Ionophore – Sinter PoolsLabel: Malignant Antibody – Treatment06Format: CD, AlbumCountry: USReleased: 14 Mar 2016Style: Ambient, Drone, ExperimentalIonophore – Sinter Pools Ionophore is the project of the SF Bay Area/London-based multi-instrumentalists Leila Abdul-Rauf, Jan Hendrich, and Ryan Honaker. The trio weaves dark electronics and neoclassical soundscapes with heavy drones, seamlessly melding the orchestral strings of Honaker, the horns and voice of Abdul-Rauf, and electronic manipulations of Hendrich. Working closely with mastering magician Myles Boisen (known for his work with Angelo Badalamenti, John Zorn, Fred Frith), the result is an entrancing original sound, combining cinematic tones with beat-driven, ethereal ambience. A genre-bending and highly creative album that embodies the more adventurous and…
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Aderlating – Hell Follows
Aderlating – Hell FollowsLabel: Black Plagve – Infect16Format: CD, AlbumCountry: USReleased: 10 Dec 2015Style: Dark Ambient, Power Electronics Hell Follows takes a somewhat altered approach as it moves away from the ritualistic horror and smothering claustrophobia of past releases, and into a more spacious realm, with more distinguished sounds and clearer instrumentation. That’s not to say that Hell Follows isn’t steeped in atmosphere and dark energy. The 9 tracks are unpredictable, wildly hallucinatory and beguiling…odes to nightmares and flickering visions of torment and anguish, an alchemy of blackened kosmiche keyboard textures, raspy, foreboding voices, and passages of corrosive rumblings, hellish drift, and sinister percussive clangor. Mories has stated that Hell…
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Agalloch – The Mantle
Agalloch – The MantleLabel: Grau – Grau 001 CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: GermanyReleased: 2011Style: Black Metal, Experimental, Neofolk “The Mantle” is a grand multi-dimensional opus of 70 minutes featuring their dark melancholic metal with post rock and neo-folk elements. References range from Pink Floyd, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sol Invictus, Ulver, Dissection, Fields Of The Nephilim and a lot more
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Andrew Chalk, Ralf Wehowsky & Eric Lanzillotta – Yang-Tul
Andrew Chalk, Ralf Wehowsky & Eric Lanzillotta – Yang-TulLabel: Cold Spring – CSR220CDFormat: CD, ReissueCountry: UKReleased: 11 Apr 2016Style: Drone, Experimental A legendary sound collaboration formed of two lengthy pieces. The first track features Andrew Chalk (Mirror, Ora, Ferial Confine) gently reworking the sound materials of Ralf Wehowsky (P16.D4). A hypnotic, slowly-evolving drone with waves of mysterious sounds, static and glitches. The second piece, on the other hand, finds Ralf Wehowsky composing a frenzied journey into otherworldly realms using sound material from Andrew Chalk and Eric Lanzillotta (Eye Music). These pieces reflect a sound unique from the work of any of the three individual participants, but clearly related. Subtle, but…
