PAN.O.RA.MA audial/visual/magickal web journal

(Reviews 105) Z'EV & HATI,IN SCISSORS,INNER VISION LABORATORY

2012-01-30T16:40:00.002-08:00

Z´EV & HATI(Uk)/Pol)"double Cd 2011

"Heart Of A Wolf"

without a doubt one of the most amazing albums coming last year,due the trajectory and explorative filds walked for both project for years. Z´EV one of the pioners of percussive transformations,developing its creativity along the whole tracks developed here. This time with HATI,a Polish duo converging in its suggestive ethnic instruments and magickal atmospheres surrounded by inducing trance passages,creating a manifestation of magickal current which must be explored carefully by each one of you. The album comes in double cd,one with the Gdansk gig and the other one with the Torun one!The enigmatic voyage into this lycanthropic search is based in explorative percussive sounds crawling and mutating all the time into diverse forms,perceptions and giving you different thoughts of which both artists could experience playing live! So I imagine how amazing the shows will be ,due the mutative transformation and nature of both artists.At moments the sounds trasnformas itself in a vast organic vortex mutating all the time. without a doubt this kind of releases is one of these which you will never forget due the highest trascendence in each one of the explorative sounds emerging here. No need more words just feel and enter the pulsations of lycanthropic transformastios with this amazing album.

IN SCISSORS(gre)

"Mnemosyne & Structure Of Time" Cd 2011

(Zoharum)

After the great development at "Orbis Terrarum Requiem" album,Vincent andelmoth,the creative spirit behind this project offer us a surrealistic voyage with this thrid album,in which you shall be submerged by such sensitive and classical structured ,developed in a very professional way. A cinematic ambient piece bathed in 10 musical stuctures,including cello,piano and clasical instruments handled in an almost perfect way,just look tracks such as "Autumn sonata-silanus In Quieto Hortulo","Entering The Structures Hallway". The hightlights of the album is how each one of the 10 tracks here represents the titan goddess of memory and remembrance Mnemosyne,and pictures through such beautiful and dark orchestration a very in deep and professional soundtrack album. "Outer Circle",crawling for dark passages expressend in dense and vaporous atmospheres covered with piano passages creating such a surrealistic touch. "Regina Tacita(Regium In Umbra)","are one of such compositions with nostalgic and sad moments which whither your spirit and trasport yorself to ddep inside to be in solitude.The Female Voices are just marvelous and gives a proper atmosphere to the track in general! "Hecates Garden & Mnemosyne's Lake" is one of may favorite tracks here.deep and penetrating with a darkest beauty veiled in some flaoting atmopehre and soundscapes,with a powerfull magickal touch from start to finish!!"The Sypnopsis Of Pressure",its also a very great track full of percussive passages,vaporus dark atmospheres and magickal female chants!! Its great to see projects such as IN SCISSORS,always bringing new elements and very professional music!!

INNER VISION LABORATORY(Pol)

"Future Chaos" Cd 2011

(IYHHH)

This powerful ambient industrial Polish has been offering us very interesting alums just remember the collaboration with Hoarfrost or Roto Visage,just to name some of them.here the project emerges with an album called "future Chaos",and the title speaks for itself.the music its really interesting floating from different platforms such as suggestive ambient soundscpes to post apocaliptic passges covered with neoprimitive ritual exposition and melodies moving around the whole 10 tracks in the whole album.An album with creativity explored in sci fi elements and decontructive sounds from a high caliber! The post industrial elements mixed and gathered with obscure ambient pasages makes of "Future chaos" the best release by INNER VISION LABORATORY to date.Isoalted soundscapes moving into such post apocaliptic atmopsheres with vast diverse sound which surely captivate your mind in a chaotic way,due the moving in all directions compositions presented here!

(Reviews 105) ZÉV

2012-01-30T16:40:00.001-08:00

(Reviews 104)D.R.I.S.T,RADIO FOR THE DAYDREAMERS

2011-10-31T15:11:00.000-07:00

D.R.I.S.T (Gre)

"Ward.67"

(Kalpamantra)

Coming from Athens comes D.VI and her project called D.R.I.S.T,with a 3 tracks album in which you shall experience the in deep dark ambient exposition of sounds converging into mutative forms. The album opens with "Decomposition",filled with desolated soundscapes and eerie passages,mixed with drone pulsations and child cries around the picture of the track.The track is just very interesting,coz,it contains such elements worth to be explored.Next one is "W.67",another dense and strong piece here.Full of such desolated spaces,and converging into a sole dynamic organism growling withing passing of minutes!!Asuggestive piece with interesting elments since the very begining.Closing the album is "Formalin",with such enigmatic and floating atmospheres surrounded by dense percussive sounds crawling from within the depths of dark atmospheres.Really A very promising project coming from Grecce! I Just hope to hear more of them in future as well!!! http://kalpamantra.bandcamp.com/album/ward-67

RADIO FOR THE DAYDREAMERS (Usa)

"Mother Superior And Her Fields Of Migraine"Cd 2011

(Self Released)

An interesting piece has reached our hands though a sensitive and eclectic album from this project knows as RADIO FOR THE DAYDREAMERS. With this second album,the project offer us 15 compositions in which you shall experience,the sensitive and floating eclectic atmospheres created by this interesting project. "black River Time Bombs" opens the album,giving us the spectrum of a cinematic composition with perfect atmospheres and piano passages,covering the whole picture of the track. "With Wings,You Will Learn To Fall",keeps on the path,floating into diverse elements as experiemntal,avant jazz giving you different facets.Piano elements mixed with psychedelic voices and ambient atmopsheres to create an interesting piece here.Though "Wasted Faces In Secret Places(Behind This Wall Acoustic Version),is just an amazing melancholic composition ,with sensitive elements such as acoustic guitar sounds floating around the whole structure of the track. "Crawl Into My Crawl Space",is focused still into such melancholic passages,but this time with some percussive sound and electric guitar tunes,giving to thetrack such different touch with refference to previous tracks. Another piece here is "Ghosts Keep Me Safe While You Are Gone(Pictures Of Invisible People Remix)" which is built into thin piano sounds and percussive sounds converging all the time,creating a beautiful composition here. Other tracks coming next are "Magnetar Mephisto","Godbye Voltaire(And All The Rain That Made Me Smile),"Every God Is A Monster",all them with such charisma and personal touch which surely you shall find attractive due the creative and eclectic nature.The high point in this album,is how the artist have created a solid musical structure,but combining diverse elments such as avant garde Jazz,Classical Music,Electronic sounds to create a vast piece of artistical expressionism with interesting elements from start to finish. Other titles here are "Always In Hallways","Curl Up,Its Time To die","Praying For The Be(a)st","No One Ever Comes Here,But Me (Dod Av En Spokelse Versjon)","FreelanceDream Killing Machine (Gunpoint Dub Mix)". for more info about the project and free download check the link bellow!! http://radioforthedaydreamers.bandcamp.com/

(Reviews 103)PALE ROSES,LYR,ALCHEMIST

2011-10-19T21:46:00.000-07:00

PALE ROSES (Fra)

"Unveiled" Cd 2011
(Rage In Eden)

Under "Unveiled" The Frnch project PALE ROSE,recreates with this second album inspired by the first and the second world Wars,Celtic,nordic,Greek Mythology...al this package in 11 beautiful and sensitive compositions. Opening the album is " Here We Are",a beutiful composition built by acoustic guitars and voice crawling witin the whole picture of tyhe track.Then comes "A Time To Love And A Time To Kill",one of the most incredeible pieces here.due the great works of voices and wisheprs surround by such sorrowful guitar atmospheres. Th music reminds me mostly to the work of British Sol Invictus,but with respective own sound. "Rise (For Madame Blavatsky),is an interesting piece baed in bass lines ,voices converging perfectly in a strong one composition. "Red Eve","Summer of 64" continue under the melancholic paradise created by PALE ROSES,with such stiking guitar melodies covered by beautiful male voices around them.being "Summer 64" transformed by piano passages too."Dr Dee","Elsie Wright","Urie Geller" are also tracks with high power due the sad and melancholic elements arranged in a perfect way,showing us the whole potential of this representative exponent of neo folk nature."Montague Rhodes James","Fire In The Moor" and "The Cruel Mother" as bonus track,complements the album.A recommended album to fans of Death In June,Sol Invictus,Fire+Ice,Current 93,Strenght Through Joy...The album cover was designed by Lukasz Pawlak.

LYR()

"Sub Terra Inferis" Digipack 2011
(Rage In Eden)

Again we experiment LYR,this time with its second album,more mature and structured than the first one,which is a good point because the first album was a very interesting piece. "Sub Terra Inferis" is built under 10 compositions opening with tracks such as "In Excelsis" and "Mysteriis",being both of them such bombastic pieces of sublime nature,due the energy and powerfull emanations registered here. You shall experience the vacuity of senses and inner freddom when hearing next pieces such as "Litanie" and "No Mercy",both of them adapting perfectly to the conceptual process revealed here,I mean,apocaliptic exposition of sounds converging through orchestral martial elements. "airë (Eternity)","Crépuscule" continues the last path,strong and in deep full of destructive apocaliptic elements. A very recommended piece for those into martial apocaliptic musik. The way as are put together voices at times,and martial percussive sounds combined with orchestrations are just amazing and well elaborated. Other tracks here are "Avénement","Entre Deux Mondes","Anima Lacerata","Hails Valkiyrs".The presence of Alexandra to joint LYR,gives a melancholic touch to "Sub Terra Infernis". THe album comes in digipack,and also there is a version limited to 54 copies which comes in a wooden box.including a 4 tracks Cdr.Ask now Marcin & Rage In Eden In order to get one of those,of an impressive project as the one by LYR.

ALCHEMIST()

"Fire" Free download 2011
(Sombre Soniks)

The enigmatic shape of ALCHEMIST emerge from a dismal paradise to mutate into a sole form,and this alchemic process was veiled under "Fire" the first release of this project which offer us 5 pieces of pure spectral ambient soundscapes moving into surreal scenarios and entering you to vast regions of darkness in which resides the inner fire,ready to be trasmuted. "Loka Vuotaa Verta" is the first experience hee,full of repetitive drone elements dressed with sutile spaces complementing perfectly each other to handle a perfect balance from start to finish. "Tumma Alkemisti" is the second spectrum,this time more dense and vaporous than the first one,and keeping its strong presence and mutational nature within the pass of minutes. Next comes a version of Loka Vuotaa Verta" in two versions the first one is a remix,in which the music sounds more in deep than first one,but still keeping its own characteristic structure.The other one a demo verion.The album close with "Tumma Alkemist" a demo track too,with lower sound but with such enigmatic passages which surrounds the whole picture of the track. While ALCHEMIST sails into a sea of mysterious enigmatic shape,we must let you know that this solo project endeavors to search the dark side of thought and sound.

(Reviews 102) ORYELLE DEFENESTRATE BASCULAE;LYR;COLD FUSION

2011-10-19T20:20:00.000-07:00

ORYELLE & THE HERMAPHRODITIC CHAORDER OF THE SILVER DUSK (aus)

"156=Musick=Babalon=Kaos"

(Zoharum)

Its more than an infinite ecstasy and pleaseful,to review such kind of releases with a conceptual magickal exploration,due my nature...And what I found here is a very interesting album by the australian artist,magickian Oryelle Defenestrate Basculae,an hibryd visionary and visual artist with a creative spirit and eclectic nature,always looking for new paradigms. This time he emerges from Arachnian realms to offer us an exquisite piece of with almost 80 minutes of ritual mantras,inspired poetry,illumnating music defragmentations and a grimorie of sabbathical incantations focusing into Babalon magickal current as well as the lustful formula of the red goddess. All this represented in 13 opues in which you shall experience the in deep ritualistic nature of this album from start to finish. thin bell sounds,spoken voices,whispers, eerie atmospheres,hybrid poetry,transdimensional structures. All these whole ritualistic paradigms were redorded by members of Hermaphroditic Chaorder Of The Silver Dusk,adapting perfectly though to see the light of such vast corridors,of magickal explorations. The release is just amazing,full of ritual mantras and enigmatic passages which keep your mind always in a kind of Gnosis state.This album is highly reccomended to those of us who likes magick,and more to practice under the the veils of th red goddess. Each one of 13 compositions here ranges from archaic ritual instrumentations,to dark ambient,neoclassical orchestration with vast formas mutating though the pass of minutes! Without a doubt one of the best albums this year! so if looking to know more about Oryelle just take alook an interview I did with him years ago www.thelabyrinth111.blogspot.com and order your copy now though zoharum recs. The album comes in a special digipack page including 5 visual cards! a very impressive album worth to check right now!!!!

COLD FUSION(Pol)

"Architecture" Digipack 2011

(Rage In Eden)

Marcin Bachtiak,the master behind this impressive Polish project and owner of Rage In Eden, emmerges with his 6Th album "Architecture",after a period of 4 years of silence. And the long wait,have its fruits now! with a bombastic and extrmely good production,including 11 compositions in which you shall be submerged to apocaliptic orchestral hymns in tracks such as "Part I Firmitas" and "Part II Utlitatis",with such suggetive and pompous martial elements. "colosseum" is a masterpiece full of strong passages and such apocaliptic atmopshere around the whole composition. "Part III Venustatis", still keeps on the strong path and the march to victory,due the bombastic atmophere and neo classical elements,and ""Divina Proportio",show us the dynamism of this release including us a dense dark ambient piece too,and surrounded with ritual percussive elements to give a kind of enigmatic atmosphere to the track. "Iunge" and "Architecture" returns again to the apocaliptic scenary full of skulls and smell of blood. An inten

se album with strong structure and orchestral martial atmopheres floating around the whole compositions included here. "MisantropY" and "Octagon" close this album. The highlights of the album,is how Marcin has reached elements from albums as "Occupatria" and "Simmetria",and put together into a sole piece creating an impressive work from start to finish. Also This album includes a bonis cdr including 4 untitled compositions.Also you shall find a special version in a wooden box.so for more info just visit Rag In Eden.

LYR()

"Fragments of dust" Digipack 2010

(Rage In Eden)

This is our first experience with this project.so at first track I was very expectating,because I heard good comentaries about this release.when exploring it carefuly,yes,the music is interesting offering us its debut album "Fragment Of dust" built into 10 compositions with incredible rythmic patterns and chorus which enrich the total atmophere of the album. "L'ame Enchainée",open the album with dense vaporous atmopheres joined with martial elements and spectral voices. "De Profundis","Call Of The Ancient Souls" continues offering us such kind of bombastic hymns,with differentes elements here and there,as chorus,organ tunes and ambient atmospheres.

Follow its own path into martial orchestral movements tracks such as "Fragments Of dust","Landscape Of Ice And Fire"and "Le Serment",buitl into a massive elements of martial nature as chords,percussive sounds and apocaliptic transitions which makes of the album more than just another project. LYR,cath me in its battlefields and carry me to its own roots of Celtic heritage and occult tratition with this album.A reccommended one for all those looking new projects with potential and dedication to what they creates. "Arcane Of Death","Fall Of The Eagle","Despair","Repentance" complements this album. A very good debut of this promisisng project called LYR.

(Reviews 101)B.LONE ENGINE,AKOUSTIK TIMBRE FREKUENCY,ALEXYTHIMIA

2011-10-10T16:22:00.000-07:00

B.LONE ENGINE (uk)

"B.Lone Engine" cdr 2011
(Dark Meadow R ecordings)

From Reading U.k,comes this project called B.LONE ENGINE.so...and experimental project handled by Spiderblone and AnthonyBlone,has released their album,with the same title,including 7 compositions of experimental noise ambient,with a great dose of creativity and evolutive process in each one of the tracks. The use of samples and field recordings surely wil got your attention,coz the music floats slowly until the point to gather divers minimal sounds and defragmentative elements which can be hear in the first track" Goat boy". Through "To" you shall explore the same minimalistic structures,but with pass of minutes,the music turns into a kind of post rock,with some electronic elements here and there. "Móven der Hiebe Nicht Elektrisch",is a very indeep composition built under sutile guitar sounds and effects,adapted perfeclt to create a minimalistic melancholic track.Then comes "33.7" a very interesting piece with such dense atmopsheres,background voices and sounds emerging moving in an hybrid way."12Lb´r" its a melodic track full of rythimic harmonic melodies,giving a different touch to the album in general.the track is mixed with some effects.closing the album are tracks such as "Richardhammond"" and "A Troll Down Below".so for more info just visit Dark meadow rcordings!!

AKOUSTIK TIMBRE FREKUENCY(Uk)

"Gnostik Spasms" Cdr 2011
(Dark Meadow Res)

Its always interesting ,to review albums as the oes created by Priapus 23 and AKOUSTIK TIMBRE FREKUENCY. This tiem the incarnated siling siligl emerges with a transformative piece which was supposely released in 2003,but now has been unleashed under the Dark Meadow Recs. The album includes 8 compositions all of them built into magickal ritualistic defragmentations and subliminal codex,covered with a snsitive structure only able to be explore by these with receptive and unlimited mind! "Banishings Pat.I(Thee Opening),opens the ritual,with a track full of drone ambient passages,mutating and going around the whole structure of the track. With "Gnostik Spasms",things goes really amazing,the whole track floats under diverse ritual sounds and subliminal mantras evoking the most hidden forces of subconscious. "Subliminal Spasms" is astrong piece,with such enigmatic drone elements and magickal paradigms dressed into a solid but mutative atmopshere.One of the best tracks included here. Then comes "Advances Neurologickal Patterns",and the mutative path continue,this time including rythmic percussive patterns and a transdimensional futuristic sound.A very sticking and great piece here."Thee Flowering Of Konsciousness",is another piece worth to explore here,due how repetitive sounds and drk subliminal frekuencies seems to penetrate slowly your mind. "potent Absence" keep such ritualistic essence which I find so amazing,suck kind of projects focusing the idea of ritual as principal bbasis on thier work are worth to be explored,due the potential and alchecmic sounds though each one of the passages. "Sublime Transmissions" and "Banishing Pt. 2 (Thee klosing)...are the last tracks here!! you shall be submerged in a transformative piece of ritualistic nature ,when let the living sigil created by priapus,enter your subconscious and thenmyou fall into Gnostik Spasms!!!!!

ALEXTHIMIA

"Wires In The Heart" Cdr 2011
(Dark Meadow Recs)

After its first album ALEXTHIMIA comes with a second opus,with a creative artistical exposition represented in each one of the 11th compositions released here.The album starts with compositions such as "Warm Heart Cold Feet","Wires In The Heart","Dionin","A Chason" in you shall experiment the sensitive of this production. The tracks floats bettween a kind od melodic ambient structures covered with electronic passages,mixed in a very interesting and creative way. "Dionin" is just amazing,one,including some female invocations at the beginning and with a kind of harsh elektro stuff very powerfull and strong from start to finish!! "Hard Wired Soft Inside","Sentimental Structure" are the next ones,the first into a kind of breakcore,with rythmic beat patterns and the second one built into a kind of sensitive melodies but still with strong emphasis in rythmic beats and diverse elements worth to experience.Two vesions of the track "hard Wired Soft Inside" is included ,but time going more into elektro direction!at least the first one,with some apocalyptic ambient atmospheres and voices as background,sounds just amazing."subserviant Mass","Immovable Object" and "Masoch" closes this interesting album,released dy Darkmeadow recs!!

DARK ISLE

"Poetry By An Open Fire" Cdr 2011
(Dark Meadow Recs)

This is our second experience with this interesting project! and Though this long album with 25 tracks,which includes tracks 1-9 "Mid Summer Sunset" Ep 2008.so,Though this ep you shall explore diverse material from Ambient to rythmic mid tempo beats mixed with synth elements, at leats when hearing tracks such as "Floatation Devise","mid Summer Sunset(2008 mix)","Drowned In The Lake",the important point here,is how each composition has own charisma and the nessesary atmosphere to keep your senses captivating all the time. Tracks 10-19 belongs to "Scar Of Her Tears..." Unrelesed Ep 2007-2008. The music is still keeping its own essence,ambient atmospheres gathered with such mid tempo beats,and surrounded by sutile sound,which gives to the music a deeper and original touch.Tracks such as "Embrace In Autumn Night","Dark Side Of Human Mind","Over Open Land","Shots In The Distance" are some of th ones included here. Tracks 20-23 are from "Suddenly...it got Darker..." Lost album recovered tracks 2005,This time DARK ISLE comes with 4 compositions ,showing us ak ind of more dense and spectral sound in comparison last material included here,but still having elements from past tracks as the title track or just "Swallowed",The musical concept is just sticking and well developed,containing diverse elements which enrich the whole structure of the album in general.As complements two bonus tracks. A god choise for you if looking for a mixture of ambient atmospheres and rythmic beat patterns with a neoclassical touch!

(Reviews 100) MISANTRONICS,ALEXYTHIMIA;THE PRESENCE OF PAN

2011-10-10T16:06:00.000-07:00

MISANTRONICS (Bel)

"Cacotopia" Cdr 2011

(Dark Meadow Recs)

The Belgian project come again with a very interesting album,This time "Cacotopia" emerges as a new hybrid experience,built into intense industrial experimental elements arranged perfectly,so the album opens with "III Landschape",layers and layers covered with repetitive sounds and such kind of industrial touch,creating an amazing track,due how such rythmic patterns of noise floats at the whole structure of the track.Then comes "Under The Guise",drone structures collapsing and mutating into diverse formas within the pass of minutes.the excellent point here,is such great rythmic beats emerges from the void itself to masked the track into a strong labyrinth and many paths to explore due the nature of the track. So a very amazing release,as the last one. "Coercion" is a rythmic noise track with some old schoold indutrial element here and there,the track in general is just great and well elaborated. MISANTRONICS surprise me alot due the effusive and stong character of its music,in my opinion the project is one of the best ones coming from Belgian territory. "Ugly Consequenses Of Modern Day Behaviour" and "Escape To Elsewhere",closes the release. All i nall a very interesting piece worth to check,so I just hope to hear more MISANTRONIC`s albums in future as well. A highly Recomended album to all those into rythmic noise industrial!!!

IN THE PRESENCE OF PAN (Ita)

"Cdr 2011"

(Dark Meadow Recs)

Marco Grosso, the creative sapirit behind projects such as OUROBOROS,PERMAFROST,SNOWFADE,MIND INFINITY ,just to name a few,offers us this amazing piece of ambient drone nature,in which you shall enter to dense woods and experiment the pessence of god pan in all its splendour. a 30 minutes long composition, of puere sensitive soundscapes and field recordings including birds,ravens and other explicit sounds,giving a proper atmosphere able to trascend yourself beyond nothingness where,pan is all and nothing itself!!!! The music is penetrating and well elaborated,creating such atmopsheres surrended at moments by sutile voices and more yet to be discover by yourself when hearing it. The album comes in a card board package. A short but effective review,so more info just check Dark Meadow Recordings.

ALEXYTHIMIA

"Nucleogenesis" Cdr 2011

(Dark Meadow Recs)

Another interesting piece by ALEXYTHIMIA,this time "Nucleogenesis" emerges as an explorative,sensitive and deconstructive piece,with highlights through the whole 10 compositions included here. A melodic and beautiful composition opens the album "Black Heart Galaxy",with such ambient soundscapes ,picturing a kind of beginning for upcoming tracks. "Oblivious Blue" keeps on the same structure,this time under beautiful piano tunes and keyboard passages. "Olivine" and "Intangible Clouds Desend Upon Thee" comes ,but this time exploring into breakcore elments,and still having such sutile ambient atmopsheres which trasport yourself to such paralle universe created by ALEXYTHIMIA. then comes tracks such as "Primitive Strenk" ,"Made Of Stone","Duplicity",moving in the same breakcore elments,a bit more raw and excentric in "Primitive Strenk",but dense and enigmatic at "Made Of Stone". an important element here is how each one of the tracks goes into a different sound but still keeping the essence of a conceptual album. Closing the album are "Oblivious Blue(Broken In Two)","Mui" and "Alucaro Lament".

(Reviews 99) OXIGEN ABORTION,DARK ISLE,SYRINX/JESSICA BAILIFF,MISANTRONICS

2011-09-23T21:01:00.000-07:00

OXYGEN ABORTION(Austl)

"Drop The Bombs" cdr 2011
(Dark Meadow Recs)

From Australia,comes this projects devolping a very interesting work based on sounds from experimental,doom drone,harsh ambient. This time they arrives with a collection of two albums,13 in total,in which you shall experience,an unique voyage to the path of experimental nature. The first album track opens with with a brilliant exposition of rythmic beat,spoken voices such a kind of radio trasmission and drone ambient structures...The evolutive process continues with the next track,which includes a kind of bassguitar sounds and voices complementing perflectly the equilibrium of the track.Then the bands emerges with a track floating into industrial Bm ,in a very psychotic way!!!Its just incledible know projects mutating and adapring diverse methods in its own creations. The whole album contains such eclectic nature,though voices,rythmic patterns,drone soundscapes,ambient passages,giving a perfect soundtrack to paint your mind in bloodred visions due the misanthropic message exposed by OXIGEN ABORTION.so in total 7 compositions created in 2010. Then coming to the second album we have 6 ones...so opening with a well process work of baas lines ,melodies and suggestive voices crawling from within to complements the music in general. This time we hear more guitar stuff in almost all the tracks but dressed with atmopheres,harsh rythmic sounds and effects,always mutating and bringing new elements!! an interesting release by this Australian Project!!

DARK ISLE

"Frozen Evenings By Candlelight & The Scars Of Her Tears" Cdr 2011
(D ark Meadow Recs)

DARK ISLE is the project of Acid,an experimental,electronic artist.Founder of Winter Forest Industries,and Mist Of Povelgia, among other projects! Throughthis release Acid offer us 19 compositions in which you shall be submerged due the floating atmospheres and percussive rythmic elements around the whole album. This kind of projects are worth to explore ,due how its own musical nature is evolving within pass of minutes. From sensitive dub,rythimic melodies to obscure low precuency pieces with a very professional sound. DARK ISLE is here to bring you something more than just a release but a solid and concerte structure with beatifull and melodic passages from start to finish. The cover itself show us the nature of music itself. A light candle burning as a way to say "explore the calm and meditative melodies through candlelight"...The inclusion of male and female voices from time to time is a worth aspect to check too.also its worth to mention,the album come in a hand made cardboard case.

