• Distribution,  Vinyl

    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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  • Distribution,  GH Records,  Vinyl

    Donis – Bez Grazdanstva (Без Гражданства)

    abril 13, 2016

    Donis – Bez Grazdanstva (Без Гражданства)
    Label: Autarkeia – vinyl 012 avi 068
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, White Vinyl
    Country: Lithuania
    Released: Feb 2016
    Style: Ambient, Experimental

    This long-planned LP is dedicated to a very close man of the author – his grandfather. Based on the story of his life, it reflects the post-war Lithuanian near border residents’ fates. Some were killed, others exiled or remained in the occupied territory of the Soviet system, which is an equivalent to the internal deportation or capitulation and surrender, hypocrisy. However, it turns out that even in such circumstances there’s possible a silent one person’s resistance against the entire system. In the dark Soviet times album’s hero dared to defy the executive instructions of their actions on the grounds that he was not a citizen of this country. In the events of turmoil, it can be considered a miracle that the latter had survived, but had not been exiled to the northern camps. He was issued an identity document “БЕЗ ГРАЖДАНСТВА” (in Russian, “No citizenship”).

    Album compositions encode the post-war era’s symbols from child’s memory while listening to the stories of relatives. “So called Wolf’s children – children wandering alone in East Prussia, which were protected by good people. «Flowering Gardens” – a generous harvest greeting exiles that returned home. “Cult servant” – a multi-layered and complicated personality and social status. “GEBURTSORT: SZINDAITSCHEN” – inscription in grandfather’s personal documents indicating the place of birth, current Žindaičiai town. “1977” – the symbolic year in which the album’s hero died, and a few months later, LP’s author was born.

    The record is done using only acoustic instruments and ambient sounds of the authentic grandfather’s life places: the remaining houses, attics with old craftsman’s tools, native whistling winds of Žindaičiai and chirping birds, church, yellow rusted documents and photographs, squeaky steps in Jurbarkas’ town cemetery…

    «БЕЗ ГРАЖДАНСТВА” is a melancholic, atmospheric instrumental ambient album for the human condition, when you become a stranger in your own homeland, imprisoned in a trap and a hard choice: to flee or to stay.

    Album’s tracks listing:

    A. “БЕЗ ГРАЖДАНСТВА”
    B. “GEBURTSORT: SZINDAITSCHEN”

    Album lasts for 40 min. Lim. E 150.

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  • Distribution,  Vinyl

    Blooming Làtigo – Esfìnteres Y Faquires

    marzo 30, 2016

    Blooming Làtigo – Esfìnteres Y Faquires
    Label: Trips Und Träume – TT17 Limited edition of 300 copies on vinyl
    Format: Vinyl, LP
    Country: Italy
    Released: 2012
    Style: Math Rock, Post-Punk, Noise, Experimental

    Blooming Látigo started in February 2007 as a quartet with guitar, drums, voice and electronics. Soon after the group became a trio with Fran playing guitars, Gonzalo on drums and Javi on vocals. With this line up they record a self titled EP. A few months later Borja (Orthodox) joins the band, conforming the actual two drummers set. In 2010 Fran leaves the band and is replaced by Jose (Mademoiselle) on bass.
    The actual line up that has just recorded “Esfínteres y Faquires”, an 8 track record consisting on:

    Josè Alcàntara Jimeènez: bass / electronics
    Xavier Castroviejo Fisher: vocals
    Borja D.: drums / percussions
    Gonzalo Santana Hidalgo: drums / percussions

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