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NAD-AUD001: Sempervirens - Dirge of the Dying Year
NAD-AUD002: Procer Veneficus - Saltwater and Glassmoon
NAD-AUD003: Underjordiska - Dystert Vilse
NAD-AUD004: Underjordiska - Spectral Lore
AMBIENT/EXPERIMENTAL
FRAGMENT - Monolith (5, Cd-r, Cuckold Prod.) - Blissed out heavy guitar droning, slow rythyms, vocals with a pop sensitivity. Shoegazing post-metal at it's best by this French lad.
PHIL MAGGI - Lucilla Caesar (5 , cd-r - Hyperblasted Recordings) - Phil Maggi's debut is a interesting piece. Treated electronics, samples of classical music, found sound in an eerie and original mix.
TAIGA REMAINS - Descend from Ivory Cliffs (6 , 3'' cd-r, Waterscape Records) - A wonderful, enveloping ambient/drone piece from the Students of Decay mastermind.
TRUE COLOUR OF BLOOD - The Cave of Knowledge (6 , 3'' cd-r Waterscape Records) - More guitar oriented drone ambient from the excellent Waterscape R. label.
WAND AND PRINCESS - Yellow Ship (5 , cd-r, Self-Released) A 40min noise/ambient composition from this athenian duet. Handmade packaging.
SPECTRAL LORE - I (4, MC, Saturnine Society) - Ambient Black Metal, last copies remaining.
THE MAGIC TRAVELLING BACKPACK BAND - s/t (7, Cd-r Foxglove) - Shamanic, psychedelic, improvised folk from these mad Fins. Mostly percusive, sounds like a recorded ritual in the middle of the forest. Wierd.
THE NORTH SEA - Mud Dragons (7, Cd-r, Foxglove) - Mr. Brad Rose of Digitalis fame presents us this time an eerie, claustrophobic and otherwordly piece of noisy ambient material. The last album of the Foxglove catalogue, highly recommened.
BARN OWL - s/t (7, Cd-r Foxglove)- SOLD OUT - Brilliant acoustic/folk/droning material with a post rock touch from these two nature-dwelling americans. Highly, highly, recommended.
FORGOTTEN - The Gates of Lost Worlds (5, Cd-r, Self Released) - An interesting and original mix of 70's reminiscent keyboard-driven ambient with live heavy metal drumming (!) kind of like a bm Vinterriket without the guitars, or Vangelis with Lombardo on the drums.
OOPHOI & TAU CETI - Celestial Geometries (9, Double Cd, Umbra Records) - space ambient/drone music.
OOPHOI & LUNAR EXCURSION MODULE & TAU CETI - Ep Collection No. 9 (7, Cd-r, Penumbra Records) - space ambient/drone music. description coming soon.
OOPHOI - Ep Collection No. 1 (7, Cd-r, Penumbra Records) - space ambient/drone music. description coming soon.
OOPHOI - Ep Collection No. 2 (7, Cd-r, Penumbra Records) - space ambient/drone music.
TAU CETI - Ep Collection No. 6 (7, Cd-r, Penumbra Records) - space ambient/drone music.
OOPHOI & KLAUS WIESE - Ep Collection no. 3 (7, Cd-r, Penumbra Records) - space ambient/drone music.
GATHIENS - Nesh (6 , Cd-r, Murkhouse Recordings) - excellent instrumental/post rock from these lads from USA, this is the limited to 50 copies pre-release edition of the first album by the very promising label Murkhouse Recordings. Coming in hand-silkscreened folding packages with printed card inserts. Highly recommended.
COLLOSUS / YELLOW CRYSTAL STAR split (6 , Cd-r, Heavy Nature Tapes) - blissful atmospheric guitar drones and not only. An excellent sample from the underground neo-psychedelic experimental scene. Already out of print.
ROBE. / COLLOSUS - False Harbors (4 , MC, Barbarian Tapes) - Two tracks from each act ranging from dense low drones to desolate atmospheres.