SYRINX & JESSICA BAILIFF (Uk)/(Uk)

"Fear Of The Red Admirals" 2011
(Dark Meadow Recs)

One of the most impressive collaboration releases coming to my hands lately. SYRINX,handled by creative artist Ed Plenderleith. The idea to create this cooperative release was mostly to experiment with new sounds and atmospheres inside the droe ambient structures,and more when working together a creative artist as Jessica Bailiff. The result was a magnificent release full of dense obscure dronespace atmopheres covered with a kind of eerie spectral sounds from the first track "A whisper of flight" to the last one "Fear Of The Red Admirals". 4 compositions floating in an immerse ocean of drone ambient passages,with an in deep sound and well elaborated structure when the vibrational drone soudscapes collapses themselves to create such ghastly frequencies,just hear ""I Remember You Most".Without a doubt a very interesting release for fans of Lustmord or even Troum. "...As Time Moved To Nothing" is another sensitive pice which you shall explore here. This album comes in a handmade cardboart too and has a red butterfly and yellow insectile abstract mutations image!!!

MISANTRONICS

"Moral Panic And The End Of Reason" cdr 2011
(Dark Meadow Recs)

An artist with the courage and paradigmatic creativity to mix a kind of noise ambient with different elements from drone,to industrial...so,this is my first exploration with this project coming from Antwerp,Belgium,and really it fill the spectatives due how each one of the 8 tracks included on this album were executed.Opening the album with "A Failed Science",a track with amazing atmospheres and rythmic beats collapsing,and creating a dark vaporous sound.Then comes "The Problem Of Evil",built under more rythmic beats and an incredible mutative defragmentative experimental noise sounds. "Herd Mentality" and "Folk Devil" are next tracks,being the first one experiemntal,moody and very sensitive.The other track is more floating dense dark ambient with in deep drone sounds and enigmatic passages from start to finish. The intereting point in this album,is how music itself goes around,mutating,changing,evolding,dissolving...so a brilliant work by this unknown project for me!! "seduction Of The Innocent",evokes a kind of bizarre atmosphere with subliminal voices and sounds crawling from the core of the track. "A culture of fear",returns with rythmic beats and deconstructive elements which enrich the whole composition. Closing the album are "Disproportionality" and "Please Think Of The Children".so,note all tracks were
recorded during live improvisation sessions,which is more attractive due the high point of this release!The album comes in handmade cardboard.

ALCHEMIC SOUND MUSEUM interview

2011-09-21T09:11:00.000-07:00

ALCHEMIC SOUND MUSEUM
Interview
By
Edgar Kerval

Alchemic Sound Museum is an small-budget independent label from France.having in mind a main objective... to produce underground artists, mostly cold, dark, experimental and insane. The artists produced or edited by ASM are based on their own musical aspirations.so the releases are with a high potential and strong connection into the magickal structures!!! A very dedicated label,which was on my mind to produce something in future!!!

Greetings!To start this interview it would be interesting to know more about the principal base of the label and the personal changes made for Alchemic Sound Museum?

Hello.ASM was originally created by VV Anxietas in Quebec, there are about 5 years. I did not know him personally at that time, and I do not know exactly what his own ideas about the label in its creation. When we took over the label with Cedric "Nors'klh", it was mostly for his name "Alchemic Soun Museum" and its logo, its symbolism (mind over matter). It's "Le Piment Noir" (the designer of "Nors'klh"), which recreates the logo with the instructions of VV

Cedric and I were a fan of the group solo Anxietas - 0100110010 - produced by ASM, and Cedric is on good terms with VV, that's helped us. Unfortunately we took over the label when the CD market was dying. So it is a difficult challenge, given that the musical styles we are trying to promote, namely the underground "dark ambient" and the theme music to dark and violent, are not easy listening. As for changes, they have actually already begun and will continue again. Already at the distribution: we try to expand a little style. 80% of distributions ASM focused on the Black Metal underground. While we can appreciate this style, we also have other musical influences and aspirations that we would put more into the light, while remaining in the underground. Of electronics to dark ambient, Indus, Noise, Metal, and why not some experimental project. "La Haine Primordiale" by Nors'klh is a good example. A hybrid between the metal, the industrial, neo-classical and electronics.

We wish to expand our catalog and the public. It does not mean that we disdain the projects very rough and violent. We do not seek to distribute groups that appeal to everyone ... but the world of sound is infinite, and it would be a shame to be limited to a few clichés, sometimes repetitive and unfortunately too little innovative. The creation of our new logo color is a sign of the change. Out of monochrome open to diversity, within our means, of course!

Soon, we would like to expand the possibilities as a result of the site itself, and offer something beyond a simple catalog of music distribution. Next to the store itself, we would like to mix Alchemic Sound Museum to other artistic categories, such as graphic arts, literary, visual, philosophical, and ... fun! In fact, Cedric and I are two very big players: it is a big player in video games, and I role-play. We realized that many of our customers are gamers or players, the Dark ambient sound is perfect for parts of horror games. I think and hope that this will appear more clearly soon.

Where did come from the idea to express yourself through a label dedicated to the Underground? How has been the development of Alchemic Sound Museum, since its resumption in 2011?

This is especially Cedric, who had this idea in mind for a long time. For me it's more an "accident" due to our meet! But I think that the basic idea comes from our mutual frustration to find that many talented group or project, deserved better than just sightseeing or free downloads on their site or their myspace! Behind the easy, today, to produce a shit, we believe that there are real lit and geniuses who deserve more light on their work. Now things are changing slowly but surely. We started distributing Bathory Legion with his album Anarcoesoterismo [Through The Dimensions] - a talented Italian autoproduction in the Industrial and Dark Ambient style. Then Im Dunkeln, a bold project, atmospheric and close to the light, behind murky waters and martiales. La Hate Primordale of "Nors'Klh" is currently the only real production made in asm that we have. achieved since the resumption.

We started to contact shops Games to distribute our music and it works pretty well. Julian Klver joined us in the label recently, and perhaps it will open new possibilities. I would like to thank the passage Adrien Mailler of Dedale(s) / No Way Out / Inexelsis ... who helped us financially in the begining of the new life of ASM, and Le Piment Noir for his incredible artworks and mastering.

In a magical perspective, can we say that Alchemic Sound Museum is your own magical transmutation, a kind of platform for artists to develop their magical sounds without limits?

Well ... yes and no! Considering the Magic as the ability to influence what we call chance, even if the topics covered by the projects we support can often involve a theme Alchemy, we do not ASM as something magical. It is a label, we promote the music, and soon another kind of arts. That's all. After that, yes, we can see in the birth of a work and its material realization the result of a complex process and see an analogy with the creation of the "Great Work" , but it's the artists who do this creative act. The Alchemy is different from the Magic. It's primarily an occult language that speaks of transcendence and internal transfer. But this is nothing magical in itself. However do or listen to music, that is.... so maybe magic.

After all, it's true that we speak of transformations in our distributions, from near and far. Bathory Legion uses the themes of androgyny and the complementarity of opposites in a merger sometimes sweet sometimes violent, Im Dunkeln talk about the exorcism of anguish and abandonment of the ego, and La Haine Primordiale of NorsKlh also speaks of the mutation of a human in a cosmic entity, including principles such as antimatter and metaphysics. This choice of distributions is basically unvoluntary, but it is surely no coincidence either. To say that Alchemic Sound Museum is a magical entity - I don't think. But everyone is free to see and feel the world as he wants.

It would be interesting to know a little about yourself and key members of Alchemic Sound Museum. Do you have any musical projects or artistic activities that should be mentioned?

I am personally behind the project Lilith Loki Fun. It's a noise project, mingled with aquatic environments, sidereal or apocalyptic. The album Water's Ruins would normally go out on Perverse Misanthropic and the next album, which will offer titles more shorter, more refined, with a sound very insectoid in perspective. I hope it will be released on ASM when the time comes. Then I am one of the three heads of the hydra Dedale(s), a project that was born with Adrien Mailler and Dolorism. Its a very dark and industrial project, with martial and mechanical pieces, but I think sometimes melancholic. I do the voices and sounds the most noises, Dolorism brings an infernal rhythm, and Adrian, the dark ambient and melodic aspect. But strangely, the roles are reversed from time to time. At present, three discs were published. "Endless Corridors" which was a curious early draft, then a split with Klver out on Le Crepuscule du Soir, and most recently "Hecatomb Sonata", released by Misanthropic Perverse.

Cedric meanwhile is the man-planet behin the name Nors'klh since 10 years. After the incredible Verse 1 - La Montagne Vivante, we took advantage of ASM to produce the bold and the marginal album La Haine Primordiale (which comes out of the vein monstrous and mesmerizing that usually made Nors'klh) to offer something more intimate.It is also the author of many side projects, such as the current Soul Of Valhalla, epic and symphonic, or the project more or less dead born Exr[o]nirem, horrortronic style, as he says! It turns out that I'm now in the project Nors'klh for perform vocals for his upcoming album TRIANGLE due out on First Fallen Star in 2012. And I take my foot damn ....He and I have other parallel minority activities, as the visual arts, photography, writing. But nothing fundamental at the moment. Julian is the black breath that builds the sounds of Klver. Both the dark Ambient bored me often, but here, I love this project. Fine, subtle and bewitching!

Tell us how does the process of selecting spectral emanations(Draft?) During an event decisive?

We have limited financial resources and we know the difficulty of selling CDs today. We are forced to choose only very few artists with different styles as possible. So yes, the selection is strict. We want to produce unknown artists, but we also sell this to a minimum! But if we really like an artist, we will take surely necessary risks. There is no specific criterion, apart from making good music! Obviously we are in the styles listed above: Dark Ambient, Black Metal - Industrial, Electronics, Noise.... He also the human aspect that can enter into consideration in our decision to produce it or not. An artist with whom we have no communication or even a low affinity (artistic or otherwise) will have no chance of being produced or distributed by us. Personally, for that an artist to be produced by us, i need this disc spends at least 50 times in my ears, without boring me. I can not count the number of projects that I enjoyed the time of one listening, and then forgotten in the depths of my hard drive or my collection. There is no question that I feel this kind of feeling in an ASM production. We also require a sound quality and graphics. Le Piment Noir is there, behind us for mastered or remasterised the album, or make a cover, but sometimes there is a work made by the artist completly...fatal to any production. Then, no matter the thematic, but currently, the theme of the music that we like the most are in the topics of our interest. Finally here, I speak for myself anyway.

In connection with the last question, what is the importance of the ideological aspect of each production?

For me, music is not a good means of political expression. But this can induce a little mystical particularly pronounced, and it is even desirable, but not ideological. Any submission or proposition with a clear political ambition will automatically be repressed, that it comes from the Far left or Far right, to the centre/moderate, of the Sun or the Moon .....After the artist is free to think what he wants, we are not cops, but that will do not appear in our productions, never! After a particular mystique can already induce some orientation of opinion. It is impossible to be neutral, and the border is not always easy to place. But overall project problem areas are quickly identified. It is well known that extreme music brew the views of extremists. Often these individuals have very strong emotions to share and that's fine. But they divest themselves as much as possible of morality to express musically what they feel. Where ideology drives me crazy, they can possibly touch me otherwise. It is not excluded. In terms of religiosity of a possible project, that's different. Art is much more closer, in my case, with God than the politics. But only if the religious not become political, what the classical dogmas are often unable. The concepts of mystisme suit us so much better, in their personal and individual aspect, encrypted and suggestive. The opposite of dogmatism. On the other hand, a project that inspires me with nothing, no thrill (and any thrill is mystical!) or violence, or mystery, is likely to end up forgotten.

Can we say qu'Alchemic Sound Museum reflects your own personality, depending on your obsessions, your visions, your thoughts experienced in this life?

The artist represented by ASM reflect in large part, some aspects of our personalities. But a friend told me with extremely narrowly: We do what we are not, and we create what we lack. Our taste for dark music does not always make us dark people (unlike the slogan "Dark Music for Dark People"). I do have obsessions and interests that may seem murky and unhealthy, but I see myself as someone potentially very positive and joyful. The same goes for Cedric, and Julian, I think. The black water and disorders, calm and soothe the fire that consumes. Listen to this music often strikes me as a way to protect myself from immolation a spontaneous! The dark calms me and rest me refocus. I do not see at all the negative energy that many are pleased to be attached to such sounds. If there is one negative, this is "the passive Yin of the Black Fire". And it's far from a power of death, quite the contrary! I have myself seriously despair of everything, but I hate that feeling above all. I find it shameful and weak. Much I appreciate the melancholy, but I spit on complacent calls of despair (as Cedric, again). However what interests me most in music is to witness the exorcism, as I call them. Hear a being devoid of substance, spread by vomiting if necessary, be it with his machine or voice, it is nevertheless a being who is trying to rependre breath. It's just fascinating!

That's life that triumphs over the abyss, where the battle is the hardest. And it is also the most captivating, be able to listen to such recordings, manned by as many pieces of vital boiling, it is a priceless gift, a unique testimony of the dark side of Man. Especially when that feeling is in the hands of someone able to give shape and consistency through a music control.

Dreams and fantasies of the day and night are an important part of our musical inclinations. Me, and especially Cedric, have, i think, a life in our dreams and musings particularly animated. Whether to build new visions mentally, remembering, or completely rewrite interieument our old fantasies. Each music's strength has its ability to build a world evocative. With Nors'klh, we have almost a cosmogony which is built over the tracks, from album to album. As I said above, our complicity with the game world is not there by accident! Science fiction, fantasy, musings, apocalyptic and erotic nightmares, and also movies are inexhaustible sources of inspiration. We hope to present a world, more or less coherent with all of that, in the futur with ASM.

Tell us about your upcoming releases! Inform the readers on each of them !

The next production will take place very soon. And will be the new Im Dunkeln: "Hemmeligheter Hellige skog" ( The Hidden Secrets of Forests ). It will include aerial environments already present in "Songs For Selbstmord", but this time with an adrenaline rush typical of Black Metal. Long haunted tracks and pure, some influences of Burzum or Emperor at certain times of "The Night Side Eclipse", but the all sprinkle by the inimitable touch of Im Dunkeln. The title "Ave Ofringen øyenstikkere" (Sacrifice of Dragonflies) leaves especially dreamer!

Then we expect an album Dedale(s): Hiearchy of Fools. A project that was recorded before Hecatomb Sonata but deserves to be published. I will not talk about it very well because i have participated a lot, but I can say is that it will still be very different. Noise very acid, and apocalyptic. Visceral dementia on the rails of a train that loses more and more control of himself over the tracks...And, above all, an album of Metabole, the alternative project of the former artist Goten, created by Le Piment Noir. A cold and misty world, industrial plant, accurate, captivating , to the confines of the abyss, where humanity is no longer entitled to its history. It will be the one and only album of this project brilliantly mastered. Just one more word: Metabole is also one of biggest muse, so liked by Nors'Klh. His "Master of Sound", as he claims proudly! Whatever, predict beyond would be pure speculation. I think we have much to do for 2012 years to come, but we are of course open to any proposal.

Your Voice Is based on principles such as the instinctive mental strength, freedom, knowledge, pride, to be his own god and master? Is this what humans must have to develop in order to find a well-defined inner power to evolve in this existential level?

Well at least I'm sure that's what you think, Mr Kerval! hahaha ...I agree with you in part, except perhaps the very idea Crowleyienne, to be his own "God." This idea is often the center of the satanist thoughts seems a bit excessive. So-called "gods" pantheistic entities can incarnate and manifest through us. So, i can be proud to be an acceptable host. Unfortunately I can separate this force of myself. Antoine has little to do with a god. I'm an animal, like Cedric (We should ask this question to Julian!). Maybe that just a secret alchemy will merge with be the cosmic forces and i, but now I am much more preoccupied to find joy on earth ...

I was influenced early on by the readings of Nietzsche, so I can actually join you on the importance of mental strength, knowledge, inner power, etc ...

But I'm learning more and more to letting go myself, abandoned to the naive and spontaneous joy out of control. You talk about adaptation, and I think that flexibility is one of the most life-saving virtues on this earth!

As for freedom and free will, I do not believe in it. And I do not believe in destiny before it's done. Ironic is not it?! But you have earlier talked of Magic, isn't it?

All the new features are planned for the coming months? So perhaps a South American project coming?

You speak about "NOX 210, isn'tit? As I said above, it is very difficult for us to produce all that we can appreciate. Even my projects Dedale(s) and Loki Fun Lilith are produced by others because we lack of time and money. NOX 210 is a very good industrial project, and that is in perfect harmony with our themes. Their albums are talking a lot of alchemy chaotic, and we recognize the influence of the theory of Austin Osman Spare, that i like. The sound is very good and corrosive as i like. Unfortunately nothing is sure. We still leave time for reflection and listening, and to be quite honest, perhaps other options by then. We will take our time for produce the project that seems most suitable.

How is the developement of the French ritual drone, ambient scene today? What are the projects that will be interesting to mentioning?

Honestly there are so few concert in France for this kind of music I'm not too aware of what is being done. And internet is international, I'm not looking specifically French projects. But I love Treha Sectori released by Chaostetik. A mystical based on monochrome arrangements, dissonant guitars and voices lost in the depths of a strange crypt .. I also appreciate many FFA (Fist Fisrt Armageddon). Dark Ambient project combining a very dirty and black metal underground and austere. Murky and startling, like an old horror movie of the 50s!

Vadi Starh as his female counterpart. More experimental and noise. Excellent! Wanderland, "girls band" spectral, sexy and oppressive. But nothing very new here. These projects are all under arrest I think. I would mention also all the projects of Khu, "Zat Zetoun Mind"/"Hell Acimoy"/"Altor Sae Vertebri"... delusions graphics and music very experimental, very good indeed. In electro industrial dark ambient, I like Nekronoïz, the solo project of Azat, and Deadskin, a huge delirium techno based on mayhem samples of all kinds. Julian quoted me Propergol, actually an excellent group of Dark Noise Minimalist, and for Cedric, he follows and listens to everything that's more or less known to the French public in metal and / or industrial, such as Proton Burst, SUP, Spina, Treponem Pal .... Nevertheless, and personally, citing all that, I would say this is not much. Maybe I don't follow very closely the french underground, for lack of time.

But it's quite shocking to see how this music does not work very well in France. Styles are closed. The metal fans listen only metal, and experimental music fans are often many concerts with a worship of impovisation who prevents any solution for any good accomplishment, i think. Above all, they do not mingle with the Metal fans. I'm generalizing a bit but still ...

There is a black metal scene consistent and active in France, and the Harsh Noise, but in terms of industrial, ambient and dark, it is relatively difficult to find, except the few artists in the pure style "Dark ambient" of our little musical sphere, as Instant Pyrolysis, and few others. I find it difficult to tell you why.

But be aware that many French projects that revolve in this genre, tend to other influences mixed in their composition. Cedric is thinking about groups like "Dawn and Dusk Entwined", "Rose Land", "Regard Extrême" or "Désaccord Majeur" and "Land", two of the oldest French projects for almost 15 or 20 years of activity.

Also note that the scene Martial Industrial is very active in France.

If you had the opportunity to represent Alchemic Sound Museum in a photo or sculpture, what would you choose and why?

"The Man of Vitruve" by Leonardo da Vinci for the Cedric choice. Even if sometimes we offer music with a connotation completely dehumanized, Alchemic Sound Museum likes to see the artist through his work. The Man of Vitruve is also the perfect proportions of the human, and by extension, I also mean the works perfectly accomplished, loaded with unconscious, but "sculpted" by the hands of men or women. We appreciate the things well done and thoughtful.

In addition, The Man of Vitruve is a possible representation of the Ways of Kabbalah applied to the human body. The 10 Sephiroth are completely affixed. Each piece would fit on one of the paths. The idea of a musical architecture in analogy with the human body fun. Low frequencies being reflected more in the hips, and high frequencies in the upper body. There are medicines that is through sound. It is a vast subject.

And Leonardo da Vinci was a learned man, a savant, a genius and a fabulous precursor. ASM claims, not genius, but certainly a desire to present new music, see futuristic. Reverses the figure of Vitruve and you will have the logo in transparency of Alchemy Sound Museum ....

I think this interview was brief, but sufficient to cover the basics of ASM. So do not hesitate to close it in the way you want!

Well thank you Edgar! I take this opportunity to remind everyone the importance of effective support for musicians and small labels like ours. Most of the groups we support that are not in concert, the CD is one of the only solutions to achieve something concrete. Even if the MP3 is very useful, let us not forget that buying a disc from an artist, is also and above all an act of support which makes huge pleasure to the artist, beyond the insignificant few Euros it will receive !

This is the best gift that can make the plublic to the artist. Many "i like!" on Facebook (for example) for the release ofn album, and too few people buying. I can not understand this form of hypocrisy. I see even some people who's approve the paypal link to buy a disc while they themselves do not have, or some others congratulate an album when this same people don't have listened this album. What is that fuck?! So much for the rant.

Anyway, thank you to all who support Alchemic Sound Museum, and thanks to PAN.O.RA.MA. for giving us the opportunity to express ourselves through this interview.

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(Reviews 98) PAS/HATI,PAS

2011-09-21T08:45:00.000-07:00

PAS/HATI(Usa/Pol)

"P.H.A.S.T.I." cd 2011
(Pas Music)

Without a doubt one of the best collaboration releases this year in the field of experimental musik! Pas,the amnerican project traveled Poland,in order to participate in the 3Rd CoCArt festival,with Hati,and from such amazing performing we have the plesure to present you "P.H.A.S.T.I",a cooperation album with interesting and dark pieces from strt to finish!! The creation of diverse atmospheres and impressive osunds,effects by PAS,and the suggestive ritual percussive osunds by HATI,were compenetrated through 9 compositions,in which you shall experience this unique magickal piece! for example tracks such as "Theta Waves" with strange subliminal voice effects,and atmospheres,emerging from the void,and going around with cymbals and diverse percussive sounds.or just "Sleep Spindles",with rythmic patterns and perfect work of bass lines and effects,complmenting perfect with the track in general."Delta Waves" emerges under percussive sounds crawling through ritualistic atmopsheres and ancestral touch. one of the best tracks here without a doubt!! A perfect mixture of dnese atmospheres,eclectic experimental soundscapes,and percussive elements to create a vast scenario full of dynamism and power!!!! "Delta Sleep","Sleepwalking" are just as shamanic trip to a new dawn full of diverse pieces,sounds and such ritualistic percussive sounds,flutes and atmopsheres. "Dreaming","Transportation(The Lost Step)" and "Final Level" closes this brillant cooperation between two exponents of experiemental music,with all splendour and dynamism only able when joining two projects such as PAS and HATI. The album comes in a beautiful 3 fold digicd including pictures and info of CoCArt performance.

PA S(Usa)
"Experi-MENTAL compilation 2"
(Pas Music)

To our hands we experiemnt a new platform of several artists performing at the Experi-MENTAL festival 3,2011!!! This time with great projects,13 in total showing us all its creativity.Just take a look artist such as BLUE SAUSAGE INFANT with "Justine",a rythimic drone industrial composition with amazing elements worth to explore. CAREY BURTT "Bubble Wrap",comes with a kind of classical 80's track,under melodic tunes and mid tempo percussive sounds! RICHARD LAINHART and "Cloud",under sutile ambient atmospheres from start to finish.INVISIBLE HAND under "Evader" ,a very interesting piece with diverse elements and rythmic patters worth to check.BLACK SATURN "Experimental",emerges with a very creative piece with diverse elements mutating and converging into diverse ways,voices,rythmic drumming sounds,complements perfectly the tack,a moments it sounds as a form of rap music or something! "Socrates Speaks" is developed by PAS,and the compisition is like an microorganism generating new cells and moving from a side to each other!! sutile melodies and minimal elemnts are covered by such enigmatic ,passages creating a very interesting piece. Other artits included here are: FESTER,JAZZFAKERS,VIOLET,THE EXPANDING MAN,FLUID,USE OTHER DOOR,JOHN 3:16.

PAS(Usa)

"Pure Energy Output Sessions" digicd 2010
(Pas Music)

PAS,surprise us again with a very interesting purpose in the fields of experimental music. This time,with a polifacetic album full of diverse explorative sounds and multidimensional paradigms only able in the mind of each one of them.PAs,has created here a psychodelic trip through 17 structures,collapsing between themselves and expanding into a sole creative piece of dynamism and creativity. "travel into",an in deep trip to a kind of paralell dimsnesion got so much our attention due how the track mutates from start to finish.Or a void made flesh through "Honour",dense ambient atmospheres converging in to a short but penetrating piece. The same goes for "Hope",with such eerie atmpsheres and minimalistic sounds."Faith " is another representativep iece,full of discordian elements nd a kind of harsh sounds coverd by some sutile sounds."Sin",just penetrates my mind in a sublinal way,just an amazing piece with diverse elments worth to explore. One of th best elements of PAS in this album is the capability to carve inside your subconsious and operates as a living sigil,slowy but effective. "Sunrise Of The Dormant Mind" is also another track with so interesting elements,although the whole album has such dynamism and creativity.The track floats into sutile atmospheres covered with a kind of rythmic sounds which enrich the whole structure of the track!! All in all PAS has created a very amazing album through "Pure Energy Output Sessions"!! an album worth to explore dur high context in creativity and spectrum in gneral! The album comes in a 3 fold digifile with picture about the project itself!

(Reviews 97)OSMAN ARABI,MARC BROUDE,BLOATER,THE JAZZFAKERS

2011-09-10T08:14:00.000-07:00

OSMAN A RABI (Leb)

"Beast Mutation Rituals" 2011 Digital Release
(Kalpamantra)

The shape of Osman Arabi,is known due the eclectic nature,and creativity focused on projects such as 20.sv,Seeker,shamanic Death Trance,among others. This Time he emerges with an obscure paradigmatical exposition of hybrid mutations,with a very interesting release,floating and converging diverse elements from Drone,experimental,dark ambient and black ambience soundscapes,able to mutate through each listening. A sole piece of 25 minutes,of pure discordant misanthropic spectrum. Akind of descending to kaos and develop diverse,hybrid mutations with intense moments from start to finish.The atmopshere created itself is really impressive,especially the druming,and obscure pulsations keep your attention all the time,due the eclcetic nature,and how the music varies from time to time!The last minutes of the track are going oriented into a kind of Black metal stuff. A very interesting release worth to explore if you are looking for something intense,obscure,ritualistic and creative!! so just visit Kalpamantra!!!!

