FACIALMESS & HANA KODAMA - 'Split' 12" (Cipher Productions)
Facialmess is Kenny Sanderson and Hana Kodama is a Yukiko (Yamaakago) & Fumio Kosakai (Incapacitants / C.C.C.C.) collaboration. Contrasting 12" showcasing the brutal and extreme harsh noise from Facialmess, and the subtle ambience from Hana Kodama. Limited to just 200 copies with insert- act fast! Australian import.
Falkenstein is a fragile young oaktree in the fairywoods of new Pagan Folk Music. Born out of the mystic nature and ancient cult-places of southern Germany, Falkenstein guides you gently to your heathen ancestors and their natural religion. Falkenstein's music is classical Neofolk in best tradition, with beautiful lyrics about hallowed trees and woods, ancient tales from veiled times and long forgotten natural rites. Falkenstein is definitely a unique and outstanding Neofolk artist of the new generation, who knows how to play his instruments and whose lyrics directly creep under the skin of each Pagan and Folk Music lover. Ltd x 300 copies only!
FALL OF THE GREY-WINGED ONE - 'Aeons Of Dreams' CD (Supernal)
Monumental Drone Doom by Stijn van Cauter, also known for his involvement in a number of Doom / Drone / Noise / Ambient projects, including Until Death Othertakes Me among others. Fall Of The Grey-Winged One has been compared to Earth and Sunn O))), but with a bleak ambient orientation and minimalist industrial influences. If Sunn O))) were to play conversions of Wierzba's post-apocalyptic grimness and M87's icy, deep-space desolation, this is what they would sound like. Professional release of the enigmatic and limited 2002 recording.
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FALSE MIRROR - 'North' CD (Thonar Records)
North is the second full-length album from False Mirror. Whereas 'Chronostatic Scenes' dealt with a dreamscape atmosphere, 'North' is much colder and darker. The mood of the album is like an arctic expedition from somewhere into nowhere. Many of the sounds come from acoustic instruments like guitars, accordion, gongs and mouth organ, which were then processed, as well as everyday objects. There are also environmental recordings he made from the North Atlantic Ocean and during the European windstorm 'Kyrill'. Limited to 493 copies.
FAYRIERIE - 'Michelia Campaka' CD (Caustic Records)
"There is a place some steps forward from the mundane. Perhaps where the wood starts, where you can feel the embrace of the Great Mother wrapping the spirit up. It is in this place where magic dwells, the one that shelters all art, where conscience wakes up and finds the gift of creation. It is in this hidden place where muses are born, the ones that inspire the soul of the world". The debut album from Fayrierie is Neo-Dark-Fantastic-Folk interpreted with outstanding technique and whose musical structure is formed by guitars and lyrics. Clean and spontaneous songs, supported by vocal and instrumental arrangements, make the sound of this duo unique. "Discover the beauty of the sober and the essence of already forgotten perfumes". 6-panel digipak.
FEAR FALLS BURNING & BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL - 'Fear Falls Burning & Birchville Cat Motel' CD (Conspiracy Records)
A collaboration between the two experimental artists: Belgium's Fear Falls Burning teams up with New Zealand's Birchville Cat Motel for a single long track, displaying their fascination for the metallic and slow expanding drone. Made with guitars, amps, processing and subtle percussion, this album brought out the best in each other and is a lively, pulsating, moody and intense drone manifest. All source drones recorded by FFB in real-time early 2007, with additional recording and re-assembling by BCM in Autumn 2007. Comes in a great 6-panel digipak.
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FEAR FALLS BURNING & NADJA - 'Fear Falls Burning & Nadja' CD (Conspiracy Records)
Nadja is Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff. This duo creates ambient-drone-doom, combining ambient electronics and fragmentary vocals with snail-crawl, epic riffs & dirge-like percussion. On their first full-length collaboration CD FFB and Nadja display their wilful approach to drones with 4 epic songs, full of sustain, pulses and dynamics. Grand in theme, sound and atmosphere with violent bursts of noise and zones of introspection and harmony. This album draws inspiration from their critically-acclaimed LP "We Have Departed The Circle Blissfully", while pushing the boundaries on their sound as an entity. This album entirely consists of new material. "...this record could turn out to be the high point of both band’s careers!" (Julian Cope). Ltd x 1000, digipak.
