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Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 21st July 2011
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TWO SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEKEND!!
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ANNI HOGAN 'MOUNTAIN' LIVE
Anni will perform 'Mountain' live at The Horse Hospital with Robert Strachan, 23rd July. Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD. |
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WOODLAND GATHERING
We will have a stall at Woodland Gathering festival on 22nd-23 July.
2 days of noise / experimental / doom / alt-folk in the Lake District.
Live: Skullflower, Z'EV, Mick Flower, Islaja, Black Abba and many more! Buy Tickets.
Email us if you want to reserve any CDs / LPs / Merch in advance (by midnight tonight)! |
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| ANNI HOGAN | Mountain CD / DVD DualDisc (CSR132CD) £16 / £17 / £18 |
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An artistic collaboration between musicians Anni Hogan, Robert Strachan and Itchy Ear, film maker Bob Wass and mountaineer Cathy O'Dowd. Hogan and Itchy Ear originally worked on a series of piano pieces inspired by Rene Daumal's 'Mount Analogue' and the superior wisdom of mountains, using O'Dowds Himalayan conquests for particular authentic inspiration. Robert and Anni used these pieces and the Himalayan peaks as a template for painting a soundwave soundscape around the piano compositions. O'Dowd performed a fascinating monologue over the piece 'Deathzone'. The 'Mountain' film was created by Bob Wass from Cathy's original film footage of her Everest expeditions.
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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! Alternating between granular lo-fi primitive rock and granular lo-fi primitive Power Electronics,
this taut disc is a chain mail glove of hate to any lazy minds who've tainted the air with describing Skullflower as 'psychedelic'. But that's not to say this is an all out total assault. There are also moments of tender acoustic balladry, its just that they don't exist.
The remorseless brutal sound is primitive, but as detailed and rich as a blood soaked medieval canvas,
somewhere betwixt The Rita and Clandestine Blaze, but more brutal!
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| EMME YA | Atavistic Dreams & Phallic Totems CD (CSR151CD) £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 and their secret oral tradition. In the 1930s two anthropologists gained their trust enough to be told these remarkable secrets. The Dogon seemed to possess advanced astronomical knowledge beyond their means, without any instruments, revealing hidden stars Sirius B and Sirius C, so invisible they were only discovered by scientists with advanced imaging in 1970 and 1995.
The Dogon say that their information was given to their ancestors through contact
with beings from the star system of Sirius, calling these beings Nommos or ‘the
monitors of the universe’.
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| SKULLFLOWER | Fucked On A Pile Of Corpses T-Shirt (CSR155TS) £13 |
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Highest quality shirt featuring the cover design of Skullflower's most remorseless and brutal release ever! In your face red shirt with black and white print. See website for sizes.
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| PSYCHIC TV | Themes 6 x CD Boxset + Bonus CD (CSR123B) £42 / £45 / £48 |
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For the first time, all Themes albums by Psychic TV released together. |
| Presented in a sumptuous, matt laminate, spot-varnished box set. Each CD is presented in it's own matt laminate, spot-varnished mini-LP sleeve. The box also includes a 28-page booklet of rare photos and essays. Click here for tracklisting. |
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| MZ. 412 | Vault 5 x CD Boxset (CSR142B) £80 / £90 / £100 |
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Ultra collector's boxset containing all 5 digipak albums in the MZ. 412 reissue series: |
| "In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi", "Burning The Temple Of God", "Nordik Battle Signs", "Domine Rex Inferum" and "Infernal Affairs". 5 x CDs, along with exclusive 5" vinyl with exclusive tracks, bespoke engraved shot glass, embroidered tie, artcards and other surprises! Black wooden boxset with silver print. Ltd x 300 only!!! |
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| MZ. 412 | Vault 5 x CD Boxset - BOX ONLY (CSR142B) £40 / £48 / £56 |
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Ultra collector's box! Exact same contents as above but WITHOUT the CDs. Perfect if you purchased CDs separately. |
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SUTCLIFFE JÜGEND - 'With Extreme Prejudice' CD (CSR143CD)
HELDENTOD - 'The Ghost Machine' CD (CSR131CD) |
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Z'EV / SKULLFLOWER
• 22 Jul 11, Woodland Gathering, Fell Foot Wood, Cumbria (UK). Tickets.