ARC - Arkhangelsk (8, CD, Epidemie Records) - Arc is the live improvising band of Aidan Baker and two other Canadian musicians. Their sound is based on the guitar drone elements, familiar to those acquainted with A. Baker's vast discography, mixed with percussion and other instruments like woodwinds, recalling the ethno-tribal ambient sound explored by musicians such as Klaus Wiese and Alio Die.
GODHEADSCOPE - A city out of Sight (8, CD, God is Myth Records) - Godheadscope is Matt Rosin, possibly known to some for his wonderful singing and collaborations with the country/black metal beasts Dead Raven Choir and Wolfmangler. In his personal project, he drifts in a song-oriented form of ambient/drone music, serene and esoteric but not without harsh edges, hinting at a backround in industrial/noise music. Vocals and conventional instrumentation like piano and acoustic guitars are also used, giving to this album a stronger melodic sense comparing to typical records of the genre.
NEW RISEN THRONE / CRUEL HARVEST - Shadows over Humanity (7, CD, God is Myth Records) - A split between two dark ambient projects, the pretty well known now from the Cyclic Law releases New Risen Throne, and the debut of the US project Cruel Harvest. NRT excels at the CMI-style of dark ambient, painting dismal and desolate soundscapes, while the Cruel Harvest side suprisingly shows a more ethereal and melodic approach sometimes, inbetween all the moments of darkness.
MILTON CROSS - Light in the West (8, CD, Digitalis recordings) - Milton Cross is more well known from his main band, the post rock experimentalists Tarantel. His first personal recording has been self-released in small quantities, now re-issued by the wonderful Digitalis Industries remastered, with new tracks added, and old and defunct stripped away. Milton is a classical trained violonist and harmonium player, and as expected, these instruments take the lead in his multi-layered from a variety of sources and instruments, for the most part acoustic, sound. Droning, melodic, and nostalgic music.
TWINSISTERMOON - Levels and Crossings (9, CD, Digitalis recordings) - The duet behind the amazing post rock/psychedelic folk band Natural Snow Buildings, Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte is also pursuing solo recordings as well, Mehdi going by the name Twinsistermoon and Solange by Isengrind. Levels and Crossings is the second release of Twinsistermoon, and it among the best recordings ever to come out from the duet. Pastoral folk music, psychedelic atmospheres that end up in mind boggling crescendos, rituals from some undiscovered ancient civilization, rememberances of a distant post rock past. All using a wide array of acoustic and ethnic instruments, and maybe for the first time with a clear and powerful sound to accomodate the music. The packaging is adorned with wonderful hand-made artwork by Solange. Get a copy while they last.
WOLFMANGLER - Cooking with Wolves (7, CD, Digitalis recordings) - Dead Raven Choir's Smolken is a man that questions the hegemony of guitars in music; with his main project, he distorts the contra-bass to preposterous ends in an attempt to seize the black metal audience with covers of country music, 19th century poetry and winnie the pooh references. Wolfmanger is a band though, a band of three basses (what would you think?) playing "acoustic doom" music. The first part of the album is composed by Smolken alone, after his return to Poland, while the second part features the original Wolfmangler line-up, wider instrumentation and vocals by Matt Rosin.
MATHIAS GRASSOW & BRUNO SANFILIPPO - Ambessence (piano & drones) (7, CD, ad21music) - Bruno Sanfilippo and Mathias Grassow are two experienced and well-known artists in the area of modern atmospheric music, having released both a startling number of recordings which may be classified under the labels of ambient, drone or new age music. Sanfilippo plays piano in this release, and Grassow makes electronic treatments in the background, and the result is contemplative, deep music whose obvious references are the Eno and Budd collaborations.
MATHIAS GRASSOW & THOMAS WEISS - Outland (8, CD, Faria Records) - This album is one of the three collaborations that have taken place between Thomas Weiss and Mathias Grassow until now. Both adept at abstract, emotive ambient music, in Outland they create distant and spatial atmospheres as a means for someone to discover the greater "structures and connections" as wonderfully stated in the postcard-style booklet (Faria Recs signature), by withdrowing from the limited view of one's self.
