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Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 14th November 2011
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JOHN BARLEYCORN: REBIRTH
We're very pleased to announce that the 2CD set 'John Barleycorn Reborn: Rebirth'
is in stock EARLY! Pre-orders have shipped today. Available nowhere else until 21st!
The special pre-order price will remain in place until 20th November! Order now!
IRON FIST OF THE SUN / VOMIR UK TOUR!
The Birmingham Power Electronics Nihilist with French HNW act Vomir!
15 Nov, The Chameleon, 17 Angel Row, Nottingham
16 Nov, Hare & Hounds, 106 High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | John Barleycorn Reborn: Rebirth 2CD (CSR150CD) £11 / £12 / £13 |
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The compilers of 'John Barleycorn Reborn' (2007), faced an embarrassment of riches - a testament both to English folk heritage and the health of the contemporary folk music scene. So here we have the second crop from that original sowing. Originally released for download only, now finally available as a stunning double CD, with every track completely remastered to the highest quality. 33 tracks from the cream of current dark British Folk music.
Click here for track listing!
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| SUTCLIFFE JUGEND | With Extreme Prejudice CD (CSR143CD) £9 / £10 / £11 |
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Harsh extreme electronic pioneers Sutcliffe Jugend return with an album of all new material. Three years in the making, "With Extreme Prejudice" finds Sutcliffe Jugend at the top of their game. Forcing the listener to question their own prejudices and taboos, as modern man struggles to confront and control his inner demons. Musically and lyrically this is SJ's most varied album to date, ranging from harsh electronic onslaughts to a new kind of musical oblivion. Production and sound values are closer to industrial music than ever before. Enter if you dare, the very twisted and real world of Sutcliffe Jugend as they execute With Extreme Prejudice.
6-panel digipak.
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| MACHINEFABRIEK | Veldwerk CD (CSR156CD) £9 / £10 / £11 |
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Sublime drone music and field recordings by Rutger Zuydervelt. A travel diary from Slovakia inspired by Chinese sound artist Yan Jun; field recordings, long train journeys and live performances from Russia; a sonic protrait of the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam; indoor pieces and radio signals from Germany; and a film score from Tokyo. Digipak.
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| BURIAL HEX / IRON FIST OF THE SUN | Actaeon / Grown Under English Ice LP (CSR153LP) £15 / £18.50 / £22 |
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Superb trans-Atlantic Power Electronics / Death Industrial face-off between Wisconsin's Burial Hex and Birmingham's Iron Fist Of The Sun. Ltd x 500. |
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| ANNI HOGAN | Mountain CD / DVD DualDisc (CSR132CD) £16 / £17 / £18 |
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Artists Anni Hogan, Robert Strachan and Itchy Ear, film maker Bob Wass and mountaineer Cathy O'Dowd. Piano soundscapes inspired by Himalayan conquests.
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| SKULLFLOWER | Fucked On A Pile Of Corpses CD (CSR151CD) £10 / £11 / £12 |
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The most remorseless, brutal Skullflower ever! Lo-fi primitive rock and granular lo-fi primitive Power Electronics.
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| EMME YA | Atavistic Dreams & Phallic Totems CD (CSR127CD) £10 / £11 / £12 |
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40 minutes of dense astral emanations and magickal paradigms transmitted through the ritual mantras generated by Emme Ya. Based on the mysterious African Dogon tribe. |
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RELEASES:
HIRSUTE PURSUIT feat. BOYD RICE - 'Boyd Keeps Swinging' 12" (CSR157EP)
HIRSUTE PURSUIT - 'Tighten That Muscle Ring' CD (CSR158CD)
HELDENTOD - 'The Ghost Machine' CD (CSR131CD) |
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BURIAL HEX
• 15 - 25 Nov 11, European Tour (DE), (PL), (AT).
CUT HANDS
• Nov 11-Mar 12, Worldwide tour.
