• Distribution,  Vinyl

    T.V. Sovietica – Maquetas Y Demos 1983-1984

    mayo 20, 2016

    T.V. Sovietica – Maquetas Y Demos 1983-1984

    Label: Atemporal – AT-006
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Remastered, Stereo
    Country: Spain
    Released: 2014
    Style: Minimal, Synth-pop

    T.V. Sovietica was an exploratory sound project from Valencia (Spain) developed in 1983 in the postpunk era of the early 80’s which built on the work of “Neonada y Atentados”.
    From these beginnings evolved  a brief, dark and unsettled trajectory based on sound effects inspired by electronic German music with influences from the artistic vanguard analogy (Satie, “Musique Concrete”  and minimalism) The darkest, most introspective postpunk, radicalising with its’ experimentation, moving towards “industrial”, “anti-music” styles.
    The essence of its’ sound combines the use of guitars and electric bass with electronic instruments (Yamaha CS-15, Korg MS-10, Boss DR-55 , etc) , acoustic percussion, mechanical elements and vocals. Confronting frequencies elaborated from improvised riffs with vocal expression.
    Of the same generation as bands such as Esplendor Geometrico and Aviador Dro.
    The lost model, now recovered in this work demonstrates the beginnings of Spanish synthpop with “Contacto Telepatico”. The influence of New Wave in “La matanza de los bebes foca”, moving towards the conceptual project  “Islandia” to which the majority of the themes belong, “ Oxido en tus ojos” (1984) draws to a close a period of work for the band, probably in its’ most corrosive moment.

    D.Martinez (Guitarra, Voz, Yamaha CS-15)
    P.Botella (Bajo electrico, Guitarra Melodica y Farfisa Compact)
    M.Alvarez (Korg MS-10, Boss DR-55 y Efectos Acusticos)
    Remasterizado por Mariano Lozano-P

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    Vulturum – Vivi Di Luce Riflessa b/w Voraussage

    mayo 2, 2016

    Vulturum – Vivi Di Luce Riflessa b/w Voraussage
    Label: Sangue Dischi – SD 08, Trips und Träume – TT14
    Format: Vinyl, 12″
    Country: Italy
    Released: 2011
    Style: Psychedelic Rock, Experimental

    12″ LP, black vinyl housed in a nice die-cut cover + printed innersleeve designed by Luca ‘Yeti’ Battaglia who is also Vulturum’s drummer.

    A1. Vivi di Luce Riflessa
    B1. Voraussage

    Vivi di luce riflessa was recorded during the Vineta sessions. The first Vulturum song to feature two complete drum parts, it awaited completion for more than a year, something that could not shine of its own, the exact thing one would expect from a song about people who don’t deserve to have songs written about. Its counterpart is Voraussage, a forecast, a prophecy, an alternate version of something yet to come, an ode to wasted summer days meant to be listened to in the dead of winter, a final chant to disenchantment.

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    Coàgul – La Forja Centrípeta

    abril 25, 2016

    Coàgul – La Forja Centrípeta
    Label: Burka For Everybody – 30
    Format: Vinyl, LP
    Country: Spain
    Released: 31 Aug 2015
    Style: Industrial, Drone, Neofolk

    “La Forja Centrípeta” is a sonic support by which the listener can “forge” his or her spirit, going from the outside into the inside. It consists of five sonic spells, conceived and composed by Marc O’Callaghan in Easter 2014 between Barcelona and Picanya.
    The first four ones, which are contained in the fisrt side of the record, equeal to the four ages of mankind. But more than four ages in the historical sense of the development of human kind, in this case they are concieved more like four different states of being.
    Four possible stadiums in which the listener can enter by meditating on each spell. It begins with the most materialistic age, the iron age (which is the age in which we live today at this moment of history, aswell as the default state of being in which a common human lives these days); and ends ate the very core with the most spiritual age, the golden age. The length of each spell is in proportion with the mathemathics of the traditional division from the Vedic doctrine of the four yugas. The last spell, which occupies the whole second side of the record, is an incarnation of the new city, which is another name for the heavenly city of the New Jerusalem that shall descend unto earth at the end of the Apocalypse. Thus when the four ages are finally consumated, we are ready to enter the holy city, where all things are each one in its very right place and distributed in absolute cosmic harmony.
    The twelve stanzas of this long spell equal to all that is twelve: the zodiac, the precious stones, the fruits of the tree of life, the angelic typologies, the months of a year, the prophets, et cetera. The first side of this vinyl symbollically equals to the circular shape, and the second one equals to the square shape. So all in all, “La Forja Centrípeta” is a big sonic tool that can be magickally used to achieve what the hermetists rightly called “the squaring of the circle”.

    The whole five songs were performed by Marc O’Callaghan and recorded and mastered by Daniel Muerte during May 2014 at La Cova de la Bèstia, Barcelona.
    All artwork conceived and drawn by Marc O’Callaghan during January 2015. The inlay photo was taken by Adriana Petit in February 2015 at the Bronze Bureau, Barcelona.

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