Marc Broude (Usa)

"Medicine" 2010
(No Z en Recs)

Coming from Portland,Oregon! Marc,sent us its album called "Medicine" and really was a bit surprise to discover,the emphasis and experimental touch ,the album reaches here. THe first two tracks "Face Covered In Shit" and "Fire On The Water" show us an in deep exploration into dark ambient spaces,built into minimalistic elements,with interesting and well done passages."For The Flies" is more a suggestive piece full of experimental and ambient elements,converging perfectly with some percussive tunes here!"happy Like Jazz",keeps the essence of experimental nature,but still dressed into osme dark ambient traces from here to there. "Mineral Water" is just an interesting purpose,covered with such low bass frequencies and subliminal elements worth to explore. "Muerte" and "war Of The Worlds" closes the album. There are some aspects Marc would improve in future,but the important aspect here is the potential generated though each one of the 7 tracks included on "medicine".

BLOATER Usa)

"Radiac" Cdr 2011

When looking for experimental projects focusing electronic and improvised music! BLOATER is the experiments of both artists Ken Bradburd and Steve Smith.The poject release this album called "Radiac" and really surprise us due contex producd here.The dissonant structuress and evolving passages on th whole album,is something which got my attention since the first track "Theme For Radiac".The idea is to create pulluting music full of eclcetic elements,for example the second track "Enjoy Your Purchases",with such suggestive elektronic mutations generating an neither-neither realm full of euphoria moments. or just going though a more dense expoition of sounds such as "Waste Mnagaemnet". "Flatlands" and "Jettison" complements the album.The high lights from "radiac" is the fact of the music complete improvised,suggestive,dark and minimalistic at moments! creating such spectral and eclectic album from start to finish!

THE JAZZFAKERS(Usa)

"Two" Cd 2011
(Pas Recs)

After their first selftitled album,they come back with"Two" an album,which at first listened ,you shall experience a smell to Jazz in the percussive elments and methodology of each one the six tracks included here. "swift Time Dna",with such sticking rythmic patterns,well elaborated bass lines and sweet organ elements opens the album. Then comes "Flying Carpet Transport",this time ,with captivating atmopsheres and some percussive sounds arranged in a very creative way.The interesting is how transformative the music from "two" could be,from rythmic,to eerie,to experimental. Just hear "Kenny & Voodoo Ceremony",an amazing track,perhaps the best one,subliminal sounds and in deep voices and ritual percussive sounds collapsing themselves to create a really impressive ritual atmosphere here."Flower Cacophony" is an expressive jazz composition with interesting elements.Closing the release are " Fakin' The Rapture,Fakin' The Jazz" and " In The Three Dimensions". Worth to mention the different instruments such as Saxophone,synths,violin,drums,bass and diverse electronic in the creation of "Two".

2011-09-04T18:54:00.000-07:00

IMMUNDUS
interview

By
Edgar Kerval

IMMUNDUS in the Shape of Bruno Duarte,has become one of the most promising and interesting projects coming from Norway.The music is penetrating and well elaborated,so we decided to enter the nucleous of this project through an interesting conversation with Bruno!!! This Interview was publised on Heathen Harvest too!

Greetings Bruno...so A pleasure my friend!!! so,just let us began this interview,asking you in which way do you consider the transition in your life to live in Portugal to now in Norway,opened to such such sensitive channels ,and perception which has been reflected in your life,and especially in IMMUNDUS?

The moving from Portugal to Norway was huge to be honest. I actually moved to Norway because I met this beautiful woman and eventually moved here to be with her where now are proud parents of 2 little kids. In terms of music was a very very positive transition and perfect timing. Portugal has basically very few or almost non opportunities for artists in any genre to be honest, and Norway is the complete opposite to it, the opportunities are endless here, also my lifestyle in Portugal was affecting me and my music leaving me on a tight budget all the time without being able to invest in music nor focus on important things in life. Nowadays, or even better, after I moved, everything changed for the better, giving more meaning to me, not only on a personal level but also as an artist, giving Immundus a new chance in music and also the possibility to develop my abilities to compose and write about what is my interest.

How hapenned this spectal,organic being called IMMUNDUS,emerged in this physical world?and what's the inner meaning for such name to those who don't know the hidden meaning of the word?

Immundus was already a pseudonym I used back when I was playing with the Necrokult of Kronos metal band. And the name existed for so long I decided to keep it as a part of me. The meaning of the name itself comes from latin to describe, foul, impure among other names with the same meaning as these. I take it on a more metaphorical sense to describe the human mind that in every single person hides this senses, so it felt natural for me to use it in a way to describe my music and channel the inner thoughts through Immundus music rather that have them in my mind building up. I guess this is why many relates to the music.

How do you think IMMUNDUS has been developing since the firstrelease under now with this third album?

Personally I think the progress has been outstanding, I don't know how other people get affected to the changes Immundus has been taking during the past 5 years. But it all goes with evolution, new approaches to the music, and more experimentations, under the same thematics but with different concept and approaches , the evolution had been growing for the better. It is always a learning process so to speak, I think is great to keep on meeting new challenges and keep on being creative:)

So,any deep influential in your development when creating an specific track or album with IMMUNDUS? In which the visual and musical side of IMMUNDUS affects in a positive way,the concept in general of each one of 3 albums released? tell us a few about each one of them?

My main influences are based on paranormal, sometimes personal experiences other times others and with it, creating conceptual stories behind these themes. Offcourse there are many others influential keys in my music, including movies, documents, other music artists. But in the end all comes in which mood im in, I cannot just get started and create a song, it takes time and I need to be motivated to write new music. especially since I always prefer to write conceptual works, not matter if is a single, EP or album, I always like a meaning behind what I do. Visually I like for the listeners to create their own imagery, is not easy because sometimes, I have my own idea of the album which doesn't fit the perception of the listener, but is, on the other hand, quite exciting also to know about the different stories and imagery that other people get when listening to my music. I find it rewarding.

Are the amazing and suggestive nature,fjords,snowy mountains,lakes,forests in Norwegian land,a proper envieroment to create such dense,cold,mysterious music you created with IMMUNDUS?

hehe…to be honest, I feel nature, even though inspirational at times, I still don't believe it takes a very big part in Immundus music. Im more of a city boy (haha), and what inspires me the most is suburban stories (somewhere in between the woods and the city), paranormal activities, murders, and all of the unusual that happens in urban places and its surroundings, not much nature inspired, but still, nature is never excluded, just plays a small part, I can securely say, the beautiful Norwegian landscapes does not affect my music….

In which way do you think IMMUNDUS is a kind of personal representation of your most hidden nature and uncontrollable desires?

I guess we all have that hidden nature and uncontrollable desire inside of us, and those, I channel them through music and express them to the listeners, If is a personal representation, i cannot say for sure, mostly because like on the Eye Of The Serpent album is about a story of a serial killer and to be honest I don't take it as a murder thought personal side of me, but is more like being a movie maker as well you know? creating these somewhat creepy and crazy stories, where we all wonder how do they come with those ideas? you know? is hard to explain, I guess this part will never be sure;) I never try to send out any hidden messages on my music, just a representation of what me and a lot of people thinks sometimes. but never talks about it out loud, which is ok, I also don't, which is why I use music to express it.

So is known horror films and paranormal activities,plays an important role in your life,so just give us a detail of how such aspects has been an obssessive point in your life,and how they has been an important process in the nature of IMMUNDUS as ideological topic?

Since I was a little kid, movies like exorcist, american werewolf in london have always had impact and since then, not obsessive way, I prefer movies and things in life that creates excitement and makes us feel alive. I always also wondered about the unknown, ghost factor, specters, experiences out of body, so many things that are in a way are natural, but that nowadays society has closed their minds to such things of interest and are more interested on living a boring life. I think these of what we feel sometimes on our skin and when we feel the chills on our spine, don't you wonder why it happens? release the mind and open to the unknown, there is so much to explore than just being alive and breeding. This aspects are not only important for Immundus but also to everyone with an open mind.

What’s evolution for you from such a personal artistical perspective? And does self-knowledge is a principal weapon for such evolutive awakening? Evolution for me is about not being afraid of taking the next step. when one door closes another one opens, explore, experiment, and keep on challenging yourself. In music as in live and everything is a learning process, the entire life, so as long as we keep on trying new things we will be on a sign of evolution and progress. whether is good or bad, doesn't really matter as long as you are happy with yourself and your accomplishments. Offcourse, self knowledge is something you acquire with experience and is always great to know some so that you can also pass on to the next one. Be there for others and let others be there for you.

And from such awakening, we are able to explore more in deep to reach our true will, our own nature hidden in the egg of our mind?

I guess I just replied this one on the question above:) but yes, I hope so;)

Now,just tell us about you side project called ABOVE THE SKYLINE ? any release out yet? any future plans to come?

Above The Skyline is a side project I started in 2010 to bring out some balance in my mind, I have a good positive side, filled with melodies and I thought was a good idea to write music on them, I had thought about it earlier but time and opportunity never came until 2010. I then also invited Kris Tilbury to had vocals and from there we have records a EP entitled Ocean Poetry. We are now currently working on our first full-length album, but there is no expections of a release until 2012. there is so much going on at times, where I just have to put things on hold until there is time to go back to it. This music is a more Ethereal, Chill Out ambient music, more for fans of Enigma, Enya, Era, Narsillion and other artists related to this type of Electronic, chill out music. You can have a listen to some samples on the official site at: www.abovetheskyline.net

And what above your own studio wave-line audio? how much projects have you been working there? which were the principal points to create this?

Wave-Line Audio is a fairly new company/service I started to provide independent artists the opportunity have their material professionally produced at low costs, everyone is on a tight budget these days and there is a very high market competition regarding audio mastering. Right now im promoting the service name in different networks, and arranging deals to record labels and studios interested on partner with Wave-Line Audio. But also is open to any artists interested either on a single, EP or album, the doors are open. There is no specific genre as anyone is welcome. I have always had interest on audio production, not only composing but being able to give live and quality to music and know how its done. So is a small dream come true on this matter, to be able to work with other artists and help developing the quality of their music. So there is no particular points on creating this besides being now able to provide artists on a tight budget, a professionally produced material. Offcourse is a dream for me as it is for many, to one day be able to make a living out of the dreams and offcourse one day make a steady income from music, but, until then, all income from the mastering service, will go back to the studio, get new gear, improve my own skills by adding more schooling degrees on music production, gain more knowledge by learning new technnics and anything related to mastering and Wave-Line Audio. You can visit the mastering site at: www.wavelineudio.com , the site is still on development regarding design which will be done by Agenturthiel http://www.agenturthiel.del but all information is on the site and is open doors to anyone interested. Also I can provide samples free of charge of the artists own material prior to any mastering, so they can have a quality cheek if they wish so.

Any future plan with IMMUNDUS for a near future worth to mention here?

Right now, Im composing the next full-length album, which will only be available in 2012, I been in contact with Marco and Quartier23 about a release date, but is so early in the process that is impossible to determine a exact one, but Im aiming and hopefully scheduled early or mid 2012, but is still too early to know for sure. But also still this year, im compiliing some material that has been released in compilations, but since not everyone gets those, I decided to compile the some of the exclusives I made since the start of Immundus and create a EP to be out in October via Sombre Sonik Studios, so there is much going on. Also Im hoping to start performing live from the winter, right now I have some material ready, but the visuals are still on works and I was fortunate enough to have help on this thanks to Fabian Van Der Meer also known form his dark ambient project Dead.Circuit, he knows my music well, both theme and also has a good idea on the conceptual image, so I trust him. He also has sended me some samples and so far the work is outstanding, so Im looking forward to the final product and from there to start performing live as Immundus.

So we will see what the future as to bring. There is much to go on after the summer, so im taking one day at the time.

Was a pleasure,thank you very much for this opportunity.much sucess to you and Panorama

http://www.immundus.net
http://www.wavelineaudio.com
http://www.abovetheskyline.net
http://www.beatpick.com/artists/immundus

(Reviews 96) UNTO GREY,SELO VATRA

2011-09-01T20:26:00.001-07:00

UNTO GREY (Usa)

"Archaic Infinite" Cdr 2011
(Noctivagant)

UNTO GREY is a personal vibrational source,an experimental organism growing and mutating all the time into unlimited dimensions.Phil Brito ,the mastermind behind this project offer us a limited 20 copies release,consisting of 4 compositions.in which you shall be submerged in the desolated abyss created by this promising ac called UNTO GREY.
So,the album opens with a very suggestive piece,called "The Confines Of The Mind",built into diverse elements from dark ambient to experimental and drone passages,the track is cold and well elaborated,creating different atmospheres from start to finish!!! So,through the second one "Implore Transition",is going more into experimental path. The use of rhythmic piano elements and emotive passages which complements perfect with the structure created in the whole track.
The next track,"To Never Have Awoken" is just amazing,a psychodelic trip to the center of kaos,pure subliminal strcutures crawling through the use of voices and atmospheres creating a very suggestive piece here. Phil Brito and UNTO GREY has done a very interesting work here,worth to check. so the last composition here,"SolitaryShell",includes the use of female voices,and still such psychedelic sounds emerging through th whole spectum of the track.Its interesting the coming of project with such sence of evolutive magickal form,always bringing new elments and growing in each release. So The album comes with a poster cover,including lyrics! so be hurry this one is limited to 20 copies! so write phil nvagant@ymail.com

SELO VATRA(Usa)

"Selo Vatra" Cdr 2011
(Noctivagant)

Selo Vatra is the enigmatic ritualistic project of Dan and Nicky.and this album was a surprise due the incredible musicalizationship and structure in each one of the seven compositions developed here. So,they works with a professionalism and creativity without limits,always exploring the diverse sounds and arrangind through the use of dieverse instruments.
"Procession" is the firs one included here,and its just amazing,how the track is evolving from marching ritual drumings,and vocal mantras,creating something very interesting,due how music leaves you to another level of existence. so with pass of minutes comes "Noctnitsa",emerging into more an ambient structure with infuence on ancient Slavonic lore,converging into eerie,and dark passages,still with some percussive elements,chimes,and iverse element there,creating a very enigmatic piece. Though "Village Of Widows",continues with the engimatic voyge,this time with percusive sounds,evolving from time to time and adapted perfeclty with sounds and effects,always bringing such ritual atmopshere worth to explore.
The interesting point in each one of SELO VATRA compositions is such kind of enigmatic ritualistic atmosphere.so without a doubt one of the best releases coming from such country lately. "snakeDance" continues with this explorative spectrum,offering you,tibal druming sounds and mantras emerging as an evocative ritual dance masked to invoke the inner serpent! an intense voyage,full of dark vaporous passages and ancestral essence ,since the very beginning to the end!!
"Wailing forest","The Brook"and "ascension" closes this excellent release.The album comes on a tri-fold cdr limited to 120 copies! for info contact Noctivagant or just email SELO VATRA dprelr@sbcglobal.net

UNTO GREY (Usa)

"The Harrowing Stages Of Despair" Cdr 2011
(Noctivagant)

Again Phil,surprise us with an interesting release,floating in the dense void atmopsheres created by UNTO GREY. This time he emrges with an album,with diverse structures collapasing themselves to penetrate your mind in a slow but eefective,suggestive way."Shroud" opens the album,with enigmatic guitar tunes,and distorted vocies crwling from within the background of the track,a perfect opening full of such vaporous atmospheres created by guitar tunes."Solitude Isolation",comes dressed into such persuasive psychedelic atmospheres and voices,creating ghastly soundscapes from start to finish. Its always interesting to see how,projects as UNTO GREY,emerges with suh interesting elements through th whole album. "Gallows",and "Of Self" are the next tracks,in which you shall continue experimenting the dynamism and eclectic nature though such diverse tracks having such personal touch which Phil,tries to focus in each track! "Taken" is another piece,which you shall find here,full of decosntructive sounds,this piece offer us an organic scenario full of living experiemental sounds though the whole track. Other tracks included here ar "Drown","No More", and "Hope". The album comes in a A5 packafe with lyrics inside! so an intresting purpose by this enigmatic project from Usa,more info just contact Phil! and let enter to the dense and irrational realm created by UNTO GREY!

(Reviews 95)HAUNTVILLE,ELEVATORIUM,OUROBOROS

2011-07-19T15:55:00.000-07:00

ELEVAT ORIUM

"Message From The Black Sun Constellation" Cdr 2011
(Invisible Eye Prod)

An Impressive project ranging from diverse artists around the planet,such as Troy Southgate,Tom Maggio from Turmoil,Polish Radek Kordasiewicz and Janus Kruszelnicki. to present us here an in deep experience though 4 magickal compositions bringing us an enigmatic message coming black sun constellation. At first time,the album offer us,an strong charism and character due how "Lithany to The Hearth Of A Dying Whale",the first track here is developed. A sutile but effective ambient pice with spoken voices crawling within the track to create a proper atmosphere full of interesting elements worth to explore carefully.At the end of the track some seconds of chaotic elements,which surprise us,due the nature of the track itself. To continue with the enigmatic message we have "Echoes",a 10:30 minutes composition,dressed into obscure dark ambient passages,themusic itsef is just like a cosmic march,due how each one of elments are gathering together and how voices fits perfectly the main structure of the track! "Velvet skies" is just a long dense ambient track,with calm sounds but veiling you in cosmic paradigms and mulilayered spaces full of interesting moments from start to finish.Still voices appear as a perfect complement as on the whole past ones.ELEVATORIUM is more than just a project,is a constellation of souls bringing you mystical elements from a cosmic perspective,adapting perfectly to each other due how each one of the tracks are handled here! just amazing I must say. Closing the release is "Gaze Into The Abyss",a more rhythmic track,built into diverse elements and some electronic traces here and there.The album comes in silver printed disc and includes a 4 page artwork booklet.for more info contact Marco Grosso and Invisible Eye prod.

HAUTVILLE (Ita)

"No Milk For Babies" Cdr 2010
(Invisible Eye Prod)

An interesting purpose by this project called HAUTVILLE,with a true exposition of sensitive Neo folk music,filled with nostalgic and melancholic passages present in the whole 12 compositions included in this work. The music is really incredible,having such well eleaborated passages with an old touch if we hear the track "Otranto". The exposition of tracks such as "Balkan" with sticking guitar elements and percussive passages creating an unique musical experience,and complemented by spoken voices in Italian language,makes of this one,one of my favorites from this album,sensitive,well-elaborated and eclectic in nature,offer us a really stiking piece. On this debut album “No Milk For Babies” is inspired by the theme of a journey inside a cycle: the life of a man, the life of a people or civilization. Also worth to mention the use of electric guitar parts on the track "Cadiz",which offer us a different facet in comparison the rest of the tracks included here. The precents of ambient passages in the track "Rip" is an aspect with gives to the project a different touch in connection with other neo-folk projects!! all in all we have a vry promising project coming from Italy,just let's wait what future will bring us with HAUTVILLE. The album is limited to 100 copies so ask marco soon!!

OUROBOROS (Ita)

"Prima Materiae" Cdr 2011
(Invisible Eye Prod)

The alchemical process continues,its own evolutive path,and this time Marco Grosso comes with "Prima Materiae" an album,a very interesting and conceptual album with such incredible atmospheres and inner passages,exploring th diverse evolutive proacess of spirituality. ( esoteric ritual compositions with intense and eclcetic moments from start to finish is what you must find here! opening with "Saturnus Philosophorum(atanor mix),converging in sutile harmonies dressed with a kind of cosmic atmophere and voices arranged in a very proper way. Then,comes Sepulchretum",a pices exploring with dynamism,the currents of dark esoteric music,with excellent work of chorus and atmospheres in general.The most important here is how the esoteric path is opened and chanalized by lister through each one of the compositions created here!! its interesting to find projects with the structure and conceptual trascendence as OUROBOROS. "Lumen Et Umbra" and "Pavor Nocturnus(Ordalia Remix)" are the follow tracks,and keep on the essence as on the last tracks,bringing ritual ambient passages covered with the necesary enigmatic sound to capture your mind! "ourovorax",is filled with suggestive water drops and subliminal passages ,giving you inner stimulations with highly magickal connection,for how the track evolves with the pass of "Lapis Niger","Dies Natalis Solis Invicti","Sanctuaria (Balsam Remix)" complements,the album,and bring us such amazing subliminal letanies,always bringing you diverse suggestive soundscapes able to trasmute your soul into a golden seal opened for eons of inner wisdom! An excelent release by this Italian project!

(reviews 94) PERMAFROST,SNOWFADE,AKOUSTIK TIMBRE FREKUENCY

2011-06-24T16:51:00.000-07:00

PERMAFROST(Ita)
"Nibiru Arrival" Ep Cdr 2011
(Invisible Eye Prod)

This enigmatic project was born in 2008 by the always creative and eclectic mind of Marco Grosso,which try to focus its own perspctive drone visons into stellar voyages and trascendental cosmic experimentations ,with such amazing cold and desolated structures. This time he emerges with "Nibiru Arrival",a drone ambient with enigmatic passages,is what you shall experience in each one of the three compositions created here.The first one is the title track,with 3 minutes of cold eerie atmosphres,with incredible and dark soundscapes through the whole track. Then comes "Ancient Planet Destroy",a more calm composition in comparison last one,but still with such mysterious atmospheres and narrative voices emerging from the void itself to complements perfectly the track.The inclusion of drone elements,creates a kind of different atmosphere from time to time.The Ep,closes with "sumerian Prophecy" a long vast cold voyage with more than 11 minutes in which you shall penetrate to vast sumerian empire and its stellar wisdom,through such eerie enigmatic sounds,crawling through such dark ambient visions presented by Marco,but this time under PERMAFROST!!

SNOWFADE(Ita)

"Ghost In The Mirrow" Cdr 2011
(Invisible Eye Prod)

SNOWFADE is another magickal exaltation of Mr Grosso. This time he discovered SNOWFADE as a living organism,born as personal version of Lumina 444 when Marco must play in solo way.In this opportunity he offer us a very oscure and strong album including two tracks "Presence I" and "Presence II",both ccompositions has as principal background dense drone soundscapes but covered with diverse layers going into spectral effects,cosmic structures, ghastly experimentations, wind chimes,wishpers,voices,to create a very interesting pice full of diverse elements still to be discover in the enigmatic realm in which floats SNOWFADE.The most important elments her is how each one of the tracks has been created using such magickal instrumentations and sounds,experimented and adapted in a very creative and incledible way!!

AKOUSTIK TIMBRE FREKUENCY (U.K)

"Harmonik Radiance" 3'cdr 2011
(Invisible Eye Productions)

The Ritualistik Project know as Akoustik Timbre Frekuency,in hands from Priapus 23,has been unleashing a lot of amazing stuff,full of distant ambient passages,covered with such transmutative ritualistic sound characterized in Each one of its magickal developments. This time he reveal us "Harmonik Radiance",a suggestive and hypnotic ritualistik track with 22:31 minutes in which you shall entred to such in deep levels of consciousness,due to such strong drone ambient soundscapes covered with intense moments and sense of inner vacuity,when hearing carefully the long composition released here. The track is handled with such sentitive magickal structure able to let your minds floats though such iner labyrinths of radiance,and open you diverse realities,to be explore by you.Its Amazing to hear projects such as AKOUSTIK TIMBRE FREKUENCY,with such ritualistik expressionism in each release,always mutating,trascending beyond the normal realities showed to us in this existential plane.A good choise for you if looking dense ritual structures,full of magickal radiance!!!

(Reviews 93) IMMUNDUS,IAN HOLLOWAY,TOTAL SOLITUDE

2011-06-19T14:38:00.000-07:00

IMMUNDUS (Nor)

"Eye Of The Serpent" Cd 2011
(Quartier23)

Bruno duarte,is the sole representative soul behind IMMUNDUS...his carreer as musician into dark ambient scene began back 2006.Since these moment,his haunting ghostly ambient stuctures gave birth to a monstrous psychotic creature now as IMMUNDUS. After some singles,eps,compilation and two albums. Bruno duarte native from Portugal,arrives with a very somber and desolated album,full of dense ambient soundscapes and ghastly passages gathering through the 13 tracks included on this release. tracks such as " These Old Scars","Nightwork",and "Individually they are weak" open the album ,with such amazing and sensitive dark atmopsheres,full of eerie elements with such floating atmospheres. "taken Into The Shadowy Land" ,continues the path,full of macabre sounds and desolated elements which transform each structure in a suggestive voyage. So IMMUNDUS keeps such enigmatic feeling through each one of the trackas included here,offering us a very amazing release worth to explore in its totallity. "Under The Surface" or "The Glass Room" are compositions with intense moments due how each multilayered sounds converges instantaneously to create strong but sensitive,atmospheres with a ahunting penetrating sence. The album concept has such strong connections with methods of psychotic serial killers and their mental skills to create the most in depth and perverted visons. Other tracks to mention here are "fearful","Experiments In Cold Blood","Carved And Left To Die"...all of them with such haunting ,ghastly cinematic soundscapes transporting you to the own psychopath's mind. "Dead Bodies Floating On Filthy waters","Fall Into Oblivion","Open Wounds" and "Retained Mental Impression" closes the album,still having such excellent elements to consider this one,a very fantastic creation with dynamism,creativity,and such feeling as the most important elements you shall find here!!! just be prepare to explore th eye of the serpent,and to be submerged in a psychotic bloody realm,where everything is possible,and possible is nothingess waiting for you!!!

TOTAL SOLITUDE (Fin)

"Besatt" Cdr 2010
(Dark Meadow Recordings)

Our first experience with this ambient ,drone project is this.So Not so much information about this project,just we must mention that "Besatt" is a very interesting piece,focusing diverse elements and musical transformations into a sole concrete,perspective...A tavel to empty spaces and enigmatic realms. The album includes a total of 11 compositions,in which you shall experience,the sensivility and originality from Start to finish! so for example,The album opens with a track called "Total Solitude"an ambient composition,which with the pass of minutes emerges into a downtempo one,with sticking rythmic patterns,mixed with such illbient structures.Through "Vargdans" ,things goes more oriented into drone ambient,with solid dense structures.When crossing through "Tighten Up",things returns again to downtempo ones with suggestive elements.So so on the album mutates from dense soundscapes to downtempo to drone ambient passages. A track as "Af Beck Svart Mörker" with such intense drone ambient structurees filled with a sinister touch through the whole composition is one of my favorite tracks here.The same gose for a track called " Zona Del I",intesne and dark in its own nature. Also Yuo shall find,a sutile beautiful,thin piece called "Nebula Down On Earth".so the whole album contains diverse elements to keep your atention alive all the time!! a must for all into creative musical pieces!!

