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Cold Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 22nd February 2010

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PRE-ORDER NEWS
All 3 of our new releases have been put back to 8th March due to production delays.
The Merzbow vinyl is going VERY FAST, so pre-order while you can!

IN THE PRESS

There's an interview with Wicked King Wicker in the latest Rock-A-Rolla - in stock now!


MERZBOW | Graft LP & 7" (CSR129LP) £18 / £22 / £26

Shipping: 8th March
MERZBOW returns to COLD SPRING in blistering form - a sizzling new album length VINYL only limited edition (lime green, ltd x 400 copies) presented in an old-school 'bootleg' style cover and sealed with a sticker. The special extra limited edition version of the LP comes with bonus 7" (ltd x 150 copies) of exclusive tracks and is only available from COLD SPRING MAIL ORDER. This title will be deleted upon selling out, and the tracks are never to be issued on CD! A one time opportunity to own a true MERZBOW collectors piece! ACT FAST!

Merzbow

 

SEHNSUCHT | Wüste CD (CSR124CD) £9 / £10 / £11

Shipping: 8th March
Former MAYHEM front man MANIAC, whose band SKITLIV has proved to be a surprising departure from the Black Metal genre for which he was best known for over 20 years, has formed a side-project with fiancé Vivian Slaughter, bass player/vocalist with the Japanese all-girl band GALLHAMMER, SKITLIV's guitarist Ingvar Magnusson and experimentalist Andrew Liles (NURSE WITH WOUND). Unlike SKITLIV, which is a noise/doom amalgam, with Maniacs vocals still firmly rooted in Black Metal, SEHNSUCHT is in the noise / darkwave / ambient genre, with any vestiges of Black Metal pared away. 6-panel digipak.

MP3 | MP3 | Sehnsucht

 

SKITLIV | Bloodletting 10" Picture Disc (CSR115P) £10 / £12 / £14

Shipping: 8th March
Limited edition Picture disc from SKITLIV, the project of former MAYHEM front man MANIAC. With a line up that includes SHINING’s NIKLAS KVARFORTH, SKITLIV is a disturbed, and disturbing, blackened doom journey through the mind of this legendary Black Metal vocalist who was one of the original exponents of the genre, and is one of its most recognisable figures. This picture disc is made extra special not only by the inclusion of “Who Will Deliver Us From Gold and Planets” by CURRENT 93 - an introductory collage destruct that was created at the request of Maniac and is dedicated to him, but also because the artwork that is used for the side containing this track is part of one of Tibet’s own paintings. Ltd x 777 copies. No repress.


MP3 | Skitliv

 

Wicked King Wicker | God Is Busy... Save Yourself CD (CSR125CD) £10 / £11 / £12

MP3 | MP3
Shipping: Now
Wicked King Wicker is pure doom. Heavy, barbaric and void of hope, WKW has taken the power of doom metal and added noise to make its point.
 

Iron Fist Of The Sun | Behavioural Decline CD (CSR116CD) £10 / £11 / £12

MP3 | MP3
Shipping: Now
Power electronics that sonically takes inspiration from electro-acoustics and ideology akin to black metal / black noise.
 

NDE | Krieg Blut Ehre Asche CD (CSR110CD) £10 / £11 / £12

MP3 | MP3
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A unique smelting of malevolent, noisy Black Metal, anthemic martial drums and wretched Death Industrial.
 

Cages | Folding Space CD (CSR121CD) £10 / £11 / £12

MP3 | MP3
Shipping: Now
Loops, layers and pleading lyrics. Elements of dreamy ether and discomfort rather than the easy choruses. Artwork with bronze print.
 

Splinterskin | Wayward Souls CD (CSR114CD) £10 / £11 / £12

MP3 | MP3
Shipping: Now
Harsh, dark folk music.  Tales told using an old classical guitar, accompanied by haunting vocals, violin, and soothing whispers.
 

