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PANZAR
"Pratotypon" CD
(oecd078) Old Europa Cafe
This latest CD will be the very last one for
Peter Anderssons (Raison d'etre) "harsh" project "Panzar".
World War II has ended and so will Panzar .... Including a unique
live performance from the hot summer desert war 2005 and a number
of early prototypes never released before. Also included is a Panzar
hit re-mix of the FOLKSTORM track ?Victory of Death? !!! "Pratotypon"
contains all you need: harsh and growling electronic sounds, distorted
and transformed beats, danger and blood from the battlefield. Comes
in jewel case with artwork filled with early tanks. If you have a
CD-player in your armoured vehicle this is the definite music to play,
or why not : "buy a TANK !"
12.25$
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PARANOIA
INDUCTA "Pia Fraus" CD
Beast of prey
"Pia Frausî is the second part of
the Lux Mundi trilogy. This trilogy is a tribute to all those who
were killed, deceived, humiliated and oppressed by the catholic church.
It's a tribute to all those victims who instead of love and hope were
given torment and death. Anthony A Destroyer is joined once again
by eLL (Sui Generic Umbra) and Robert Marciniak (Rukkanor). This second
act in red symbolises the cardinal colour and is dedicated to all
victims of cardinals. A dark ambient album with an atmosphere of death
and industrial sounds, choirs, songs and voices, much like the style
of "Gloria Laus". The handmade package, which is stamped
and sealed, contains a 12-page booklet. 50 minutes of music in a limited
edition 444 copies.
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PBK
& TELEPHERIQUE "Noise-Ambient Connection" CD
(mv22) Monochrome vision
This particular album is the first ever collaboration
between american soundartist Phillip B. Klingler and german band Telepherique,
it represents yet another breakthrough in the search for a music that
is comprehensively exploring 21st century ambient music, an essential
listening experience which is absolutely unique for the whole genre
history as well as for both artists. Limited edition of 500 copies
in jewelcase. Noise music exists for many years, but there are still
some individuals who are assiduously following their own approach,
avoiding any external influence, creating something new and inspiring
to get rid of any standards, giving us the idea of unique sounding.
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PHRAGMENTS
"Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood" CD
(tumorcd37) Malignant
You’ve seen it before. Certain bands or
artists delivering their finest work with their first recording. Then,
in futile attempts to capture some of the same magic, becoming formulaic
and stale, rehashing ideas and never really achieving the same caliber
of work. Others, expanding on the elements of their prior releases,
and through a natural maturation process, get stronger with each release.
That would certainly be the case with Phragments. With their third
full length studio CD, this Slovakian duo have made remarkable strides
not only in quality but in scope. Equipped with an enriched sonic
palate, Earth Shall Not Cover Their Blood mixes forceful brass and
dark orchestral strings with rolls of powerful tribal percussion,
somber wind instrumentation, ominous atmospheres, industrial clangor,
and a strong and commanding vocal presence, particularly on tracks
like “Over Deadlands” and “The Kin of Cain”.
Cohesive, complete, and epic, this is a release that will open some
eyes to new found authority of Phragments. Yours to discover. In 6
panel digipak..
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PIMENTOLA
"Misanthropolis" CD
(cmi167) Cold Meat Industry
Presented in a luxurious silver foilprinted
6-panel digipak and features guest appearances by members of the well-renowned
folk music group Garmarna, the neo-classical project Dead Man's Hill,
a fantastic and bizarre cabaret/musical style vocal performance by
Aprox. and a remix by Somnivore.Misantropolis introduces more vocals
than on past Pimentola releases; hysteric screams, gloomy choirs/harmonies;
hand in had with electronic sounds, samplings and acoustic instruments;
accordion, violins, theremin, metal percussions and various kinds
of drums. Ten ill star prayers from the Black Globe; an end of times
sound-work ranging from martial neoclassical to drum n' bRass and
tripjazz. Paralyzing absinthe nightmares morphed with opiatic tunes
of the orient.