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ANNI HOGAN
• 23 Jul 11, The Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury, London (UK).
ESOTERIC / WODENSTHRONE / BLEEDING HEART NARRATIVE
• 6-7 Aug 11, Fat Out Fest, Islington Mill, Salford (UK). Tickets.
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• 17 Sep 11, Tower Transmissions I, Dresden (DE)
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IRON FIST OF THE SUN
• 13 Nov 11, The Croft, Bristol (UK).
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ACID MOTHERS GONG - 'Live In Nagoya' CD (Vivo Records)
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A live collaboration between legendary
psychedelic-space-rock band GONG and the not less respectable
Japanese ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE. Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth,
Josh Pollock, Kawabata Makoto, Higashi Hiroshi, Tsuyama
Atsushi and Yoshida Tatsuya. Together they form Acid Mothers
Gong. Recorded at Nagoya TOKUZO on 9th April 2003.
An hour-long psychedelic blow-out of epic proportions. Essential.
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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO - 'Hotter Than Inferno: Live In Sapporo
2008' CD (Vivo Records)
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"Hotter Than Inferno captures AMT in their fired-up, mainly noisy and wonderfully chaotic live format were spacey keyboards whiz and buzz, guitars singeing with multiple soloing and the rest of the band kick up a hell of a dust storm.
The 73 minute set was recorded live in their native Japan on 29 June 2008 at Counter Action, Sapporo and features two long jams... An invigorating, fiery and enjoyable live album" (Musique Machine). Over 70mins of space-psych-prog-rock music featuring tracks from "Journey Into The Cosmic Inferno", "Pink Lady Lemonade...".
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AMIR BAGHIRI - 'Ghazal' CD (Vivo Records)
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A beautiful album of unusual Middle Eastern ethno-ambient / electronica / field recordings from Iranian sound explorer AMIR BAGHIRI. Even more innovative than his previous album Yalda. An extensive list of instruments are used: khaliji drums, Persian tumbak, Egyptian dumbak, liquid drums, bendirs, Azerbaijan frame drum, surdo, mahogany pro djembes, tamborin and Persian zarb, dohol drums, rababa, ouds, saz, kamancheh, Panjab clay flute, native Iranian ney, sipsi stone flute, chimes, shakers and rainstick... No one plays like Amir Baghiri!!!
6-panel digipak.
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ARGENTUM - 'Salve Victoria' CD (SkullLine)
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Fantastic new album from Argentinian act Argentum, which offers Neoclassical music and melodies, but still works through a variety of atmospheres and bombastic martial influences for the 21st century. Wind and string instruments, subtly menacing beats and the occasional choir-like vocals result in an enriching album. File next to The Protagonist, Von Thronstahl, Artidi, Triarii etc. Ltd x 450 hand-numbered copies. |
CAFÉ DE L'ENFER - 'Marchant À Quatre Pattes Au-Devant De La Rédemption' CD
(Steinklang)
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Café De L'Enfer is one of the most promising new projects under the unconquerable sun
of pure Martial / Neoclassical music. Although the band is now located in Austria,
their roots are manifested in the early 20th century of French underground society.
Their music amazingly reflects the age of pre-Industrialisation and pure decadence.
Comparable with Dernière Volonté, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, Elend and a slight touch of Les Joyaux De La Princess. Digipak. |
DIM ARCANA - 'Ars Populi' CD (Black Drone)
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Dim Arcana was born in the a.d. MMVIII, from the intent to recall ancient atmospheres of death and pestilence, dreadful environments where the man of the medieval times lived. Influenced by the greatest names of the ambient scene (Uruk-Hai, Raison D'etre, Equimanthorn), the duo presents medieval dark ambient with great noise and drone influences, alternating orchestral passages of ethereal rhyming. Lavish breaths of past times serve as frames, where bells of churches and ancestral instruments bring you back in medieval Europe.
This debut album comes in beautifully designed 6-panel digipak and includes a 12-page booklet. Australian import.
