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HALO
MANASH "Language of Red Goats" CD
(AHO9) Aural Hypnox
Guided by nether nectars and dream herbs, oneiric
visions and the light of lunar tides, Halo Manash Language of Red
Goats aims to be a cartography of cavernous elemental realms and regions,
sources and springs that run deep and thick with the fluids of life,
death and dream. What was seeded at the Thin Veils has been gathered
at Harvest time, and is offered to the seeker as a libation and guide
into the ever-liminal, shrouded spaces, for dream-vigils and awakenings.
Language of Red Goats is a complete work in itself, but can also be
viewed as the first facet of a tripartite series of works that are
part of one holistic creation ñ three faces of the same being.
More akin to a primitive fieldrecording in the realm of oneirotropic
exploration, than an actual album, the work consists of one lengthy
tripartite soundscape. Utilizing only gongs, bells, metal bowls and
wind instruments, as well as flocks of birds, the work is in contrast
to earlier more refined works that feature a wide multiplicity of
instruments and soundsources. Language of Red Goats is a bare, primitive
and sometimes raw aural landscape, and yet nonetheless achieves a
rare subliminal intensity and an edge of otherwordly luminosity. Comes
in a hand finished cardboard booklet, in an edition of 920 copies.
14.25$
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HALO
MANASH "r.A.S.H.n.k.a-RA" LP + DVD + Poster
(kstk004) Kaosthetic Kospiration
Halo Manash, redrobed and clothed in ash, has a completed a helical
cycle, r.A.S.H.n.k.a-RA. Archaic sounds and visions from the heights
and depths, elemental ambience and primal thundering. Various instruments
such as horns, kanglings, bells, cymbals, drums, singing bowls, damaras,
rattles, chimes, bones, selfmade instruments, vocals, voices, and
the elemental sounds themselves give form to a work that is sometimes
serene, sometimes fierce and chaotic. Everything is in pairs: thus
r.A.S.H.n.k.a-RA itself consists of two distinct creations/destructions.
"In 4 Elements" (DVD) was realized/received in 4 circulations
of the sun and consists of 4 parts. Serpentine silver sounds ascending
and descending, moving and flowing in the upper realms, through the
elements and elementals. The sounds of spilling seed. The film reflects
this rite-of-passage, showing r.A.S.H.n.k.a-RA taking form in the
primal landscapes and in the elements themselves. "In PolarDual"
(LP) is the dark twin, and was received/realized in 2 circulations
of the sun, consisting of two parts. It is very intense, fierce and
chaotic: a tearing down, a dive into the deep, screams to and from
the depths. The sounds shedding skin.From these twins an elemental
initiation and revelation, r.A.S.H.n.k.a-RA, is formed. r.A.S.H.n.k.a-RA
is a total creative and destructive cycle, a very real and intense
experience where Halo Manash itself was the canvas of birth and death.
(Comes in full-colour gatefold LP covers including DVD and Poster
with accompanying texts and pictures.)
Very recommended!
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HALO
MANASH "Syoma" CD
(AH03) Aural Hypnox
Halo Manash's third full-lenght album, titled 'SYoMA', offer both
minimalistic and complex material mainly created via acoustic instrumentation.
The ritualistic / electro-acoustic soundscape is based on dark and
hypnotic sample textures, evolving guitar drones, dynamic ritual-percussions
& reverberating gongs/chimes/bells, chanting vocalizations, various
windbones, experimental instruments and analog synthesizers. "All
of the material on this album is dedicated to and inspired by the
dynamic subconscious force which gave impulse to visions relating
to auto-cannibalism and metempsychosis". Comes in an 6 panel
cardboard covers with astounding silver-coloured drawings.
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HARVEST
RAIN "Blood Hyms" CD
(opncd05) OPN
Blood Hymns started during the Winter Solstice
of 2002 and continued during the 12 Nights of Yule. The search for
the 'Most Northerly Midnight'. These Midnight Sessions began after
'A Frost Comes with the Wind' and should be considered the follow-up
to that album.
Expect simply the best with this new collection of heathen folk music
anthems.......
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HARVEST
RAIN "Night Chorus" CD
(opncd04) OPN
Great album from American dark folk group Harvest Rain, this album
pursues a "ghost ambient" style and features guest musician
Axel Frank (Werkraum), Tor Lundvall or Amanda Votta. A record to play
alone...in the dark !
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HARVEST
RAIN "Night's Glow" CD
(WOP21) War Office Propaganda
Master of American dark folk in their newest full lenght album. 11
beautiful songs, 42 minutes of haunting, atmospheric and melancholic
music. No need to say more, as in case of Harvest Rain's music no
special recommendation is needed! Simply a great CD! Glossy varnished
digipack with original cover designed by Michal Karcz and reproduction
of Tor Lundvall's paintings inside.
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HAVEN
"A2982" CD
(WOP 60) War Office Propaganda
42 minutes 05 seconds. This is the duration
of the album. It will communicate any meter of time. Let us not however
be deluded by the spells of this sorcerer; because the first sounds
overturn its acknowledged and safe definition and begin construction
of different,weirder spaces. This is the last chance to resign and
turn back. Otheriwse, when you listen to the end of first track the
only thihg left to say is "Toto, I have an impression that we're
not in Kansas". You begin your own, separate (and the longest?)
journey. What do you see on your way? What unknown ladns, traditions,
incomprehesible rituals and dialects will you discover? I do not know.