FORTHCOMING RELEASES:

TENHORNEDBEAST
- 'Hunts & Wars' CD (CSR130CD)
MACHINEFABRIEK - 'Daas' CD (CSR128CD)
PSYCHIC TV - 'Themes' 4CD Boxset (CSR123B)
GOATVARGR - 'Black Snow Epoch' CD (CSR126CD)
VON THRONSTAHL - 'Conscriptvm' 2CD (CSR118CD)

ALL AVAILABLE COLD SPRING TITLES

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

MACHINEFABRIEK
• 18 May 10, Cafe OTO, London (UK) - with Tim Hecker

FULL DETAILS IN EVENTS SECTION

 


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Beyond Black Void

Deuterror

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AIDAN BAKER & BRANDON VALDIVIA - 'Live 2008-14-11' 3" CD (Universal Tongue)
- £8 / £9 / £10

Live collaboration between these two Canadian musicians - Aidan Baker (Nadja) and Brandon Valdivia (Picastro) - recorded at the Lab30 Festival in Augsburg, Germany, November 14, 2008. This is a live improvisation with guitar and drums, detaching from what is the trademark sound of Aidan Baker and going in a krautrock / psych direction. Artwork by Mories (Grafika Obskura / Gnaw Their Tongues). Ltd x 323 hand-numbered copies in mini-DVD packaging. 3" CD proper (NOT CDR). ACT FAST!

All Aidan Baker Titles

ALLSEITS - 'Hel' CD (Cyclic Law) - £11 / £12 / £13

Allseits is the solo project of the German instrumentalist Nina Kernicke known from her recent collaboration with German Drone pioneers Troum. "Hel“ describes the way into the underworld, the listener is guided through various stages on the journey down to Hel, the Norse mythological term for hell and also for the goddess Hel who is said to keep watch over the underworld. This allegoric tale is expressed diligently by Kernicke with the use of guitar, bass, drums and skillful sampling creating thick drony layers of deep dark ambient and solemn emotions. Ltd x 1000 copies In a 6-panel outsize sleeve.

CLOAMA & BLUTLEUCHTE - 'Cloama & Blutleuchte' CD (Anima Arctica)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

CD reissue of the 2005 collaboration originally released by New Old Sentinel (Ltd x 100 copies). If the psychedelic ritual industrial / dark ambient / baroque experimental nature of their other collaborative release "From Wasteland Mausoleums" caught your attention, you will not want to miss this. Incantations for the twilight hours. Yog-Sothoth is the key. Ltd x 300 copies.

All Cloama Titles

INTERIOR DISPOSITION - 'Taedium Vitae' CD (Nihil Art) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

This album is dedicated to the memory of Italian musician Marco Corbelli, the only member of project Atrax Morgue. On May, 6th, 2007 at the age of 36 years old he committed suicide. The latest album of Interior Disposition (aka Oleg Hurvatov) is the attempt to look into the painful world of the tortured Italian artist. Dark Ambient and Drone in the way of Bad Sector, Troum or Olhon. Ltd x 500 copies. Russian import.

KENTIN JIVEK - 'Eight New Prophecies' CD (None) - £9 / £10 / £11

Kentin Jivek's fourth album is inspired by historical writings and prophecies with a Neofolk flavour. "Eight New Prophecies" is mainly based on the return to childhood, Zarathustra, Nietzsche's book, spoken words, and Nostradamus' predictions and prophecies. Songs like "Shipwreck / The Fall of Euhemerus" and "Quelle importance" confirm Kentin Jivek's style, mixing world origins and occult references, with a Mediterranean 'Neofolk 'n' Pop' temperament. File next to Novy Svet, Ô Paradis, Spiritual Front, The Green Man etc. Slimline jewelcase.

MERZBOW - 'Age Of 369 / Chant 2' 2 x CD (Extreme) - £18 / £19 / £20

"Age of 369" was originally released on cassette in 1984. The lesser known "Chant 2" is also from this period and complements the sonic intensity of the other. Of further importance is the influence of Maurizio Bianchi (MB) and the mail art that was integral to the industrial underground. These reissues document significant works from Japan's Noise master. Made with a repli cheap tape recorder and a lot of tape loops, which were then manipulated by hand. "Lowest Music 2" was a very early example of that. Then Merzbow mixed more tape loops with more harsh noise. "Age of 369" (Mlroku No Yo) and "Chant 2" are the finest early examples of that. The Japanese title of "Age of 369" was inspired by the Omoto Cult, founded by Onisabura Degughi. The double CD re-release of "Age of 369" (miroku No Yo) and Chant 2" combines both the music and the Mail Art of this period and is a fitting document of Merzbow In 1984. Australian import. EXTREMELY RARE! ACT FAST!