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GLASS OUT - 'Never Force A Left Handed Child To Use Their Right Hand' 12"
(Lumberton Trading Company)
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The debut release by solo artist Andrew Dewar Ainslie, a versatile UK-based composer given to creating atmospheric music from textures, tones and gentle oscillations with a somewhat melancholic or reflective slant under this particular moniker. Comprising three songs, ‘Manifesto’, ‘Wild Strawberries’ and the side long title track, it adds up to over 30 minutes of music and features the late Jhonn Balance on the piece ‘Manifesto’, delivering a rarely heard reading of the Coil manifesto which was first broadcast on Holland’s VPRO station. Mixed and mastered by Sion Orgon. Strictly limited to 300 copies only.
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GNAW THEIR TONGUES - 'L'Arrivée De La Terne Mort Triomphante' CD (Crucial Blast)
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Gnaw Their Tongues transcend genres, creating their own distinct sound. Descriptors include ambient black metal, funeral doom metal, industrial drone etc. Instrumentation relies heavily on keyboards and percussion, with the drumming looming in the distance like a hideous parade before a battle is set loose. Monk-like choirs, industrial emanations, bizarre samples, occasional shrieks and droning, abused guitars are all on display, brought together almost unwillingly to share the same stage. Lyrically, L’Arrivee de la Terne Mort Triomphante is a concept album about death (“morte”). Songs describe the white throne of death, address the song of death and praise death’s majesty and grandeur. For many listeners, "L’Arrivee de la Terne Mort Triomphante" will be little more than noise or frustratingly dull drone. However, fans of the outré of the genre, where bands such as Sunn O))) and Throbbing Gristle practice their art, will find much to uncover and savour. Under the anger and fear there is joy, sadness, selfishness, and self-discovery. All you have to do is let these find you. Hardback digifile.
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HOROLOGIUM - 'Fyre' 10"
(Midnight Productions)
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Fire has been a point of reference for Horologium’s musical endeavours since the very beginning of the band. It is now high time for you to experience a release specifically centered around this meaningful theme. Let us invoke the fire that gave birth to the Earth, the flame stolen from the gods by Prometheus, the all-changing element of Heraclitus... Horologium hope to set your hearts on fire! Ritual industrial / ambient. Artwork by K. Meizter (Beyond Sensory Experience). Ltd x 300.
• All Horologium Titles • All 10" Vinyl
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KORPERSCHWACHE - 'Evil Walks' CD (Crucial Blast)
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"Evil Walks" is the most focused work yet from this utterly demented Texas outfit that started out in the mid 90s as a pure noise project but gradually evolved into this weird, lumbering black-dirge that we hear now. Thumping minimal drum-machine, droning dissonant riffs that veer from hypnotic noise to dismal quasi-black metal buzz, narcoleptic croaking and malevolent sneer bathed in reverb, the distant sad howling of wolves and ear-piercing screams drift across the background. A warped, blasted beauty shining through rotting shadows and rapidly declining emotional states. Digipak with booklet.
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MERZBOW - 'Arijigoku' CD (Vivo Records)
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"There's in your face, and then there's Merzbow. Masami Akita's umpteenth pummelling album shrieks straight down to business, squalls upon shards mashed up against sheets and droves of fingernail-scraping NOISE, four screaming yowls of pain and rage shot through from ear to ear and back again with lurching, clattery drums abused and battered over and over in demented rhythms, the whole shuddering with vibrant, agonising sonic torture, eventually becoming breathlessly overpowering, ripping up all external sensory input on a tide of aural debasement and kicking down the doors of any other sort of perception until there is only the sound of one electrified claw smacking, Merzbow's avenging boot of animal oppression stamping on the ears forever, twisting and wrenching with a dynamic which is also content to offer distended, almost caressingly brutal passages where the fervour of the acoustic punishment is allowed to subside before returning tenfold" (Plan B). Packaged in a hardback 6-panel digisleeve.