IRON FIST OF THE SUN
• 15 Nov, The Chameleon, Nottingham (UK)
- with Vomir, Safe, Now Wash Your Hands.
• 16 Nov, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham (UK)
- with Vomir, Safe.
PSYCHIC TV
• 9 Dec 11, Elysium, Austin, TX (US).
INADE
• 17 Dec 11, 20 Jahre Loki Foundation, NATO, Leipzig (DE).
- with S.E.T.I., Bad Sector, Herbst9
SKULLFLOWER / PRURIENT
• 4-6 May 12, 30 Years Of Broken Flag, The Dome, London (UK).
- with Ramleh, Consumer Electronics, Controlled Bleeding, Con-Dom, The New Blockaders, Kleistwahr, Le Syndicat & more!
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BURIAL HEX - 'Book Of Delusions' LP (Brave Mysteries)
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During the period in which Clay Ruby first began working on this piece of art, he had become so completely surrounded by evil and deception that he was forced to begin summoning a particularly extreme and ancient force of protection and vitality just to make it alive through the end of 2008. Aside from spiritually fortifying Ruby's life, the complexities of these new elemental entities brought with them circumstances causing a much more rich and intense recording experience than he could have ever composed on his own. Clay Ruby has vehemently refused to offer any commentary on the biographical, conceptual or musical details about this album; stating only that "By the time you sell your last copy of this record, I will surely be dead." Classic horror electronics and post-industrial apocalyptic soundscapes with unsettling notes, anguished cries and voices of the dead. His most ritualistic album yet. Ltd x 250 copies only.
• All Burial Hex Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl
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IN SCISSORS - 'Mnemosyne & The Structure Of Time'
CD (Zoharum)
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A translation of the scenes that preceded the earth’s decline in “Orbis Terrarum Requiem” (2009) into the sounds of iNsCissorS’ cinematic dark ambient where Mnemosyne, the ancient Hellenic Titan goddess of memory and remembrance and the inventor of language and words, orchestrates the sequence of events and guides you throughout the complex cluster of the structure of time downwards to her lake in Hades where initiates used to drink in order to remember and bear memories along their journey through life. Angel W. Black gives her own enchanting touch with her astonishing voice either when lamenting as a queen that passed to silence or when invoking Hecate from Hades! Presented in a stunning 6-panel digipak.
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INNER VISION LABORATORY - 'Future Chaos'
CD (Zoharum)
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Fourth part of the 'IYHHH' series. This archival material from IVLab was created more than 4 years ago and has not been released in any form whatsoever. 'Future Chaos' is the more dynamic and harsh face of Karol Skrzypiec. This is a dark ambient passage in the world of tribal and post-industrial elements. Various contemporary, post-modern and futuristic forms of art, such as sci-fi literature, movies, minimalist music with an industrial feel has served as primary influence here. "My album is the sound illustration of the world after a sudden collapse of humankind and 21st century civilisation". Ltd x 444 hand-numbered copies in an outsized ecopak with postcard.
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INORGANIC BLOSSOMING - 'Seasons Project: Autumndrones'
CD (Infinite Fog Productions /
Vegvisir Music / 7Hz Records)
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'Autumndrones' is a name which belongs to two musicians from Siberia - Becoming and Freeall. 'Autumndrones' - can be explained as a love of autumn. They did not want to dedicate the music to this season, they wanted to write it. Therefore they music was written during the fall only, and when the first autumn passed they left the unfinished material until the next one. That is why the work took them 3 years. The whole mood of the album went through this season, even live instruments, such as violin and accordion, were recorded in fields along with the leaves' noise. The sound of nature and the human together. Mild ambient, careful noise and accidental melodies, the mix of leaves rustling, wind blowing and analogue synths singing. Ltd x 292 copies in a handmade A5 digipak. |
MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Hibernum'
CD
(EE Tapes)
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New work by the Italian Industrial legend. "A marginal division of the whole existence in four palpable seasons, marked by pestilential changes in emotional hemisphere. Seasonal differences in the reformistic exposure turn on the climatic sounds for a thermostatic solstice while modular equinoxes transit along the nodulous diagram of astronomical devices. Usually considered as ephemeral like consciousness neurectomy which includes a mixture of chronological elements. The principle of living originates from electric sources of materialistic disturbances for unequivocal substances. At the end, the hibernating organisms organise a reproducing molecule of environmental for a silent 'hybernum'. 3 lengthy, slowly shifting atmospheres for private meditation". Ltd x 300 copies in a silver print on black cardboard sleeve with insert.