All Merzbow Titles

MUSLIMGAUZE - 'Intifaxa' CD (Extreme) - £14 / £15 / £16

The sounds of Arabia are captured in confident rhythms, pulsating bass drum and an enveloping ambience. The musical creativity have progressed over the past decade to become one of the most inspiring sounds of the 90s. The Arabian countries, which are a catalyst for this release, are captured in each song. Such a picture can only be painted by Muslimgauze. "Intifaxa" offers 64 minutes of all new music, seven songs which make a complete album. It is enough to let the music speak for itself. "Intifaxa" is a contemporary vision of world music. Western and Arabic rhythms create a chilling seductive state. Australian import. EXTREMELY RARE! ACT FAST!

All Muslimgauze Titles

NIHIL NOVI SUB SOLE - 'Jupiter Temple' CD (My Kingdom Music) - £11 / £12 / £13

Here is the new born musical apocalypse of Dutch mastermind Marco Kehren (Deinonychs). Nihil Novi Sub Sole takes the listener into a downward spiral of dark stained compositions, which combines dark Ambient sounds with eerie sounding orchestration and choirs wrapped in Martial Industrial-like sound compositions, with heavy militaristic drums. Evidently influenced by the like of Rome. Mastered by Axel Frank (Werkraum, Sturmpercht). Beautifully presented in an A5 digipak.

OBOZDUR - 'Winter Canabinol Essence' CD (Nihil Art) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

First CD proper for this Russian outfit of Vitaly Maklakov, hailing from the Ural region."6 tracks… which will penetrate deeply into your mind and stay there for long time… leaving unique feeling of novelty and at the same time immersing you in depths of style… in a word… noise… free comments…" File next to fellow Russians Reutoff and Cyclotimia. Ltd x 500 copies.

ROCK-A-ROLLA - 'Issue #24' Magazine - £5 / £6.50 / £8
The first Rock-A-Rolla of the '10s features Post No-Wave oddballs Liars. There's also interviews with Wicked King Wicker, Mike Watt (Minutemen, Porno For Pyros), Pyramids, Dethscalator, Motorpsycho, Sankt Otten, White Hills, The Tenebrous Liar, Dÿse and These Monsters. This month's Label Focus is on Profound Lore. Also included is the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Highly recommended!

All Rock-A-Rolla IssuesAll Magazines

SOMA - 'The Inner Cinema' CD (Extreme) - £12 / £13 / £14

SOMA return with a fistful of music, having journeyed into the cinematic realms of Ennio Morricone and Sergio Leone with more than a hint of Andre Breton and Luis Bunuel. "The Inner Cinema" continues to explore the filmic qualities that made their debut "Hollow Earth" such a standout album. David Thrussell (Snog, Black Lung) and Pieter Bourke (Dead Can Dance collaborator) paint an intriguing soundscape that allows the imagination and the memories to be prompted into a vision splendid. Australian import. EXTREMELY RARE! ACT FAST!

SPECIAL INTERESTS - '#2' Magazine (Freak Animal) - £5 / £6 / £7

Second issue of this great magazine from the Freak Animal label. In English and featuring interviews with some of the best Industrial / Power Electronics / Noise artists on the scene today: Jarl, Jeph Jerman / Hands To, Culver, Locrian, The Vomit Arsonist, Praying For Oblivion, Mark Groves, Haare, Smell & Quim, Jukka Siikala, The Rita, Andy Ortmann, Le Syndicat, Howard Stelzer, Kristian Olsson (Alfarmania / Survival Unit) and a reviews section. 52-pages, A5, B&W, offset printed with full colour cover.

All Magazines

SVARTSINN - 'Elegies For The End' 2 x CD (Cyclic Law) - £15 / £16 / £17

The 4th album by Norwegian dark ambient act Svartsinn shows a more melodic yet rather obscure side of the artist. This new musical journey from Pettersen deals with sadness and melancholy,  about not knowing one's place in this vast and at times uninviting world, how it can become a daily torment to not be able to find one's reason to exist. And it's also about finding one's personal path, finding ways to endure and hopefully transcend these engulfing life challenges. The double CD includes a unique collaboration track with Dahlia's Tear and a 10 Year Anniversary bonus disc containing exclusive remixes by: Triarii, Kammarheit, Letum, Life Toward Twilight, Gustaf Hildebrand, Tenebrious, New Risen Throne, MGriffin, Visions and Hovmod. All acts giving very interesting perspectives on some of Svartsinn's previously released tracks, making this second disc a very special homage to the singular world of Svartsinn. Ltd x 1000 copies in an 8 panel outsize sleeve. Highly recommended!