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POD
"As Lonely As Dave Bowman" CD
(projekt195) Projekt
POD brings a new and chilling element to the
ambient music genre known as drone. Inspired by the vast isolation
of cold, dark space, the absence of human civilization, and the texture
of pure sound, there is a curiosity and fascination with those forces
that leads to discovery. As Lonely as Dave Bowman becomes a pioneer
in the next stage of ambient drone.
With a chillingly isolated core of sound that detaches and draws back
into itself like droplets of mercury, POD crafts a singular sound
of metaphoric loneliness that is not just a strand that drifts through
space but is an enveloping, permeating cloud. It travels in an infinite
trajectory, exploring the realm of the unknown as if a breathing entity,
expanding and contracting into eternity. It eventually evolves into
a robotic drone, a swarm of emotion and memory.
As Lonely as Dave Bowman is an electronic space music deep-ambient
side-project from Sam Rosenthal, Projekt and black tape for a blue
girl founder. The images came first. Sam's young son Sasha took the
photos one afternoon while playing with Sam's camera. Noticing they
were striking enough to be an album cover, Sam decided to create a
musical world to compliment the amorphous look the photos captured.
Inspired by Sasha's love for the films 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010:
The Year We Make Contact, Sam worked in the studio in new and organic
ways. Forsaking his usual melodic and lyrical approach to song-writing,
he quickly developed musical pieces that are principally texture and
spacial landscapes, created from a meaningful flow of synthetically
produced loops and old-fashioned outboard effects.
Is the limitless expanse of space outside the realm of the planet
Earth a selective environment for life or is it a cold, dark vacuum
that leaves only unimagined emptiness in its wake? Will long periods
of separation from humanity support the explorer or will it birth
a long, never-ending core of loneliness with tendrils that reach Earth,
wrapping its inhabitants in despair and uncertainty? POD provides
shape and essence to these philosophical questions that permeate our
thinking selves with unanswerable possibilities. The sound ponders
the moment and the eternity that extends beyond it, developing a continuous
flow that goes on forever in swells and ebbs like an ocean of time.
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POSTMORDER[N]XS
"All The World Is Somnambulizing" CD
(GIM020) God Is Myth
PostmoRder[n]XS is a musician based in Rome, Italy and performing
music with electronic instruments, old analog synthethizers and software
based recording. He is now involved as live-member in the infamous
dark-lounge/jazz-noise project M.M.M. (macelleria mobile di mezzanotte)
and he is working in studio with cult experimental band Mushroom's
Patience. “All the world is somnabulizing” is a soft mix
of trains, toys and tears. The last drones of the night train, the
doom before your eyes as the railway are melting down in the lone
streets. Crashes like the sound of monkey, not a real one: a toy of
when you were young. Jingles like tears in the rain of thoughts. For
fans of : Coil, Funkstörung, Pan Sonic, Autechre, Boards of Canada,
Telefon Tel Aviv, Ah-Cama Sotz, Orbital, Monolake, Amir Baghiri, Pan
American, This Morn'Omina ... and all about emotions in post-rock,
post-industrial, post-electronics, post-music... *first limited edition
with 3 remixed by We Wait for the Snow, Profile and Tonikom
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PREDOMINANCE
"Dark Stars Unfolding" 2CD
(Loki 40) Loki Foundation
Arisen from the fields of white ashes and bathed in tears of the world's
genocidal slavery, Predominance started 1995 to drown in the ruins
of an unconscious mind. The evolution of Gerd Zaunig's project was
mystified by the gleaming beauty of a silver ship and ended illuminated
at the threshold to astral gates on nocturnal skies. This "Dark
Stars Unfolding" is an essential journey through the mind of
the south saturn delta into the polar stargate. The circle of the
four symbols is closed and the work of Predominance will remain in
the ungained gorge of a swelling universe. After nearly 10 years of
activity and with just three regular albums in this decade, Gerd Zaunig
placed with Predominance one of the main pillars in the wide area
of dark ambient music. The unique sound of Predominance combines dense
and atmospherical sound-sculptures with symphonic structures, pulsating
rhythms and visionary-majestic vocals. This double album now marks
the final release of Predominance as the project ended in 2003. Divided
into 2 parts, Disc One: ARCHIVUM contains selected tracks from the
first tape (White Ashes), the first LP (Obliteration), various compilation
tracks and unreleased material. Disc Two: LIVE collects high-quality
live recordings from the whole period of activity and includes all
the outstanding vocal tracks for what Predominance was especially
known for. Comes in beautiful double digipak.
