BLOOD BOX - 'Funeral In An Empty Room' CD (Power & Steel / Loki Foundation)
Seven years after the highly acclaimed "Iron Dream" CD (Eibon) and 14 years after the CD debut, "A World of Hurt" (Malignant), Blood Box finally returns with a new album! As one part of revered Dark Ambient project Yen Pox, Michael JV Hensley is certainly no stranger to creating epic and immersive soundscapes, and with "Funeral In An Empty Room", he has yet again meticulously crafted another highly detailed, intensely atmospheric work. Awash in slow, dreamlike waves of morphing textures, and blissfully unfurling cosmic drift, this is nothing less than an aural vision down the hypnotic path to the unknown; serene yet gloomy, with multiple layers of swelling tones, subdued melodies, and ominous, spacey effects. Comes with 12-page booklet. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
UK 12£
Europe 13£
World 14£
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GLAUFX GARLAND - 'Whispers For The Dead' CD (CAPP)
Dark Ambient electronics from the man behind Viridian Green / Viridian Grin. 51 minutes of cold, dark moods, deep drones and beautiful haunting sounds, based on ancient Hellenic - Peloponessian lamentations for the dead. Originally released in 2002 (under the name Glaufx Kranz), this 2010 edition comes in a 6-panel poster sleeve with new silver print artwork. Somewhere near Raison D'Etre, Yen Pox and Veil Of Secrecy.
The debut release of Polish-born artist Szymon Tankiewicz, 'Submerged' is a dark ambient tour de force. Visually and sonically enveloping, this is an album of space and texture, slowly revealing a psychoactive soundscape of majestic, arcing timbres, circadian buzzes, and expansive drones. Heavy, and cosmically weighty in the beginning, 'Submerged' evolves into something more minimalist and serene, radiating a celestial beauty, yet becoming even more bleak and suffocating as it progresses over it‘s 66 minute time frame. A must for dark ambient purists. 6 panel digipak, with artwork by K. Enderlein (LOKI). Mastered by Thomas Garrison (Control). File next to Yen Pox / Lustmord / Inade / Caul.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
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RE-DRUM - 'S' CD (Zoharum)
An excellent piece of work by Pavel Aleshin, whose drone soundscapes have previously been released by Oophoi's record label Umbra and Slovakia-based Black Orchid Productions. The album explores the area of sacral and infinite, hence the title. "S" can be seen as their symbol. Re-Drum was founded in 2002 by Pavel Aleshin. The sound of Re-Drum variates from deep drone / noise soundscapes, to light, warm, even melodical textures. For fans of Robert Rich, Lustmord, Troum, Maeror Tri, Lull or Yen Pox. Digipak.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
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TROUM - 'Ljubimaya / Daur' CD (Abgurd)
Reissue of two 10" from the years 1998 and 2003. "Daur" (was the very first release of Troum (Ltd x 300, Cohort Records) and it presents very post-rock sounding material with a lot of decipherable guitar parts and a good drive. "Ljubimaya" was released by the Russian label Waystyx (Ltd x 455) and carries you towards a lyrical and touchy eternity of ever-beginning melodies without an end, into the emptiness of existence with all the uterine roar provided by Yen Pox on one of the tracks. The cover features psychedelic image manipulations by Dmitri Chistov (Hum). Ltd x 500 copies.
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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YEN POX - 'Blood Music' 2 x CD (Malignant Records)
15 years after it’s original release, and out of print for almost as long, Yen Pox’ Blood Music has finally been re-issued. Regarded by many as a benchmark recording within the realm of dark ambient music, this deluxe 2CD edition contains a completely re-mastered and remixed version of "Blood Music" plus a previously unreleased track on disc 1, as well as the first cassette and various compilation and 7” releases on disc 2. Combined, the discs offer well over two hours of colossal, mind bending atmospherics of the highest order, the sounds radiating outwards into a sprawling horizon of sulfur dark skies, then descending into a relentless maelstrom of shifting textures, treacherous reverberations, and endless, sinister drift. Packaged in a luxurious 8 panel DVD digipak, with completely new design by Andre Coelho (Sektor 304), this is the perfect marriage of both music and packaging, and will further solidify Blood Music’s status as one of the all time classic dark ambient releases.
Brand new material by this cult project from the US, working with deep e-bass sounds to create an isolationist mass of darkest cosmic ambience, a kind of "black hole" ur-drone. When you put this on you are immediately touched by the cold breath of an amorph "otherness". This sound is so monumental and complex that it seems to suspend not only the mind but also the physis, and you experience intensely that both are the same anyway. There's something in this music that lets you really shiver and feel levitated at the same time. Gloriously, the self is dissolving. Ltd x 500 copies on black vinyl in a spot-varnished sleeve, with artwork by the great artist & photographer Eyelyft.