IAN HOLLOWAY(u.k)

"Silent Spring" Cdr 2010
(Dark Meadow Recordings)

This is A project based in Swansea,U.k, and having working for a time,in dense structures and Ambient ,Experimental structures.and this is what IAN HOLLOWAY,offer us in this album called "Silent Spring",an album which breaks limits of your subconscious due how the solo one composition of almost 46 minutes,of instense obscure drone ambient soundscapes,is mutating layer by layer and congregating diverse vast scenarios in a proper way.Sometimes the album is cal,sometimes it turns into suggestive dark voices,at times hypnotic drones emerges to contrast with the calm parts,and so on,you shall experience an in deep Hypnotic voyage. A psychic expansion of mind through such incredible,dense and desolated spaces created by IAN HOLLOWAY.The cover show us a kind of wooden abstract image,in which express the enigmatic nature of the project itself! Really a very interesting release worth to check now!!

(Reviews 92)HOARFROST,PLAYING WITH NUNS,SYRINX,I AM ESPER

2011-06-03T13:14:00.000-07:00

HOARFOST(Pol)

"Last Message...(unknown)
Live In Enniskillen" 3'cdr 2011
(Exploratory Drill ing Productions)

coming From Poland HOARFOST has become one of the most important projects from Dark ambient /industrial,due its exploration of diverse sounds ranging from in deep dark ambient structures and industrial passages. After,the amazing release "Decline",HOARFOST returns with a live album,in which you shall experience how such destructive mechanical structures emerges directly from desolated spaces to create a vast scenario full of darkness and isolation! the album converges in its own nature,exploring diverse elements which are handled in a perfect way,the experimental organism mutating ,and defragmentative voices surrounding the whole ambient structures keep your atention alive all the time.The album includes a 21 minutes track full of intense moments in you shall be submerged when exploring the diverse desolated ambient structures created by HOARFROST.The album was recorded under a live performance in Oaks studio in Enniskillen,and comes i na 3'cdr,packed in a especial panel -booklet,whole foiled and limited exclusively to 200 hand numered copies.One more time HOARFROST surprise us with a very interesting album worth to explore!!!

PLAYING WITH NUNS(Arg)

"Frolicking Through The Meadow" Cdr 2011
(Dark Meadow Recordings)

Well,This Experimental project comes from Argentina,and has lost of amterial which you shall explore,so this is our first experience reviewing this project,although we have heard about this one time ago.This time PLAYING WITH NUNS comes with an album basing itself into mutative experimental elements with strong emphasis in diverse elements as drone,and ambient with interesting elements. "Frolicking Through The Meadow" is a 4 track album which opens with "The Quiet Grass",a repetitive exploration of sounds adapting perfectly to the ambient field generated by the sutile movements here and there. Then comes "Meadow In My Mind",a more suggestive piece with intense moments from start to finsih,the track is dark,penetrating and well performed."T.V Static(Insoluble)" is the third one,and really a very stong one,full of dense passages and enigmatic elements surrounded by such ambient atmopsheres collapsing and emerging all the time to create a vaporous piece of drone ambient nature here.Closing the album is a track called " The Last Field Recording On Vinyl",a more experimental structure crawling with thin sounds,and diverse elements surrounded by such eclectic elements which enrich so mcuh the music on general! so,a very interesting release worth to check!

I AM ESPER(Usa)
"Glowing Valleys" cdr 2011
(Dark Meadow Recordings)

Justin Palmieri is an american artists dedicates to promulgate and release music with his project I AM ESPER and Salamander Lane Productions.This minimalistic drone ambient visionary,has just released "Glowing Valleys",cdr,which includes 5 compositions in which you shall experience the drone minimal atmopheres,bathed with a primal mutative enviroment able to penetrate your mind in a sutile but effective way.The track"Stars Above The Frozen Forest" is a great opening track,full of dynamism and ethereal guitar sounds collapsing all the time,the next track is called "The Dark fog" and its nature its more strong in perspective,the guitar elements are rawer and dense than the last track,carryng an spectral atmophere all the time.I AM ESPER is one of such projects which you will love or hate ,due the highest emotional structures in each one of the tracks included here. Through "Mid Night",things goes more calm and ambient oriented,with thin sounds and dressed melodies apearing from the whole picture of the composition. "Morning Dew" is another track,following the album,and the voyage continues with such minimalistic structures through psychodelic guitar elements and atmopshres creating ghastly visions!!The album finishes with "July 19,2009",another incledible exposition of drone elements,guitar atmopheres and more yet to explore! For more info just visit Dark Meadow recs!!!

SYRINX(Uk)

"In The Shadow" Cdr 2011
(Dark Meadow Recordings)

The sentitive organism called SYRINX returns...this time with a new release,"In The Shadows" and album with such sensitive and floating atmopsheres as previous material. A solo long 56 minutes composition in which you shall float far beyond a new dimension of possibilities where shadows veils will be opened in order to discover its many dark,and isolated faces.Again Ed Plenderleith (Pink Venom), Dave Saunders (Glowingpixie), and Jon Bayliss (Ghoul Detail) surprise us with a very interesting album full of intense moments due how the track is evolving from start to finish.such Long drone ambient composition mutating all the time in order to giving you the possibility to explore the psychedelic dark voyage to the center of shadows where everething is beyond the illusory world to be a concrete latent force.Without a doubt the guitar atmospheres and ambient layers generated here are just brillant in the way as slowly the drone elements emerges to absorb everything and creating diverse atmospheres again and again.The use of homemade thythmic instruments and the use of fieldrecordings among other elements gives a diferent touch to the whole track in general.lets just hope to continue exploring the intense moments generated by SYRINX next time...when we have the opportunity to float again In The Shadows!!!!!

(Reviews 91)AKOUSTIK TIMBRE FREKUENCY/TAMERLAN,OUTOFSIGHT/HOTEL DE PRUSSE,THE TRUE WILL

2011-05-24T16:23:00.000-07:00

AKOUSTIK TIMBRE FREKUENCY/TAMERLAN (Uk)/(Serbia)

"Ulug-Khem" Free download
(Sombre Soniks)

Is a pleasure to be enchanted by the mutative and sensitive musickal exploration of both artists,this time emerging with a very intense piece,due the nature of how each one of three compositions were created and the final result.AKOUSTIK TIMBRE FREKUENCY in the mind of Priapus 23,always mutating into suggestive,subliminal explorative tunnels,with high exposition in ritual musik,this time has created a perfect work in percussive elements and winds instruments for this release.In the other hand we have TAMERLAN,and its always eclectic classical guitars,adapting beautiful harmonies and sutile melodies.The album is built into 3 magickal shamanic compositions to awake in deep levels of subconscious,due how each one of the tracks have been created here.The way as the guitar elements emerges from a nostalgic paradigms and covered by in deep atmospheres asnd sombre passages.The music is penetrating and well performed ,giving us an idea of how creative are both of them.The Secondo ne contains more in deep passages but still covered by such enigmatic acoustic guitar parts from start to finish.The way as Priapus 23,explore the diverse atmospheres,with such suggestive percussive elements gives to the track a very penetrating and mysterious feeling from start to finish.The third compositions has suh incredible exposition of sounds which characterized the whole album.This cooperation album,is one of such pieces which you shall never forget due how each one of such shamanic evocative elements are created here,mysterious,ritualistic piece with interesting moments from start to finish! so form ore info just go directly to sombre soniks in order to explore this album and some more such as ALCHEMIST,MELANKOLIA...and more!!!

THE T RUE WILL (Hol)

"Triumph Of The Past" Digipack cd 2011
(Rage In Eden)

A very enigmatic project emerging from Netherland,and developed by Jim Breedveld.so,his main influences is the history of human mind,and its corruptive and decadent existence.The mane THE TRUE WILL,got so much my attention,due my interest in Thlemic currents and its assosiations with WILL,as principal point for self development.So going to talk about the music,we find here a very interesting and bombastic piece,opening with a kind of short composition called "The Last Bells",including bell sounds and stormy atmopshres. So,next coming a second piece called "Lust ritual",which is brilant in its own nature,exploring intense,dense and ritualistic percussive elements bathed with a kind of deadful atmosphere,and dark passages.The suggestive tribal march continues with "The truth", more ambient track in comparison last one,but still developing such in deep percussive elements which are the main elements in the whole album.Also,spoken voices can be heard at middle of the track.So THE TRUE WILL,has released a very intresting album,full of distan and dark passages ,filled with such perfect percussive ritualistic tunes. "Back To Rome" is just an amazing track with such tribalistic ritual drums and obscure voices coming asbackground,remembering us the glorious,erotic and war time of roma!! Hail roma!!! so a very amazing piece ,one of the best pieces here without a doubt."Call Of The First Aethyr",is also an enigmatic voyage,based of frater's perdurabo,voices exploring the first aethyr,so the atmophere created by Jim,together the spoken enochian voices from A.Crowley,recreates a visionary exposition of spectral paradigms dressed through the whole track. "Bellona" and "Falling Into Pieces" are the next compositions,the first one more dark ambient in nature,and the second one floating more into bombastic martial sounds. Both of them converging with the nature of what Jimtries to built though THE TRUE WILL.The album closes with a short intro called "Silenced".The album comes in digipack.

OUTOFSIGHT/HOTEL DE PRUSSE(pol)/(POL)
"Forgotten Taste of the Province" Digipack CD 2011
(Rage In Eden)

Well,to star with this review we must mention the creativity and explorative,sensitive expressionism handled here,when firtly I heard this album,both Polish projects with such eclectic nature in its own way to built this split album with a conceptual focus into the Polish province and a bit decadence.The album is opening with OUTOFSIGHT tracks "Old Grew(Svaboda),and "Gorillo Heroin",the first track with interesting rhythmic patterns and diverse traditional Polish instruments,and the second one,with piano elements and bass sounds which are developed in a very proper way due druming elements and rhythmic patterns here.HOTEL DE PRUESSE comes with three compositions "Poczatek",is one of such tracks with a marked emphasis in percussive elements with strong character in the way as its perceived,and elektronic transformations,and synhts gathered in an almost perfect way.then comes"Soyus",a melodic one ,with such sensitive elements,spoken female,male voices and a very good bass work. Through "Silence" things seems to go oriented more into ambient stuff,with vaporous atmospheres.Then returns OUTOFSIGHT with 4 compositions,in which you shall experience the mutative and experimental nature of the project,with interesting compositions as the one called "Polish Spleen",with such sticking rhythmic elements.and complements with other tracks called "Black February" and "Swindle Gesture".Then returns again HOTEL DE PRUSSE,with 3 compositions,"Lekcja",an slow mid tempo druming track,with such strong bass lines and guitar melodies."Memoria" more or less in the same way as theprevious,but this time with piano elements,but still having some guitar traces and percussive sounds,a very sensitive and nostalgic track.the album closes with "Greatz" a melodic guitar composition filled with beautiful melodies and ethnic percussive elements which seems to transport you to a vast abstract paradise.so a very interesting release worth to explore when looking for something eclectic and creative.

2011-04-24T10:32:00.000-07:00

SCAPEGOAT
interview

SACAPEGOAT is one of such projects with in depth feeling and occult paradigms hideen inside each one of its releases.A mutative chtonic force emerging to offer you another level of existence,due the enigmatic and dynaic of each one of its musical transformations.So here is an interview with SCAPEGOAT in order you know more about the intra-uterine sabbatical expression of this American Ritual ambient project!!!

So, how has been the artistic evolution and musical development in SCAPEGOAT through each one of the releases? And where from came the name and inspiration for SCAPEGOAT’s name?

The releases thus far have been a growing process to be sure. Scapegoat started back in 1991, when I was a metal DJ at a local radio station. I found myself gaining more and more interest in industrial and ambient music, though at that time it was far less available, and there weren't so many bands, unlike today. I would often lock myself in the production room of the radio station whenever I wasn't on the air or working my day job, all in the effort of creating my own music. Often times the experiments were laughable,other times, I produced material which I still value today. I met there a member of an obscure project named Skozey Fetisch, who showed me a lot of different methods regarding the recording of ambient\industrial music, such as using "external" sounds- sounds recorded outside, or with objects such as stones, pieces of metal, or the human voice. In time I found this to be far more valuable than any keyboard!This is where Scapegoat's "Science" (keyboards, electronics) meets it's "Magic" (voices, drums, external sounds). I think it makes for a unique sound that only a few have touched on before. The name "Scapegoat" reflects a parallel ideology I was delving into at that time, which was Satanism- LaVeyan Satanism, to be exact. Simple atheistic in it's views, yet still practicing magic. This is where I have also gained a lot of knowledge regarding magic and such. Satan is and has always been a "scapegoat" for people, and I've found myself there (as a scapegoat) more than once, but I never back down; people don't like that and look down on you when you don't agree with them! The Scapegoat!

Which were the principal aspects which influenced since the beginning for expressing yourself through a musical with the obscure and ideological feeling handled with SCAPEGOAT?

To be honest, Scapegoat began as a somewhat immature exploration of dark sounds- my primary influences were Lustmord, Legion, Arcane Device,Controlled Bleeding- dark ambient sounds like them. I was torn between cosmic sounds and dark, primal, "evil" sounds. It was during thtis time that I discovered the ingenious sounds of Michael Dewitt, his projects Zero Kama and Korpses Katatonik, as well as the subsequent releases on his Nekrophile Rekords label- Metgumbnerbone, Ain Soph,LAShTAL... Those are obviously all magical releases, and resonated with me heavily, not only through their sounds, but through their ideologies,which at the time I didn't understand, yet they really spoke to me.I had always been an extreme Atheist, always denying gods, devils,heaven, hell; by the same token, I've always denied magic as nothing more than supernatural tomfoolery and wishful thinking. Through my own explorations, I have learned in time that magic is a very real concept,and has really nothing to do with mystical gods and devils, but rather more with ancient practices of beings no longer in the vicinity of Earth, i.e. "aliens", whom would have been "gods" to lesser informed men of times past. Magic is simply using your mind and the energy around all of us. Once one notices these types of things in their life, it all starts to fall into place! Since this time (which was in the early '90's), I have come to understand magic in my own way, and that is what Scapegoat is, and has been all this time- my own personal exploration of magic, science and what is. I still don't have all the answers, but I expect to sometime in the future! I hope the sounds of Scapegoat can be as conducive for others as well.

How has been the experience with SCAPEGOAT in your personal life since the beginning until now 2011?

I see people now instantly associate Scapegoat with Space and the Cosmos,and some regard it as being extremely dark and magical sounding both of those work for me. The more this happens, the more I identify with Scapegoat myself, and what it is and who I am.Scapegoat started as a musical project, as mentioned above. Lately, it has become a way of life. The scientific and magical standards I employ define who and what I am, and where I am going. Life on Earth is merely one step.

Tell us how is the process for the creation of such spectral emanations? And how important is the ideological side in each release?

The process is a hard one! It's very much a challenge to create (good)ambient music, as I'm sure you know, Edgar! In the beginning, I was trying to be very "dark", or take ideas from stuff I've heard already. Since those days past, I've learned to just let the music create itself. In other words, it comes naturally, especially when you have your own ideology that you are concerned with. When you have something to say, your music writes itself. If you are simply trying to be "dark", well... You've seen the result there, from many of those black ambient projects that are from black metal bands, or the Myspace kids who start a new project every week and make a Myspace page for it, but the music is paid attention to the least by them. It's also a trend, it seems, for many people to write their music around the subject of magic, because everyone else is doing it; I'm only writing about what I've experienced and what I know, and I am also writing about what I don't know, and want to experience! Anyone can hold down the low end key on a keyboard and screech some anti-Christian hate over it. It's meaningless. What they're doing is talking about someone else's ideas and beliefs. To really shine, you have to make your own ideas, find your own beliefs- and change them. What I mean by "changing your beliefs" is don't believe- KNOW. That's what ambient music is for, as far as I am concerned. That's why it should never be extremely popular. I would love to sell some c.d.'s and see people enjoy the sounds of Scapegoat, but I would love more for them to learn from it, or use it to find their own way. The more I work with Scapegoat, the more it and myself both evolve.

Which is the main source of inspiration for the musical aspects at SCAPEGOAT? Does it reflects your own personality based on your obsessions,visions, thoughts experienced in this existence?

The main sources are again twofold.One, I am a very magical and esoteric person- this reflects in the drums,voices and other "earthly" sounds in my music. All of my life I've been able to sense energy around me, in places and around people as well. I've always been very sympathetic to and drawn to dark things and places, since they seem rife with magical energy. I never acknowledged it until recently, though. Two, my mind is always reaching upwards and outwards- to Space, Infinity and beyond. Progression, realization. This all shows in the cold, clinical electronics and drones in the Scapegoat sound. However, like the Chinese "yin-yang", or like the land and the water, they are both chaotic parts of the same thing.It seems I've been a magical person all my life, but in a state of denial,always condemning anything that wasn't solid proof that I could see,hear, touch. In recent years, I've gained an understanding of magic, but I'm still very much a novice; it also seems as if things are falling into place, following a certain path. Looking back, it always was there, I just didn't see it!

To all those who haven’t heard your project give us some details of all 3 releases? And any upcoming news coming lately?

Aside from a scattering of recorded cassette tapes over the years, my first release was a download album in 2008, called "Visitation of the Kundalini",on Italian web label Radical Matters. As far as I know, you can still download the album on their website, for free. This album was a very Nekrophile Rekords\Zero Kama\Ain Soph inspired release, featuring chants and drums more than anything; the material is a little older. In 2009 I finished "The Keys to the First and the Last". This was originally picked up by JSL Records to be released, but he just disappeared, and never returned my inquiries, so I decided to release it myself on my ownlabel, Sutekh Productions. That album is a more cosmic sounding album than it's predecessor, and has longer, more ambient tracks on it. It's very meditational, and I've used it many times for astral projection. I also had to cut two songs from the album's intended track listing, as the service I'm currently using to release c.d.'s only accepts WAV files, which take up too much space on each disc! Those songs will see the dark light of the Cosmos soon, though! In the fall of 2010, I released the limited edition "Dagon's Mass" c.d.,which is 100% pure Lovecraft-influenced dark ambience and noise, all for fun. I made this for the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, 2010. This release isn't really intended for anything more than listening enjoyment, but if you can use it for magic or OBE, then so be it! I have two more albums ready to go, to be released soon on Sutekh Productions. The forthcoming next album is going to be called "Esoteric Technololgy (Techno-Magic)", which of course conveys more of what I have learned thus far in the realms of science and magic. Are they the same thing, perhaps? Or is one man's "science" another man's "magic"?This particular release is a lot more "colder" and "artificial", i.e. it's a bit more electronic than the previous ones, though this type of sound is not a set path for Scapegoat. Aside from this, I have recently contributed a track to a Japanese relief compilation, "Music for A Rising Sun". This track may or may not be used, as things haven't been finalized yet by the label, Shinto Records. Scapegoat has also just recently appeared on a Shinto Records noise\ambient compilation, entitled "Torture Garden". There have also been a few other underground compilation appearances and split releases, and as always, more on the way! I'm releasing a Scapegoat split c.d. very soon with noise artist Playing With Nuns from Argentina.For the next new Scapegoat release, I'm planning on field recordings- local mountain areas and caves, deserts, cemeteries, supposedly haunted buildings, and some other areas, all located in the area I live in.

Let’s talk about personal paradigms…so, do you think its great to let emotions as love, hate, obsessions, melancholy free to rule or the important is to have control over them?

I think of myself as forward thinking, and Scapegoat is a forwardthinking project, with emphasis on human evolution. In other words, unlocking the potentials that magic can do, such as astral projection, out of body experience, maturation of your mind, evolution. I think that people have always had these abilities, and were stripped of them somehow. I have a very expansive theory, regarding the planet Mars, aliens, pyramids...But to keep a long story short, Humankind has the gift- they have to find it, and learn to use it. Too many people don't believe or know, and that's a shame. I used to be one of them. I think one can transcend emotions,or at least being overpowered by them. Once this happens, humans can evolve to a higher stage of evolution. Until then, people will always be controlled by lust, hate, love- whatever. I have experienced them all, and have been controlled by emotion in my past- it's a frightening thing, the lows one can sink to, or the degree to which one will let oneself be controlled by emotion. To overcome this is a triumph indeed!

And from such quotation are for you love & hate the same feeling just individuals gives a name to determinates the role of both in their lives?

I'm not a very hateful or vengeful person. Everything has it's place. I can see what Aleister Crowley meant with "Love is the law", but I can also understand the ruminations of Anton LaVey, who said "Give blow for blow,scorn for scorn, doom for doom". I'm somewhere in the middle, as I am with science and magic, and just about everything else. To simply ascribe one set standard to an emotion doesn't work, I think. It's the same as good and evil. What is good? If I'm a Satanist, and don't care for most people, yet I help an old lady across the street- am I evil or good? Or both? Neither?I think love is possible with many beings. There's much more to life on Earth than just "finding a mate", getting married and living a dull existence.As for vengeance, people will get what's coming to them if they truly test me- but as you know, going too far against someone comes with a price. I'm not about to place a magical curse or start a fight withsomeone, just because they bumped into me, or something trivial. To me,these things are irrelevant to me and my life, so I ignore them.

From your own perspective, are instincts based on principles as mental strength,freedom,knowledge,pride,being your own god and master are what humans must have to develop in order to find a well-definite inner power to evolve in this existential plane?

These are all absolutely essential qualities people need in order to progress and develop! It almost seems as if Humans were once telepathic,well learned and intelligent beings, and something happened to them to make them regress. There are some who have faint telepathic habilitéis and some who are drawn to magic and can utilize energy and their minds accordingly, but unfortunately most just exist day to day, watching t.v.and not really doing anything more beyond that. Now, those are lower Human ideals, the higher ones being what you mentioned- mental strength and freedom, knowledge, pride, and most important of all, being one's own "god". I know I keep saying this, but I used to be that way, living day to day, waiting for the eventuality of death, and just hoping I could find a mate and a job. That is no longer the case!That's one of the primary focuses of Scapegoat, and indeed, magic- for me.

Where from comes the idea to release and album dedicated to Dagon? Any magickal exploration and obsessive visions where the principal elements to chose this concept?

The album "Dagon's Mass" is based solely on the literary works of the infamous H.P. Lovecraft. The works of Lovecraft and the dark energy they exude are a power all their own. Lovecraft wrote the Cthulhu mythos stories, those being a series of stories based on Cthulhu, an evil and mystical aquatic alien "god" who was banished under the seas here on Earth. The resulting stories were ones such as "Dagon" or "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", which involved the mingling of Humans with sea beasts Duch as mer-men and mystical entities of an "evil" nature, like Dagon. This was all done back in the 1920's and 1930's by Lovecraft, so it was some what of a staggering notion for someone of that time to be writing things of this nature that were so outlandish! The c.d. itself is a collection of dark music I did simply to celebrate these works, and also it was done for the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, which usually happens ever year in Portland, Oregon. The album was put together for this event last year. If anyone is interested in discovering these literary works, I suggest Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", and the rest of his works to follow, as well as anything by August Derleth and Brian Lumley on the topic of the Cthulhu Mythos tales- and listen to Scapegoat's "Dagon's Mass" while you read! Oh, and did I mention my own Mythos tale, "The House in the Port"? Read it here: the FREEzine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: THE HOUSE IN THE PORT:pt 1

Reveal us a few about Sutkeh Productions? any other projects comino out to be released on future or just this one release only SCAPEGOAT releases?

I am concentrating right now on my own releases, although I've just released a more "rock" structured industrial album by a friend's project, Misery Inc. on the label. I think very soon, I will begin releasing works by others, though it's very hard work to run a record label- there is always a lot of promotion involved to get people to notice your releases, and to buy them, as well as sending out demo's to magazines, labels, etc., to be reviewed. However, the challenge is not one that I can't handle! Stay tuned for more from Sutekh Productions! So far I have released the Scapegoat c.d.'s "The Keys to the First and the Last" and "Dagon's Mass", and are preparing to release another Scapegoat album- "Esoteric Technology (Techno-Magic)". I have also as I've said released the Misery Inc. disc, as well as ZODIAC, who also is releasing a new album soon as well, within the next month or two. There is also a split between Scapegoat Argentina's Playing With Nuns that I'm releasing very soon.

How perfectionist are you when creating music or going to studio? Does perfection a limitation or a reality based in conformism?

I'm perfectionist to the point of wrestling with a sound and failing, putting that song on the shelf, even for a few years, until I've figured out a way to get the sound I originally wanted! If you put out something and just let it go without it being what you really wanted, you're really only just making sounds or music for people; if you take the time to Express things the way you've originally wanted to have them done, then you're achieving your goals for that song or album.

Before closing with this effective conversation, we want to know more about if there is any idea behind to express yourself through any other musical project or another form of art.?

Aside from Scapegoat, I participate in a hard industrial\dance\gabber project, called "ZODIAC". I also am writing novels. I wrote a Lovecraft inspired short story, called "The House in the Port". I've also begun a fictional vampire novel, as well as putting the finishing touches on an autobiography of my life, concerning being a dark and nonconformist person,living in a rigid and religious society like Salt Lake City, Utah. I also still run my extreme metal label, Slaughterhouse Records too. Aside from all this, I do draw and paint, though I've been away from those for far too long!

From our side was a pleasure to talk to you FXT, your final words here!!!

Thank you Edgar for the interview, of course, and for all your hard work with your e-zine! I urge everyone to engage in the music of Scapegoat, study your true selves, and find your own methods to achieve the results they serve! Permeate into Space!

