Mz.412, Trepaneringsritualen – X Post Industriale / Rituals 2015 e.v. Label: Old Europa Cafe – OELP 024, AnnapurnA – HIM003 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition Country: Italy Released: Dec 2017 Style: Industrial, Dark Ambient
On October 31 2015 «MZ.412» and «TREPANERINGSRITUALEN» performed two memorable «Rituals» at OEC’s label festival the «X CONGRESSO POST INDUSTRIALE» at Club Kindergarten in Bologna – Italy. Those sounds are finally fixed into solid and heavy vinyl for all those who will re-live those rituals in the next million of years!
Co-released by OEC & AnnapurnA Gatefold-Cover plus Poster Artwork by Thomas Eklund / TxRxP Mastering by Henrik Bjorkk / Nordvargr Black Vinyl limited to 500 copies.
Each vinyl side includes one long «Akt» (Ritual) by the 2 projects
Tracklist: A. MZ. 412 – Akt I B. MZ.412 – Akt II C. T x R x P – Akt I D. T x R x P – Akt II
Pronoise – Low Light Vision Label: Horizonte Espectral Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, 140 gram Country: Spain Released: 30 Nov 2013 Style: Industrial, EBM, Darkwave, Goth Rock, Post-Punk
Limited Edition LP pressed in 140gram vinyl of 320 hand numered copies. Includes foldout insert 24″x12″ and inner picture sleeve, Astro-Postal with serial number, and download coupon. This album was recorded between 1996 and 1997 in Valencia by Nacho Artax and Javi Andreu. Produced by Pronoise. Post-Produced by Pronoise and Horizonte Espectral.
Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand – Rejoice (Vinyl, LP) Label: WKN – 59 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Stereo, White Vinyl Country: Austria Released: 22 Feb 2021 Style: Krautrock, Psychedelic Rock
Der Blutharsch is the main project of Austrian musician Albin Julius. Following in the footsteps of Autopsia and Laibach, Julius creates a marching music of bombastic rhythms and folkish melodies, often infused with historical military speeches and orchestral samples. The earlier works tended towards a minimalistic sample-based instrumental style in an industrial/ambient vein, while more recent material has headed into a folk/acoustic sound, often accompanied with live vocals and instruments.
Der Blutharsch’s first release was a self-titled picture LP released in late 1996 on the Arthur’s Round Table label, but the project didn’t became Julius’ main musical outlet until 1998 after the break-up of his previous band The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud. The first CD album «Der Sieg des Lichtes Ist des Lebens Heil» was released that year, followed by a series of limited EP’s, before the release of the masterpiece «The Pleasures Received In Pain» in 1999.
Almost all of the bands releases are through Julius’ personal austrian-based label «WKN» («Wir Kapitulieren Niemals»), which was distributed by World Serpent UK until 2000, when it switched to Tesco Distribution in Germany. Since 2001 various musicians have acted as part of the band, but Albin Julius currently claims Der Blutharsch to have four permanent members: Marthynna, Jörg B. (of Graumadh), Bain Wolfkind (of Novo Homo) and himself.
The band officially disbanded in 2010, but was newly founded as Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand in the same year.
Empyrium – Über Den Sternen (2 × Vinyl) Label: PRO304 LP Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, 180g Etching Country: Germany Released: 26 Feb 2021 Style: Symphonic Metal, Neofolk, Black Metal
With their sixth full-length, «Über den Sternen», an allegorical German rendering of their band name meaning «Above the Stars», EMPYRIUM still draw from the magic and spirits of wild places, nature’s beauty, and human relics of ages long past. «Über den Sternen» echoes this reconciliation of the old with the new on a musical level as well. The Franconian duo is putting more emphasis on the electric guitars and harsh vocals again, which marked their first two albums and stood strong upon the band’s melodic black metal foundations. Yet EMPYRIUM also revisit the dark folk style, which the Germans had progressively embraced on their third and fourth albums.
What used to appear to be a crossroad in their musical development has now merged into one breath-taking sound. The combined force of mastermind, multi-instrumentalist, clean and extreme vocalist as well as producer Markus «Schwadorf» Stock and classical singer Thomas Helm, who lends his amazing voice also to the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, is painting a radiant sonic picture. It comes with the melancholic grounding of the sophomore album «Songs of Moors & Misty Fields” (1997), adds brushstrokes of the fairy-tale tempera colours of «Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays» (1999), and also makes use of a few hues from the palette that DEAD CAN DANCE have infused with world music, which EMPYRIUM have already employed on «The Turn of the Tides» (2014). The crowning varnish is diligently crafted from rougher elements that reach all the way back to the Germans’ legendary debut » A Wintersunset…» (1996). EMPYRIUM have reconciled their early vintage sound with the acoustic expression of later recordings.» Staying true to the Romantic tradition, EMPYRIUM continue to take inspiration for their lyrical flights of fantasy from the local myths, ancient places, and natural wonders of the Rhön Mountains and their Lower Franconian homeland in the West of Germany. A circle is closing, and with EMPYRIUM’s label Prophecy Productions, which were originally founded with the mission to release the band’s debut album, celebrating their 25th anniversary in 2021, it happens in more than one way.