FEAR FALLS BURNING - 'Frenzy Of The Absolute' 2 x LP (Conspiracy Records)
On this album Dirk Serries (Vidna Obmana) blends his drone spectrum with slow repetitive drums (with drummers such as Tim Bertilsson / Switchblade and Magnus Lindberg / Cult of Luna), and additional guitar layers, manifesting a work of mysterious landscapes of ghostly echoes and whispered guitars, long stretches of blissy drift and dark washes of distorted hiss... Over the past 2 years FFB has manifested itself as a wilful and unique statement in the ever expanding drone music genre. Ltd x 350 copies on black vinyl in a stunning gatefold sleeve, with one bonus track and one hidden track (not on the CD edition).
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FEAR FALLS BURNING - 'Frenzy Of The Absolute' CD (Conspiracy Records)
On this album Dirk Serries (Vidna Obmana) blends his drone spectrum with slow repetitive drums (with drummers such as Tim Bertilsson / Switchblade and Magnus Lindberg / Cult of Luna), and additional guitar layers, manifesting a work of mysterious landscapes of ghostly echoes and whispered guitars, long stretches of blissy drift and dark washes of distorted hiss... Over the past 2 years FFB has manifested itself as a wilful and unique statement in the ever expanding drone music genre. Digipak.
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FEAR FALLS BURNING - 'He Spoke In Dead Tongues' 2 x CD (Projekt)
Here Belgian artist Vidna Obmana reinvents himself under a new persona with his Fear Falls Burning debut. This double CD succeeds in uncovering a new language that stretches time and brings the listener to the edge multiple times, entrancing with the repetitive yet pure sonic presence of the electric guitar. The result could be compared to contemporary drone & minimal ambient acts like Fuxa, Sonic Boom, Experimental Audio Research, Growing and even Sunn O))) with sounds that vary from gritty dirty guitar loops to long sonic landscapes with dense walls of sound.
FEAR FALLS BURNING - 'The Rainbow Mirrors A Burning Heart' LP (Auf Abwegen)
This is the registration of an exclusive concert Fear Falls Burning (aka Dirk Serries of Vidna Obmana) performed on October 13th 2005 at Kulturbunker Mullheim in Köln (Germany), commissioned by Auf Abwegen. This LP covers 2 variations on Fear Falls Burning's method of droning. Side A features the most minimal and static drones used by FFB so far, while side B brings out FFB's most wilful and in-your-face approach to distorted and powerful guitar drone chords. Just under 40 minutes of music. Strictly limited to 300 hand-numbered copies in a textured sleeve.
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FEAR FALLS BURNING - 'We Slowly Lift Ourselves From Dust' 10" Picture Disc (A Silent Place)
A 28 minute-set of all new music by Fear Falls Burning (a VidnaObmana project), exploring the darker and nihilistic regions of drone music. Minimal repetitive motives which slowly evolve and expand into two unsettling harmonies of minor and solitude. The sounds vary from gritty, dirty guitar loops to long sonic landscapes with dense walls of sound. With no overdubs or post-production effects involved, the compositions progress in an organic and natural way, giving the music a special feeling and soul that is missing from many recordings these days. Presented on a stunning 10" picture disc with sticker seal. Ltd x 499 copies. A Silent Place is a sub-label of Small Voices, Italy.
Inspired by and a tribute to A. Tarkovsky's movie "Stalker" (1979). Stalker is an elaborate puzzle. Its pieces are always scattered, and the listener is relied upon to bring the final element of the puzzle along with him. Stalker invites you to get carried away into your own thoughts, flowing with the images as it provides new questions to ponder. In that sense, the album is very much like a philosophical poem: a very simple surface covering innumerable layers of meaning. One long ride in a cart, with clunking metal and water-whooshing sounds. Altogether fascinating and hypnotic. "Welcome to your Self, an alien place guarded by barbed wire". Ltd x 500 copies in foldout sleeve. Ukrainian import.
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FIN DE SIECLE - 'Nine Barns' LP (OPN)
Fourth full-length album from this French dark ambient / neoclassical / post-rock act. 'Nine Barns' marks the transition between 'Sans Titre' and 'Patagonie', with the greater participation of Florence Cailleux (violin, vocals) and the use of organic instruments such as guitar. The LP contains a slightly different track listing than the CD version. Ltd x 300 copies only!
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FIN DE SIECLE - 'Patagonie' CD (OPN)
Stéphane Flauder and Florence Cailleux create very serene and honest ambient, which could sometimes even be labelled classical music. They get their inspiration from a great variety of sources: Lars von Trier, Lewis Carol, David Lynch and Edward Hopper, to name just a few. "Patagonie" offers 15 quiet, fairytale-like musical compositions and has a soothing and calming effect. Features collaborations with Serge Usson (Storm of Capricorn) and Nicolai Moldoveanu (EMPI, Nick Grey). Ltd x 500.
