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Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 11th January 2010
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THE BIG FREEZE!
Our apologies for the delay in getting our newsletter to you - we've had extremely bad weather here over the past week (down to -17º!) and therefore lots of deliveries to us haven't arrived, staff have been ill etc. As the thaw begins and things get back to normal, we'll have even more great titles for you!
RELEASE NEWS
Several new Cold Spring titles are off to the factory (Merzbow LP & 7", Sehnsucht CD, Skitliv 10", two new titles for Tony Wakeford's label Tursa - VA 'With Friends Like These...' and Tor Lundvall), and as soon as we have firm shipping dates, we'll be offering them to you at special pre-release prices!
 EXTENDED WINTER EDITION!
(Over 300 items added for the period 1st - 29th January! Click above link for all available items)
Happy shopping!
The
Cold Spring Team
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| Wicked King Wicker | God Is Busy... Save Yourself CD (CSR125CD) £10 / £11 / £12 |
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Wicked King Wicker is pure doom. Their brand of guttural expression strips away the rock n roll base and leaves nothing for the listener than the caustic reality of the darkest side of life. It is heavy, barbaric and void of hope. Wicked King Wicker has taken the power of doom metal and added noise to mix to make its point. “God Is Busy… Save Yourself” is their 6th album, and their first released outside of the U.S. Wicked King Wicker is unique, and their extreme doom stands alone as the heaviest, most brutal doom imaginable
and it may take you places you don’t want to go.
MP3 | MP3 | Wicked King Wicker
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| Iron Fist Of The Sun | Behavioural Decline CD (CSR116CD) £10 / £11 / £12 |
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Personal obsessions skewed by drug use, codes of behaviour observed by a misanthropic mind.
Bitter and cold. Nihilistic and scornful. Elitist and Pure.
Behavioural Decline documents the rise of treachery and the fall of honour.
Power electronics that sonically takes inspiration from electro-acoustics and ideology akin to black metal / black noise. A deeply personal recording.
MP3 | MP3 | Iron Fist Of The Sun
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| NDE | Krieg Blut Ehre Asche CD (CSR110CD) £8 / £9 / £10 |
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Debut from this Belgian duo. Like the dark solitary figure which adorns the cover, NDE are shrouded in mystery and desolation. No website. No myspace. No contact details. The music speaks loudly and across the centuries. A unique smelting of malevolent, noisy Black Metal, pounding, anthemic martial drums and wretched Death Industrial in eight acts.
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| Cages | Folding Space CD (CSR121CD) £10 / £11 / £12 |
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The shaking notes that make up “Folding Space” were recorded by two people holed up in their whole respective imaginations of visions of loops, layers and pleading lyrics. They sought sounds from the same dreams that give fools belief and colourfully punctuate the nights of the sanest. There are elements of dreamy ether and discomfort rather than the easy choruses and catchphrases of the most collected and consumed art form. The visions backing this elaborate music were recorded and are performed for a primary reason: to exist freely. An hour of music set in studios buried by blizzards of the American Great Lakes region. Artwork with gold print.
MP3 | MP3 | Cages
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| Splinterskin | Wayward Souls CD (CSR114CD) £10 / £11 / £12 |
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Harsh, dark folk music. Tales told using an old classical guitar, accompanied by haunting vocals, violin, and soothing whispers. |
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| All Hail The Transcending Ghost | All Hail The Transcending Ghost CD (CSR122CD) £10 / £11 / £12 |
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The debut album from AHTTG (Nordvargr and Tim Bertilsson). One of the most haunting drone-dark-ambient-industrial works in recent years. |
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| H.E.R.R. | Twelve Caesars CD (CSR117CD) £10 / £11 / £12 |
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H.E.R.R. retell the notorious lives of the Emperors with honesty, drama and humour. A classic of the neoclassical genre! |
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RELEASES:
SEHNSUCHT - 'Wüste' CD (CSR124CD)
MERZBOW - 'Graft' LP & 7" (CSR129LP)
SKITLIV - 'Bloodletting' 10" Picture Disc (CSR115P)
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| INADE
• 30 Jan 10, Kosmo Kino Plaza Festival, Cinema L'Archipel, 17 Blvd De Strasbourg, Paris (FR) - with Fjernlys, Circular 8.30pm €16
SOL INVICTUS
• 30 Jan 10, Tunnel, Milan (IT)
SHIP
OF FOOLS CLUB
• 7 Feb 10 , Bar & Co, London - "With Friends Like These" album launch party - Naevus, Tony Wakeford, Andrew King, Susan Matthew, Eva Eden, Will Connor. Buy Tickets
SHIP
OF FOOLS CLUB
• 7 March 10 , Bar & Co, London - Roger O'Donnell / Madam
A CHALLENGE OF HONOUR
• 9 Apr 10, TBA, Helsinki (FI) - with Noises Of Russia
• 11 Apr 10, The Place Club, St. Petersburg (RU) - with Noises Of Russia
• 13 Apr 10, Tir Club, Pskov (RU) - with Noises Of Russia
• 15 Apr 10, DOM, Moscow (RU) - with Noises Of Russia
• 17 Apr 10, Cinema Club, Kiev (UA) - with Noises Of Russia
ANDREW LILES
• 30 Apr 10, Stimul Festival, Prague (CZ) - in Nurse With Wound
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Atolah |
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4 CDs above are available at the special price of
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BAK DE SYV FJELL - 'From Haavardstun' CD-EP
(Frostscald Records /
Silenced Voices Recordings)
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CD reissue of the 7" folk-metal masterpiece (originally released in 1997) from this Norwegian kvlt legend, headed by Kvitrafn (Jotunspor, ex-Gorgoroth). The band name means "Behind the Seven Mountains", referring to Bergen's seven mountains. Wonderful clean female and male vocals, brilliant pagan melodies and beautiful guitar leads.