Schloss Tegal – Psychometry (Double Vinyl,LP) Label: La Esencia – LER023/2018LP Format: 2 LP, Vinyl, Album Country: Spain Released: Jul 2019 Style: Dark Ambient, Industrial
Schloss Tegal is back!! After a long silence since the classic «The Myth Of Meat» album, the legendary project Schloss Tegal take the needed time for work on this new enigmatic opus titled Psychometry.
13 new tracks in a intense psychogenic journey into the dark side of the human mind, created by the hands of Richard Schneider. A deep experience into the Dark Ambient fields & condensed industrial frequencies presented on this new album.
The LP Edition comes presented in a Gatefold cover with UVI finish and printed innersleeves (Black Vinyl. Edition of 200 copies)
*The vinyl Edition contain 2 Bonus tracks only available on this set. **Exclusive artwork by Alonso Urbanos (http://www.alonsourbanos.com/)
Tracklist: SIDE A – Psychopompus – Incorporeal Being – The Invalid Earth
SIDE B – Krononaut (Time Zero) – Black Vessel – Codex Lego
SIDE C – Night Regime – Body Farm – The Operators – I Am I Am
SIDE D – Now Ends Here** – The Proper Study Of Man** – We All Become Gods
Kinit Her – The Poet & The Blue Flower (Vinyl, LP) Label: Avant! – AV!025 Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Grey Country: Italy Released: 15 Jul 2013 Style: Experimental, Neofolk, Industrial
Through kaleidoscopic composition, constitution of voice, and timbral experimentation, Nathaniel Ritter and Troy Schafer continue to braid their string of works as Kinit Her. Their discography has grown strong over recent years with releases on such esteemed labels as Alt.Vinyl, Small Doses, Pesanta Urfolk, Reue um Reue, and now, AVANT!; this repertoire has become a powerful force that is harmoniously reliable and unpredictable in theme, atmosphere, and trajectory. On The Poet & the Blue Flower, Schafer and Ritter endure in architecting a unique system of auditory mysticism. Falling in an undefinable territory of the post-industrial and neofolk landscapes with both strictly structured song-like fragments and more free-associative passages throughout its 8 tracks, this album features the exalted rhetoric that is Schafer’s stoic orchestral arrangements, Ritter’s tidal electronics and the continually evolving vocal deliveries of both men.
Lyrically, The Poet & the Blue Flower continues with Kinit Her’s recent bent of drawing on poetry from Germany’s early 20th Century post-romantic literary underground. With this record, they drift slightly from Der Kosmikerkreis to the poems of literary and political philosopher Rudolf Pannwitz serving as their sole inspiration. Pannwitz’ poetry effortlessly escalates Kinit Her’s themes of the entanglement of Heaven, Earth, and those who believe to be dwelling in some intersection thereof. Visual accompaniment to Kinit Her’s music, as it was on the recent The Cavern Stanzas, has been graciously provided by the brush of Gianluca Martucci. Mastering courtesy of James Plotkin.
Estrategia Lo Capto! – Gran Bola De Nieve Label: Burka For Everybody – BFE 007 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Spain Released: 2011 Style: Surf, Art Rock, Punk
Posthumous reissue from one of the best albums lately released in Spain, originally only available in CD through B-Core. The Valencian trio grinded discordant punk DIY 70’s, surf, and guided Massacre, Skeleton Crew or the first Pell Mell through the Rock’n’roll way. Guitars which sound in between Fred Frith and Man Or Astro Man?, with poisoning strokes, Caribbean imposted punk that seems faked by criminals and Asirian pre-historic library punks.
George Fenton – The Company Of Wolves (Vinyl, LP, Album) Label: Cold Spring – CSR299LP Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, 180g Country: UK Released: 2021 Style: Modern Classical, Soundtrack
Out of print for over 35 years, the official soundtrack to the cult 1984 film by Neil Jordan is finally available once again on vinyl format. The surreal and effective film – a true gem of British Gothic fantasy horror – has an equally atmospheric, breathtakingly beautiful, surreal and unsettling soundtrack, scored by George Fenton.
The film itself, directed by Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Breakfast On Pluto), and based on the screenplay by Angela Carter and Neil Jordan, is a modern allegorical adaptation of the classic Grimm fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood, symbolising sexual awakening, duality and liberation. The stellar cast features Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, Stephen Rea, David Warner, and Danielle Dax.