MATHIAS GRASSOW & JIRI MAZANEK - Inner Path (8, CD, Nextera) - Yet another one of the many collaborations of the, always busy it seems, Mathias Grassow. Jiri Mazanek is a Czech musician, influenced from Indian music and philosophy, who's performing meditative music for over than 25 years, solo or with various ensembles. This album is based on the zither instrument and overtone singing performed by Mazanek, while Grassow augments the effect of the acoustic instruments or places deep drones underneath, with the result being one of the finest representatives of the "ethno-ambient" sound
.
SEAN REARDON - A Collection of Origins (7, Cd-r, Waterscape Records) - The latest installment from the ever-promising Waterscape Records is the astonishing debut by Sean Reardon, a US based artist belonging to the minimalist school of electronic music, presenting a shimmering and glitchy mix of guitar manipulations done between 2007-2008.
METAL
VHERNEN - Vhernen (9, CD, Eerie Art Records) - Black/Doom hymns with a heavy sense of ambience from this one man band from the Faroe Islands, using a distorted cello rather than guitar to create surreal soundscapes.
AUSTERE / LYRINX - split (9, CD, Eerie Art Records) - Two of the finest bands among the depressive/burzum influenced side of black metal.
NORDHEIM - Nordheim (6, Cd-r, Eerie Art Records) - This italian one-man band offers cold melancholic black metal. For fans of Burzum and Paysage D' Hiver.
NEFARIOUS - Diabolorum (8, 7'' EP, Kunsthall) - This EP is the sole release of Nefarious, an obscure gem of excellent hateful and majestic black metal, lead by the keyboardist of Sear Bliss. (Once copy left)
VEINEN - Black Hypnosis (4, Tape, Todestrieb) - Black/Ritual Von worship. Not for the weak at heart. (Single copy left).
SPECTRAL LORE - I (4, Tape, Saturnine Society) - Ambient Black Metal.
ΒLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL - Blood of the Black Owl (8, CD, Bindrune Recordings) - This is the Black/Doom/Folk band of talented musician Chet W. Scott (Ruhr Hunter, Elemental Chrysalis, Glass Throat Records) offering in this first recording of the band both crushing doom behemoths and eerie, atmospheric shamanic incantations.
GOSPEL OF THE FUTURE - s/t (8, CD, Epidemie Records) - Crushing sludge metal from the Czech Republic with a blackened and apocalyptic atmosphere.
CELESTIAL SEA - Deep Inside the Cold (6, Cd-r, God is Myth Records) - This is a collaboration between Todd Paulsen (God is Myth owner) and Andrew Curtis, well known now as "Caina". Paulsen provides the musical backround, a slow, atmosphere-laden kind of "post rock" which often strides from nearer, shoegaze territory, to harsher, doom-ish fields, while Curtis offers a warm, poetic recitation.
AARNI - Tohcoth (8, CD, Epidemie Records) - Interesting neo-psychedelia with occult references, combining a wide musical spectrum from doom metal to folk or 70's prog rock with an unorthodox way.
VELNIAS - Sovereign Nocturnal (8, CD, God is Myth Records) - A powerful and promising debut from this American band, performing a pagan version of doom metal, with acoustic folk breakdowns and black metal eruptions, like a doom-ish version of Wolves in the Throne Room or a more extreme Agalloch.
FROSTMOON ECLIPSE - Legacy (7, CD, God is Myth) - This is a collection of rare ep's and previously unreleased material from this italian black metal band, which is a good exhibit of their agility to move from raging fury to acoustic melancholy and inbetween.
ΒLACK BILE - Cloakal Meditation (6, Cd-r, Self Financed) - The first and possibly last recording from this Cypriot band, Cloakal meditation is a Funeral Doom metal beast comprising of just one 30 min. song, fully drenched into a blackened desolate atmosphere, like recorded into the middle of a catacomb (the band actually prefers the term "Sewer Metal") with tormented vocals and ritualistic interludes. This demo has been released in only 100 copies, and these are possibly the last remaining.