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FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'I/CON' CD (Autarkeia)
I/CON is an exploration of religion as both a catalyst for mental illness and as a disease itself as well as the various manifestations of the resulting psychoses. These are the incessant screams of the pious and the possessed, of hypocrisy and holocaust, of resurrection and insurrection, of suffocating paranoia and immaculate deception and of a deified ego putrefying in its own fallacies. Using processed voices as a key aspect of the source material, I/CON shunts a maelstrom of auditory hallucinations and recurring apocalyptic nightmares through densely layered power electronics/industrial keeping the assault at fever pitch throughout the eleven tracks. Mastered by Thomas Garrison. Ltd x 500 copies in a spot-varnished digipak.
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FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'Meditate / Mutilate' CD (Eibon Records)
Power Noise – not for the weak at heart! The straightjacket has been removed, the medication has worn off and the delusions have intensified. F/I/T/H has returned to spread the poison with “Meditate / Mutilate”, a schizophrenic and volatile mix of seething, harsh electronics, dark ambience and tortured vocals. From the blackest depths of neurosis to the apex of unrestrained psychosis, the ten tracks on this CD hone F/I/T/H’s dual-edged blade to perfection. The assault has just begun. There's a world out there. Prepare to bleed. Digifile.
FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'The Remedy Has Become The Affliction' CD (NCC)
A document of delusion in the guise of salvation, of lies that become truth, of blind faith and abject failure, of the tormented and the torturer. TRHBTA is the carrion we collectively accept and ingest as reality, a dirty needle in the neck of an abjectly complacent society and a further descent into the bowels of unmitigated psychosis. Only the best Power Noise / Electronics from this US legend. The CD contains remix / reconstructions by Guilty Connector and Hum Of The Druid, while the cover and interior of the digipak features original artwork created specifically for this release by Gee Vaucher (CRASS). Ltd x 300 copies. First copies come with a postcard!
FIRST HUMAN FERRO - 'Corona Astralis' CD (OMS Records)
"Corona Astralis" is the follow up to the 2000 album “Motherwards” and fundamentally represents the development of this Ukrainian project. "Corona..." carefully combines early 1998-2001 Death Ambient / Industrial experiments with recent ever-generating solid electroacoustics, harsh electronica and dronesque synth multi-structures. Inspired by one of the greatest examples of poetical mastery “Corona Astralis” by Maximilian Voloshyn (a classical representative of the so-called Silver Age of Russian poetry) this album accurately deals with eternal ideas/values of a main being like a grain of sand in a Pascalesque desert-like Universe. Ltd x 500. Ukrainian import.
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FIRST HUMAN FERRO - 'Guernica Macrocosmica' CD (Eibon Records)
Who said dark ambient has nothing to share with melodies? Who said it is not possible to combine dark, deep and dense drones with traditional music and melodies? These phenomenal Russian musicians are here to prove there are seemingly undiscovered ways to conceive and create dark ambient. Put your imagination to work, and try to figure out something like AMON meets Red Army choirs, LUSTMORD meets sad Russian popular music. Very hard to explain with words alone. Digifile.
Third album from FHF, after the very popular 'The Halo Over Pontiff's Hearse' debut release. This album consists of 2 excellent long-play meditative dark ambient / industrial tracks with total time of about 40 minutes. "The essence of dark wishes or bright dreams? Perhaps dreams from tenebrous tunnels of pre-existence..." Limited edition to 999 copies. Nice piece.
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FIRST HUMAN FERRO feat KENJI SIRATORI - 'Adamnation' CD (Eibon Records)
Harsh yet innovative Power Noise from two prominent artists of the genre! Fusing modern classical elements with hard sonic power, female sopranos and dark melodic ambiences, First Human Ferro (this time joining forces with Ukrainian classical composer Shukh and Japanese cyberpunk guru Kenji Siratori) bring experimental music to new territories on another frighteningly stimulating aural experience. Ltd x 750 copies in a very nice digifile.
First released as limited CD/12” set and now available as mid-price release! First Law's potency of sound increases with each release in atmosphere and recounting interaction. "Beyond IO" casts a large shade and proves once more the inimitable profile of this artist. Twanging sculptures manifested by an immense power of frequencies are falling like a tempest into a sensational and pulsating world always stored by multilayered levels. Close your eyes and open your ears and dig deep into a galaxy generated by tonal and artistical visions. Enter the plateau of ultimate sound design and enjoy the view from the observation tower over all categorical perception! Standard card sleeve.