«There is a sense of awe and enchanted wonder encaptured in its fairy tale sound, swooping with cascading violins and dark mysterious undercurrents that bubble below the surface… The score flows effortlessly between its light and dark moments. Most importantly, moments of beauty are not lost to the sense of suspense and drama. Indeed, light always needs its companion of shadow, as the film suggests in the sexual awakening of the pure untainted innocence that is Rosaleen. This score perfectly demonstrates the beauty of the juxtaposition between the sounds of youth and the temptation of desire» (L. Hammond)
«The film largely takes place in the dream world so I made this the home base for the orchestra. To a large extent the scoring in this area is conventional, perhaps a little impressionistic and hopefully reflects a curious but endearing world. This left me free to invent sounds for the stories within the dream world. I wanted to use a mixture of electronics and ‘live’ instruments, and after some experimenting, arrived at a line-up of three bass flutes, Pan Pipes, violins, one, two or three solo double basses, percussion and Synclavier II synthesizer» (George Fenton, 1984)
Oscar-nominated / Emmy & BAFTA-winning composer George Fenton has created stunning scores for major films and television such as: Gandhi, Dangerous Liaisons, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Frozen Planet and countless others over the last 40 years.
Ltd LP on 180g vinyl.
Track listing:
A1. The Message And Main Theme A2. Rosaleen’s First Dream A3. The Village Wedding A4. The Return Of The Groom A5, The Forest And The Huntsman’s Theme A6. The Wedding Party B1. The Boy And The Devil B2. One Sunday Afternoon… B3. The Promise And Transformation B4. Arriving At Granny’s Cottage B5. The Wolfgirl B6. Liberation
The Moon And The Nightspirit – Aether Label: Auerbach Tonträger – AB 102 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Translucent Violet Country: Germany Released: 19 Jun 2020 Style: Folk, World
Throughout its 17 years of existence, Hungarian duo The Moon And The Nightspirit not once failed to enthrall lovers of mythical folk music. With traces of paganism and tribalism, the pair has existed in its very own fairytale world throughout six albums and countless intense live shows on international stages – but now, it was time for them to readjust their approach.
Speaking of their new full-length «Aether» as a «milestone in the history of the band», guitarist and lyricist Mihály refers to a surprising stylistic recalibration during songwriting – for whereas so far, singer Ágnes’ voice has been front and center, the two-piece now perfectly balances the female and male sides of its musical entity.
Consequently, The Moon And The Nightspirit are as flamboyant as they have ever been. As forerunners of a new generation of heavenly folk music that takes its cues from Dead Can Dance as much as its immediate surroundings, they filter their time-honored mixture of richly layered sounds, shamanistic chants and multiple instruments from different periods through masculine powers, maintaining both their graceful delicacy and peerless inventiveness.
With added focus on harsh vocals, «Aether» seems not only impeccably executed – arranged with the group’s fabled passion and virtuosity – but also makes good on the promise of «Metanoia»: If its predecessor rekindled an inner flame, we are now faced with a glaring fire that lights our way on «a journey through the Gateless Gates to the source of creation to find the Divine essence of the soul, to remember our Great Cosmic Unity and oneness …”
Tracklist:
1. Aether 2. Kaputlan Kapukon Át 3. Égi Messzeségek 4. A Szárny 5. Logos 6. A Mindenség Hívása 7. Asha
Sangre De Muerdago – Xuntas (Vinyl, LP, Black) Label: Música Máxica – MM15 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Black Country: Europe Released: 2021 Style: Folk
Limited to 550 copies on black vinyl. Comes in a vintage ultra-thick old school casewrapped tip-on sleeve 70s style and accompanied by a 25x25cm book with 28 pages.
-Erik “Erich” Heimansberg: Flute, pandero de Peñaparda, bass clarinet, voice. -Hanna Werth: Viola, voice. -Georg “Xurxo” Börner: Nyckelharpa, voice. -Asia Kindred Moore: Celtic harp. -Pablo “Pabs” C. Ursusson: Classical guitar, hurdy-gurdy, music box, steel string guitar, bells, voice, field recordings. -Jorge Olson de Abreu: Melodies from the Otherworld.
Guest musicians: -Steve Von Till: Vocals on “Xuntas”. -Germán Díaz: Hurdy-gurdy on “Unha das peores cousas que escoitéi no 2019 foi “Pedir perdón é un acto de debilidade””.
Recorded where the linden trees stand during early March and early May 2020 at the the Fire Vessel Studios by Tobias Häussler. Mixed by Tobias Häussler assisted by Pablo C. Ursusson and Georg Börner. Mastered by Efrén López at To Katekhon, Mas de Flors. Music, lyrics and texts by Pablo C. Ursusson. Arrangements by Pablo C. Ursusson and Sangre de Muerdago. “Foliada de Tenorio” is originally a traditional song from Galicia. Art and design by Kaska Niemiro