Reminds of the 90’s Norse spirit of Ulver, Storm, Borknagar etc. |
DEATH IN JUNE - 'Symbols & Clouds - Euro Cross Commemorative Edition' 2 x CD Boxset
(NERUS / Soleilmoon)
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Double CD in stone box with round cards, silver runes and cloth patch. This very special soapstone and lazer-engraved granite release assembles onto one CD the best of 1992’s "But, What Ends When The Symbols Shatter?" and 1995’s "Rose Clouds Of Holocaust" albums plus two rare single tracks from the same period, generally considered one of the high points in Death In June’s career. It also includes a second CD featuring re-recorded, stripped-back acoustic "Totenpop" versions of 15 of these classics, recorded shortly after the final tour in June 2005 and mixed and produced in December 2008. Accompanying the music in the Euro Cross is a camouflage brown Runic Whiphand 6 cloth patch, four double-sided full color information cards featuring rare and unseen photos from the time, and four different silver Rune pendants, each approximately 18 mm in height representing Birth, Life, Destiny and Joy. Ltd x 1000 copies. STUNNING ITEM - ACT FAST!
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ECHRAN - 'Echran' CD
(Small Voices / Ebria Records)
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Echran is the duo of Davide Del Col (Ornament) and Fabio Volpi (Otolab). Echran's music is a form of post-industrial ambient mixed with analogical echoes of the 70s and the 80s, all combined with cold digital sequences and an obsessive metronomic minimalism. The whole work sounds intense and compact, closing to a sort of song composition, a good use of melodies mixed to a great amount of noise. The French vocal themes are a sort of a self-confession, bright and crazy: scars of reality in an ocean full of nasty and unhealthy fanaticism. Ltd x 500 copies.
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HYBRYDS - 'Ritual Anthology' CD
(Aquarellist)
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The anthology of early ritual works of this fabulous Belgian project. Hybryds present their visions of rituals in the form of rhythmical compositions built on repetitive percussive loops crowned with layers of numerous archaic instruments, aided by vocal spells and atmospheric soundscapes with minor electronic additions. This music immerses the listener into the space of RITUAL - the magical action aimed to reach the goals beyond the borders of the ordinary world. This material was recorded in 1986-1993 by Magthea & Yasnaia with the help of their friends: Ah Cama Sotz, Djen Ajakan Shean, Vidna Obmana, Clive Richards, Irae Deprofundo and Bobby Colombo. Three tracks from this CD were previously released on "The Rhythm Of The Ritual" CD, one track was released as "The Ritual Should Be Kept Alive - Part 1" CD EP, and three other tracks are released here for the first time. Ltd x 600 copies in a silk-screened bronze/black corrugated cardboard digipak.
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KIYOSHI MIZUTANI / HIDEAKI SHIMADA / KIYOHARU KUWAYAMA - 'Gambetta' CD
(Monochrome Vision)
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During the 80s, Kiyoshi Mizutani was a member of Merzbow with Masami Akita, beginning his solo work in 1989. Mizutani's sound is characterised by use of primitive electric feedback and field recordings. Soundscape theory is integral to his work. Kiyoharu Kuwayama began working with sound in the late 1980s, using half-scale violin and contact mic, daily junk and found objects. In 1999 he started improvised acoustic duo Kuwayama-Kijima. Hideaki Shimada is a Japanese violinist. In the late 70s he became interested in the European improvised music scene. Since 1980, he has been involved in violin improvisation. In 1985, he started solo project, Agencement. His solowork has been described as both noise and music, avantgarde and minimalist, nervous and mellow, frantic and still, hectic and calm. Recorded at Gambetta, Tokyo in 2001.