All Svartsinn Titles

TOR LUNDVALL - 'Ghost Years' CD (Tursa) - £12 / £13 / £14

"Ghost Years" is my first retrospective CD featuring tracks from various compilations, vinyl-only releases plus some unreleased material. The focus is more on my vocal work, however there are a few instrumental pieces included as well. Although the music spans about a decade, I was surprised at how well the tracks flow together to make a coherent ensemble, evolving from my earlier song-oriented compositions to the more ambient nature of my recent recordings. (Tor Lundvall, November 2009). 13 Ghost Ambiences.

All Tor Lundvall Titles

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Dark Ambient Radio Vol. 1' CD (Dark Ambient Radio) - £11 / £12 / £13

A genre compilation that emerged around the web radio of the same name. 72 minutes of the finest dark ambient, with each of the eleven tracks having been created exclusively for the release. From established acts to relative newcomers, this completely self-produced collection is a gem waiting to be discovered! Features: Ah Cama-Sotz & All Sides, Dark Muse & Nihil Communication, Evoke Scurvee, False Mirror, Megatone, Mytrip, Nagual Art, Phelios, Phobos, Stephen Parsick and Svartsinn & All Sides.

All Dark Ambient Radio TitlesAll Compilations

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Dark Ambient Radio Vol. 2' CD (Dark Ambient Radio) - £11 / £12 / £13

This compilation is the result of almost one year of careful design and polishing of cutting-edge dark ambient songs. Dark Ambient Radio managed to raise the bar with this superb collection of dark ambient music. As with Vol. 1, each of the 11 tracks here has been created exclusively for this release. Features: Arkhitektur, Aspectee, Crepuscular, False Mirror, Inner Vision Laboratory, Nagual Art, Phelios, Phobos, Therradaemon, Tholen and Troum.

All Dark Ambient Radio TitlesAll Compilations
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BLACK BONED ANGEL - 'The Engless Coming Into Life' CD (20 Buck Spin)
- £11 / £12 / £13

New Zealander Campbell Kneale, of prolific one-man bliss drone project Birchville Cat Motel, returns to his metallic alter-ego Black Boned Angel. Both projects chase a similar idea from different ends of the spectrum. This work is perhaps Kneale’s most obvious combination of the extreme minimalism of his ambient tendencies and the extreme maximalism of his forays into the center of the subterranean metal guitar riff. The album first lulls one into a meditative state of relative calm before plummeting into the chasm created by the vibrations of a single, snarling riff so heavy it could rip a hole in the heavens. Consisting of a sole one-hour track, "The Endless Coming Into Life" sits comfortably alongside the darker end of Kneale’s ever-growing catalogue of work dedicated to finding the light (or dark) source of the universal drone. Digipak with spot varnishing.

GALLHAMMER - 'Gloomy Lights' CD (Hello From The Gutter Records
/ Goatsucker Records / Bestial Burst Records) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

Killer!!! Gallhammer is three extreme Japanese females (headed by Vivian Slaughter, also of SEHNSUCHT), heavily influenced by Hellhammer, Burzum and Amebix. And, as is often the case with Japanese acts, this is obscure and unusual metal, somewhere between black metal, doom and sludge. This debut 8 track album was a dedication to their influences but also created a new, unique and dark sickly sounding atmosphere of their own. The album's themes are based around isolation, oppression, and a world without colour. The band signed to Peaceville for subsequent recordings.

GUSTAF HILDEBRAND - 'Primordial Resonance' CD (Cyclic Law)
- £11 / £12 / £13

Second full-length album from Gustaf Hildebrand (ex-Lithivm). A unique, evolved experience inviting you to embark upon an odyssey through ancient and lifeless surroundings. Sweeping ambient soundscapes and delicate textures mingle with the distant shrieks of surreal machinery - conjuring up images of abandoned and forgotten places, clouded skies and dead cities where time has been standing still. A captured moment from a strange no man's land lit by a perpetual gloom, "Primordial Resonance" is a voyage only limited by the imagination of the listener. First 1000 copies come in an oversized fold out cover.