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MERZBOW - 'Higanbana' CD (Vivo Records)
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"Masami Akita in collaboration with some chickens. Given his penchant for animal kingdom-themed releases in recent years, that actually makes some sort of sense. Another theme in recent Merzbow releases has been the reappearance of analogue electronics, and true to form, Higanbana finds Akita using EMS synth alongside his laptop. It's hard to tell exactly what's making the noise at any given time here, but the intensity is often pretty overwhelming. Fortunately, in amongst the fuzz and feedback you'll hear a few cleaner oscillations penetrating the mix, adding elements of colour, and avoiding the all-out overload that might have otherwise foiled the album... This is an intense, largely unrelenting assault on the ears, and that's probably exactly what you expected to hear from Akita" (Boomkat). Packaged in a hardback 6-panel digisleeve.
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MERZBOW - 'Hodosan' CD (Vivo Records)
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Masami Akita's 5th release for Polish label Vivo. This is (apparently) one of the most accessible releases in the huge Merzbow discography. Continuing with Akita's love of animals, "Hodosan" features 3 lengthy, abrasive tracks based on pigs, utilising drums, rhythms and noises. Over 52 mins packaged in a hardback 6-panel digisleeve.
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MUSICA TRANSONIC - 'Xyosfbigkou' CD (Vivo Records)
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Wild and furious psychedelic madness by NANJO ASAHITO (High Rise, Mainliner) on bass, KAWABATA MAKOTO (Acid Mothers Temple) on guitar and YOSHIDA TATSUYA (Ruins) on drums. The musicianship is startline, the teasing, hurtling time signatures crammed into the tightest of spaces. A sparkling production illuminates the clean, abrupt tensions of each track. Ten mind-boggling new compositions from the exceptional trio. Extremely heavy psychedelia at its best! Packaged in a hardback 6-panel digisleeve.
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RAPOON - 'Obscure Objects Of Desire' CD (Vivo Records)
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Beautiful album from this dark / ethno-ambient / drone project of Robin Storey (Zoviet France). This album is about yearning. That aching emptiness that still exists when all rational processes have been exhausted.
The unobtainable,
all consuming and immaterial.
The irrelevant and the irrational.
The dark torments and the light hearted banter.
The victories and the defeats.
The achievements and the failures.
The loves and the losses.
When all are accounted for there remains only the obscure objects of desire. Packed in a hardback 6-panel digisleeve.
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ROCK-A-ROLLA - 'Issue #32' Magazine - £5 / £7.50 / £10 |
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Rock-A-Rolla 32 features Japanese heavyweights Boris. There are also interviews with Master Musicians Of Bukkake, Across Tundras, A Storm Of Light, Tombs, Bill Gould (Faith No More) & Jared Blum, Indian, Terminal Sound System, Mombu, Knifeworld, End Of Level Boss. This month's Label Focus is on Ad Noiseam. 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!
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SEELENTHRON - 'Die Reise' CD (Heimatfolk)
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"Die Reise" is the third album of the east German Neofolk project Seelenthron. Seelenthron was founded by the two basic-members of the legendary Dies Natalis and on several songs on their third album they go a new way, using Folk/Epic Rock and Alternative/Independent elements. The songs on "Die Reise" are more varied than on the earlier albums, even using electric guitars and accordions. The lyrics are filled with a deep love of nature and the band's homeland Saxony, facing very personal feelings between hope and deep despair. Digipak.
• All Seelenthron Titles
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SINWELDI - 'Is Europe Dying?' CD (SkullLine)
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Beautiful Neofolk from France. "Lust sweeps of duel acoustics of which the rhythm and melodic chords are clean and crisp, at times shining with a technical flourish. What is almost immediate with the album is the strong ear for subtle melodies that the artists are so obviously gifted with. While residing more in the genre of Neofolk rather than driven martial tones the musical compositions are deft and very well structured. The keyboard adds to lushness of the acoustics and, in places, (the accordion and harmonica are also employed sparingly and appropriately in places) which may have preempted a move to more stripped-back sounds now being explored by some long established Neofolk artists." (Judas Kiss). Reissue of the debut album from 2009 (Ltd x 100 copies), now reissued as a CD proper with white tray. Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies.
