and drones. Amid debris of a bygone civilization. "This album is dedicated to all the wanderers of the cursed forests and men amongst ruins."
LINGUA FUNGI & SHRINE - 'Strange Growths / Wander' CD (Corvus Records)
The long awaited split album from ambient masters Lingua Fungi (Finland) and Shrine (Bulgaria). Two different artists, two different points of view. Lingua Fungi's sound is calm, soft and tasty - enriched with acoustic instruments and brilliant percussion. Long and mature compositions with clear sound drifting in a timeless trance. Shrine's sound is more ambient / industrial, darker, with more samples and a bit noisy. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
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MARK SADGROVE & ANTHONY GUERRA - 'Iron Sand' CD (A Binary Datum / Black Petal)
On this release, Anthony Guerra (Paper Wings) plays electric and acoustic guitar, electronics and vocals, while Sadgrove (MHFS) plays electric guitar, aluminium harp, electronics and vocals. "Recorded in their new homeland Japan, this is the point where improvised music meets singer songwriting. This is 'easy' music, music that makes your mind wander off, into the grey sky, into the desert, or into the deep sea. Blues like emptiness, very empty. Drone like strumming, slide guitar setting the tone. Vocals don't take a big place around here and are more to underline the desolate character of the music. A fine release of sparse sounds. Minimal indeed" (Vital Weekly). Packaged in a hand-made Japanese art paper sleeve.
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ROTHKO - '291' 7" (Zeal Records)
Rothko are a UK 3-piece who employ a unique approach to ambient music. All three members play electric bass and often utilise a handful of effects to alter the bass guitar sound to otherworldly rumbles and pulses. Their songs wander between intertwining bass melodies and washes of sound. "291," is comprised of simple meandering bass melodies, with a set verse, chorus, verse structure. The parts themselves sound very open and freeform, which gives the song a spacious feel, like their tone collages, despite the absence of any ambient noises. The B-side, "St. Seno" combines soundscape with melody. The end result is fairly similar to the A-side but much easier to grab onto. Droning waves of sound provide a full backdrop for the simple harmonies of the two bass guitar parts. Faint clinking of bells and sound loops playing backwards create a dream-like ambience which smears the song into a short, to the point, bliss out.
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SAGITTARIUS - 'The Kingdom Come' CD (Cold Spring CSR152CD)
Recorded between 2008 and 2011 and influenced by the intellectual world of the German poet Stefan George, "The Kingdom Come" contains 18 songs with a playing time of 65 minutes. With Sagittarius now grown to a full four piece line-up featuring new members Herr Twiggs (Kammer Sieben) on vocals and Theresia W. on oboe, and once again assisted by a number of highly gifted guest musicians, including sG (Secrets Of The Moon), Dev (While Angels Watch) and Josef K. (Von Thronstahl), Sagittarius has managed to conceive a unique and outstanding album in the tradition of the classic European Art Song, blending sophisticated neoclassical compositions with a touch of suicidal folk noir.
STRIBORG - 'Journey Of A Misanthrope' DVD (Displeased Records)
90 minutes of Striborg in a visual setting. This 2008 DVD features 8 concept videos... songs set to haunting, gloomy imagery, overseen by Sin Nanna himself: 'The Failure Of Human Nature', 'Son Of The Moon', 'Wandering The Wilderness Of Eternal Misery', 'One With The Night' and 'Homosapiens Devoid'. Also includes a "Forest Gallery" (slideshow with music) and "Treeography" (discography and more pictures to music). 2008 also saw mainman Sin Nanna appear on "O))) presents... Pentemple" release with Stephen O'Malley, Greg Anderson, Oren Ambarchi and Attila Csihar.
NTSC, Region 0 (will also play in all PAL DVD players).
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SYNDROMES - 'Temporary Perspectives' CD (Organized Music From Thessaloniki)
Four studies on human perception, focusing on the experience of self, space, surroundings. All sounds captured or generated by Greek artist Kostis Kilymis using field recordings, sine waves, electric guitar, mics and other 'instruments'. With corroding sounds and well-crafted electro-acoustics, 'Temporary Perspectives' offers an attractive suit of wandering, filtered through the microphone, like to many acoustic experiments, revealing a strong poetic sensibility. An enchanting world via musique concrète. Ltd x 300 copies in a gatefold digifile.