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OSEWOUDT - 'Gelag Van Zwartgeklede Kraaien'
CD
(Lichterklang)
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A cold summer night at a cosy campfire that makes us forget the wind, and then... The sun rises behind enigmatic ancient rocks on the sea coast, the sound of drums, from the distance the wind carries an accordion, and then, guitars follow the rhythm, we stand up and start to sing. There is a new hope for Neofolk! The longing for pure, original and fresh folklore is now being answered. Dutch act Osewoudt bring straightforward melodies, martial drums, mellow accordion, strong, male vocals, dreamy and bold acoustic guitars. Their mixture of intense songs, passionate and poetic lyrics, raw and sober song structures, alluring melodies and their devotion to the the sublime, is exactly the kind of Neofolk we have all been waiting for. Artwork by Pitch Black (Anemone Tube). Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak with booklet. |
PYHA - 'Play Backfires'
CD (Misanthropic Art Productions)
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Atmospheric black metal / dark ambient from South Korean Pyha (Ruins). Consisting of more mature and clean sounds than his previous, critically acclaimed album "The Haunted House" (which he wrote when he was just 14!). Burzum meets Abruptum meets Xasthur but even more harsh and atmospheric. Anti war, anti military outsider individualistic blackness that destroys any other BM you've heard. Unbelievably grim and melancholic. Ltd x 500 copies. |
S.E.T.I. - 'Baikal'
CD
(Power & Steel /
Loki Foundation)
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The aural world of BAIKAL evokes a crystalline landscape full of huge and breathtaking images, guiding the listener to arcane places, lakes and steppes. This new output of Andrew Lagowski (aka S.E.T.I.) is the result of the examination of the idea of old and sunken crafts being hidden in lakes while surfacing through the water in abandoned areas where only few people would live and survive. Calm and smooth soundscapes and atmospheric synth waves loaded with digitised voices and textured layers of noises and samples. BAIKAL is another step further in S.E.T.I.'s history of deep sounding ambient music. An evolving, moving and skittering Masterpiece! Comes in a 6-panel outsize digisleeve.
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VELEHENTOR - 'Ceremonial Death' 7" (Vegvisir Music)
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Brilliant ritual dark ambient from this cult Russian act. Resounding, enveloping sounds for rituals and meditation... corrosive mechanical echoes of human misery. Two hypnotic, chthonic rituals... embodiments of monolithic darkness... created with many percussive instruments, bells and gongs, without using any electrical devices. This will certainly appeal to fans of Lustmord, Nordvargr and Karna. Ltd x 500 copies.
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Z'EV & HATI - 'Heart Of A Wolf'
2 x CD (Zoharum)
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One of the most interesting and promising albums this year. Ritual sounds and a mystical atmosphere, which infected those present on their Torun gigs, were captured and transferred perfectly on 'Heart Of A Wolf'. This is the second collaborative album by the industrial legend Z'EV and Hati, the Polish duo from Torun, but it's the first one showing their interaction on stage during their 3rd Polish tour in May 2011. The tour itself was the continuation and development of their new sound project initiated by the joint gig on Unsound Festival in New York Labs in April 2011. This double set also includes the recording of their Gdansk gig and is limited to 423 copies in a stunning 6-panel digipak.