(Reviews 90)HAVEN,ARKONA,DIFFERENT STATE

2011-04-24T09:47:00.000-07:00

DIFFERENT STATE (Usa)

"Yield" Cd 2011
(Zoharum)

Mark Xavier Marchoff,is the eclectic spirit behinds this project called DIFFEREN STATE,and after several releases,they came with an interestic production which its a kind of collection of remastered tracks which were recorded on tape back in 1995.This time Marchoff,emerges with a different album,focusing into strong rhythmic electric guitar patterns,dressed with layers of old school industrial structures which moulds perfectly to create a very interesting piece here."Yield" includes 9 compositions,being the last two bonus tracks from "Cardinal Mosaic" album.The highlights from the album,is how eclectic the nature of this one is,always creating different elements here and there,for example in track 3,spoken voices and sutile thin melodies emerges to create psychodelic scenarios.Or just the bizarre doomish track 5,with such intense slow motions,and suggestive tunes adapting themselves into a funeral march,together agonic voices and more elements still to discover.Really is interesting to get such kind of eclectic album,developing new elements into music with high adaptations in the way as the music is created here.its raw,dynamic and lethal,a perfect mixture to deep inside a different state which you must experience through each one of the compositions included in "Yield".so for more info just contact Zoharum recs!!

ARKONA(Pol)

"Acid Landscapes" Cd 2011
(Zoharum)

This time Zoharum present us the infamous IYHHH serie in its enigmatic third chapter,this time with ARKONA "acid Landscapes"!! and what we found here is a suggestive piece of hybrid mutation and psychodelic spaces going into all direction through mid tempo drum parts,rythmic patters,voices,minimal defragmentatons,deprogramed filters and more.This is one such releases which keep your sences awaken all the time due how all 70 minutes,with 16 compositions penetrates your brain slowly,and offer you diverse facets of art!Karol Su-Ka,the mastermind behind this project,develops diverse methods of illbient,minimalism and post industrial structures in order to create vast psychedelic passages,in which the listener must be submerged in order to understand the enigmatic facet createdby ARKONA.One of the important elements in this album,is the sutil abstract way as each one of the compositions are created,always into rythmic patterns but dressed with several mutative atmopsheres which enrich the tracks in general from start to finish.The album at moments reminds me Coil in the way how the minimal sounds are put together,creating experimental spaces with different touches and elements through the whole alum.Without a doubt a very interesting piece worth to explore,if you are looking for something dynamic,well structured and experimental!!!Ltd x 444 hand-numbered copies in an outsized ecopak with postcard.

HAVEN(pol)

"Amity" Cd 2011
(Zoharum)

Marcin Jarmulski is the creator of this post-industrial electronic project coming from Poland,and with this 5th album,the project has been developing an intence matrix full of complex rythmic structures and atmospheres built into a dynamic facet.just hear tracks such as "Jerusalen Under Fire" with such sticking percussive tunes and voices floating around from start to finish. or just the minimal suggestive experimental piece "Nothing to Go On",with such Hybrid minimal sounds."THC",with such infiltrating electronic patterns dressing the robotic voices and percussive electro sounds,mutating into a suggestive rythimic piece.Under "Transmission" we travel to another level of exitence,with a ritualistic composition with middle eastern atmospheres,surrounded by diverse ambient structures."Great Big Ocean" its a beatiful track,full of rhythmic patterns and voices,emerging as chants,generating an very mystic atmopshere.Other track worth to mention here is "Wake Up",crawling from such rythmic exaltations and dynamic pulsations,with impressive work of percussive beats and voices around the whole picture of the track."Yhe Knife" and "Final Cut" closes the album,with two eclectic compositions well structured as the whole album.HAVEN,has developed an album full of impressive moments,and sensitive expressions from start to finish.Fel free to write zoharum to reserve a copy now!!

ARKANE interview

2011-04-18T17:34:00.000-07:00

ARKANE
Interview
ARKANE has been known due its msytical neo classical structures surrounded by infinity of sensitive atmospheres and yet to discover alot more.so we did an interview on past years,but due he is preparing its new Opus called "Mesmeric Masquerade Seduction",we are more than excited to ask him,about this topic ,and here are the answers!!!

After the high acclaimed Debut Album "ENRAPTURED SERENE MESMERISM",in which way do you think has been evolved the sound within the next album? This Second ARKANE Album , I regard it As My Real debut ,due to the fact that ENRAPTURED SERENE MESMERISM was Only 39 Minutes Long and Also that after 11 years of deep concentration and profound research , I have finally got to discover the real Sound that i have always dreamt of.. ,It is not a very different perspective from ENRAPTURED SERENE MESMERISM ,yet its most completed , sophisticated and mature ... Its Pure MESMERISING SEDUCTIVE ART In 8 Parts ..Profound Neoklassikal soundtrack-ish Mesmerism connected with Operatic Female Vocals in addition to some Anatolian Mysticism touch in them ..So As Far As Im concerned this is A vast Evolution to ARKANE sound,visions,aesthetics and concept !

"MESMERIC MASQUERADE SEDUCTION" is the second opus,so reveal us more about this 8 tracks album? in which do you compare it against the past material? any support or invited musicians for this new album?
"MESMERIC MASQUERADE SEDUCTION shall see the light of release on the first day of 2012 January according to the schedule ..I have worked really hard on this album in order to accomplish perfection "STIGMATISED BY A PROFESSIONAL AND MORE SOPHISTICATED MUSICAL AND ARTISTIC CONCEPT,ARKANE MANAGES TO STIMULATE THE MESMERIZING AESTHETICS OF SEDUCTION The new Material is a concept album IS A MUSIKAL AND AESTHETIC CONCEPT BASED ON THE MESMERISM OF MASQUERADE SEDUCTION- IN 8 PARTS...All Musik Has A similar , Almost complulsive common song structure with intense atmosphere that delivers profound sentiments of seductive mesmerising Art, thus driving the listener to a mesmerising trance ,ecstatic alluring seducement !!! Operatic Haunted Female Voices Blend With a Mix Of Anatolian Mysticism ,The Participants on This album are Again the Same ,DRG (On Synths-Orchestration,Audio concept ) and Stephen John Svanholm From SIBELIAN on The Male Recitations ...

Using your imagination,how do you visulize "MESMERIC MASQUERADE SEDUCTION"if you could represent it in a picture,or sculpture? which ideological concepts are handled on the new album in each one of the tracks?
The Pictures From Prominent Artists that I Use on ARKANE Myspace And Facebook can totally depict my new material… The Artistic Mesmerising Seductive concept This how ARKANE sounds It is Sirenian Musik that Allures you and yet you cannot resist but be Mesmerised ..Eternally ...The Whole new Album is A seductive Mesmerism ,Non stop.

Could you explain us a few about the term "Anatolian Mysticism" used by you somethimes? how do relate such concept to your personal life in general? MESMERIC MASQUERADE SEDUCTION has a lot of Anatolian Female Vocals as well as the Operatic.In fact it’s the mixture of OPERA meets ANATOLIA ..Anatolian Civilasations like the ones From EGYPT,MESOPOTAMIA AND EGYPT were based on Mysticism and Mystery…. The Album Combines The European Element (CLASSICAL SYMPHONIC MUSIK) to The Anatolian approach , Especially on The Female Vocals- A very Interesting Mix after All….

Which kind of instrumentations are used this time, in order to create such orchestral atmospheres? any live show planned for future? perhaps a video or dvd with your music will be an exciting work?
Exactly The Same As ENRAPTURED SERENE MESMERISM ,Digital Sounds of Strings,Octave Strings And Cello ,No Live appereances Again . I would Like To make A video This Time to support My Musik on YOUTUBE -

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(Reviews 89) SCAPEGOAT,HALGRATH,FORGOTTEN BACKYARD

2011-04-15T16:10:00.000-07:00

SCAPEGOAT(Usa)

"The Keys To The First And The Last" Cdr 2010
(Sutekh Productions)

Lord Hell,the eclectic spirit and mutative organism behinds SCAPEGOAT,sent us the last two releases for reviews,this time we began with "The Keys To The First And The Last" album,evoking 5 fieces of pure cosmic blackness,the music is an endless voyege to the own subliminal darkness covered with intense drone ambient elements and covered with such amalgame of different aspects,which enrich the whole musical structure of the album.Opening is "An Empty Room",built under such suggestive ambient structures with elements,which seems to trascends itself,due how ar moving again and again."Attainment Of The Death Posture" ,is a magickal structure focusing into evokative methods of works of death posture,crawling in deep drone ambient spaces,mutating and converging into spectral atavisms.one of the best tracks here,stong,dense and powerful in all its own essence.The enigmatic trip continues exploring dense and obscure paths through "Left The Earth",20 minutes of dark pulsations masked into a desolated paradise,bringing such vaporous cosmic frequences and drone stuctures in a vry interesting way here.So,SACAPEGOAT is one of such projects with very promising elements due how each one of the compositions are arranged here.always dark,always mutative and enigmatic."the Pyramids Of Mars" is another piece of magickal defragmentations,always focusing into drone ambient passages,dresed into such extremly cosmic dark atmospheres.Closing The Album is "cosmic Rebirth",a 21 minutes trip to the center of kaos,a blakc hole with repetitive cycles ready to open you a new dimension of possibilities through the subliminal drone atmopshres and sigilistic evocations incarnated here!!! a very interesting job here!!!

SCAPEGOAT(Usa)

"Dagon's Mass" Cdr 2010
(Sutekh Productions)

emerging again with a proto-plasmatic evocation to Dagon,converges SCAPEGOAT with subliminal 7 evocations,opening the portals to the triumphant entrance to dagon's realms...opening with "The Room Of The Deep Ones" and " "The Esoteric Order Of Dagon" both of them with such penetrating and hypnotic drone patterns crawling through sugestive atmoispheres and corrossive spectral elements which seems to mutate and create protoplasmic amphibian entities,as a prelude of the rest of the tracks.The whole album is a kind of collection of the works of H.P.Lovecraft and August Derleth...The enlightment trascendence contines through the liquid labyrinths of "Minded Thralls" and "Dagon's Mass",being the first one ,a kind of desloted minimalambient composition with sutile elements there.and the other built under bells,mysterious chants and evocations,and drone ambient structures collapsin and emerging again and again."Becoming One Of Them" ,is a brilliant piece full of suggestive water drops and experimental ambient scenarios grown within the pass of minutes."Reborn In The Slime and Darkness Of Mankind's Demise" and "R'lyeh" closes the album,with highest exposition of dense elements surrounded by such vaporous dark atmospheres,compenetrating themselves to create,an hybrid scenario full of mutative organism ,always creating new layers into the masks revealed by Dagon!!!! for more info just write sutekh777@yahoo.com and ask for your copy now!!

HALGRATH (RUS)

"LIquid Mind" Net album 2010
(Ambientaria)

A russian project emerging from a female enigmatic shape,and trascending senses with a very interesting purpose full of mystiscism and vaporous darkenss.) compositions in which you shall be submeged in imensional space where your mind ,body,and spririt shall dance through cosmic spectral emantions created here."Shaaman's Prarie" and "Irae Seithoria",the first two compositions are clear examples of such spectral ambient emantion,chorus,voices,and ambient structures collapsin and emergin once again and again...THe music is just very intense and ritualistic."euphoria" is an amazing composition,floating into tribal percussive elements and suggestive female voices,which remind me to Hybrids.The atmosphere is intense and well elaborated.The eclectic nature of "Liquid mind" continues with "Her Winter Of Loneliness" and "deep Underwater Darkest Tale",both of them dark ambient pieces with such incredible and somber mystiscism characterized by the well use of voices and atmopsheres."Metal Scream" is another piece full of dense percussive elements,voices and atmopsheres gathered in a very proper way.other tracks you shall find here are""Spiral path",Dark Liquid Mind","Winter of The Mental Hypnosis","Palace of The Lustful Lord"...so a very interesting album here released by HALGRATH in its debut album.so visit Ambientaria for more info and download the album for free!!

FORGOTTEN BACKYARD

"Cerulean Wasteland" net release
(Ambientaria)

From an unknown country energes this dark ambient industrial organism called FORGOTTEN BACKYARD,a project with hypnotic and suggestive defragmentation of sounds floating into dense ambient structures mixed with stong industrial patern creating a very interesting concept worth to explore."Tower In The Desert Wasteland" opens the album with a obscure gathering of sounds mutating from time to time under diverse industrilish spaces growing and adapting perfectly at the whole concept of the track."black blood And Oil" is just another track with amazing structures collapsing all the time,transforming itself in a giant vulcano erupting black lava to the ground.The music is simple amazing,dense and strong from start to finish,generating in deep atmopsheres.Through "Insignia Of The FAllen Ghosts",things contines strong in its own nature,but this time submerging into abysmal industrial patterns adapting prfectly to the whole concept.7 compositions in you shall experience something different ,due how each one of the tracks are built here!Not boring music,but sensitive explorations of mind,floating,converging in something more beyond the normal stardards of dark ambient music in general.

(Reviews 88)SYRINX,STEREOCAINE,NEVERLAND,AMBIANSU

2011-03-17T17:37:00.000-07:00

SYRINX (UK)

"Hunted:without Tears In Their Eyes" Cdr 2010
(Dark Meadow Recordings)

Though this 4th album SYRINX,and this time the project has released a vast album full of dense guitar elements and distant atmopshres collapsing perfectly each other,to create an in deep exploration of sences in all possible ways. Two long compositions in which you shall experience a mutative defragmentation of sounds from a highest perpective.Harsh ambient structures evoking itself through drone passages.SYRINKX has so many interesting elements in the process of creating music,so becoming enigmatic and well structured through each one of the whole releases. The experimental touch is present here too,giving such original facet to the whole album,although the drone and ambient passages are the predominant elements included here.The album comes in a hand made especial package with a creative piece of art in visuals! so just contact Ed Plenderleith,the mastermind behind the project and head from Dark Meadow Recordings.

STEREOCAINE (Pol)

"We Are The Clay" Pro cdr 2010
(Snowy Tension Pole)

Though this album,this promissing Polish project emerges as a very interesting one,when we look the projection this album has,due the creative musical exploration developed through each one of the 9 tracks developed here. STEREOCAINE has been creating music since time ago,so this is the second album,and also,the project has participated on several compilations too. ,but now it arrives with a proper,beautiful and sensitive album concept,dealing into magnificent neo classical compositions such as "Who Are We",a perfect classical opus with cold atmospheres and percussive elements through the whole track."Toadstone,through well structured drone ambient passages and diverse amalgame of soundscapes with incredible piano passages.Then comes tracks such as "world Inside Her Eyes" and "Empty Spaces",being the first one beautiful piece with such intereting classical elements and atmospheres surounding the whole track.The other one is more dense and cryptic,full of slow agonic drone passages gathering around a vast execution of sounds converging perfectly in the atmosphere handled here.The suggestive trip continues with tracks such as "Remember Me" and "Venus",both of them amazing pieces built through beautiful ambient passages,floating into ambient atmopsheres with such enigmatic touch with Characterize STEREOCAINE through the whole album.This album is just amazing,this one encaptures the true essence of dark ambient feeling mixing also such in deep drone elements fom time to time."Symmetry" and "We are The Clay"closes the album. An unforgetable release with very interesting moments worth to explore!!

NEVERLAND(Ukr)

"The Night Shadows" Cd 2010
(Blazing Productions)

Neverland is a creative project emerging from Ukrania,and through years has developed a definited musical concept which float into epic-symphonic ambient,with a powerfull sound and dark romantiscism through the whole album.Anna Merlukova has been developing such beayful atmopshres and melancholic hymsn through "The Night Shadows"...The sensitive expressionsim open with two compositions,"distant Sounds Of Thunder" and " Ashes To Dust",both of them opening the desolating passages through soft synth passages,and sutile soundscapes sourronded by percussive elements,flute and other instruments enriching so much the whole structure of the compositions.is worth to mention the use of piano on the second track,and some electro efects handled in a proper way."night Shadows" ,opens with a kind of flames burning,and flute sonds ,percussive elements converging into a kind of melancholic atmopsheres.The higllights from the album is the creative nature and eclectic expressionsim generated here.For example just check the track "From The Depths",with its rhythmic electro beats and melodic transformations going around and around."Destiny" is an opus to desolation and melancholy...Through piano passages and violin elements the track transport you to such desolated spaces in which only shadows reminds!!!or just check "The Motherheart" mixing such melancholic elements with beautiful atmosphres and strong electric guitar parts.Tracks such as "The moonlight Lake" and "The Lament Of Yuroslavna",with such depressive atmospheres,perfect for a winter morning behind your window,looking the rain,and leting your mind floats through such opus.The album closes with "Motherheart(Radio Edit)" and "From The Depths(Solarnight Remix).The album comes with a 20 page-color booklet with professional design decorated with photographs of Anna herself.

AMBIANSU(por)

"Tagebuch" Cd 2010
(Noori Records)

AMBIANSU is an experimental/Ambient project coming from Portugal,formed by membrs of the wellknown project such as Merankorii.This time through "Tagebuch",Marcos Marado,the mastermind behind this project,comes with a 5 tracks focusing into classical instrumentalism,fusion experimental music,handling diverse cultural musical expressions.tracks such as "Dance Macabre" and "Clearing" are both clear examples of the mutative and experimental nature of AMBIANSU.mixing diverse wind isntruments,percussive sounds and atmospheres he has created a very definite and original sound here."Adramelech's Rebirth" is more different ,floating into dark ambient passages,but still dresed with transformative piano elements,and subliminal soundscapes,going perfectly through the whole track.other tracks here are"The Train's Bar" and "Tempus De Chuva".the last one is just the best one,so a kind of ritualistic track,a spoken invocation trascending spaces between,really a very suggestive composition here.

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2011-02-16T20:51:00.000-08:00

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(Reviews 87)SYRINX/REI REA,PROXENUS/GLOWINGPIXIE,GHOUL DETAIL

2011-02-15T12:40:00.000-08:00

SYRINX(Uk)/REI REA (Usa)

Split Cdr 2010
(Dark Meadow Recordings)

This is my first encounter with these both harsh drone ambient acts,coming from Uk.And this encounter bring us to transplutonic dimensions,coz we were submerged in ethereal atavisms surrounded by spectral fog and shapes. SYRINX is formed by Ed Plenderleith,a creative eclectic spitit and deconstructive artist. Through “Reunion”,which is the only track released in this split cd,you can experience a long intellestellar voyage to the core of dark nebular holes, melting themselves into radioactive emanations developed by drones and a minimalistic atmosphere which transport you to unknown alien dimensions. In the other hand we have REI REA,formed in Usa and created by cristian Dubé, veiled with a very incredible fragmentation of sounds gathered through harsh, vaporous drone elements which express in concret way the Dub´e’s visions regarding his daily experimentations and obssession of actual modern world in which we live. The music seems calm at moments, but suddenly you can feel the intensity and somber atmosphere in each sonic explosion erupting from this split cd . This release is one of these ones you will never forget due to intensity and the way as are gathering together the whole elements as drone, effects to create a strong piece as the one you could hear here. "Gates Of Doom","Tick","Ghah Rumors"so,it’s a bit difficult to be more explicit referring the whole conceptual album. just you must hear it to have a more exact idea of what SYRINX and REI REA are about.

PROXENUS/GLOWINGPIXIE(Uk)
"Elapidae" Cdrmini-Album 2010
(Dark Meadow Recordings)

An experimental release by this enigmatic project coming from Uk,the idea of this release is just interesting,so a sample tack was created by PROXENUS and then it has been deconstructed by other artists ,this time by GLOWINGPIXIE,giving a dark drone touch to the long 28:48 minutes tracks included here.so the point here is how the composition evolves from time to time and mutating through repetitive and vaporous forms,creative such suggestive soundscapes.field recordings and bass as principal elemnts used by Dave Sunders the mastermind behinds,the solo project GLOWINGPIXIE.By the other side we have the principal structure created by PROXENUS,using guitar,samples and keys,to create a perfect union of both artists in a solel ong composition full of such mysterious atmophseres.The cover design show us abstract images of eyes,crying though a kind of black hole.A very interesting piece for those into suggestive ambient drone sounds!!!

GHOUL DETAIL (Uk)

"Medicated" Cdr 2010
(Dark Meadow Recordin gs)

After the impressive split cd released with Stahlfaust released.GHOUL DETAIL, returns with a massive structure full of dark eerie spaces which floats through your mind when listening it at first time, and with pass of minutes you seems to fall into its dense universe full of paradigms representing the parallel universe in which resides GHOUL DETAIL.This time with "Medicated" an album built into diverse structures with excellent evolution of the whole tracks, from start to finish. Tracks such as "Psittacosis”, with strong dense atmospheres and drone elements floating through the whole structure and evocative defragmentation of sounds, which enrich so much the composition in general. Or "Patchfinder" with such obsessive manipulated tunes and industrial percussive sounds,and corrossive elements creating, dense and hypnotic atmospheres.”City Of The Living Dead" floating into obscure abstract atmospheres, and drone elements mixed with such excellent structure of ambient nature, in which one more time GHOUL DEATIL express us all its potential.” Interferon" is a dark drone evocation of sounds in its more pure form!and with such ritualistic percussive elements converging and appearing from time to time through the whole track. This track has so many strong elements and bathed with surreal, eerie atmospheres gathering and transforming all the time! So, the latent strong position and conceptual in GHOUL DEATIL is a fact, you must explore in order to know more about this consolidated Bristish act! Other tracks are: "Septic Spectre","Scabies","Black Spoon Rising" among others...so, for more info just contacts GHOUL DETAIL!!!

SYRINX(Uk)

"Outbound" Cdr 2010
(Dark Meadow Recordings)

Again Ed Plenderleith surpeises with another projects inhis long creative carrear as exponent inside the experimental drone ambient movement.This time he emrges with a pulsative organism called SYRINX,in which through two long compositions he reveal us a harsh drone structures moving and building itself vast scenarios of oscure nature.Both compositions namely "Last Stand Of The Withering Body" and "Reborn Thru A Savaged Beagle" moves so slowly and dense,creating such decadent and abysmal soundscapes,bringing you desolation and hopeless visions,the surprise here is the inclusion of Jhon From Ghoul Detail in this project as a perfect complement of what Ed want to develop here. Guitars sound expositions mixed and re arranged though samples and effects to create isolationism soundscapes able to trascends the relities and visons of your mind.A suggestive project with such kind of trance atmotpheres and meditative tunes great to explore into loneliness.Another interesting project released by Dark Meadow Recordings.The Cdr comes in a cardboard sleeve and its limitedto 80 copies only.

(Reviews 86)PINK VENOM,STAHLFAUST/GHOUL DETAIL,HOIST,FOREST ON FIRE/BACKYARD GHOST,

2011-02-10T17:32:00.000-08:00

HOIST(Uk)

"Gravity" Cdr 2010
(Dark Meadow Recordings)

An especial release arrived to my hands lately,so the experimental illbient breakcore project coming from Uk called HOIST,with a release called "Gravity" with 70 minutes of captivating music and sonic experiemntations through 14 compositions in which you shall experience the dynamism and creativity of this British project! THis album includes 3 eps,opening with the firsto ne titled "The Unsavoury",including 4 compositions "A Quiche Too Far" a mid tempo druming track with interesting piano passages,and other elements.The second one is "Dishevelled",a short ambient composition with minimal elements and some piano and percussive elements too."Immaculate Confection" and "Choking Hazard (Pritchard's last stand)",both of them with such sticking percussive elements and atmopsheres created by piano passages as principal basis.Then comes the second Ep called "The Metro Gnome" including 4 compositions,opening with a short one called "Slang" an ilbient minimalistic piece."Kant","The Flies On You" and "A Gnome Suit And Spatula",all of them floating into such deconstructive sondscapes variating and moving all the time,with such piano passages and trumpet parts which creates a very interesting sound to the ep in general.voices and percussion are including giving a rhythmic pattern to the tracks too.The thrird Ep is called "The Unspoken" includen again 4 compositions,"Introducing Mr Blister" is a very interesting piece slow fragments gathered and joined by piano passages and bass tunes."Saline","Chump","Donuts Beyond Redeption",are the rest of the tracks all of them with the charasteristic sound which HOIST has released in the 3 Eps but still with diverse elemets included here. the labun is packed in cdr with vinyl effect cdr in vinyl like sleeve and dust cover.

FOREST ON FIRE(Uk)/BACKYARD GHOST(Uk)

Split Cdr 2010
(Dark Meadow Recordings )

Ed Plenderleith is a talented musician which has been working in several projects such as Pink Venom,Syrinx,and owner Of Dark Meadow Recordings this time under another exploration called FOREST ON FIRE,so this harsh drone machine created this split cd together BACKYARD GHOST,in which all suggestive ideas and structural void,has been evoked through 6 compositions with interesting elements worth to mention,as the way as on tracks such as "Natures Burning",built through dense repetitive passages,goes penetrating slowly into such surreal worlds of nature creating such ghastly and mysterious atmospheres.Through "No Shame" things goes more strong due the harsh nature of such composition,creating raw primitive soundscapes and mutative spaces through more than 9 minutes.The last one is called "Godbye",a perfect track for the end ,due the enigmatic structures and dark ambient atmospheres giving you the oportunity to fall in the arms of nothingness.By the other side we have BACKYARD GHOST,A project coming from usa and developed by Joseph K Is A Chicago Based Sound Artist, Former Mental Patient And Synthesizer Master.He offer us an exquisite three piece of Dark ambient exposition with a particular sound which is expressed in the whole tracks."Staircase Of Splinters","Charnal House" and "Columbarium" are gathered into diverse dark ambient patterns and subliminal structures,with such raw and obscure felling!