NAD-AUD002: Procer Veneficus - Saltwater and Glassmoon
NAD-AUD003: Underjordiska - Dystert Vilse
NAD-AUD004: Underjordiska - Spectral Lore
AMBIENT/EXPERIMENTAL
FRAGMENT - Monolith (5, Cd-r, Cuckold Prod.) - Blissed out heavy guitar droning, slow rythyms, vocals with a pop sensitivity. Shoegazing post-metal at it's best by this French lad.
PHIL MAGGI - Lucilla Caesar (5 , cd-r - Hyperblasted Recordings) - Phil Maggi's debut is a interesting piece. Treated electronics, samples of classical music, found sound in an eerie and original mix.
TAIGA REMAINS - Descend from Ivory Cliffs (6 , 3'' cd-r, Waterscape Records) - A wonderful, enveloping ambient/drone piece from the Students of Decay mastermind.
TRUE COLOUR OF BLOOD - The Cave of Knowledge (6 , 3'' cd-r Waterscape Records) - More guitar oriented drone ambient from the excellent Waterscape R. label.
WAND AND PRINCESS - Yellow Ship (5 , cd-r, Self-Released) A 40min noise/ambient composition from this athenian duet. Handmade packaging.
SPECTRAL LORE - I (4, MC, Saturnine Society) - Ambient Black Metal, last copies remaining.
THE MAGIC TRAVELLING BACKPACK BAND - s/t (7, Cd-r Foxglove) - Shamanic, psychedelic, improvised folk from these mad Fins. Mostly percusive, sounds like a recorded ritual in the middle of the forest. Wierd.
THE NORTH SEA - Mud Dragons (7, Cd-r, Foxglove) - Mr. Brad Rose of Digitalis fame presents us this time an eerie, claustrophobic and otherwordly piece of noisy ambient material. The last album of the Foxglove catalogue, highly recommened.
BARN OWL - s/t (7, Cd-r Foxglove)- SOLD OUT - Brilliant acoustic/folk/droning material with a post rock touch from these two nature-dwelling americans. Highly, highly, recommended.
FORGOTTEN - The Gates of Lost Worlds (5, Cd-r, Self Released) - An interesting and original mix of 70's reminiscent keyboard-driven ambient with live heavy metal drumming (!) kind of like a bm Vinterriket without the guitars, or Vangelis with Lombardo on the drums.
OOPHOI & TAU CETI - Celestial Geometries (9, Double Cd, Umbra Records) - space ambient/drone music.
OOPHOI & LUNAR EXCURSION MODULE & TAU CETI - Ep Collection No. 9 (7, Cd-r, Penumbra Records) - space ambient/drone music. description coming soon.
OOPHOI - Ep Collection No. 1 (7, Cd-r, Penumbra Records) - space ambient/drone music. description coming soon.
OOPHOI - Ep Collection No. 2 (7, Cd-r, Penumbra Records) - space ambient/drone music.
TAU CETI - Ep Collection No. 6 (7, Cd-r, Penumbra Records) - space ambient/drone music.
OOPHOI & KLAUS WIESE - Ep Collection no. 3 (7, Cd-r, Penumbra Records) - space ambient/drone music.
GATHIENS - Nesh (6 , Cd-r, Murkhouse Recordings) - excellent instrumental/post rock from these lads from USA, this is the limited to 50 copies pre-release edition of the first album by the very promising label Murkhouse Recordings. Coming in hand-silkscreened folding packages with printed card inserts. Highly recommended.
COLLOSUS / YELLOW CRYSTAL STAR split (6 , Cd-r, Heavy Nature Tapes) - blissful atmospheric guitar drones and not only. An excellent sample from the underground neo-psychedelic experimental scene. Already out of print.
ROBE. / COLLOSUS - False Harbors (4 , MC, Barbarian Tapes) - Two tracks from each act ranging from dense low drones to desolate atmospheres.