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STRYDWOLF - 'Dunkle Wälder' CD (SkullLine)
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Second album from this Dutch act. 16-tracks full of powerful and romantic Neofolk, utilising acoustic guitar and accordion to create striking melodies. Influenced by Darkwood, Backworld, Forseti and Sol Invictus. Features guest appearances from Art Abscons and Kunstgerecht. Regular edition of 350 hand-numbered copies.
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STURMPERCHT - 'Stürm Ins Leben Wild Hinein!' CD
(Percht)
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New edition of the long soldout debut Sturmpercht album. This album is pure weird Alpine-Folk music with martial drinking-songs, alpine battle-hymns and strange fairie-tales out from the deepest Austrian and Bavarian forests, all embedded in a breath of black Monty Python humour. A pearl of pure Alpine Folkmusic! Digipak.
• All Surmpercht Titles |
TSURUBAMI - 'Tenrin' CD (Vivo Records)
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Tsurubami is the latest Acid Mothers Temple off-shoot project, featuring guitarist Makoto Kawabata, percussionist Nobuka Emi and bassist Hiroshi Higashi. It becomes apparent early on in their "Tenrin" recording that what the trio is going after is complete and total annihilation. Sharp pricks of repetitive guitar, raging solos, pounding drums, psychedelic sections full of whacked out guitars and primal drums, metal-hammer, feedback laced mayhem sections. An aural orgasm like you've rarely heard it before!
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WOLVSERPENT - 'Gathering Strengths / Blood Seed' 2 x CD (Crucial Blast)
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Previously known as Pussygutt, the duo of blackened psych-drone metallers from Boise, Idaho changed their name to the much more ominous sounding Wolvserpent in 2010. The name is the really the only thing that changed, as the occult hypno-doom and grim, folk-stained nightmares that populated their previous albums are all intact here. This release collects both the "Gathering Strengths: LP (Olde English Spelling Bee) and "Blood Seed" LP (20 Buck Spin), both of which were previously available only on limited edition vinyl. The material has been remastered for this format, and comes in an 8-panel digipak that features both the original album artwork as well as new imagery that further compliments Wolvserpent's avant-garde witch-sludge. |
VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Mit Fester Hand - Allerseelenlieder' CD
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Brilliant new compilation of Allerseelen cover versions by friends of Gerhard Hallstatt (Allerseelen).
Features: Allerseelen, Àrnica, Blood Axis & Sangre Cavallum, Cawatana, Der Arbeiter, Der Feuerkreiner, Die Weisse Rose, Ernte, Fanes, Fräkmündt, Haberfeld, Hrefnesholt, Klammheim, Larrnakh, Ô Paradis, Sagittarius, Scivias, Sturmpercht, Svarrogh and Tyr-Kreis. An astounding 88 minutes of Neofolk music in a 6-panel digipak.
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VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Oak Folk' CD
(Ahnstern / Steinklang)
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Oak Folk is a CD anthology compiled by Gerhard Hallstatt (Allerseelen) with exclusive contributions by numerous European and North American groups who have one thing in common: a close connection to nature, to trees and woods. All the groups were invited to write a song about the sacred oaktree. The result is a wonderful compilation with songs with an atmosphere somewhere between Dark Ambient, Folklore and sometimes even a slight Black Metal touch. Features: Agalloch, Allerseelen, Àrnica, Changes, Dânnâgôischd, Fräkmündt, Hrefnesholt, Klammheim, Splinterskin, Sturmpercht, Waldteufel and Werra. 6-panel digipak. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
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VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Pagan Folk Und Apocalyptic Psychedelia Kapitel III' CD
(Ahnstern / Steinklang)
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Third essential installment in the series from the Steinklang camp! 15-tracks and 73-minutes of music taken from releases on Ahnstern, Heimatfolk, Percht and Sturmklang. Features: Aeldaborn, Allerseelen, Àrnica, Atomtrakt, Café De L'Enfer, Dânnâgôischd, Fräkmündt, Horologium, Rauhnacht, Seelenthron, Stein, Stormfagel, Sturmpercht, Thrubyred and Vinterriket. Card sleeve. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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IN GOWAN RING - 'Exists And Entrances' 2 x CD (Ahnstern / Steinklang)