NADJA / BLACK BONED ANGEL - 'S/T' CD (20 Buck Spin) - £11 / £12 / £13

A monumental cross-continental collaboration between Canada’s prolific neo-doom duo Nadja and New Zealand’s pitch black droners Black Boned Angel. The two 20+ minutes tracks contained on this self-titled collaboration have a less accessible vibe then the Jesu-like track on last year’s “Christ Send Light” EP. There are no vocals to be heard. They are comprised in equal parts of Nadja’s fuzzed-out, lurching and hazy dream-doom, and BBA’s razor-sharp metallic riff-shards. Extended passages of riff-static noise bleeds one track into the next while deep space eerieness looms ever present in the shadows. Finally the whole thing collapses under the weight of its own self-created black hole. This is the end. Digipak.

NURSE WITH WOUND - 'Huffin' Rag Blues' CD (Dirter) - £13 / £14 / £15

The first NWW album for over 4 years, "Huffin' Rag Blues" is the inevitable conclusion of Steven Stapleton and Andrew Liles' passion for easy listening and lounge jazz. Contorted and carved into a distinctly Nurse With Wound sound "Huffin' Rag Blues" is a greasy amalgam of uneasy listening, shaken and stirred Molotov cocktails and quixotica. Full to the brim with squeals, screams, smokey vocals, drunken double basses, melting vibraphones and internal organs from outer space this album is an unlikely and unique excursion from beginning to end. As with all NWW recordings it goes without saying... expect the unexpected.

PER ASPERA - 'Nil Desperandum' CD (New Nihilism) - £13 / £14 / £15

Third release from this Polish artist. Unifying a vast array of elements, Per Aspera once again achieves remarkably introvert but vibrant style. Eerie industrial atmospheres seamlessly blend with serene harmonies of an almost orchestral form. Cinematic, monstrous drone formations morph into a pulsating abyss of dissonant disturbances and uncompromised sonic experiments, overlaid by subtle beauty of human voice and minimalist acoustic instrumentation. Ltd x 500 copies in a DVD-size digipak.

SOMNIVORE - 'Clergy Of Oneiros' CD (Anima Arctica) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

Eclectic and Spiritual Industrialised Ambient . Six tracks clocking in at over three quarters of an hour, giving the listener a glimpse of the view of the world of Somnivore. Stories and tales inspired by dreams, nightmares, insomnia, sleepwalking, blurred history and future, magick and logic, secret and public essence of certain and uncertain places, fountains of life and curtains of death. The compositions vary from subtle drones to archaic rhythms, from harmonies to brutal and noisy pounding industrial percussion. Ltd x 1000. Finnish import.

TUHAT KUOLEMAA SEKUNNISSA - 'Tuhat Kuolemaa Sekunnissa' CD
(Anima Arctica) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

Noble & Honest Neofolk rooted firmly to the pagan grounds of Finland. "These songs are made to rise higher than pines, and the brilliant melodies glitter like silvery lakes under the holy sun. Some of these tracks are surely to be sung along with tears in eyes by lonely listeners, and some out loud by like-minded minds affected by blessed beers and wicked wines. This record is mainly performed with two acoustic guitars and bass guitar held by men with fierce fire in minds and souls... in the language of their ancestors... A reverend nod is given in the direction of the classics of the British Isles' Neofolk genre, which shake hands with archaic songs sung by Finnish tribes next to fireplaces in nightless night, in lightless winter of this cold, cold country." Ltd x 1000 copies.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'California' 10 x LP Boxset (Troniks / Ground Fault
/ RRRecords) - £66 / £78 / £88

A document of contemporary California-based experimental, noise, drone and improvised music. 20 artists each fill an LP side of this 10 x LP boxed set. Includes: Amps For Christ, Control, Damion Romero, Gerritt, GX Jupitter-Larsen (The Haters), Joe Colley, John Wiese, Moth Drakula, Oscillating Innards, Open City, RHY Yau, Rubber O Cement, SIXES, Solid Eye, Spastic Colon, The Cherry Point, The Skaters, Tralphaz, Xome and Yellow Swans. Compiled by Phil Blankenship (The Cherry Point / Troniks). A truly beautiful artifact of sonic art. Ltd x 1000 copies in a shrinkwrapped box. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
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