• All Z'EV Titles • All Hati Titles
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A CHALLENGE OF HONOUR - 'Ashigaru Revealed'
CD
(Eternal Pride Productions)
- £11 / £12 / £13
The warrior's way means death. When there are two ways to choose, choose the one that leads to death. Direct your thoughts to the way you’d prefer, and follow. The latest work from one of the most prominent and outstanding Martial / Neoclassical European projects is a continuation of the musical odyssey which began with the "Ashigaru" boxset (Steinklang, 2005) and is dedicated to the warrior traditions of medieval Japan. A graceful and epic cocktail of atmospheric neoclassical passages, Japanese drums and rhythms. Released in an appealing digipak, with a design in the classical Japanese style. Russian import. |
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ARTEFACTUM - 'Foxgloves & Bluebells'
CD
(Old Europa Cafe / Ur Muzik)
- £11 / £12 / £13
As one of the very few representatives of what might be labelled as feminine ambient music, Artefactum remains the embodiment of unique characteristics: deep and warm ambient intertwined with sounds of nature, ritual bells, remote drumming and sensual vocals. While still within the borders of ambient, this release also contains a collection of beautiful songs inspired by old poetry and mysterious folklore. With wonderful guest appearances from neo-medieval The Soil Bleeds Black, British folk singer Andrew King (Sol Invictus) and neo-classical Dawn & Dusk Entwined, “Foxgloves & Bluebells” is a must-have release for anyone into esoteric post-industrial music. 6-panel digipak. |
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BETACLOUD - 'Lunar Monograph'
CD
(Laughing Bride Media)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
Latest disc of blissed out soft focus dronemusic from this longtime aQ fave. After past collaborations with Lull as well as Aidan Baker, Lunar Monograph is the first disc we've head from BC on his own, and it's definitely a divine bit of ethereal and ephemeral drift. Field recordings are deftly woven into soft swirling shimmering tones, guitars are spidery and delicate, spinning crystalline webs of hushed melody... pealing tones, and barely there melodies, drifting weightlessly through a field of minimal effects, and slow shifting whirs, as well as some mysterious field recordings, that make the end of the record feel like you've just come out of a trance, and found yourself back in the real world, which is not all that far off the mark. So nice." (Aquarius). Mastered by James Plotkin. Digipak. |
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BLOOD BOX - 'Funeral In An Empty Room'
CD
(Power & Steel /
Loki Foundation)
- £12 / £13 / £14
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! |
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C.M. VON HAUSSWOLFF - 'Perhaps / Arrive'
2 x CD
(Auf Abwegen)
- £15 / £16 / £17
This 2CD set includes some of the most unusual sounds you will have heard from Carl Michael von Hausswolff. He was chosen by the 1997 Istanbul Biennal to create a sound installation for Atatürk Airport. His classic sound (low frequency rumblings, monotonous oscillations and hissy non-narrative sequences) was deemed too confusing for the commutors. It was feared that his sound installation might be mistaken for an alarm and could cause serious panic at the airport. Hence the original soundtrack for “Perhaps/ /Arrive” was rejected. This music can now be heard for the first time on disc 1. Von Hausswolff’s response to the artistic restrictions was to produce the four tracks you hear on the second disc. These only make use of the very basic pre-set sounds included in the Yamaha QY22 and show a new side to the von Hausswolff sound. Very simple, post-nuclear lounge music. These four tracks were used in the context of the Biennal exhibition. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak, with artwork by Akifumi Nakajima (Aube). |
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ENDVRA - 'Elder Signs'
2 x CD
(Red Stream)
- £16 / £17 / £18
Red Stream have resurrected the dead souls of these primal recordings and added to them rare, exclusive bonus material to produce an album that documents the early years of Endvra. An exhaustively massive compendium of Dark Ambient hallucinogenic madness for unholy rites by the mysterious cult with Stephen Pennick (Ontario Blue) and Christopher Walton (TenHornedBeast). Endura present 2 discs bursting at the seams with 144 minutes of psychologically disturbing music to consume absinthe & open your veins with! The Elder Sign has risen. Absolutely essential! |