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"Exists & Entrances" is a retrospective through the years 1994 to 2003. All 40 songs have never been released officially before, only the artist himself gave away some personal copies. On several songs Jon Michael B'Eirth performs with Michael Moynihan & Annabel Lee (Blood Axis), with Markus Wolff (Waldteufel) and other friends around his magical circle of Folk freaks. Besides several traditional songs, this compilation also includes cover versions from songs by great 60's/70's Progressive Folk artists and songwriters, like The Incredible String Band, Strawbs, Vashti Bunyan, Nick Drake, as well as cover-versions from Psychic TV, The Legendary Pink Dots, Brian Castillo (Jarboe) and 17 Pygmies. Hand-made digipak. |
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S.E.T.I. & SI_COMM - 'Probe' CD (Vivo Records)
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Andrew Lagowski's S.E.T.I. project teams up with fellow UK-based sound architect B.G. Nichols (aka Si_COMM) for a spaced-out disc of textural electronics. Developed around the theme of technology's fusion with biology (and DNA's inherent similarities to digital data), this journey begins with the atmospheric 'Containment State'. Later tracks sulk along with a vaguely ominous vibe, barely making their bleepy, glitchy presence known. 'Primary Impulses' sizzles dangerously like severed electrical wires, but it's not until 'Neural Separation' that chunks of skittering noise join the fray, generally shocking listeners who have become complacent and comfortable with the disc's overall ambient nature. Superb work and a joy for those interested in a more scientific approach to sound construction. |
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WERKRAUM - 'Early Love Music' CD (Ahnstern / Steinklang)
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14 progressive and traditional, psychedelic and medieval folk songs and chants of early love. 14 dreamy memories of the merry blue days from early times. With "Early Love Music" the German Folk musician Axel Frank sets a surpassing milestone for the new generation of Folk artists. A year after releasing his quite Martial / Neoclassical oriented debut on Cold Spring (CSR49CD), Axel got heavily involved with Alpine Folk heroes Sturmpercht and found his love in late 60s / early 70s Psych / Prog Folk music, thus changing his own direction, with the highly successful MCD 'Kristalle'. The complex arrangements and large variety of instruments even remind of The Incredible String Band and some early Acid-Folk bands. "Early Love Music" brings 2 cover versions: Donovan's ingenious fairytale "Jabberwocky" and traditional folk hit "The Blacksmith". Features collaborations with Changes, Lady Morphia and Sturmpercht. Digipak. RECOMMENDED! |
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WERKRAUM - 'Kristalle' MCD (Ahnstern / Steinklang)
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'Kristalle' is not only fascinating because of it's graceful perfection in composition and musical virtuosity, but also through it's musical diversity, supported by Nicholas Tesluk and Robert Taylor (Changes), by Nick Nedzinsky (Lady Morphia) and by Antje Hoppenrath. A departure from the Neofolk sound of their debut 'Unsere Feuer brennen!' (Cold Spring CSR49CD), this MCD is filled with traditional melodies and psychedelic moments, guiding the listener in a magical world of acoustic sounds and picturesque poetry, telling from ancient fairiedays. 6 songs over 32 minutes, presented in an elegant 6-panel digipak. |
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VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Pagan Folk Und Apocalyptic Psychedelia' CD
(Ahnstern / Steinklang)
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All songs on this 18-track, 80-minute CD sampler are taken from releases of Ahnstern, Heimatfolk, Percht and Vrihaspati. Some albums are not out yet, some songs are shorter versions and a few songs are pre-versions. The Jännerwein song is a exclusive song (version) only for this compilation. Features: A Challenge Of Honour, Allerseelen, Àrnica, Défilé Des Âmes, Falkenstein, Hrossharsgrani, Jahrtahl, Jännerwein, Klammheim, Nebelkorona, Once A Barge, Sangre Cavallum, Sturmpercht, Svarrogh, Tethrippon, The Joy Of Nature, Vinterriket and Werkraum. Card sleeve. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! |
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