STAHLFAUST/GHOU L DETAIL

Split cdr 2010
(Dark Meadow Recordings)

This time Dark Meadow Recordings,presents us an split cd with two project in which you shall found different facets,the first one STAHLFAUST,is a neo-folk with martial influences,this project comes to here from South America,Argentina,and was formed in 2000 by three souls Hernan R., Fabian L. and Alfred “The Monk” B.the music is really expressive and interesting.STAHLFAUST's part of th split cdr stars with an intro called "Ex Nihilo,Nihil" a kind of percusive ritual druming and some chakers as background and flute.Then comes "Im Scheiterhaufen",a beautiful hymn,expressing all the splendour and beauty in which STAHLFAUST focuses on.Acoustic guitars,chimes,spoken narrative voices and mixed carefully to create a very sticking piece here."Traveler" is a nostalgic one,so deprresed and sad song with moody melodies in acoustic guitar parts and perfect work of vocals,chimes were also used to complements the whole melancholic structure of the track as well as percussive tunes from time to time."El Faro" is the end...an end where the melancholy,reflective memories and sadness emerges to free you,through beautiful acoustic sounds and voices.A very promising act into neo-folk scene,so powerfull and catching.The time is for GHOUL DETAIL,which is a project coming from Northampton,Uk and reveal us through 4 compositions an in deep voyage into dense ambient drone and experimental explorations."Fluoxetine Drift",converges in its unique raw and stong ambient dronish atmospheres."Strapeed",another piece of high contex,this ti me with industrial patterns revealing a powerfull spectum due how machines evolves into repetive spaces and mixed with such ghastly atmospheres to create a very interesting piece.The decosntructive spaces continues through a dense and obscure track such as "Thirty Six Delta" and closed with "Transient Glyph",an ambient piece with such vaporous and eerie soundscapes and percussive sounds! a very dynamic release for those looking for something raw,unique and dark!

PINK VENOM (Uk)

"Waste Of The World" Cdr 2010
(Dark Meadow Recordings)

This is another project of infamous spirit called Ed Plenderleith,and again he surprise us with a total harsh drone based project in which all the density and darkness are evoked through 6 compositions opening with "foetus" one of such strong explorations created through dense guitar elements and obscure passages creating a suggestive transformative track.Then we have "Fallen",a more dense and retrospective piece of ambient structure,and dense guitar sounds evolving within the main structure with the pass of minutes,not as raw as the last one but with such dark elements present.Is excellent to be catched by the emotive and subliminal atmopsheres of PINK VENOM,an album will surely you will enjoy due density and well structured one from the first track to the last one."Hostage" and "Again" floats into repetitive drone elements and dark ambient elements from avery spectral perspective.The last tracks are "End of The Days" which is a bit different in the way as some industial elements are included to increase the production and sound in general."For Those Who Wait",returns into a kind of dark ambient structure with some piano sounds converging through the whole track,a calm but dark composition for sure!!

(Reviews 85) GYDJA,GIRLS OV CTEPHIN,NIHIL NOVI SUB SOLE,DPERD

2011-02-09T19:28:00.000-08:00

GYDJA (New Zealand)

"Helchemy" Cdr 2008
(Afe)

Abby Helasdottir is a visual artist and musician which has been developing her creative explorations since early 95.she has created magickal transformations through releases such as "liber Babalon","Cold Seed (Hagalaz Meditation","Machina mundi"...among some of her releases.This time Abby emerges with "Helchemy",an in deep musical exploration in which she focuses on a kind of self transformation basing herself into The portmanteau of alchemy and Hela, the Germanic goddess of the dead and as such, explores the way in which imagery overlaps between the two.The result is just amazing,two long compositions in which you shall be entering to a kind of magickal development though vast ambient atmospheres and surreal spaces where the mind body and soul are joined together to trascends the reality in this existential plane.The album opens with a 25:08 minutes track called "The Spirit Of The Earth With Venom Intoxicate",exploring diverse ambient atmospheres and soundscapes which evolves from time to time offering you a brilliant fountain of possibilities and obscure transformations,emerging from such magickal currents which only Abby knows how to handle here.Minimalistic structures veiled with such vaporous atmospheres,is what you shall explore here. Coming next is the second one called " The Black Sea,The Black Lune,The Black Soll"...And yes another ritualistic opus of high trascendence,through 25:35 minutes in which the percussive sounds and bells opens as a magickal entrance for self transformation.Penetrating abstract stuctures collapsing and crawling through drone passages,creating a enlightment piece full of intense moments due how the composition is evolving with the pass of minutes.Worth to note the field recordings,water samples and other elements which gives to the track a espcial sound. GYDJA has developed a very amazing piece with 50:45 minutes of pure magickal explorations. The album comes in a pro-printed cardboard sleeve and limited to 100 copies only!!! Let just enter to explore the mutative magickal realms through "Helchemy".

GYDJA(New Zealand)/GIRLS OV CTEPHIN(Usa)

"The Blue-Lidded Daughter Of Sunset"
(Roil Noise)

...So the naked splendour ov nuit,revealed throug both magickal artists,this time with a collaborative piece as this split cdr in which you sahll dance in your own orbite of your sensitive perceptions...GIRLS OV CTEPHIN is a thelemic family ,based into experimental/ambient/noise unit from Oklahoma,having Aedria has the principal point of this project,together his daughters Kaylan and Tirzah. Such collective have joined forces with the sole purpose to develop this kind of Experimental ambient musik,the use of atmospheres and ambient structures were created here under the conceived point to recreate a vision handled the hands of Nuit,and the result was impressive when exploring "the Consciousness Of The Continuity Of Existence",a composition with such sublime and enigmatic feelings from start to finish,always oening layer through layer and offering you more than just music,but a suggestive piece of magickal exaltation. Through Gydja,things goes into such sublime and enlightment path...open new portals of perceptions due the trascendence of Abby,when creating music.This time she offer us "She Who holds A Thousand Souls",a 30 minutes long opus with strong beautiful atmospheres and eerie atmospheres moving together all the time to create infinite spaces full of dynamism,mystery and
enigmatic nature,due how each passage is dressed with a veil of soundscapes arranged in a very proper way.In a way we must say this release reveals the totallity of existence of self,where the point Nuit has to be explored by the essence in which we must carve deep inside our hearts.This is one of such releases in which you must submerged to such magickal realms created by both artists.The art of the whole album is just amazing ,colourfull yellowish orange cosmic exaltaion and symbols regarding nuit!!!A very amazing work for sure!!!

Above, the gemmed azure is
The naked splendour of Nuit;
She bends in ecstasy to kiss
The secret ardours of Hadit.
The winged globe, the starry blue,
Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!
Liber al I-14

NIHIL NOVI SUB SOLE(Holl)

"Jupiter Tmple" Digipack 2010
(My Kingdom Music)

Marco Kehren,a creative musicican known by his project Deynonichus,and the participations in projects such as Bethlehem,and Dark Sanctuary,arrives with the debut album "Jupiter Temple" from his new project NIHIL NOVI SUB SOLE,and what we found here is just a very apocaliptic album,full of dark stoned passages dressed with intense martial industrial elements,which surely will keep your sences alive all the time due how the album has been developed.The album opens with two orchestral, dark compositions "Nihil Novi Sub Sole" and "Die Angeklagten",the first of them with such sticking piano passages,voices,chorus and a perfect martial atmopshere,atmoments reminds me to In Slaughter Natives or even Triarii.And the second less bombastic as the first one,but veiled with a powerfull desolated atmopshere,present through the whole composition."To Enslave & Destroy" is the thrid composition,an amazing one mixing percussive elements and diverse atmopsheres collected in an almost perfect way.A Neo classical touch can be hear in compositions such as "Avvenimiento Traumatico" and "Totgeborener Lebensmut",the last one with a sorrowful,nostalgic stmopshere."Stigma" is another track with such strong elements focusing in martial percussive sounds and spoken voices.Conceptually the album handles theterror,pain and fear of human nature,during years of war through history.And structurally the album speaks fot itself due the apocaliptic feeling and strong atmopsheres revealed through the album.Tracks such as " Stigma","Fellonia Con Sangue","Walking Over Mother Disease",following the path through such millitaristic expressionism mixed with industial patters,all of them expresing the mentioned conceptual vision of Marco,as the whole album in General.Other tracks whcih you shall find here are "Obedience To none","Paralize","Victoria Victis",and "Idolatry.The album comes in a A5 digicd,for more info just visit The My Kingdom Music Web.

DPERD(Ita)

"Io Sono Un Errore" digipack 2010
(My Kingdom Music)

Carlo Disimone and Valeria Buono are an Italian duo which has been working since aerly 90's in a project called Fear Of The Storm,and in 2003 they have theidea to create a kind of melancholic rhythmic dark wave music with elemnts of rock music,and the result is reflected in the last album "Io Sono Un Errore",being an album full of creativity,passion and charism,due the personality of each one of the 10 compositions included here.Tracks such as "Non Mi Tradieri Mai" or just " Ho Paura,Sai" are the one you can listen at the beginning of the album,and the sensations expresed here,are really incredible,dark pop,thrugh an incledible use of melodies and percussive elements. "Inverno" is a sad,melancholic journey trascending the senses,and visulising a nostalgic reality,and more when the spoken voices from Carlo,transports us to an ocean of desolation and hopeless.The use of piano,keyboards,percussions and guitars in the whole tracks,are just developed in a very proper way from start to finish."In Giorni Lontani" is a veryexpressive piece with perfect and psychodelic work of voices and keyboard passages.mostly of the pieces has such nostalgic feeling necessary to put you in a especial mood."Cold song" is one of my favorites,a kind of dark synth pop with,floating atmospheres and perfect work of voices by Valeria.The album includes a bonus track called "Democrazia E Dittatura",a track with an old school sound in bass and keys,a remembrance to past days from a creative way!! so,a very sticking and dynamic album for those into old dark wave with pop elements,so this album comes i nan A5 digipack and its ready to be explored by yourself right now!!

(Reviews 84) BATHORY LEGION,B-TONG,SOLDERCUP

2011-02-07T18:55:00.000-08:00

BATHORY LEGION (Ita)

"Through The dimensions"(Anarcoesoterismo) Cd 2010
(Self produced)

Is really great when we have the opportunity to see the growing in the scene with this kind of projects focusing into strong music and esoterism...well This time arrived to our hands BATHORY LEGION,a solo project released by a mental structure ,an archon demonic spirit known as BL,emerging from the deeps patheons from Rome Italy,and really what I found here is just amazing,an album containing such kind of old school industrial elements and psychotic structures dressed with sutile and penetrating atmospheres from start to finish. "mother Of Echoes" is a kind of organic mutation from in deep levels of exploation as a kind of living sigil for the next magickal explorations who will come,so strong dense structures,laments and suggestive soundscapes are the main elements you shall find here.Then comes "Anarcoesoterismo" a deconstructive piece full of diverse industrial patterns and veiled with aggressive voices and elements converging perfectly through the whole track.A psychotic piece with raw and primitive sound,so amazing for my taste!! "Silence Blosson",opening as a mysterious dark ambient piece,carring you to your own inner vacuity where senses and own magickal spectrums are joined together through this vast piece full of desolated spaces.Through "Black Glasses",things goes just perfect ,due the use of interesting sticking percussive elements and synths creating a dismal and strong piece,and more when the industrial patterns emerges to create and infernal dimension where everything is possible,one of the most amazing tracks including here for sure. Another piece coming is "T.horn"(the Call),a dark piece full of dense atmopsheres and ethereal soundscapes."Dimension and "Anticristianesimo Alchemico Militante" closes the release,both of them true pieces full of obscure vaporous pulsations,and eneigmatic passages converging and mutating all the time.Being the second one more industrilish due to corrossive sounds and apocaliptic voices through the whole track. Without a doubt a new dark star is rising at the horizon,so BATHORY LEGION is the new magickal blood,growing and trascending the limits of minds in all possible ways!!!

B-TONG(Swit)

"The Great Disintegrator" Cdr 2010
(Snowy Tension Pole)

When we walks the path of experimental music,and abstract music,created with an unique sound,we must talk about Chris Sigdell,a Creative spirit having its headquarters in Switzerland,and the main force behind his oslo project B-TONG,an experimental/ambient project which has been working from time ago and has released several albums and appeared in important music festivals.This time Chris offer us a very floating composition,focusing into ambient structures and drone elements from a point in which you shall experience a kind of astral gnosis due how each one of there 5 tracks included here emerges to each other,creating a disintegration of senses,spirit and flesh, a kind of self trasformation though such sonic soundscapes. Opening is " Voices From Within" ak ind of psychotic drone ambient structure,with such intense moments from start to finish. Then comes,"Strange Journey" a more dense composition with such industrial tunes emerging from time to time,to offer you a different angle from my personal perspective.The disintegration continues with "Batisphere" a drone ambient structure collapsing and mutating itself with the pass of minutes,always emerging with different perspectives,but having such amazing dense passages and dynamism through the whole track. The interesting point with the whole structures created by B-TONG,is the way as he decosntruct and reycles diverse sounds sources in order to create something unique and well elaborated."Bottomless Pit" is another piece which suh in deep atmospheres mutating and growing with pass of minutes."Beyond...And Further Still",closes the album thorugh such strong ambient passages and suggestive elements present again in this piece as on the rest of the tracks.a very impressive work by B-TONG,which got so much my attention due dynamism and hard structured emphasis on the whole concept in general.so be prepared to enter beyond...The Great disintegrator!!!

SOLDERCUP(uk)
"Soldercup" 12'ep 2010
(Fourier Transform)

A very interesting Release by this Experimental project,which has been working under diverse sounds mostly into improvisational and experiemental stuff. The project was created by Rhodri Davies and Louisa Hendrikien,in which they have used a lot of electronic elements to create a vast experimental paradise full of eclectic movements and dynamic textures in tracks such as "Liid","Affivian","Mergo" from side a,always mutatying and floating into such own convergences to create a very interesting musical piece!!The captivating point here is how each one of nine compositions included here in side a,offer you a dyanmism spectrum based on improvisational elements as principal basis.On side B you shall find 4 compositions,still with such dynamism and improvisatonal structures giving you the sensations as to be submerged in an abstract ocean full of possibilities and labyrinths in which each one of them are able to entering you to another level of existence.Tracks such as"Tegol","Dinpewter","Urah" are clear examples of such experimental soundscapes.The album was recorded,edited and mixed somewhere in london 2006,and offer us just a part of the potential and highest levels of this experimental project called SOLDERCUP.This piece is limited to 200 copies only.so for more info just visit the Fourier Transform page in order to know more about this projects and upcoming releases!!

(reviews 83) PHURPA,HLADNA,KYRON

2011-01-30T12:30:00.000-08:00

PHURPA(Rus)

"Nag bdud Ceremony"
(Aquarellist)

An amazing and penetrating release,which transports your sences into another levels of perception due how this Rusian project PHURPA ,has developed through this album...Alexei Tegin the master mind behind this project has been developing electro acoustic sounds and diverse studies into ancient cultures such as egyptian,tibetan and iranic,with the sole purpose to create this masterpiece.so In my opinion musik speaks for itself due the enigmatic spiritualism and in deep ritualistic induced trance elements which you shall explore here!!! The album includes 3 composition "Mapang Yinchen","Yang-Drub","Nag-b-Dub" through 55 minutes of intense ritualistic nature.The highlisgts in this album is how the tibetan mantras are evoking such in deep transformations.The desne percussive sounds and abysmal mantras are mixed to create such vaporous atmopsheres and penetrating music from start to finish.Tibetan ritual instuments such as Dukar,Silnyen,Bub,Damaru,Kanling,Nga,Shang are used to create such ritualistic compositions.so The Long Life Practice of Mapang Yinchen, Yang-drub Ceremony and Black Dud Ceremony,were recorded live in the underground, 2008!!! The original 2003 lineup of the project that emerged as a result was dubbed Phurpa (one of the five tutelary deities of the Father Tantra in Bon tradition), and all the members have carried on with their research in the field of Tibetan liturgies up to the present day.The album comes in a cardboard folder and limited to 500 copies only!!!Be sure to explore of of the most enigmatics and intense projects coming from Russian Federation!!

HLADNA(Rus)

"Melting Water" Cd

(Aquarellist)

Nikolay Kalmykov is an Eclectic russian musician which has been working from time ago,decosntructing sounds and developing diverse projects.This time we have the opportunity to hear the reisue of an album which was released as Cdr in 1998-1999 which marked the carrear in HLADNA Existence due how such sutile atmospheres and raw soundscapes were put together,offering you immersive and in deep structures emerging through 9 compositions tracks such as "Oao" is really impressive,due strong atmospheres and dark sensations perceived in the whole track.some chorus as mantras seems to emerge from within the whole composition to give such dense atmosphere.some title tracks are in russian ,so just impossible to write them ,but just to give a clue about each one of them.so ,for example track 3 includes some old school industrial touch which gives you the sensation to be in deep ocean inside a submarine,or futuristic machine.The same goes to track 5,with its dynamism and drone machinism mutating in all possible forms.Is worth to note of each one of the tracks contains such high dose of strong sounds which are the principal basis ,being so raw,and harsh from start to finish. at momnets the album has osme structures similar to early Lustmord or even Hybryds!! so a great album by HLADNA,in which you shall experience the dynamism and strong soundscapes emrging from the in deep regions in which floats HLADNA!!! An excelent release by this russian project!! the album comes in a especial beautiful paper folder limited to 300 copies only.so check for this classic release right now!!!

KYRON(usa)

"Perdurabo"Cdr 2011
(Black Note Music)

"Perdurabo" is another magickal exploration from Juan Carlos Mendizabal aka KYRON,and through such amazing 12 compositions he reveal us its enigmatic trip to transdimsnesional realities in order to put the listeners in a mental state in which he is challenged to abandon their preconceived ideas and to expand thir knowledge through suggestive and mutational experiences.The sutilness and well performed atmosphere present in "suscipio",opens the album and reminds me so much to Coil in its own experimental touch.Twisted glitches sounds converging into experimental vortex in tracks such s "Itineris" and "Tumulus".The avantgardish sticking drmming elements in "peregrinus" suits so much with the whole concept of the album,giving to this a very sticking touch full of dynamism and tranquility.The whole compositions has such kind of ambient electronic patterns,emerging all the time and offering you more thanx just sounds!!! One more time ,Mtr Mendizabal surprise us with an album,in which he reveals all his talent and cretive force,experimenting with diverse electronic devices in order to create a well structured album as "Perduravo".The title is a kind of inspiration from A.Crowley,which has been a kind of inner force developed through each one of the 12th compositions generated here. "tracks such as "Fas","Defessus"and its enigmatic mid tempo drumming atmopshres are just brillant,and "Ferrum" among others are included here.a well structured album with so interesting eleemnts worth if searching for something different!!! more info just visit black Note Music.

(Reviews 82) VRESNIT,AUBE,POVAROBO

2011-01-12T13:32:00.000-08:00

POVAROBO(Rus)

"Povarobo" Cd 2010
(Aquarellist)

Aquarellist is a Russian dark ambient ,ritual ,experimentalrecord label which has its headquarters in St.Petersburg.so the has send us some of their releases and we find all of them amazing...so POVAROVO is one of such projects which impact you from the very begiining due how its dark beauty fragments and sutile atmopsheres seems to transport yourself to a kind of suggestive trance.such russian collective,creates through this album 15 pieces in which you shall be submerged to such enigmatic realm created by such project.Nostalgic piano passages dressed with sorrowful touch through some of the tracks are interesting elemnts to explore in compositions such as "nothing going" or even "After Breake" or "Hopen Dead".The way as each one of the compositions are created and the intense and dynamic use of instruments such clarinet,trumpet,guitar,violoncello,bass are enoguh elements worth to explore. Minimalistic expressionism and such thin,sutile atmopsheres in compositions such as "Dumb and Short" and "Methro Nome" just to name two of them,gives you a clue of the eclectic nature of this experiemental fusion project combining ambient atmopshres with rhythmic jazz patterns complementing perfectly in the whole concept of the album. Other tracks included here are "66 Breath","Black powder","Un Der Mike"...just to name some of them,the whole album is composed under diverse atmospheres and sutile soundscapes from high levels of creativeness.An excellent debut album by Povarovo coming in a cardboard Envelope with inserts inside!! and limited to 500 copies.

VRESNIT(Rus)

"Solar Seed" Cd 2010
(Aquarellist/Vetvei)

Ilchuk Sergey is an enigmatic Russian artist and deconstructionist responsible of Vresnit,a primal obscure shamanisitc force emrging with the sole purpose to offer you in deep minimalistic atmospheres and drone soundscapes,from a very intesne levels of perceptions due how each one of the releases affects you in one oranother way.So such sensitive dismal and obscure shamanic mantras are present in this special release,including 4 compositions with intense moments from start to finsih.Drone textures and fractal emanations converging into mutative soundscapes are the first conceptions coming to our mind when exploring the first track called "Preobrazhenie" which include the collaborative spirit of Hladna,another ambient ritual project from russia,creating such vaporous atmospheres and primal soundscapes.Then comes the second one called "Zerno Sfera"a suggestive piece focusing into singing bowls,voices,dornes and such diverse elemnts which reminds you to Finnish Halo Manash,the music is intense and obscure."Solar seed" is an album dedicated to solar currents and its mutative seeds in our subconsious realms.In this track you shall experience the colaboration of Hladna & Neznamo."Veda-Tanec" is the third opus,and really we find here a very ritualistic piece full of percussive lements drones and spectral atmopsheres,creating a dismal vortex of atavistic nature,due how the music is created here.so,closing the album is "Zashitnyj Svet",with the collaboration of Kshatriy,is anther piece full of dense drone passages mixed with such ritualistic nature elemnts ,field recordings and diverse instruments collapsing all the tiem to create a true masterpiece here.The album comes in a solar full-colored envelope and card inside!! ...from the solar seeds a new shining primal light is hidden waiting for you to be discovered,to be inseminated once again and again!!

AUBE(Jap)

"Imagery Resonance" Cd 2007
(Aquarellist)

with a long trajectory and with a high quantitiy of several releases,AUBE,the solo project of Akifumi Nakajima has been developing its structured and eclectic resonances since early 90's,and now we are more than proud to present you "imagery Resonance" an album built into diverse and concrete processed sounds,all of them capturing the essence of minimalism and suggestive sounds collapsing all the time so such aspects can be heard on psychic exploratios such as "Undertone".The next one is called "Groundloop" ,manipulated and processed spaces traced perfectly into a new dimension of posibilities,the amazing point here is how the track mutates into repetitive atmopheres ans strange strucutres arranged perfectly though the use of percussion synthesizer amdek pck-100,the music here is just well structured and have the essence of previous works which has characterized Aube as a principal exponent in this kind of experimental soundscapes.The third one is "Imagery Resonance" and emerges with a more psychotic sound but still with such drone elements growing and evolving from time to time,giving you enough bases and ideas of the eclectic nature of this Japanese artist.Closing the album emerges "Exosphere" a composition with such hypnotic elements and drone patterns growing and moving in all directions,creating such vast scenarios full of dinamism and futuristic nature,due how music penetrates our brains from start to finish!!The album comes in a special package ready to be explored by you.for moreinfo just visit Aquarellist page here!!!

(Reviews 81)NORS'KLH,TETRAGRAMMATON,GOLDEN PARABOLA, JAHILIYYAH,

2010-12-23T10:34:00.000-08:00

NORS'KLH(Fra)

"La Haine Primordiale"

(Alchemic sound Museum)

Is more than a pleasure to Announce the awaiting new album Of NORS'KLH "LA Haine Primordiale"...A cosmic project whci emerges from the hidden black hole somewhere in the distant dimension,to evoke in deep atmospheres gathered under impressive musicalisation and well structured.I was very impressed by the development of this French project,which in my opinion is one of the best ones coming from such country nowadays.The album opens with an intro in which listner can submerged in dense and floating dismal atmopsheres with such sutile but strong elements which puts you in a kind of cosmic gnostic voyage,and prepare yourself for a long voyage to the center of cosmos where NORS?KLH is the paralell dimension to find your most hidden nature ,through the rest of compositions. Parts I to V ,are such in deep explorations of senses through monumental hymns,and errie transmissions of cosmic nature,always mutating and arranged in a perfect way.spoken voices as transmissions from outer space,rhythmic percussive patters evoking calmness and inducing trance,and atmopsheres surrounded from floating harmonies to obscure soundscapes able to open you new ways of perception.The most impressive of this release is without a doubt the fact how each rhymic pattern and dismal atmopsheres are synchronized together to create a vast piece of diverse elements and vaporous structures weel performed,well arranged and mixed to create a true masterpiece.The use of piano and synths together in Part V,for example is a clear example of the devopment the project has done since the very beginning."Final part",is a different track ranging with furiuous fast drumming elements in comparison the rest of the tracks and guitar elements and a kind of black metal atmopshere which gives to the album a different but interesting touch coz,the music moves in all directions.at middle of this track you shall explore a kind of ritualistic atmosphere,and ends with a period of silence ,a deadly mixture for sure. "Omeno (Requiem) is the last track ,and here NORS'KLH bring us a melancholic opus,a sorrowful composition with such mid tempo druming elements and eeerie atmopshres ready to haunt you and entering to such dimension in which NORS'KLH emerges to raise as a constellation full of hidden knowledge and wisdom to be explored!!!!

TETRAGRAMMATON(Jap)

"Elegy For Native Tongues" double cd 20o9

(Subvalent)

With Album TETRAGRAMMATON takes a eclectic experimental/inprovisational piece. This psychedelic trio coming from Tokio,Japan.so,they have created an impressive work here ,due how each one of these tracks contains such psycho-addictive tunes,transporting yourself to such vast universes creted thoguh such mimetic ,eclectic compositions.The first cd include 5 tracks opening with "The Ghosts Won't Starve We Will Perish",a long 18 minutes one,of defragmentative tunes and explosive druming elements blasting all the time.Then comes,"Elegy For Native Tongues",coming with sutile acoustic guitar tunes and percussive sounds which appears constantly through the whole track,and such psychotic Saxophone parts go give a more disturbing atmosphere due how the Sax parts are included here.The third one "Kohelet Revisited"is more a suggestive piece with obssessive electronic drone elements.TETRAGRAMMATON has created a trip to unknown dimensions through disturbing moments of harsh experimental noise. "Queen Of The Ships" and "Santa Sangre" complements the first disc with two suggestive pieces including such incledeble spontaneous saxophone tunes and percussive elements as principal basis. Through the second disc we have 3 compositions of a live set recoded in Tokio in 2007. "Oresteia In One Part" is the first one being so dense and ritualistic at the very be ginning,and with the pass of minutes mutating and transforming into a sonic obssesive organism due druming,drone and electronic patterns used here."solve Et Coagula" is just more a dronish exposition of subliminal characters evoking such eerie atmopsheres but still in themiddle of the track such hard noise electronic devices transforming such track in a complete chaotic machine destroying everything to its steps.finally we have " Los Heraldos Negros" complementing the album.An interesting album due how these Japanese trio has included diverse elements as gongs,bels,saxophone,drums,effects to create this eclectic piece!! for more info just check Subvalent recs.

