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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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PENJAGA
INSAF / VESTIGIAL"Of Earth And Of Fire" LP
(pas 22) Power & Steel via Loki
The German Penjaga Insaf (side project of Herbst
9 members) delivers enigmatic, ritualistic soundscapes built from
layers of percussive, deeply meditative patterns, interwoven with
original field recordings made by the artist during extensive travels
through Indonesia. Italy's Vestigial presents an immense stream of
pitch black ambience infused with dark tectonic upheavals and voice
fragments that boil forth from a seething flood of magma before sinking
back into the molten stew. The ancient sounds of the Earth as scorched
by devastating waves of brooding Fire.
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PHAENON
"Submerged" CD
(tumorcd30) Malignant Records
With the debut release from Phaenon, it is immediately evident a heavyweight
has arrived. The brainchild of Polish born, but current Maryland resident,
Szymon Tankiewicz, Submerged is a dark ambient tour de force. Visually
and sonically enveloping, this is an album of space and texture, slowly
revealing a psychoactive soundscape of majestic, arcing timbres, circadian
buzzes, and expansive drones. Heavy, and cosmically weighty in the
beginning, Submerged evolves into something more minimalist and serene,
radiating a celestial beauty, yet becoming even more bleak and suffocating
as it progresses over it‘s 66 minute time frame. Experienced
from start to finished, there’s a palpable sense of drifting
and drowning, of being carried away into an endless, interstellar
vacuum. An exciting new project, and a must for dark ambient purists.
In stylish 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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PIMENTOLA
"MM-MMV" CD
(tw1.14) Twilight Records
Featuring unreleased material and material previously released as
very limited editons. PIMENTOLA offers fine neoclassic/dark orchestral
music, but also infusing ethnic and industrial sounds and incorporating
self-produced samples and acoustic instruments to the music. An album
very much in the vein of bands such as In Slaugther Natives, Raison
D'Etre or Arcana during their best period, and in the second part
of this amazing album you can find similar music to Sopor Aeternus
songs! Pimentola is a great and refreshing discovery and promises
to have a bright future!
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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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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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PUISSANCE
"State Collapse" CD
(ATNR013) Regain
Sumptuous and majestic as ever and exploring their melodic side even
further. Bombastic orchestral sounds, atmospheric neo-classical synth
music, some militant drumming and dark spoken words. The Puissance
mark of quality is instantly familiar from the opening track 'Trace
Elements', with its overwhelming choirs. A solid Puissance album with
some nice cinematic hymns making it one of their best works.
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