ARC - Arkhangelsk (8, CD, Epidemie Records) - Arc is the live improvising band of Aidan Baker and two other Canadian musicians. Their sound is based on the guitar drone elements, familiar to those acquainted with A. Baker's vast discography, mixed with percussion and other instruments like woodwinds, recalling the ethno-tribal ambient sound explored by musicians such as Klaus Wiese and Alio Die.
GODHEADSCOPE - A city out of Sight (8, CD, God is Myth Records) - Godheadscope is Matt Rosin, possibly known to some for his wonderful singing and collaborations with the country/black metal beasts Dead Raven Choir and Wolfmangler. In his personal project, he drifts in a song-oriented form of ambient/drone music, serene and esoteric but not without harsh edges, hinting at a backround in industrial/noise music. Vocals and conventional instrumentation like piano and acoustic guitars are also used, giving to this album a stronger melodic sense comparing to typical records of the genre.
NEW RISEN THRONE / CRUEL HARVEST - Shadows over Humanity (7, CD, God is Myth Records) - A split between two dark ambient projects, the pretty well known now from the Cyclic Law releases New Risen Throne, and the debut of the US project Cruel Harvest. NRT excels at the CMI-style of dark ambient, painting dismal and desolate soundscapes, while the Cruel Harvest side suprisingly shows a more ethereal and melodic approach sometimes, inbetween all the moments of darkness.
MILTON CROSS - Light in the West (8, CD, Digitalis recordings) - Milton Cross is more well known from his main band, the post rock experimentalists Tarantel. His first personal recording has been self-released in small quantities, now re-issued by the wonderful Digitalis Industries remastered, with new tracks added, and old and defunct stripped away. Milton is a classical trained violonist and harmonium player, and as expected, these instruments take the lead in his multi-layered from a variety of sources and instruments, for the most part acoustic, sound. Droning, melodic, and nostalgic music.
TWINSISTERMOON - Levels and Crossings (9, CD, Digitalis recordings) - The duet behind the amazing post rock/psychedelic folk band Natural Snow Buildings, Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte is also pursuing solo recordings as well, Mehdi going by the name Twinsistermoon and Solange by Isengrind. Levels and Crossings is the second release of Twinsistermoon, and it among the best recordings ever to come out from the duet. Pastoral folk music, psychedelic atmospheres that end up in mind boggling crescendos, rituals from some undiscovered ancient civilization, rememberances of a distant post rock past. All using a wide array of acoustic and ethnic instruments, and maybe for the first time with a clear and powerful sound to accomodate the music. The packaging is adorned with wonderful hand-made artwork by Solange. Get a copy while they last.
WOLFMANGLER - Cooking with Wolves (7, CD, Digitalis recordings) - Dead Raven Choir's Smolken is a man that questions the hegemony of guitars in music; with his main project, he distorts the contra-bass to preposterous ends in an attempt to seize the black metal audience with covers of country music, 19th century poetry and winnie the pooh references. Wolfmanger is a band though, a band of three basses (what would you think?) playing "acoustic doom" music. The first part of the album is composed by Smolken alone, after his return to Poland, while the second part features the original Wolfmangler line-up, wider instrumentation and vocals by Matt Rosin.
MATHIAS GRASSOW & BRUNO SANFILIPPO - Ambessence (piano & drones) (7, CD, ad21music) - Bruno Sanfilippo and Mathias Grassow are two experienced and well-known artists in the area of modern atmospheric music, having released both a startling number of recordings which may be classified under the labels of ambient, drone or new age music. Sanfilippo plays piano in this release, and Grassow makes electronic treatments in the background, and the result is contemplative, deep music whose obvious references are the Eno and Budd collaborations.
MATHIAS GRASSOW & THOMAS WEISS - Outland (8, CD, Faria Records) - This album is one of the three collaborations that have taken place between Thomas Weiss and Mathias Grassow until now. Both adept at abstract, emotive ambient music, in Outland they create distant and spatial atmospheres as a means for someone to discover the greater "structures and connections" as wonderfully stated in the postcard-style booklet (Faria Recs signature), by withdrowing from the limited view of one's self.