JAHILIYYAH(Jap)

"Anon Nehrut" Digipack 2009

(Soundispatch)

Emanations, conjunctions of abstract forms and inner realities gave birth to Realism, an experimental/psychedelic act which has impressed us a lot, due the high quality of musical development and magickal explorations through each one of the 8 tracks included in this release.JAHILIYYAH is a Japanese project formed by Cal Lyall known for the impressive work at Tetragrammaton,and Ezra woolnough,David Macmahon exponents of the project called Grauss Vom Krampuss.the result to gather such three spirits was just brillant,because they offer us here a piece of sonic desconstructionism with intense moments from start to finish. Just explore the firts two tracks "Teeth Shaters Theme" and "Carnival Of souls" with such twisted drone patterns collapsing all the time,and more with thirrd one "The Grandmother whisperer"adopting some old school industrial traces to the whole track.The forth one "Methuselah"is more a dense ambient one with some minimalistic elements here and there.then arrives two untitled ones,in which everything se ms to be more calm butat moments the drone elements seems to possess the whole structure of the track giving it a kind of subterranean atmopshere due how both tracks are built here.A haunting album with so many elements worth to explore if looking something different,so other tracks included here are "Bloated Infans Smile" and "Celine Slaughterhouse".The album comes in a special package with hand made paintings and includes a mini posted with artistic abstract iamgery.So ,no so much information just to say JAHILIYYAH is sonic,visually,tactually,chemically,emotionally,spiritually… a ritualistic expression transcending the whole senses in a reality in which you are the principal core to the void.

GOLDEN PARABOLA(Jap)

"Beauty Queens" Cdr 2008

(Soundispatch)

Coming from tokio and having as principalHead to Cal Lyall,a creative Canadian guitarrist and electronic musician and member of interesting projects such as Tetragrammaton,Jahiliyyah, unleash part of his creative potential through GOLDEN PARABOLA. With this debut album we find a very dynamic album with diversity of sounds and interesting structures through the whole 8 compositions included here. "Beauty Queens"is built into diverse experiemntal structures bathed with such amazing fild recording elements which keep your senses alive all the time due the way as constanlty evolution of the whole composition.Also you shall hear some kind of stoner rock,and jazz influences through some of the tracks such as "Mama Cluster" and "Wunderkammer".also you shall experience sensitive explorations of sounds in tracks such as "Jasper’s Black Gunion" and "Pompey, Good Night".so its interesting to know how creativity is handled here,always bringing new elements to the tracks to the perfect use of elements such as babylonian drums,clarinet,bass,guiarts,effects,machines and field recordings which are well adapted to the music in general, creating a very interesting musical piece worth to explore.The album comes with an abstract colorful cover dseign which goes perfect acording to the album in general.not so much words here,but necesary to describe the music you shall find here!!!

(Reviews 80) AURA,SOUFERRANCE VISION,KOLDVOID

2010-12-14T15:35:00.000-08:00

Aura(Port)

"Invisible Landscape" Cd 2010
(Va lse Sinistre)

Under a conceptual expressionism focusing in photographies taken at places in Portugal,both artist namely Andre Fernandes and Jose Ramos have the marvelous idea to bring to reality such images into musical soundscapes...so the result was very interesting,10 experiemntal compositions going into post rock elements mixed with electo sounds and field recordings.All in all we must say Aura,is a perfect soundtrack for the whole visual concept presented here.The main important element is how each track gives you such definited idea of what visually you are watching,because in booklet each track has its respective image.The first four compositions "The furious march","Vacuity","Katharsis","Parallel Worlds" represents the water aspects in which you must be surbmerged to enter the feeling generated in each one of the tracks.sutile soundscapes and percussive sounds moving through diverse electronic patterns,going from slow to rhythmic to nostalgic structures with a high dose of creativity.The Earth's aspect is represented by tracks such as "Flowing textures","Two Steps For The Gods" and "The Faith Woods",all of them bathed with such sugesstive images of hybrid landscapes having such eclectic nature in music due how each one of the tracks are moving into diverse musical soundscapes,but always having something in common,the intense experience and sensations awaken at the whole tracks. Neo classical atmosphres,electronic spaces and atmosphres are the ones you shall experience here.Complementing this opus are ""Warm Winter" and "Cloud Collossus" representing the air factor,in my opinion I built my own paradigm of music and images within elements of nature,so a personal representation for this amazing album,in which you makes the invisible , visible and where everything is possible just opening your mind and floating in vacuity of AURA's music. Without a doubt a worth Album to be checked if looking for something experimental and creative!!!

SOUFERRANCE,VISION(Can)

"Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The Mind"Digipack 2010
(Valse Sinistre)

A Canadian project raising from Montreal Canada,present us its debut album,what I found is a really interesting opus,due the eclectic nature of a sole long of 62 minutes track,in which Peine,the mastermind behinds SOUFERRANCE,VISION express a narrative exploration of experimental nature,with high emphasis in those authors who has been a high influence in his life and musical carrear.The track is just incredible,at moments ranging from tenuos dark ambient soundscapes bathed with such subliminal elements and psycho acoustic passages converging all the time and bringing you an exposition of abstract emotions and functional fragments with a very obssessed result.This Canadian artis has vision here just an own voyage to such abstract realities present in his life and now become present through such audial structures.Eerie passages are evoked from time to time to give birth to such enigmatic ghastly atmopsheres.The album is always moving into avantgardish soundcapes and ethereal magickal spaces with high emphasis in acoustic transformations giving you inner sensations of lonelines,melancholy and vacuity.visually the album is presented in a special package and a breathtaking artwork made by the well -known Costin Chiorenau & Twilight 13 Media,and comes in a A5 digipack with two pages booklet inside!! Be perpare to enter the imaginative subconsious labyrinths createdthrough "travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The mind" in which everything wil be possible just opening your mind!!!

KOLDVOID(Roman)

"Ghost Staring At The World" pro cdr 2008
(Valse Sinistre)

This is my first encounter with this Dark Ambient/Industrial act, coming from Romania.And this encounter bring us to transhuman dimensions,coz we were submerged in ethereal atavisms surrounded by spectral fog and shapes. KOLDVOID is one of such projects with suck kind of charsima due how each one of the three tracks included here are developed. Through "Nostalgia" the first track, you can experience a desolated secenario full of sorrowful harmonies and dramatic atmopsheres bathed with a cold atmopshere.Through the second one called "Phantasma",the voyage continues through minimalistic tunes and dark ambient exposition of soundscapes,converging in sutile,thin elements.At the end of the track you shall experience some drone passages veiled with some industrial passages creating a perfect end for such composition.a very incredible fragmentation of sounds gathered through dense, vaporous drone elements which express in concret way the KOLDVOID visions regarding it own universe submerged in the most in deep void of consciousness. The music seems calm at moments, but suddenly you can feel the intensity and somber atmosphere in each sonic explosion erupting from “Ghost Staring At The World” album.Spoken voices appaears in track three called"Radiance" as a prelude to such apocaliptic dawn melting themselves into radioactive emanations developed by drones and a minimalistic atmosphere which transport you to unknown alien dimensions. This release is one of these ones you will never forget due to intensity and the way as are gathering together the whole elements as ambient,drone,piano parts,effects to create a ghastly piece as the one you could hear heare.so,it’s a bit difficult to be more explicit referring the whole conceptual album. just you must hear it to have a more exact idea of what KOLDVOID is. The release comes as a self-handmade digislevee with a professionally manufacturedcdr on the inside.…A gate to the dimensional Emptiness hidden in the roots of KOLDVOID.

K A L I G L I M M E R: Emme Ya – Beyond The secret Flame, The Aiwass Man...

2010-12-06T13:26:00.000-08:00

K A L I G L I M M E R: Emme Ya – Beyond The secret Flame, The Aiwass Man...: "Emme Ya is quite evidently a deep well of thelemic references. Occult in every meaning of the word. In a way the music can be compared to wa..."

(Reviews 79) DEEP-PRESSION,SVART1-OWL CAVE

2010-11-30T13:04:00.000-08:00

DEEP-PRESSION (Usa)

"Void Of A Morning" Cd 2009
(Valse sinistre)

DEEP-PRESSION is one of such creative projects,whith a high process of development through time,which has been expressed in each one of the releases.The project emerges in 2006 by the shapes of TRIST and Rh,the main idea was to create something different and ranging from diverse generes as industial,ambient,noise,experimental...the result is just amazing,so its reflected in its 4th album titled "Void Of a morning" expressing its most in deep realities focused in dreamscapes and diverse visons all of them through a conceptual perspective developed through each one of the 8 chapters created here."Requiem For The Tommorows" is a piece graviting into ambient soundscapes with such dense elements surounded through the whole track.Another piece here is called "Night Struggle" a kind of continuum of last track ,but this time adapting some diverse sounds which enrich the way as the track is evolving through minutes.such guitar parts gives to the track a proper atmosphere,to keep on dreaming beyond the latent reality of the void.spoken voices are generated to to complements perfectly with the transition of track too."Just A While Before",has been built with such dense and experiemental soundscapes coming from desolated ambient structures to repetitive elements,and such sutile guitar parts,and voices giving such interesting touch to the track in general. An important point in this album as on previous ones,is the inclusion of diverse musicians to take part on the album.This time M.v.K,Vrangsinn,Grav,A.o.s.h. among others take part here.Thing goes a bit different through " Awakening" a composition with a more strong elements due to guitar parts,effects and voices into screaming ones,giving such amazing interface to the track.Between mostly of the tracks you could find "Interlude" parts I,II,and III,a kind of short intersections offering industrial drone patterns collapsing all the time.closing the album is a track called " All This Pain For today",a guitar ambient based track with suggestive screaming voices.The album comes with a six fold booklet including lyrics.!!!

SVART1(Ita)

"Non Tutto Ció Che Tage É Morto" Cdr 2010
(Valse Sinistre)

Raimond Gaviano's solo projects was created somewhere in Cagliari italy,and offer us an exquisite album full of Dark ambient masks mixed with such dense soundscapes collapsing all the time,mutating all the time and giving you a sence of desolation and vacuity due to intenity of each one of the whole tracks included here."Ex Nihilo Crevit" evokes the pure essence of this italian act,with a composition full of obscure desolated spaces gathered to create a vast piece of ambient atmospheres. "morns Omnia Solvit" ,congregates a kind of ritual structures by the use of bells and drone patterns,creating ghastly atmopsheres and sinister scenarios through the composition.some spoken voices as chorus can be heard as backgrouand at the end of the track.An aspect worth to mention here is how each one of the tracks evolves from time to time,always bringing new elements to the music in general."Omnia Tempus Habenet" begins where the last track ends...and the voyage continues this time through a more drone based one,surrounded by some industial elements. "Factum Omne Rotat" is a more sugstive piece of dark ambient nature in comparison the last one,more sutile and calm atmopsheres but still bathed though such eerie structures convering all the time.The last track included here is "Non Tutto Ció Che Tace É Morto",to complements the whole conceptual album which translated means "Not everything that Tage is Dead" and from such translation we must observe SVART1 not as a dead organism but as a reality closed to a dream,where nothing has been seen to be continued!!!the album includes a video clip in which you shall exprerince the visual side of SVART1,bringing you desolation and isolationism in a very interesting perspective.Svart1 is recommended to all fans of Northaunt, Kammarheit, Atrium Carceri, Brian Eno, etc.Pro CDr with pro glossy booklet.

OWL CAVE(Hung)

"Behind The Red Drape" Cdr 2009
(Valse Sinistre)

OWL CAVE is a suggestive and obscure project coming from hungary and I got very impressed due the high musical quality of this project and how such cinematic ambient structures are going Through the 48 minutes long song included here.OWL CAVE offer us a mysterious piece full of eerie atmospheres and suggestive elements highly inspired by David Linch' tv Serie Twink Peaks.The proces of how the music ranges from dark ambient to drone àttersn and the inclusion of spoken voices around the whole composition is something which was created in a very efective way,because it stoned the listener in an in deep voyage in which he/she can be submerged into such surrealisitc and Hallucinatory spaces.At moments the albums seems to be calm and moody,but still with the pressence of such enigmatic atmospheres which makes of " Behind The Red Drape" a very interesting piece worth to explore. An audial presentation of the darkness of the Ghostwood Forest,The Black lodge and the sinister entities that manifested themselves there in.Again Valse Sinistre Surprise us with an album full of creativity and charisma,due how the album is perceived by listeners in order to explore the dense regions behinds the red drape.The albums comes in pro cdr dvd case and limited to 150 handnumbered copies!!! A good option to Dark ambient fans if looking for something hypnotic,hallucianting and dark...

HOARFROST (Interview)

2010-11-22T17:13:00.000-08:00

HOARFROST is a dark ambient/industrial project, created in 2006 in Silesia, industrial region of Poland. The first album of HOARFROST - “Dungeon” by Kaos Ex Machina netlabel - released in the beginning of 2007. It was the story of man isolation and impossibility of escape from pain. In the same year HOARFROST write two songs for KEM’s compilations: “Old eastern lands” for album “Where are You, Europe?” and “Electroconvulsive therapy” for “See You in sanitarium”. He also published in KEM split with Mrok “The girl, who loved tattoos”, inspired by Ilse Koch, sadistic wife of commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In 2008 HOARFROST published a song “Insanus” on “… where tattered clouds are stranding” - compilation by Eastern Front label. Next he made the remix of “Ritual of All-embracing madness” for the compilation “Amalgame”, including new versions of Bisclaveret’s tracks (label: Zoharum). The first long-play CD by HOARFROST and his official debut was “Ground zero”, released in September 2008 by Zoharum. It is a 37-minute description of landscape developing from an unknown cataclysm, presenting ruins and debris of steel, dust flying in the air, rust and slivers and tumbling down construction. The premiere of “Ground zero” was 20.09.2008 in Gdansk, where HOARFROST played his first live show. In 2009 a track “From here to ruins” from “Ground zero” was published on “Sensitive data” - collection of tracks by Zoharum's Kollectiv's friends and relatives. HOARFROST also writed a track “Spirit molecule” for “Still the same after years”, compilation by Mizantrophy. In this year HOARFROST played concerts in Enniskillen and Limerick - in Ireland and in Ustrzyki Dolne - in Poland.

Brand new single "Broken Waltz", taken from collaboration with Inner Vision Laboratory released on December 2009. It is a promotion of CD "Decline" which is planned on a February 2010. So,here is what Rafal the mastermind behinds HOARFROST have to say...

So how has been the artistic evolution and musical development in almost 3years of musical career?And where from came the name and inspiration for HOARFROST name?

Hello Kerval. I think, that last three years, when I have functioning as Hoarfrost, were pretty productive and I am glad of them. Some releases had appeared, some others were planned, so still something going on and it is important. Every album is a challenge and one more step forward. Every next album is a new experience and lead me in new areas. I can stop in one place. So I can’t foresee what will be the direction of my next albums. One neared – yes, but others? Off course, there are general contours, an esthetic of Hoarfrost, but that is all. You ask about the name. I think that it is a good illustration of my music. When we think “hoarfrost”, we feel a coldness and see a calm landscape. Hoarfrost settles on people and things. It is closed but strange. It exist with world around, but it also create its own world. When we look at area, settled by hoarfrost, we sometimes think, that place, recently full of life, is already dead and the time stopped. My music is just like that.

Which were the principal aspects which influenced since the beginning for expressing yourself through a musical with the dark psychotic feeling as HOARFROST? The music is my hobby. I am engaged on it – with breaks – for over a dozen of years. It is my breakaway from everyday life, complement and possibility of self-realization. From my youngest years I listened to different kinds genres of music. But dark, revolting music with some kind of messages is my favorite. As a teenager I was a guitarist in local rock and metal groups, next I sang poetry. Few years ago I started having interest in electronic sounds and that was how Hoarfrost appeared. I was always interested in pessimistic and apocalyptic themes. I listened to a lot of music of 80. - from Joy Division to black metal, from gothic to sung poetry. I like texts which asked the question without answers.

How has been the experience with HOARFROST in your personal life since the beginning until now 2010?
Creating music gives me much satisfaction. The satisfaction is bigger if I found listeners who feel in the same way and understand my message. Music allows me to meet many interesting people, who are looking for something more in their life, sometimes they also made their own art. I keep in touch with many of them. Our discussions inspired me in my artistic work. The concerts and places, which I visited with my music are important as well. Thanks to people, like Smiglo from Chain Reaction Promotions, I visited Ireland two times and explored many places in this country. Things like these stay in my mind for a long time and gives me a motivation to keep on working.

An aspect I really find so interesting in your debut release “Ground Zero” is how psychotic and well structured,dynamic your music sounds.so, is this the principal point you try to develop when creating an album? Or is originality and ideological patterns elements the most important at each release?
“Ground zero” – in my intention – should be music registration of catastrophe during act of creating. The intention of this material is one: make listener feels that he is in center of it. It is collision man with brutality of this phenomenon. It has to call up emotions. It was my intention when I wrote this material. I always work in this way – first think about whole concept. It is important for me, to have main theme for material. I try to prepare some vision of sounds and individual compositions. When my concepts already have a form, I sit down and try to realize my plan.

Which is the main source of inspiration for the musical aspects at HOARFROST? Does it reflects your own personality based on your obsessions, visions, thoughts experienced in this existence?
Hoarfrost is in fact a part of me, the darker part (laugh). Hoarfrost’s music comes from my considerations and visions. My inspiration is a man, his nature, especially its dark aspects. Empty landscapes. Apocalyptic atmosphere. My inspirations are also emotions, which appear when a man is in a situation without an exit. Man in critical situation is able to many things, sometimes crossing the rationality. And sometimes he gives up.

Due the transgressive, dark nature of your album “Ground Zero…”I asked you: is your intention with “Ground Zero” to focus the listener’s mind into a specific state in which they can feel, explore your music from deep within? And so, establishing a nexus between they and the essence behinds such amazing release? The mission of the music is influencing on listener. Everyone, according to his mood, look for sounds good for him in the concrete moment. Of course, to be understood, the music has to find proper listener. When I have compositing “Ground zero” – I have aspiring to crash listener with world, breaking to debris, and vision of apocalypse. It is not strange or fantastic idea. We live at the time, when incident like this could happen not only on television screen or in SF literature. We have to understand, that everybody maybe witness of apocalypse of some place in some time. I intentionally haven’t told what is the kind and the reason of destruction. It is not necessary. Everyone can understand this album in their own way, basing on their own experience. I have only tried to show and describe some kind of situation.

Let’s talk about personal paradigms…so, do you think its great to let emotions as love, hate, obsessions, melancholy free to rule or the important is to have control over them?
I am not sure, if we could have a full control on our emotions. We can control only symptoms of emotions. There are theories that everybody can – in their mind – choose emotions good for him. But I don’t agree with this idea. The kind of reaction is qualified by individual, personal and cultural characteristic. Awareness of the emotional condition is more important than controlling them. Awareness of the emotions may be used in the process of creation. It let us experience ourselves. When we “listen to” feelings of other person, we could understand and come to one with him or her.

And from such quotation are for you love & hate the same feeling .just individuals gives a name to determinates the role of both in their lives?
Love and hate are two poles of the same thing, the same feeling. The same law appears in many other cases. Let’s see: “the light” and “the darkness” – there are also one thing. We could talk only about the difference of the gradations between two poles of the same phenomenon. Where “the darkness” ends, where “the light” begins? Similarly love and hate – they are on opposite poles and between them there are gradations of feeling. Point zero is when we can’t qualify, if we liked or we don’t liked. So names in this case are only for describing the function of concrete feeling in life, show its place on one pole.

From your own perspective, are instincts based on principles as mental strength,freedom,knowledge,pride,being your own god and master are what humans must have to develop in order to find a well-definite inner power to evolve in this existential plane?
As Schopenhauer said: “Everything perfect, grows slowly”. We have to looking for, experience, watch, ask and answers the questions – it is the method to create our own personality and own value system. For many people asking questions is a problem. They wait for a ready resolution and accept it uncritically. People, who are impressionable, become marionettes in hands of other people. They leach themselves their personality. People illness is lack of purpose, lack of awareness that I am here and now, that I am responsible for who I am. It depends on me only. People are too often conformists in their life and it pulls them down.

HOARFROST has been developing a lot live performances….so, give us a clue of what listeners can expect when hearing your compositions at stage? Is important for you to cause a visual /audible art which reflects the HOARFROST’ message? The concerts are the right time and the right place to fully realize the message carried by my project. In my opinion this kind of art need image as replenishment. In ambient or industrial music spectrum of possibilities to express emotions is limited unlike – for example – rock concerts (which are often assisted of visualizations too). So – in my opinion – using images to complete ambient, music of background is necessary. We live in time of technology, images has become one of the most important medium. So they have to be presented on this kind of concert, to show was understand by listeners completely.

By the way I haven’t heard “Decline” album,(By the way,I heard it now,so review below-ed)I want to know,how was to cooperate with Inner Vision Laboratoy in such release,and please let tell us more about this release please? Writing this album there was idea of Karol from Inner Vision Laboratory, who proposed to me the collaboration. It takes some time before we started working, but when we get down to composing, everything went smoothly. Our intention was to make album in a little different from music we play in our own projects. We understood with Karol great and composing the album was a very nice experience. We are both glad for accomplished effects. And from releasing it in Zoharum, which has cared about every detail involving the promotion. And about music – I recommend just listen to it. I think that everyone can find in it something interesting.

What comes with HOARFROST, any new material ready to be put out soon? Any new surprises with the new opus?
I have many plans, unfortunately, time and everyday life doesn’t allow me realize everything I want. I have to resign from some things, and some things have to wait for their moment. But presently limited release appears by Exploratory Drilling Productions. It will be recording of concert I played in 2009, in Enniskillen, Ireland. Besides, there are the split Hoarfrost and Polish project Multipoint Injector. When mastering was finished, we look for a label for this material. I also have invitations for two albums with remixes. And I slowly try on to make my new material. I have also other plans, but I had better not to talk about them at this moment

How perfectionist are you when creating music or going to studio? Does perfection a limitation or a reality based in conformism? I always try my albums sound just I have previously planned. It is natural, that everyone have their own visions about their sound. I usually work on many compositions at the same time, but only some of them go to album. It doesn’t mean that others go to trash. I work on them as long as the effect is satisfying. The primary concept is sometimes quite different from the final effect.

Before closing with this effective conversation, we want to know more about if there is any idea behinds to express yourself through any other musical project or another form of art.?
All my attention is concentrated on Hoarfrost. I don’t plan, at this moment, create others music projects. Maybe the reason is the fact, that in Hoarfrost I haven’t determined any bounds so I can afford the music experiments. Therefore I don’t feel forced to composing music under other names. Except music I make some videos and visualizations for the concerts. I am also the author of video clips which were published on “Ground zero” and “Decline”. I think about Hoarfrost as comprehensive project, composed of music and image. I am also fascinating in photography but, until now, I haven’t tried myself in this arena. Maybe someday?

From our side was a pleasure to talk to you jouni.your final breaths here!!!
I would like to thank you for the interesting conversation. I also thank everyone, who assists Hoarfrost from the beginning until now. It is difficult to call everybody, because there are a lot of people. But – what is important – each of these persons has their own passion, own avocation. I wish everybody would be aligned in something in their life just like them.

(Reviews 78) HOARFROST,HOROLOGIUM,ASBAAR,VOID WORK

2010-11-17T12:46:00.000-08:00

HOARFROST vs INNER V ISION LABORATORY(Pol)

"Decline" Digipack 2010
(Zoharum)

Its hust more than exciting to find such kind of releases,having such strong feeling of cooperation,so this process,revelation and defragmentative idea,waere on mind of both projects in order to create something in deep,eclectic and obscure.Revealing different aspects of both of them. Both projects are developed here,just a pert of their creativity in order to handle an in deep voyage to such obscure regions of mind. HOARFROST is a Polish act,emerging in 2006,and since them has been working in such dark ambient industrial musik with so many interesting aspects,due how music has evolved since the very beginning.so while,the other Polish act INNER VISION LABORATORY floating into ambient psycdelic with some industrial touches have been creating effussive and interesting music as well.This time both amazing projects have joined forces to create a very interesting release worth to check.The album includes 8 compositions and a bonus video of the first track "Mind Infinity".The highlights from this album,is the obcure and mutative soundscapes moving and collapsing all the time creating such in deep atmospheres in a very dense and proper way.The album is inspired in two poems"Mad man" and "Modern Icarus"...the album converges in its own dark nature with compositions such as "Do You See Them Too",built into dense atmospheres and eclecting soundcapes evolving from time to time,and including such rhythmic beats and ethnic structures which just fits perfectly with the whole concept of the album. "Behind The Walls",is another piece with full cryptic passages mutating all the time,so sutile sounds ,and piano elements mixed with suggestive industrial patterns and drone elements makes of this track one of the best ones from this album. "Broken Waltz" is just brillant,due how such classical piano elements are covered by such suggestive elements and sounds to amalgame a perfect long trip to such vast obscure regions ofmind,full of nostalgic remembrances and distan past echoes covered by the dust of time. Another track is "Unless You're Dreaming",distan voices,enigmatic drone structures moving in all direction,spoken voices and floating sutile spaces are the main elements which you shall find here.sensations of vacuity,unlimited ago and fracmented realities are the structures you must experience here. "boundless Oblivion" and "A Clear Fuse" are the last tracks both of them with such industrial elements which gives to each track a powerfull charisma and more when the influx of such vast eerie atmospheres,female voices arranged perfectly as mantras to complement the spoken voices added to the track "Boundless Oblivion". The last composition is just amzing beautiful.piano and key board passages bathed by such sublime atmospheres and percussive elements which gives you a clear idea of dynamism and eclectic nature of both projects!! the album comes in a beautiful digipack,and remmber this one includes a bonus video!!!