FIRST LAW - 'Chaos Structure' CD (Loki Foundation)
The 5th full-length album from First Law surprises once again with a huge amount of stylistic variety and proof that he is the ultimate cosmonaut of the inner spheres... "Chaos Structure" is an hallucinogenic maelstrom, every note and sound telling a different story taking the listener on a journey through unseen areas of modulation and alienated reality. All compositions are cautiously built to create a majestic flowing soundworld full of structures and outstanding melodies layered with percussion and rhythm.
FJERNLYS - 'Ascending Triads & Luminous Arcs' 2 x CD (Loki Foundation)
Behind this project hides one of Inade's masterminds - Knut Enderlein. On this first disc, the songs layer cosmic and synthetic sounds and go on tracing according to the principle harmony in the music, their acoustic space feeling very expansive. The voices creep crosswise into sounds and effects to lunar spheres and solar places. The five remixes and interpretations of ANTLERS MULM, BAD SECTOR, FIRST LAW and LOVESPELL on the second disc support the complex character of the whole release and expand the into a new style of Ambient songs. More 'song' based than Inade, Fjernlys reminds of fellow Loki act Predominance. Presented in a double jewel case with a very nice slipcase to finish.
Flatlands (with 2 tracks) are seriously heavy in a stripped-down Isis style, with monolithic, catchy riffs crashing into each other and plenty of screaming. Sunshine Republic (with 1 long track) are on a more experimental tip, reminiscent of House Of Low Culture, though there are elements of doom, post-rock and noise in the mix too. The LP is limited to 330 copies and is presented on heavy grey vinyl and comes with acetate inserts. Offensive and difficult in equal measure.
The second release by Flim (Enrico Wuttke) for Plinkity Plonk. "Flim's music is full of deep sadness. The liner notes explain that the music was composed as an attempt to cope with the loss of a child, trying to find a balance between hope and frustration. To create his music Flim makes use of piano, organ and thoughtful computer processing. Often just single notes are struck on the piano; they keep on resonating and then slowly fade before the next note is played... Other tracks are more drone-related, with acoustic sounds stretched out into warm, hovering fields... a point where pain and beauty converge in fragile and intimate music... Flim's music is full of sadness, but... there is also a stretch of light on the horizon, a short dreamy melody to be discovered here and there just below the surface" [Vital Weekly]. Ltd x 500 copies in gatefold plastic sleeve.
Reissue of the extremely limited (30 copies) Apocalyptic Radio release from 2006, with bonus, previously unreleased, tracks. "30 Monkeys" is the soundtrack for a world controlled by apes, crushing machines and noisescapes. "The music is a degenerate mass of harsh electronic waves and patterns as savage as the primate of the title. Even when Flutwacht lower the decibel levels down a fraction the violent restraint is never far from the surface. A brooding seething mass of noise waiting to erupt once more. The production on this release is crisp and clean... and this gives the recording a greater sense of depth and bite allowing the hugely powerful electronics full reign to take centre stage... Take the best aspects of Propergol, minus the samples, and multiply the effect by ten" [Heathen Harvest]. Ltd x 300 copies in an A5 card envelope with insert.
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FLUTWACHT - 'Creta' CD (The Tourette Tapes)
70 minutes from this now-established German outfit. The music on 'Creta' has a lot of Death Industrial elements, Power Electronics / Noise attacks and also ambient passages. Reminds of Navicon Torture Technologies in places. This standard edition is limited to 222 copies in a DVD case. The Tourette Tapes is a sub-label of Apocalyptic Radio.
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FLUTWACHT - 'Heroinloops' CD (Steinklang)
"Heroinloops" is a pure Industrial album by Germany's top-Noiser Flutwacht. Their latest album brings a great mix of rhythmic, old school Industrial á la early Esplendor Geometrico, with a strong touch of "modern" Power-Electronics. The powerful noise-tracks alternate with hypnotic Ambient-Noise tunes, which give the album a comatose and traumatic character. "Heroinloops" is a varied and well structured Noise-album, for all fans of the early Industrial years. Ltd x 350 copies in a 6-panel sleeve.
FORMICATION - 'Icons For A New Religion' CD (Lumberton Trading Company)
"Icons For A New Religion" is the first CD proper from this often spaceward-bound UK electronica duo of Alec Bowman and Kingsley Ravenscroft. Mulched digital flotsam, chattering rhythms, buried voices, squelched beats, vapour trails and suchlike combine to create a vast and sprawling, kaleidoscopic filmic spew that's unstoppable in its reaching out to those parts of your imagination simply waiting to be taken to new places. At times, the music recalls early Tangerine Dream, or a darker Autechre, via the ritualistic and chemical saturation of Coil.