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KSHATRIY - 'Slepok Soznaniya' CD
(Muzyka Voln)
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The project Kshatriy appeared on the Russian post-industrial scene in 2004 and Muzyka Voln now presents the project's first "professional" CD with the album "Slepok Sonzaniya" ("a mould of consciousness"). This work is based on the concept of consciousness of a warrior, a galactic warrior of light, bringing to world pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, a moment of power and might, a flight of freedom, love, serenity, joy, light, unified time, eternal life, simplicity and bliss. The music of the project can be described as fractal dark drone ambient with lots of patterns, woven from various sonic fibres: synthesized drones, processed field recordings, acoustic echoes and rhythmic loops. Calm and profound, filled with resilience and hidden power, like an endless ocean of tranquility, energy and beauty. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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LE SYNDICAT - 'Timespace Losses 1982/1987' CD
(Monochrome Vision)
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This CD is a collection of rare tracks by this most famous French noise project. It represents the pioneering Bruitism music in the most raw and powerful mode, it's still going strong and hitting hard, thus should be not missed by any real noise fans. All tracks recorded between 1982 and 1987 and originally released on compilations: "The Call Of Cthulhu" (Cthulhu Records), "Sexorama vol.3" (ZSF Produkt), "Morality" (Broken Flag), "Wolfsangel" (Nihilistic Recordings), "L'Enfer Est Intime Vol.00" (VP231), "L'Enfer Est Intime Vol.01" (VP231), "Kill SPK" (Beast 666 Tapes), "Dry Lungs I" (Placebo Records). A bonus-track "All armi" is the first ever live recording made at "L'Abbatoir" club in 1982. Some tracks have been remastered for this re-edition. Ltd x 500 copies.
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MAJDANEK WALTZ - 'Ashes' CD
(Nadeln Prod.)
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"Ashes" is the first part of the Majdanek Waltz trilogy. This album contains all tracks which were previously recorded exclusively for the compilations, different versions of some compositions also released on the compilations and new unreleased tracks. Majdanek Waltz
stay within their own tradition - melancholic and twilight, anxious and "transparent" neofolk with brilliant fragments, embracing dark ambient and martial atmospheres.
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MAJDANEK WALTZ - 'Ophelia' CD
(KultFront / Wroth Emitter)
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"Ophelia" is the second part of a trilogy by Russian Dark Folk / Neoclassical / Dark Ambient act Majdanek Waltz. This CD can be considered as an evolution of the musical and lyrical essence of the band introduced by the "Hamlet's Childhood" album. This release is based on the original acoustic music of the band coupled with the lyrics of the German early XX century expressionist poets Paul Zech and Georg Heym. All compositions are published for the first time.
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NADJA - 'Under The Jaguar Sun' 2 x CD
(Beta-Lactam Ring Records)
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Disc one, "Tezcatlipoca", is the actual collapsing of stars. This monstrous soul goes from grumbling angrily to mowing the heavens. Parts even cross into early Swans territory with aggressively fractured pacing. But all roads lead to the final track which is an epic length doom metal anthem of sweating proportions. Disc two, "Quetzalcoatl", diffuses into the air an alien vocabulary of electronic-esque gargles and hums. A soundtrack made from the residue left after a subterranean dowsing for the echoes of collapsing stars. These disembodied post-transmissions form up in a Minerva’s Web of sunken Titanic ghosts, slow moaning as from distant caverns. Both CD’s have been composed so they can also be played simultaneously. If "Tezcatlipoca" is overground and “Quetzalcoatl” is underground their combination must be all things… and no things. Maybe the sound of the end of things. The resultant juxtaposition is a colossal celestial being smiling down on all he tramples. Packaged in a full colour, custom made hardback 10-panel sleeve.
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PHURPA - 'Nag bDud Ceremony' CD
(Aquarellist)
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This voyage began in the middle of the 1990's in Moscow, when a group of artists and musicians led by Alexei Tegin and based at the legendary Fabrique of Cardinal Art commenced their studies of traditional ritual music, drifting away from the field of contemporary electroacoustic and industrial music with the intent to delve deeper into the ancient musical cultures of the ancient Egypt, Iran and Tibet.
The original 2003 lineup of the project that emerged as a result was dubbed Phurpa (one of the five tutelary deities of the Father Tantra in Bon tradition), and all the members have carried on with their research in the field of Tibetan liturgies up to the present day. Ltd x 500 copies in an outsized 6-panel sleeve.