MATHIAS GRASSOW & JIRI MAZANEK - Inner Path (8, CD, Nextera) - Yet another one of the many collaborations of the, always busy it seems, Mathias Grassow. Jiri Mazanek is a Czech musician, influenced from Indian music and philosophy, who's performing meditative music for over than 25 years, solo or with various ensembles. This album is based on the zither instrument and overtone singing performed by Mazanek, while Grassow augments the effect of the acoustic instruments or places deep drones underneath, with the result being one of the finest representatives of the "ethno-ambient" sound
.
SEAN REARDON - A Collection of Origins (7, Cd-r, Waterscape Records) - The latest installment from the ever-promising Waterscape Records is the astonishing debut by Sean Reardon, a US based artist belonging to the minimalist school of electronic music, presenting a shimmering and glitchy mix of guitar manipulations done between 2007-2008.
METAL
VHERNEN - Vhernen (9, CD, Eerie Art Records) - Black/Doom hymns with a heavy sense of ambience from this one man band from the Faroe Islands, using a distorted cello rather than guitar to create surreal soundscapes.
AUSTERE / LYRINX - split (9, CD, Eerie Art Records) - Two of the finest bands among the depressive/burzum influenced side of black metal.
NORDHEIM - Nordheim (6, Cd-r, Eerie Art Records) - This italian one-man band offers cold melancholic black metal. For fans of Burzum and Paysage D' Hiver.
NEFARIOUS - Diabolorum (8, 7'' EP, Kunsthall) - This EP is the sole release of Nefarious, an obscure gem of excellent hateful and majestic black metal, lead by the keyboardist of Sear Bliss. (Once copy left)
VEINEN - Black Hypnosis (4, Tape, Todestrieb) - Black/Ritual Von worship. Not for the weak at heart. (Single copy left).
SPECTRAL LORE - I (4, Tape, Saturnine Society) - Ambient Black Metal.
ΒLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL - Blood of the Black Owl (8, CD, Bindrune Recordings) - This is the Black/Doom/Folk band of talented musician Chet W. Scott (Ruhr Hunter, Elemental Chrysalis, Glass Throat Records) offering in this first recording of the band both crushing doom behemoths and eerie, atmospheric shamanic incantations.
GOSPEL OF THE FUTURE - s/t (8, CD, Epidemie Records) - Crushing sludge metal from the Czech Republic with a blackened and apocalyptic atmosphere.
CELESTIAL SEA - Deep Inside the Cold (6, Cd-r, God is Myth Records) - This is a collaboration between Todd Paulsen (God is Myth owner) and Andrew Curtis, well known now as "Caina". Paulsen provides the musical backround, a slow, atmosphere-laden kind of "post rock" which often strides from nearer, shoegaze territory, to harsher, doom-ish fields, while Curtis offers a warm, poetic recitation.
AARNI - Tohcoth (8, CD, Epidemie Records) - Interesting neo-psychedelia with occult references, combining a wide musical spectrum from doom metal to folk or 70's prog rock with an unorthodox way.
VELNIAS - Sovereign Nocturnal (8, CD, God is Myth Records) - A powerful and promising debut from this American band, performing a pagan version of doom metal, with acoustic folk breakdowns and black metal eruptions, like a doom-ish version of Wolves in the Throne Room or a more extreme Agalloch.
FROSTMOON ECLIPSE - Legacy (7, CD, God is Myth) - This is a collection of rare ep's and previously unreleased material from this italian black metal band, which is a good exhibit of their agility to move from raging fury to acoustic melancholy and inbetween.
ΒLACK BILE - Cloakal Meditation (6, Cd-r, Self Financed) - The first and possibly last recording from this Cypriot band, Cloakal meditation is a Funeral Doom metal beast comprising of just one 30 min. song, fully drenched into a blackened desolate atmosphere, like recorded into the middle of a catacomb (the band actually prefers the term "Sewer Metal") with tormented vocals and ritualistic interludes. This demo has been released in only 100 copies, and these are possibly the last remaining.