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    Moon Far Away – Minnesang

    abril 10, 2025

    Moon Far Away – Minnesang
    Label: Ahnstern – Ahnstern 45
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Austria
    Released: 20 May 2010
    Style: Neofolk, Darkwave, Experimental, Folk, Religious

    “MINNESANG” is an album of 21st century ritual music encased in a unique fusion of the most diverse and zeitgeist-capturing musical styles, from neofolk and post punk to practically future pop.
    All these facets of contemporary music blend seamlessly in the unparalleled sound of
    MOON FAR AWAY’s probably most polystylistic, yet internally deeply conceptual and person-centered album of the group.
    The theme of the album, the deep-rooted feminine archetypes in contemporary art, is embodied in the title, which identifies a genre of medieval knight lyrics.
    At the same time, most of the original Russian-language lyrics on the album are drenched with the trademark Pomor flavors, emphasizing the pride that the band’s has always taken in its cultural roots that extend deep into the epic traditions of the Russian North. All of this makes the term “pop album” that the band itself uses in reference to “MINNESANG” a pure art-provocation.
    MFA’s new album consists of 12 tracks, all of which may well become (and some of which have already become, thanks to the band’s concert performances and pieces recorded on
    international collection CDs) hits and anthems.
    “MINNESANG” is a puzzle, a rebus that took years to create and will take much more than a cursory listen to solve.
    It is a new milestone achieved by a cult group who already gave contemporary art scene a number of discoveries and revelations. 

    “Minnesang” was also released in Russia at the same time by SHADOWPLAY.
    the Ahnstern-version has partly different artwork, infos in latin letters and the last song is completely different to the Russian version.

    Tracklist :
    1. And light shineth in darkness
    2. Sweet Olga
    3. Goe and Cathe
    4. Deus amet Puellam
    5. Filled by memory
    6. King son’s journey pt.I
    7. King son’s journey pt.II
    8. Francisca
    9. Witchcraft by a singing
    10. Holy mother Russia
    11. Come, brother in white church
    12. Shumff Gudit

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    Philippe Blache – Tristitiam Et Metus Tradam Portare Ventis

    marzo 13, 2025

    Philippe Blache – Tristitiam Et Metus Tradam Portare Ventis
    Label: CONJVRE THE CIRCLE – CTC19
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
    Country: USA & Europe
    Released: Sep 19, 2024
    Style: Experimental, Dark Ambient, Darkwave

    Composed, recorded and arranged by Philippe Blache (alias « Day Before Us ») in Dole, from early to July 2024.

    «Tristitiam et metus tradam portare ventis» (I will give the sadness and fear to the winds) is a straightforward emotional journey based on brooding, lush, meditative and evanescent piano lines then moody-esque and tense cinematic atmospheres for sweeping electronic textures.
    Hints of noisy harshness comes out as grey clouds where graceful elegiac tones are trying to escape from. Philippe Blache is a sound artist and a cultural anthropologist found of electro acoustic research with an approach in ethno-musicology, in dark literary romanticism and in mystical spiritualism. He is the founder of the ethereal-neoclassical dark ambient project «Day Before Us», active since 2011. «Tristitiam et metus tradam portare ventis» is his third soloing effort. Recommended for those who enjoy tempestuous, epic and emotional vastness with a gothic-tinged accent and a devotional melodious catharsis.

    Composed By, Arranged By, Piano, Organ, Electronics – Philippe Blache
    Edited By – Jared Nokturne
    Mastered By – Giuseppe Verticchio
    Narrator – Maria Labuena, Pauline Poirel
    Photography By – Natalie Ina, Vaida Petrauskaite

    → Day Before Us ‎– Ode A La Nuit D’Ombre
    → The Ever Sounding Sea Of Grief by Philippe Blache
    → Day Before Us – Misty Shroud Of Regrets
    → Day Before Us ‎– Prélude à l’âme d’élégie
    → Day Before Us ‎– Nihil Interit
    → Day Before Us ‎– Adorned path of Stillness
    → Day Before Us / Nimh – Under Mournful Horizons

    → Philippe Blache – Tristitiam Et Metus Tradam Portare Ventis

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    Moral Order ‎– The Slaughter Of The Innocents

    marzo 10, 2025

    Moral Order ‎– The Slaughter Of The Innocents
    Label: New Approach Records ‎– NAR43
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Portugal
    Released: 09 Feb 2025
    Genre: Electronic
    Style: Industrial, Ambient, Power Electronics.

    Active since 2018, Spanish Industrial project Moral Order have been consistently releasing well executed Power Electronics drenched in Darkness and Bleakness, but 2025 sees a new facet of the project, where F. dwells into fields closer to Dark Ambiental Industrial, pushing the oppressive and claustrophobic aspects of his sound to new levels. In an age where all we know seems to mean nothing and society’s sanity seems to vanish into oblivion by the wish of a few occult forces, «The Slaughter of the Innocents» embraces us in its dark and tenebrous mantle.

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