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THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHICAL COMMISSION - 'Patient Zero' CD (Acrobiotic Records)
This album is an attempt to psychologically portray the mind of a Patient Zero, wandering through their urban surroundings infected with the solar downturn at the Summer Solstice and tracking the advancement of symptoms as the sun goes from the height of its earthly power to its astronomical nadir. Feelings of old are transformed as the autumn progresses, infecting others and feeding back into the shared experience, changing perceptions and projecting a new reality as signifiers take on different and separate meanings. Written throughout the six month period at times of lunar or solar significance and in multiple locations across the UK, each song portrays a thought, experience or mood of the time and place of its conception. A true and faithful relation of the Sun's dark passenger. "Fans of Coil and Nurse with Wound may stumble upon a familiar brilliance here..." (Zero Tolerance). Slimline DVD case with insert.
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TRAMA AFONA - 'Trama Afona' CD (Greytone)
Trama afonA is the sound/visual project by Lorenzo Scacchia - an attempt to tramaphonise (convey) what he sees in the dark and hears into silence. This Cinematic Dark Ambient album constitutes the first official release, gathering tracks composed between 2005 and 2008. TA pays particular attention to individual and specific human stories, rather than to history… focusing on what happens behind the scenes, aside, beneath. Opening doors and drawers using the sole curiosity as tool, walking backwards the traces of memory, wandering amid shades and details given by mystery, decadence, abandon, romanticism. Carefully delving into psychological dynamics. Openly denouncing the social plagues, but often humbly providing just visual and sound suggestions. Digipak.
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UTON - 'From The Twilight, Next To Nowhere And Disappeared' CD (Musik Atlach)
Uton is the one-man project of Finnish artist Jani Hirvonen. Uton mixes elements of drone, avant-noise, free-improv, psychedelia, ambient, tape-music, musique concrete etc... sometimes wandering in the silent dark semi-acoustic mysteries, and in the next creating noisy walls of sound with outer space echoes and alien atmospheres. Musically this album shows the most mysterious and atmospheric side of Uton, created with electric guitar, small synths, vocals and different type of percussion, with some digital manipulation. Ltd x 300 copies in an outsize digisleeve.
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VINTERRIKET - 'Momente Ambivalenter Ebenbilder Der Zeit - Impressionen Eines Wanderers' Book (Morningside Records)
Professionally printed 80-page book, including selected pictures from 1997-2007 taken by Vinterriket. 22 chapters of unreleased written text, all lyrics ever written by Vinterriket in the years 1997-2007 and all lyrics from the Vinterriket side-projects (Atomtrakt, Nebelkorona etc). Limited to 500 copies. Very high quality, hardback, A4 landscape book, shrinkwrapped. An astonishingly beautiful presentation from this cult German act.
**Please note that all text is written in German!**
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VINTERRIKET - 'Spiegel Der Wirklichkeit - Impressionen Eines Wanderers II' Book (None)
Brand new book with written text and over 70 images from this cult German legend of the Black Ambient / Cold Synth scene! High quality, A5, 142 pages, hardback book. Limited edition of just 250 copies!
**Please note that all text is written in German!**
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WALDSONNE - 'Wanderer' CD (RAIG)
Waldsonne's debut full-length album. Of the 11 album tracks on "Wanderer", 4 tracks are from their "Strahl" demo EP (all re-recorded), 5 are pure instrumental compositions, 1 comes with textless vocalisation, while others are sung in English, German and Russian. The band combines clean mandolin, guitars, Irish harp, and violin into a fairy acoustic blend of music with roots in medieval folk and heathen rite chants. The female singing leads the song at times strong and majestic though always tender and seductively romantic. On some tracks the quartet is supported by percussionists and a flautist. The whole work shines with heartwarming and inspiring tones, it’s all about magic and fascination but not about dark melancholy and depression. Russian import.
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WANDER - 'Wander' CD (Divine Frequency)
You could be excused for being confused. Like all previous albums the new Wander album for Divine Frequency is entitled "Wander". �Blame it on Frans de Waard and Freek Kinkelaar's conceptual sense of humour. You might know these boys from Beequeen, where they combine soundscapes with pop songs. When they feel like a day out they disguise themselves as Wander, and concentrate themselves on organ drones. This album is another step forward; these recordings (mostly created on ancient and dangerous synthesizers and open microphones) take Wander back to the 70's with an open, warm, spacious sound. Card slip.