HOROL OGIU M(Pol)

"A Handful Of Dust And Ashes" Digipack
(Zoharum)

Another Polish act with such impressive creativity and spontaneous musicalisationship is what we have the pleasure to review for. so HOROLOGIUM is one of such projects convergin in Ambient/experimental paradigms with a touch of industrilish edge,giving to the project a more raw sound at moments.HOLOGIUMstarted back 2004 and since them,the project has been releasin lot of releases through different labels.This time we presents you "A Handful Of dust and Ashes" A kind of recollection compositions which wer recoded during diverse occasions and gathered especially for this release,with the solo purpose to show us the impressive and unlimited music created by Gregorz Siedlecki.The albums includes a total of 17 compositions in which you shall experience the enigmatic and suggestive world created by HOROLOGIUM. tracks such as " Secret Of The Continent" and its amazing martial percussive elements dressed by some tribal elements and industrial patterns which appears at the whole track from time to time.Through "Ominous Morning Din" ,things goes more oriented into experimental industrial edge,with repetitive elements and harsh deconstructed elements,which transforms the whole composition in a virtual machine full of diverse movements and structures,all of them with a touch of creativity as principal characteristic in HOROLOGIUM.Is worth to note that between mostly of the tracks we shall esperience a track called "Miniature" which is fracmented in 4 arts and complements perfectly with the whole concept in general. "Arma Virunque Cano" is another psychotic industrial piece full of power and suggestive atmospheres,crowned by sutile sounds and some female voices. with "XX Century Alchemy",everything turns a bit different in comparison last tracks.so pinao sounds emerges together atmopsheres and spoken male voices adapting perfectly."opium" is a monumental transformation which gather the essential elements to keep your sences alive all the time.This composition has some thin bells,voices,atmospheres and arrangements which surely will transport you to a narcotic voyage to the center of your own mind.sudeenly the percussive elements emerges to gives a strong feeling to the whole composition.Other tacks you shall explore here are " Adormidero","Let Their Be Night","Absolute"...before al these amazing compositions,you shall experience three live compositions which were taken from live shows in Barcelona and Bologna in 2008 and 2009 respectively. So the first of these live tracks is "Invocation" an enigmatic composition full of such magickal atmospheres and voices and arranged by percussive sounds.surely you will find this release so attracting due the nature in which floats HOROLOGIUM,always mutating,always moving in all directions and bringing new elements to ambient/experimental scene!!!

VOIDWORK(Bel)

"Horror/Forsaken" Digipack 2010
(BlackDrone)

When hearing imprsssive and in deep musical album as the ones we have inmind give us motives to work so hard and with dedication,due how each musical transformation penetrates our minds in order to give you visions,thoughts from an artistical level.so with this Belgian project VOID WORK,created in 2008 by Xavier,things seems to be goes orinted into such neo classical atmospheres with impressive sounding like horror movie elements.A very amazing release is what is present here in "Horror forsaken",a double release containing diverse elements and a guest artist complementing perfectly to bring to this existential plane A very interesting album worth to check. "Horror" includes a total of13 compositions built into haunting musical atmospheres which you must explore when hearing titles as "Haunted" a cello based track with such slow and melancholic elements and voices. or just "Marble Steps",a track with an incredible work of synthesizers and percussive elemnts creating a solid but dynamic structure of eerie atmospheres...vast cinematic soundscapes cralws within "Interlude",and more with the impressive use of percussive sounds which empower the short but effective track. An aspect worth to mention at the whole both releases included here is the participation of talented artists as Ann-Mary Thim (Arcana),with lyrics and voices. "insomnia" emanating is ghastly and cold distant atmospheres in a very proper way due how the composition is evolving with pass of minutes. Through "THe serpennt's Lullaby III" ,everything is more oriented into dark,dnese atmospheres and voices crawling from withing the deeps of the track,collapsing themselves and creating an obscure piece here.one of the best compositions included here. Other impressive pieces here are "Forever In Fire","Post-apocalypse","The Descent","Anctartica" and "The Black goat". The use of ethnical instruments and ancient atmospheres is what more attracts you since the first to the last track!! The "forsaken"s part includes a total of 7 compositions with a very mystical ancient atmopshere.for example the track called "Akhenathon",built though the well performed use of acoustic instruments and male voices. "Ghostlight",more dense in itrs own nature in comparison last one ,but still with such interesting element and just perfect work of synths giving such errie atmosphere to the whole composition,also is worth to mention the use of voices in this too."forsaken","Pillars" both of them pieces with high levels in deconstructionism in the way as at every second the track trascends into something new and diverse,bringing apocaliptic scenearios full of desolation and loneliness. "circle" is just amazing,tribal percussive elements mixed with thin sounds,voices,atmospheres. closing the release are "Nightmare" and "Grave".The albums comes in colourful digipack.for more info just visit Black drone's page and check some online samples!!!

ASBAAR(Spa)

"Corona Veli Aurei" Digipack 2010
(Black Drone)

ASBAAR is an Ambient / Industrial project rising from Barcelona spain,the project is handled by Marc Merinee which is know due its other project called Eldar.This time he proclamates his own visions and personal encounter with his own ancestors searching for hidden wisdom,a wisdom which roots in the deep of our hearts,minds,and spirits. so with ASBAAR ,everythings seems to be an in deep explorations through each one of the eleven compositions developed here. "corona Veli Aurei" is one of such mutative organic forces carved in nature,due how musically it trascends its own spaces to create somethingdense,somber and still creative.Pieces as "Mana" with such industrial percussive patterns and atmospheres collapsing all the time. or just "Agnosia" with water sounds and diverse soundscapes transporting you the hidden mysteries of mother gaia.So a complete collective of soundscapeas and atmosphere all of them offering you amazing tunes and irrational atmopsheres always through such spectral,eerie vacuity generated in the whole tracks included here.The manipulation of diverse patterns at "Pulchrum" and "Fatum"are just clear examples of how much the album improves more and more when passing of tracks...A primordial darkness opening its portals to be explored in all senses!! The whole album is has a visual side inspired under the influence of the photographic visuals of Manel O Company,revealing us the spectral desolation,anguish and desperation of human mind to escape from such relities in which has been chained since Brith. "corona Veli Aurei" is just a free spirit,evolving through aeons and aeons...12 pages booklet in which besides the visual side you shall explore some poems and written structures which goes according the pciture to creates a perfect complement for the whole albumin general."Instinctus" and "Tucsi" are the ones who closes the release,with such dense atmospheres full of cold desolation,where everyhings sems to be an end...but the beginning of something beyond the collective consiousness in which own nature plays an important role!!!ASBAAR delighten us with a powerfull album worth to check out now!!

BISCLAVERET (Interview)

2010-11-14T08:40:00.000-08:00

Bisclaveret - the indigenous representative of the psychodelic / dark ambient scene.. Duet Radosław Murawski (Thorn) & Maciej Mehring (Dragos) is following their own music path. Relying in on the dark/wave ambient stylistics and taking inspirations from illustration music they are creating sounds, thanks to which the atmosphere of horror and psychodrama is enhanced. Creating their compositions, the musicians are trying to close them in tight albums, in which the text is an integral part thanks to which Bisclaveret introduces the listeners into the world of their own visions, claustrophobic fears and questions about human existence. They use their own literature and musician code. The whole answers were given by Dragos with the purpose to cover everything refering this excellent Polish act!!!

Discography:
2010.10.02 Bisclaveret - "engill Ljssins" (Zoharum)
2010.06.14 Bisclaveret - "ephemeros [ante 'Te Deum']"CD (Zoharum)
2008.02.29 Bisclaveret - "Amalgame"CD (Zoharum)
2007.07.12 Bisclaveret vs Bruno - "Les Mannequins" CD (Zoharum Records)
2007.03.23 Scontrum act VI - kolaboracja (Waroffice Propaganda/Rage in Eden)
2006.12.11 Psyche nomine (The Eastern Front - Israel)
2004 Er Roud el aater fi nezaha el khater (Cynfeirdd-France)
2004 I'll Concerto VCD (Wyrm/Serpent's Fang)
2003 In Hortis MCD (Wyrm Records)
2001 Aegri Somnia... MCD (self-released)

Greetings Dragos & Thorn,9393/93...so, reveal us a few about the closed connection between magick and BISCLAVERET?And reveal us about how happened BISCLAVERET was transformed in a latent magickal force as its recognized today?
Hi,Hm...Bisclaveret is peculiar magical medium. By the band We can express ourselves. We evoke own thesis, ideas and thoughts. By the band We exist in other space. Bisclaveret is our sacrum sphere.Each Bisclaveret concert is somethting as ritual, during which We create new creation. Somethimes is ephemerical but it exist only for this one moment beyond the reality. Bisclaveret is manifesto of our ego; it’s a form, which We use to create new sounds and images.

What's your own interpretation behinds the name BISCLAVERET,and how do you visualize each one of your releases until now year 2010,from your perspective as artist?
Bisclaveret is the old Irish name of werewolf taken from celtic legend.
When We decided to call the band this name, We were enchanted of beatiful sound and predatory meaning of this word. It reflected state of our sprit, mind and our artistics which is also beautiful sometimes mysterious and predatory too. Each Bisclaveret’s activity was next step in our artistic and individual evolution. When We remind our choices, Live acts and releaeses We know that each one had reflected our emotions in that moment.
What has offered to your existence BISCLAVERET, as a driving magickal force and primal element in your life? As I said Bisclaveret is our magical medium – manifest of ourselves – as artists, authorrs and people.

Let just enter to "Psyche nomine" album...so, tell us about the general ideological concept behind such masterpiece.and about the inspirational thelemic strcuture known as"Akeldama XIV"? Psyche nomine is our first concept album. It was tale about the man, who roams in various aspects of high magick. Album reveals the fragility of human in opposite to the Great World of Chaos .We try to warn people of the danger waiting for them if they deal with the subject of occultism recklessly. Akeldama is one of my favourites Aleister Crowley lyrics. It was ideal to fulfill our album concept., so We decided to use it on Psyche noMine. I offen read various Aleiser Crowley texts – these one about the magic aspects and other philosophical essaies and poetry. His philosophical aspects are the closest to me. I love to immerse into his strange ideas, puns and riddles .

You knows how paradigmatic is the essence of magick.so,we could say "Madness is initiation,and initiation is madness"? due the trascendence and trasnmutative changes we develops when exploring the differents paths of Magick?
Madness – as every extreme emotion state - is a critical moment, when live changes. Then every change is after-effect of those critical moments. These two definitions exist inseparably. For example music can be composed through the strong emotions and the music can explore strong emotions during you’re listening to it.. Similar feedback exist in our normal activity and in the special, important moments that we celebrate during different occasions.

How is a perfect visual representation of BISCLAVERET, when developing your music through stage? Any especial performance which you reminds under a nostalgic ,or effusive facet?
Bisclaveret is a Project which is still searching for new and expanding . We don’t have only one manifest. Each album shows us in new perspective. Only one costant element is discovering of new meanings for old symbols. We are looking for answers of a question about human existence.
When We start work on our new album We think about all aspects of sounds, words that will create one concept story. In this time, when we prepare new tracks, We create new photo sessions, performance, visuals etc. We place emphasis on coheret message, which will show new theme.

What's the most representative elements you try to express audience when performing live? perhaps masks used represents,the BISCLAVERET's inner nature which must explore by listeners through each one of your compositions?
When We prapare new live set, We select tracks, which We want play In this one concert.We start finding new form of transmission. We try to close each track in to one concept – giving a new meaning to the show. We compose tracks in this way that let us to tell a new story for audience by sounds, visuals and performance. We bring the audience into the new world of our symbols, imaginary land far from reality of “normal life”. Sometime it is a dream of madmen, sometimes it’s rite of initiation. We like to create world of imagination on the line of magic and madness. Our masks symbolize separation world of creation from the world before and after show.

We are a bit curious about the main ideological, and musical concepts which lead you to express yourself with BRUNO through "Les Mannequins" CD ? any other coperation release if future?
It’s the really magical co-operation! The name ‘Bruno’ in the name of project means the spirit of polish writer, who create ‘Tract about the mannequins’. On the base of this novel We created concept of this album. We both love Bruno Schulz novels. A few years ago during narcotic-ecstatatic session We experimented with sounds and words. We affirmed that was a great idea for a new album . We started to work but the spirit of B. Schulz sitll stood close to us! Will we plan new co-operation? We have some plans but We can’t say anything concrete at this moment.

Now, reveal us some information about your activities behinds ZOHARUM rec? Any new releases planned for this year 2010? how is your selection for to choose acts for ZOHARUM recs? Perhaps,any south American act for future?
Zoharum is the artist collektive and label. We created this organization to realise the Bisclaveret’s activity. We planned this kind of activity a long time ago but We didn’t have time and possibility to do it before. This situation had changed when We wanted to release the album ‘Les Mannequins’. We wanted to publish this album on the day of Bruno Schulz birthday. We didn’t have any guarantee from other labels that they could do it that day so We decided to make it by our label. Then We started and the machine speeded up.. We started to organize some events, concerts, exhibitions. We arranged new cooperation between painters, musicians and photographers. Our relation started to tighten. Our aim is to bring new people to common activity. Graphics create new layouts, musican play concerts during their exhibition etc. We belive that it is the beggining of larger activity. We started to release more other bands... Plans? We started new serie IYHHH. Now We have two titles in this collect and We plan next releases of [haven], ouroborous, different state and compilation “From the Earth to Sirius”...next events signed by ARTeNATIVE, a few concerts of Bisclaveret..... We still looking for interesting projects for our catalogue....

Give us some deatils about BISCLAVERET's new release "Ephemeros (Ante 'Te Deum')"?
Ephermeros [ante ‘Te Deum’] – as etery earlier CD of Bisclaveret release is a concept album , touching up a subject of human existance hidden in the symbolic of seven angel names.On this album you will find 7 songs - pieces showing various aspects of human’s nature and his cosmic dimension in the world. This album is a the trip into the human’s mind through the word and sound.Ephermeros [ante ‘Te Deum’] shows a little bit different face of Bisclaveret by using new form of expression which the musicians used in the alchemic ritual of creation.

Besides musical, which other artisitcal,magickal interest are developed by you and Thorn?
We’re intersted in various forms of art. We love good movies, literature and paintings...Each of us has his own favourite writers, painters and movie makers. I love at first XIX age literature, most of decadence artists. But last time I read R.A. Wilson. From movies my favourite directors are: David Lynch, Aronofsky, Polanski, Bergman, Majewski, from soft cinema I love the world of Tim Burton....and more and more.....I also like old cinema I can enumerate without the end....

Before finishing this conversation just tell us more about "From the Earth to Sirius" compilation Cd? any acts confirmed yet?
We almost finished work on this compilation. It will come some of popular and unpopular bands.Each artist compose one, special track only for this release.Graphic layout ‘s based on paintings of Rafal Kosela. Prologue written by Dariusz Misiuna. More details will come soon.....

Thanx so much brother!! so keep on the torch burning high!!! All the best and close this as you want!! Fr Kerval 111
Thanks a lot for Your time and interesting questions. We wish You all the best in realizing of Your magazine and Your Will.
Best regards for You and Your readers.

(Reviews 77)REFLECTIONS OV THE TEMPLE,BISCLAVERET,POSTHUMAN TANTRA

2010-11-08T17:57:00.000-08:00

POST HUMAN TANTRA(bra)

"Transhuman Reconnection Ecstasy" Cd 2010
(legatus)

POSTHUMAN TANTRA is an enigmatic project emerged from the transdimensional parallel paradigms,such mutative magickal machine was created by Edgar Franco aka Oidicius a multi media ,multi facetic,multi trans human creature,which has been creating music from long time ago...This time Edgar arrives with an album with so many interesting elements always floating into experimental ritual ambient structures and industrial patterns which are just more than perfect!!! The album opens with "The Cyber Pagelanca" a shamanistic piece with such suggestive trans human chants and privimite soundscapes able to transport yourself to such dimensional sphreres.Then comes "The False Sadness Of The Oldest Galaxy On The first Antimater Particle Of My DNA",still converging into obscure atmopsheres and spectral voices crawling from within.Effects and soundcapes arranged into proper structures to create a very enigmatic piece here. "Transbiomorphosis'Ecstasies",built into such psy-fi atmospheres and repetitive experiemntal soundscapes this track is a call to entering such vast dimensions created by PHT.A very amazing composition is found in "The Sinister Mantra Of Human dogmas",so an in deep dense track full of distant atmopsheres and spoken voices handled in a very obscure way.the use of guitar elements enrich the whole structure of the whole track,also you can hear scream voices appearing to direct the music into a more sinister one!! "The Gaia's Holes Ritual","The Masters Of The Alien Werevolves'clan" are both of them obscure pieces of transmutative energy and power due as at every passage of the track you shall explore the creativity and suggestive atmopsheres bathed with such characteristic sound in which you shall experience a transformation of ecstasy and pain. next you shall enter the future trancendent poshumankind through "The Misanthropic Meme's Extinction","Trangenic Pineal Orgasm","Transient Visitor From My Holotropic Dimension" all 3 tracks full of dynamism and experimental passages giving us a clear idea of the trascendence of POST HUMAN TANTRA music and its high levels of post human gnosis reflecting in the whole album.Other compositions included here are "Transhuman Tempestuous Totem","The Posthuman Embrace","towards The Earth's Womb","Telurico Hino Da Reconexao(Telluric Anthem To The Recconection). Woth to note that a lot of special guest musicians recorded participations on the album as: Kale (TransZendenZ - Switzerland), Asenath Mason (Poland), Gareth Miller (Xa-Mul - England), Dimitri Brandi (Psychotic Eyes - Brazil), Lord Evil (Melek-tha, France), Marcelo Diniz (Analog Dream - Brazil), Amyr Cantusio Jr. (Alpha III, Brazil) and Lycanthropy's bands members (Brazil).the album includes a video clip of the track "the Gia's Holes ritual" and a multimedia animation track :Against Neo Racism"...the album include a 12 pages booklet with images and lyrics so just ordered it directly through Edgar franco or just wirte to Legatus recs!! A POST HUMAN DAWN,FOR A NEW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE!!!

REFLECTIONS OV THEE TEMPLE (Usa)

Cdr 2007
(AIN23)

AUTONOMOUS INDIVIDUAL NETWORK of the 23rd current was in past known as T.O.P.Y a collge ov creative individuals focusing into all forms of mackigal currents,through such currents they converges in a multi-facet reality full of paradigms going in all directions,so such mutative organism known as AIN 23 ,is now just more than just an organization but a collective of spirits devloping differents forms of art be it visual,musical ,and other artistic platforms.So after some problem with this package finally this one arrives to be explored by myself in order to handle one of the creative elementsdeveloped at AIN 23.so this is a collective musical,musical dimension converging into 12 transformative audial sigils...The first piece here is INSTAGON "420 buzzkill" a rhtyhmic pice full of interesting bass lines and interesting deconstructive elements. the next is STOMACH PUMP EXPERIENCE "Virus Amoung You" a very suggestive piece full ov narrative spoken voices surrounded by atmosphereric passages creating a very sutile but strong composition here.Through UNEXPECTED SLUG "Ontology Recapitulates Phylogigeny",things goes more orineted into an experimental direction,with such extreme eclectic nature focusing into diverse elements and bringing such industrial patterns with a very harsh perspective.PC 23 "Over The Wire,Under The Radar" is built into drone atmopsheres and corrossive atmopshere mutating all the time,the music here is very hypnotic and well elaborated!!! COYOTE 380 offer us a composition called "An Issue Of Permanence",an experimental voyage to the center ov chaos,handled into percussive elements,voices and decosntructive atmospheres,creating vast soundscapes from diverse magickal platforms.COYOTE 412 comes with a post punk track called,"Assassin"...a rhythmic structure with such sticking keyboard elements and voices!!! COYOTE 426 "Aiming For Wakefullness" is one of such suggestive hypnotic pieces with a in deep atmopshere from start to finish,the drone atmoipsheres fits perfectly the whole structure of the track,such spoken mantras and percussive beats gives the track a very ritualistic magickal atmosphere.Some other artist present here are COYOTE 179,and ALL HAVE NUMBERS NONE HAVE NAMES!!! for more info just visit the site in order to order this piece of total descontruction,discontrol...By consciously attempting to gather knowledge and information from these simple comtemplations,the magickian can gain better control over ones own reality and find clearer paths for sorcery!!!

BISCLAVERET (pol)

"Ephemeros(ante' Te Deum)"Digipack 2010
(Zoharum)

formed since 2000 E.V ,BISCLAVERED has become one of the most impressive ambient experiemntal esoteric projects worldwide due the enigmatic visual and musical artistical exploration through each one of its releases.This Polish due its highest development and enigmatic magickal touch!! This time BISCLAVERED surprice with "Ephmeros (Ante 'te Deum) a concept album dealing with men and the angels having each one of them a respetive title.An esoteric voyage to such obscure regions of mind where you shall find your own angels ready to be evoked by yourself! "Ofis" is the first invocation,and amazing opening track with such piano passages dressed by spoken voices,whisers and eerie atmopsheres creating a pictoric reality beyond any rational concept.The esoteric continues through "Ejael" is focused into such intense eerie atmospheres and such magickal spoken mantras which generates different sensations due how are adapted to such subliminal guitar tunes.The whole track is a kind of invocation due how voices are developed here. Through the next one called "Donkuel",a tribal ritual druming emerges from the void to reveal us its enigmatic path,with such obscure and sutile feelings at the whole picture of the track. A higlight for "Ephemeros'Te Deum" is how music itself catch you suddenly and transport you to such esoteric labyrinths of mind in which all demons and angels dwells. "Izrafael" is one of such pieces which carves your mind to a point of gnosis due how the piano passages and voices are joint together and more when such industrial percussive beats emerges to open channels of perception,to open new paths to self liberation and self illumination.The fifth opus arrives and its called "Semakiel",a piece composed with such tribal percussive atmopsheres and bathed by nostalgic piano passages giving a preludium for spoken voices and atmopsheres latent through the whole composition.The whispers elemnts seems to reveal you akind of enigmating message hidden behind the mirror of angel Semakiel,reflecting all its own masks though such vast atmsopheres full of dynamism and darkness.Without a doubt BISCLAVERET has pointed a high precept with this release,so in my opinion one of the best releases from this year 2010. Though "Azrael",things goes more into such kind of nostalgic suggestive atmopsheres,with high emphasis on keyboards and voices,but still piano passages,spoken voices,erotic whispers and percussive sounds makes its presences announcing the entrance to the seventh and last passage called "Androgyne",a mystic one ,ful of ghastly atmopsheres and voices coming from the hidden nature of man!so this is a perfect piece to close the album due the enigmatic and subliminal passages offering to us the end to a new beginning which must be awited through the new album by BISCLAVERET!!

(Reviews 76) NEZNAMO,VRESNIT,KSHATRIY

2010-10-27T16:29:00.000-07:00

NEZNAMO(Rus)

"Zavet" Cdr 2010
(Vetvei)

NEZNAMO is a project which emerges from russian Federation,having as principal basis the exploration of human's true ego through the development of soundscapes and atmospheres which open channels via uncosnsious currents,as a way to enter into deep states of mind. "Zavet " is the third part of a trilogy concept released by Dmitry N. Shilow,the mastermind behinds NEZNAMO,in which through dense atmospheres you shall be submerged in such enigmatic dimension full of distant soundscapes and eerie passajes with very somber elements thoguh the whole album!A long 31:15 minutes voyage to the center of earth through the well performed use of drone elements bathed with a kind of suggestive and subliminal atmospheres going perfectly arranged with the whole structure of the track.The high impressive use of percussive elements mixed with such field recordings makes of this release one of the most interesting ones by Neznamo. At moments such hypnotic composition seems to transport you to the very primal states of counciousness,due the magickal atmospheres created by Dmitry.Without a Doubt another excelent release by Russian Vetvei recs,also its worth to note this release comes in a special package of full colour six panel envelope!!! for more info just visit Vetvei's page...

VRESNIT(Rus)

"Tunvet" Cd 2009
(Vegvisir)

when talking about creativity,and intense magickal development we must mention this Russian project known as VRESNIT,which has been polluting the world with all of its interesting releases,all of them with such hypnotic elements which encaptures the listener though a ritual shamanic voyage,due how the music is developed.So,this time through " Zavet" an album which fill my spectatives in a proper way,coz through the solo track of this release you shall explore the intense drone ambient atmospheres and eerie elements created here. At moments its as if a natural vortex of energy is open ready to devour and transport yourself to another level of existence.Through the whole album the well executed use of floating wind instruments and such archaic persussive sounds are gathered to offer you something more than just an album,but a chtonic voyage to the labyrinths of nature in all its forms,showing you strange symbols and wooden totems.A perfect equilibrium when hearing the metal gongs and diverse ritual instruments mutating all the time,going around with such dense drone atmopsheres.The natural development in "Tunvet" is the path of nature with its own mysteries and enigmatic elements ready to be explored by yourself.Again VRESNIT surprise me a lot with such kind of ritualistic music,always offering intense and in deep moments from start to finish. The album comes in a special package,having six panel digi file with archaic visuals reprsenting just the visual side of what you shall experience when hearing the ritual mantras generated at "Tunvet".

VRESNIT & KSHATRIY(Rus)/(Rus)

"Taet" Cd 2009

(Vetvei)

Again VRESNIT surprises with this amazing release,but now with a cooperation release with another russian project known as KSHATRIY handled by Uak-Kib from St. Petersburg/Moscow. this project has been developing several albums going oriented into drone ambient elements.and VRESNIT is well known by its shamanistic ritual exposition of atmospheres from time ago...So both spirits joined forces to create a vast scenario of drone ritual structures collapsing perfectly to consagrate mother gaia,in all its enormous splendour.This long 48:50 minutes composition has such intesne passages and structures based into drone soundscapes surrounded by suggestive whispers ,subliminal spoken mantras and organic atmospheres whcih together generates differents sensation in human aura,as isolation,inner transformation,meditative states. The most impressive element here is how the whole composition involves you with such archaic percussive pasaages and wind instruments floating mysteriously through the whole album. Water falls sounds,past incarnated spirits evoking its proclamation in nature's world,petrified drone patterns and eerie atmospheres complements the whole stuff here,generating a very amazing release worth to check. Shamanic Ritual trance album is what both artists offer us here.Just keep an eye open because a full interview with Sergey the spirit behinds VRESNIT and Vetvei will be done soon to cover all the enigmatic reality behinds this acclaimed russian project.The album comes in 7"EP 6-panel cardboard envelope covered with the signs of Vetvei. Standing in awe of Majesty and experience of true Beauty. Tradition, vibrations for a New Cycle.