But I am sure that if David Lynch will ever undertake the filming
of "Alice in the Wonderland" the soundtrack of the movie
will be filled with the music from this particular album."Victoire
Vrist "Le Figuro". 10 tracks, CD in digipack.
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HAVEN
"Naos" CD
(WOP 31) War Office Propaganda
The debut of [haven] - "The Last Breath
of Lonely Buildings" released by WOP in 2005 was critically acclaimed,
and the edition was sold out immediately. And now it's time for second
opus of this very interesting act [haven] - "Naos" is more
mature than the debut, a musical travel between Europe and Asia, oriental
atmospheres and raw dark ambient both create visions of rich history
of the Middle East. CD released in WOP standard - beautiful digipack
designed by Michal Karcz.
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HEATH
YONAITES "Rim Of The Sun" CD
Triumvirate
An immensely skilled, deep, and varied sonic
journey through exceptional experimental electronics and richly detailed
field and environmental recordings manipulated and reconfigured beyond
the point of easy recognition. Influenced by a wide range of inspirations,
from the immediacy of vaguely familiar yet unsettling terrestrial
audio environs, outwards towards the vast expanses of cosmology.
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HENRIK
NORDVARGR BJORKK "On Broken WIngs Towards Victory" CD
(oecd061) Old Europa Cafe
Following in the steps of "Awaken",
this CD explores the dark cellars of Bohult even deeper... This time
new elements are thrown into the trademark darkness - using knifes,
water and some broken electronics this CD is sure to deliver a new
perspective on the way we see and hear our nordic wolf. Best dark
and deep sounds from underworld by this MZ.412 mastermind.
14.25$ U.S. |
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HENRIK
NORDVARGR BJORKK "The Dead Never Sleep" CD
(oecd073) Old Europa Cafe
Nordvargr is one of the many solo projects of
Henrik Bjorkk leading mind of MZ.412! The best dark, insanely cold
and fear ambient sounds from the master! Insane muzak for insane people
living in an insane, dead and never/ever sleeping world.
14.25$ U.S. |
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HERR
"Fire and Glass - A Norwood Tragedy" CD
(CSR74EP) Cold Spring Records
Taken from the Dutch playwright's seventeenth-century
opus, 'Lucifer', this eagerly-awaited release tells of heavenly discontent
amid a jealous tale of angelic rebellion in the face of God's love
for humankind. Containing both half-sung and spoken vocals, an ever
so gentle folk-like melody, baroque composition, rich musical arrangement
and the kind of indomitable spirit and literary tradition that only
a group like H.E.R.R. can render in such a magnificent cultural style,
this album introduces the first three acts in 75 bombastic minutes.
An illustrious cast includes Richard Leviathan (Ostara), Dev (While
Angels Watch), Holger F. (Belborn), Cornelius Mikael Waldner (Sagittarius)
and Maria Southgate (HERR/Survival Unit). Now, awake the stars from
their harmonious peace and let the battle commence!
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HIS
DIVINE GRACE "Eurydice" CD
(DV#48) Dark Vinyl
After several releases on HauRuck!, this is
the third release by His Divine Grace. "Eurydice" features
5 relaxing ambient tracks, which are ranging from ritual , meditative
to dark ambient with a gloomy and doomy atmosphere.
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HIS
DIVINE GRACE "Le Grand Secret" CD
(RuR003) Reue Um Reue
Inspired by the works of the Traditionalists
and the lives and deaths of Sekens Murdock and Leontin V. Abilgaard,
Moonchild Erik’s fourth CD album “Le Grand Secret”
(The Great Secret) takes the shape of a metaphysical reflection on
the deceptions of human language, in which Murdock and Abilgaard saw
the main cause for the world of confusion we live in. Musically more
accessible than “Eurydice” or “Reverse Aleph”,
this very diverse new opus is the worthy successor of “Die Schlangenkönigin”,
hovering from emotional soundscapes and spacey dub rhythms into gloomy,
awe-inspiring drones with even noisy elements.
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HOROLOGIUM
& K. MEIZTER "Eight Studies In Transition" CD
(oecd095) Old Europa Cafe
On Eight Studies in Transition the Polish industrial
nostalgic Horologium and the Swedish BSE sound scientist K. Meizter
examine human’s impossible fight against time. From birth to
death, from playfulness to bitterness, from serenity to mental awe,
this tale is transposed into music ranging from calm dark ambient
to orchestral delirium,´making it a fascinating exploration
that will appeal to most industrial and dark ambient tastes. Presented
in a special 6-panel digi-file + inserts
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HUM
"Germ Of Passion" CDR
Sphoga / Ultra Low Fidelity 9
This project comes from Moscow and plays mild
calm drone ambient. The author uses only old technique of tape recording
which gives the sound proper lo-fi quality, but adds charm to the
music in which harmonically abstract waves form psychedelic interference
patterns.
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HYDRA
HEAD 9 "HEAT" CD
(OECD062) Old Europa Cafe
Another project from Mr. Nordvargr has mixed many of his different
faces on the same album which is no longer only a violent harsh noise
attack, but is a combination of his very different sounds. Sometimes
reminding of the rythmic aggression of Folkstorm, and in some other
places like sophisticated noise-electronica in a way you never have
heard it before. Prepare to get blasted again by the unstoppable HH9
!
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