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FORMS OF THINGS UNKNOWN - 'Cross Purposes' CD (Panaxis)
The debut of Forms Of Things Unknown is a five-track, 30-minute EP of music ranging from dark ambient dirge to medieval sacred song to jazz-inflected art rock. Forms Of Things Unknown is the delinquent brainchild of San Francisco multi-instrumentalist Ferrara Brain Pan. His musical career includes early collaborations with noise music pioneer Boyd Rice (NON), and a fortuitous uncredited appearance on 1994's 'Rien' by Krautrock legends Faust (produced by Jim O’Rourke). 'Cross Purposes' was mixed and produced from material played entirely by Ferrara Brain Pan, excepting vocal performances by Bob Ayres and Shannon Wolfe and a cameo guest appearance by 'Babs Santini' aka Steven Stapleton of renowned musical subversives Nurse With Wound.
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FOUNDATION HOPE - 'A Call To Redeemers' CD (Divine Comedy)
Debut album from this act who later signed to Cold Meat Industry. The music of Foundation Hope creates pieces of dramatic film music. The band is influenced by dark ambient acts like Raison D’être, Lustmord, or Robert Rich, but also post-rock acts such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Low and Mogwai. Sad and bleak soundscapes for a depraved religious institute, pretending to give comfort and light. This release comes in a limited digifile (500 copies), presenting landscapes illustrated by choirs, echoing and heavy menacing atmospheres.
FOUNDATION HOPE - 'The Faded Reveries' CD (Cold Meat Industry)
Foundation Hope was formed in 2003 by Joep Smaling. The main idea was to make dark cinematic soundscapes with a strong focus on the harshness and cruelty of everyday life. Ironically presenting itself as a foundation, an institute that comforts seeking souls in times of distress, it is instead an attempt to confront the listener with moods of isolation, despair and sorrow. Drones, strings, melancholic tunes, confusing vocal-samples and cinematic moods. A very successful follow-up to their 2006 debut "A Call To All Redeemers" (Divine Comedy Records).
FOVEA HEX - 'Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent Part One: Bloom’ MCD (Die Stadt / Janet Records)
First in the 'Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent' series of three CD EP's by this new project founded by Irish singer Clodagh Simonds. Ethereal vocals with a haunting quality over some very beautiful string laden electronica. Such a beautiful fragile sound packed with emotion. 3 tracks that really are quite sad in the real sense of the word. Contributors to "Bloom" include such illustrious names as: Brian Eno, Roger Eno, Laura Sheeran, Lydia Sasse, Cora Venus Lunny, Toby Arnott, Carter Burwell and Andrew McKenzie (The Hafler Trio). The CD comes in a beautiful embossed cover in an edition of 2000 copies. Absolutely essential!
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FOVEA HEX - 'Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent Part Three: Allure’ MCD (Die Stadt / Janet Records)
One of the most remarkable and strange-beautiful musical ventures of the past few years is now wrapped up with the release of the last in the series of EPs by this Irish project. Ethereal vocals with a haunting quality over some very beautiful string laden electronica. Players on Allure: Clodagh Simonds, Colin Potter, Roger Doyle , Brian Eno, Roger Eno, Robert Fripp, Percy Jones, Cora Venus Lunny, Donal Lunny (Planxty), Hugh O'Neill, Sarah McQuaid, Lydia Sasse, Laura Sheeran, John Contreras, Steven Wilson and Andrew McKenzie (The Hafler Trio). The CD comes in a full colour embossed cover. Edition of 2000 copies. Absolutely essential!
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FOVEA HEX - 'Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent Part Two: Huge’ MCD (Die Stadt / Janet Records)
Second in the 'Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent' series of three CD EP's by this project founded by Irish singer Clodagh Simonds. Ethereal vocals with a haunting quality over some very beautiful string laden electronica. Players on Huge: Clodagh Simonds, Colin Potter, Roger Doyle, Cora Venus Lunny, Brian Eno, Laura Sheeran, Percy Jones, Carter Burwell, Lydia Sasse, Hugh O'Neill, Sarah McQuaid and Andrew McKenzie (The Hafler Trio). The CD comes in a full colour embossed cover. Edition of 2000 copies. Again, absolutely essential!
Monumental Drone Doom by Stijn van Cauter, also known for his involvement in a number of Doom / Drone / Noise / Ambient projects, including Until Death Othertakes Me among others. Fall Of The Grey-Winged One has been compared to Earth and Sunn O))), but with a bleak ambient orientation and minimalist industrial influences. If Sunn O))) were to play conversions of Wierzba's post-apocalyptic grimness and M87's icy, deep-space desolation, this is what they would sound like. Professional release of the enigmatic and limited 2002 recording.