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RAMLEH - 'Valediction' CD
(Second Layer Records)
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"Valediction" is the first all new Ramleh album since 1997, and the first new Power Electronics recordings from the project for 25 years. And yet "Valediction" is no ordinary power electronics record, nor is it anything as straightforward as simply a return to their roots. "Valediction" is very much an entity of its own - both consolidating and expanding upon everything Ramleh have touched on in the past, but also digging into entirely fresh ground for the band. "Valediction" is, perhaps, Ramleh’s most bleakly psychedelic creation so far. Ltd x 1000 copies in a gatefold sleeve with 8 page booklet containing photos and cut-up lyrics from some of the tracks.
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RAPOON - 'Wasteland Raga' CD
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Brand new release from ethno-ambient act Rapoon. "While I was recently traveling through Eastern Europe recently, I passed through an area of industrial decline that reminded me strongly of the devastation of the Industrial heartlands of the UK during the early Thatcher years. The broken windows and twisted metal of the abandoned warehouses, the derelict pit-heads and the ruined factories all brought back memories of that grim time when the divide between rich and poor was never so obvious. Yet amongst the derelict factories and the red-brick estates of the North of England new music and art sprang forth as if driven by the desolate conditions. Out of the darkness came forth beauty in many forms. Wasteland Raga is a remembrance of those times when art and politics held close and intertwined out of a real sense of purpose and unity... Viva revolution!!!". Ltd x 1000 copies in a digipak with two artcards.
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SPHERE REX - 'For Electronics And Piano' CD
(Shadowplay Release / Monopoly Records /
Muzyka Voln)
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Sphere Rex is the solo project of MK (Cyclotimia), playing ambient in a traditional vein (uncommon for today), combining minimalism and a background style of electronic music a la Brian Eno and piano improvisations based on proto-ambient ideas of Erik Satie. This music is able to calm down and lull to sleep like alpha-wave rhythms or paint weird images guided by the surreal titles of compositions in one's imagination. For the goals of complete authenticity only analogue devices were used in recordings, as well as tube pre-amps and compressors from 60s-70s. Ltd x 500 copies. Russian import.
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TSARAAS - Whisper Of Buried Hearts' CD
(Wroth Emitter)
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Tsaraas is the Dark Ambient side-project of Russian Neofolk act Majdanek Waltz. Orchestral samples and majestic electronic organs turn into dark, heavy drones with noisy elements. Cold, detached voices, recognisable from the main project, recite mystical and bizarre lyrics. Pressed onto a Gold disc.
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KARNA - 'Forever In Darkness' CD (Possession Productions)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
The much anticipated follow up to 2007's "The Haunted (Age Of Destruction)". With "Forever In Darkness" the undisputed leaders of the Russian Black Ambient scene have created an album that is more gloomier and terrifying than before. A unique, dark and haunting soundtrack "to listen to only in absolute darkness!". File next to MZ.412 or Kerovnian! Digipak. Russian import.
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VIVENZA - 'Réalités Servomécaniques' CD (Rotorelief)
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Improved, remastered version of the influential 1985 LP (Electro Institut) from the French legends. Pioneer of Bruitist Music, Vivenza (under its proto name Glace) formed in 1976 and is undoubtedly the first band of Industrial music in the most natural area of the foundations and the decline of heavy industries. "Don't look for any sensitivities, human ego, ideologies of sex stories: Vivenza is machines". This 2009 edition is faithful to the original recording and comes with a visual specially redrafted for the occasion. Ltd x 500 copies in a super jewelcase. |
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VIVENZA - 'Réalités Servomécaniques' LP (Rotorelief)
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Improved, remastered version of the influential 1985 LP (Electro Institut) from the French legends. Pioneer of Bruitist Music, Vivenza (under its proto name Glace) formed in 1976 and is undoubtedly the first band of Industrial music in the most natural area of the foundations and the decline of heavy industries. "Don't look for any sensitivities, human ego, ideologies of sex stories: Vivenza is machines". This 2009 edition is faithful to the original recording and comes with a visual specially redrafted for the occasion. Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies in a glossy sleeve. |
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VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Muzyka Voln' CD
(Muzyka Voln)
- £10 / £11 / £12
Debut
release from Zhelezobeton's
sublabel Muzyka Voln. This compilation of the same name
contains compositions from 12 Russian projects playing ambient
/ drone music. Each project introduces the listener to its
own sound world: mystical stories, isolationism, altered
states of consciousness, space landscapes, monotonous technogenic
rumble, guitar passages and much more. Exclusive tracks
from: Anthesteria feat. Kaj?, Cisfinitum, Bardoseneticcube, Closing
The Eternity, Exit
In Grey, Hum, Instant
Movie Combinations, Kshatriy, Lunar
Abyss Deus Organum, Necropolis,
Polaris and RemoteBand. A great comp for those interested
in the Russian experimental scene and for lovers of beautiful
contemplative music. Ltd x 500 copies in a six-panel digipak,
decorated with photos of the Baltic Sea. |
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