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GOLGATHA & BIRTHE KLEMENTOWSKI - 'Cyles'
CD
(Midnight Productions)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
In 2007 :Ikonen: media published a postcard collection by photographic artist Birthe Klementow called 'Circles'. The limited (x10), cloth-bound and hand-numbered edition was accompanied by an EP featuring dark ambient tracks on the cycles of life and death, inspired by those postcards. 'Cycles' is a completely reworked reincarnation of this exclusive collaborative project and features new artwork and remixes of the original songs. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak with 12-page booklet. Chinese import. |
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HOROLOGIUM - 'A Handful Of Dust And Ashes'
CD (Zoharum)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
"A Handful of Dust and Ashes” is a collection of tracks recorded during various occasions, but united here by a peculiar sediment of dust and rust; it’s a journey in time from the strictly limited “A Handful of Dust” (Cynfeirdd, 2005) to “Opium” (Void Rekordz, 2005), both long out of print. The (re)collection is crowned by three tracks performed live in Barcelona and Bologna in 2008 and 2009. Includes a collaboration with Artefactum. The artwork by Fab and Sophie embody fin de siècle that has never been that convincing and tangible. 6-panel digipak. |
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SAFE - 'Bare Life'
CD (Dot Dot Dot Music)
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Irish noise group Safe release their fourth full length album - "Bare Life". Blasting noise, infernal drones, field recordings, electronics, samples, vocals, clatterings of many colours in a swamp of metallised volume. It is in two sections, the five-part 'Sky Burial' and the 33 minute 'Red Night'. Ltd. Artwork by Alex Rose. |
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TETHRIPPON - 'Tethrippon'
CD (Ahnstern)
- £11 / £12 / £13
Tethrippon is the chariot of Apollon Hellenic God of light. Burning like the desire of a proud man for universal harmony and beauty, it rides eternally the skies. Those who are not blinded by arrogance or the ultimate light can verify the gentle meaning of our hymns and their noble purpose. Tethrippon’s composition and poetry bring warmth to civilized and delicate hearts and a nostalgia for what is missing from a romantic man’s internal search for an ideal world. Inspired by "Hellenic learning" and dedicated to the holy memory of our glorious forefathers. Rest in peace in the eternal skies! All lyrics are sung in Old-Greek, a language that died out 2300 years ago! A new power for the Martial generation - the essence of Dernière Volonté, Triarii and early Dead Can Dance! Digipak. |
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VARGR - 'Ashigaru Revealed'
CD
(Eternal Pride Productions)
- £11 / £12 / £13
The name Henrik Nordvargr Björkk has always been associated with the power of Swedish Black Industrial, which has been linked to MZ.412 for many years. As part of MZ.412, Nordvargr first managed to combine black metal and post-industrial aesthetics. But Vargr is an even more diabolic, blasphemous and terrifying cocktail of the real Scandinavian Black Metal of the early 90's, Black Ambient and Noise layers which create an atmosphere of Evil, Death, Chaos and Destruction in their impious graciousness. An unholy communion summoned to create the soundtrack for all wars to come. Bow to the Northern Wolf! Includes a cover of Burzum's track "Det Som En Gang Var". |
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WOLF EYES - 'Black Wing Over The Sand'
CD
(iDEAL / Kning Disk)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
"Black Wing Over The Sand" is one long session, that from the very first beginning lays bare the roots of Wolf Eyes: here is an evident presence of the industrial music of the early 1980s with bands such as Throbbing Gristle, Maurizio Bianchi and Gary Mundy’s cassette label Broken Flag. Instead of the harsh dissonances and compact walls of noise Wolf Eyes are well known for, the wholly instrumental piece moves slowly forward over a basis of silence. With oscillating movements, Wolf Eyes conjure up short bursts of noise with screaming high pitched tones where a rhythmic deep and slow bass soon sets in. Electric guitar, echo effects and sweeping sounds creates powerfully nerved effects over the slow rhythm. Ltd x 2000 copies. |
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