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PROCER
VENEFICUS "Ghostvoices" CD
(GIM020) God Is Myth
"Ghostvoices" is an all acoustic album of dark and obscure
proportions. Highly atmospheric dream-induced fog music played solely
on acoustic guitar and wreathed in wet ambience and distant whispers.
Composed in solitude by a mountain lake, and completed in the saltiest
of back-bay fogs. Emphasis on backwater oceanic lull, as well as sub-aqueous
emanations. Very wet, eerie recording. Contains an acoustic cover
version of P.S. Nautical by VELVET CACOON.
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PROTOPLASMIC
REVERSION "Sunken Temples" CDR
(ra2) Reverse alignment
Taking inspiration from the dark ambient greats such as Lustmord (aswell
as the name) and Thomas Köner, the purpose of this project is
to create compelling, and slightly unsettling soundscapes, using normal
electronic strings, "found" sounds and layer upon layer
of effects. The perfect soundtrack for rereading your favourite collection
of H.P. Lovecraft or Algernon Blackwoods stories. This is the debut
album from swedish based Protoplasmic reversion. Professionally made
CDr in a limited edition of 200 copies in plastic sleeve (handnumbered).
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PSYCHONAUT
"The Witche's Sabbath" CD
(ATNR007) Athanor
First release of Valefor ( CD available at Cold
Meat Industry and Dark Vinyl) side-project wich later changed its
name to Psychonaut75 Tribal and ritual psychoacoustics sounds for
your haunted dreams that will please all lovers of the Nekrophile
years (Zero Kama/Secret Eye of Laylah...). The music was inspired
by the Austin Osman Spare book The Witches' Sabbath, Rosaleen Norton's
paintings, and Aleister Crowley's Hymn to Pan. Crystal box with clear
tray, 12 pages deluxe full color booklet with texts and paintings
by AOS, Rosaleen Norton, and Aleister Crowley, and 4 pages on transparent
printed paper.
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PSYCHONAUT
"Liber Al Vel Legis" CD
(ATNR013) Athanor
Liber Al Vel Legis is Psychonaut's recording of Aleister Crowley's
THE BOOK OF THE LAW. In Egypt in 1904 Crowley was visited by an entity
regarded by Crowley to be his Holy Guardian Angel, and for three consecutive
days at an appointed time Aiwass dictated to Crowley. By the end of
the third session the text was complete. It was called The Book of
the Law, and it prophesized the dawning of a new aeon for mankind.
Its main tenet was the much quoted and much misinterpreted: Love is
the Law, Love Under Will. Liber Al was recorded by Michael Ford while
conducting the Ritual for the Attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation
of His Holy Guardian Angel. This working includes living in a secluded
area (or away from human contact) for a period and performing the
operation of the Sacred Magick of Abramelin the Mage. Liber Al or
the Book of the Law (given to Crowley by his own Guardian Angel )
represents a dawning of human ascension into Godhood, becoming through
a well developed Body of Light. This can be also refered to as Lucifer,
the ideal of Light and Wisdom, Faustian Knowledge. This recording
conducted by Michael Ford alone represents the first ever Psychonaut
recording, although its release was much delayed and was in fact preceded
by The Witches Sabbath and a single dedicated to Austin Osman Spare.
Remarkably this represents the FIRST EVER RECORDING of The Book of
the Law. Liber Al Vel Legis is constructed from looped rhythms many
fashioned from human bones, and eerie atmospheric backing created
by woodwind instruments. A multi-tracked voice intones the text. At
times almost Eastern motifs appear as if to represent the street sounds
of Cairo. Psychonaut have claimed inspiration from both early CURRENT
93 and ZERO KAMA and it is to the nightmare twilight world that Liber
Al Vel Legis inhabits. Michael Ford, Chaos author and guiding force
behind Psychonaut, hopes that listeners treat the album as ritual
musick to provide a magickal link between the self and the Holy Guardian
Angel.
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