GH Records / Sello de música rara
Venta Protesix + Jugendwerkhof – Sterilitätszelotismus
Label: New Approach Records – NAR31
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Portugal
Released: 15 Jul 2022
Style: Noise
Just before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe, Italian Noise project Venta Protesix and German Harsh Noise duo Jugendwerkhof joined forces and recorded «Sterilitätszelotismus» a collaboration focused the obsessive cleaning behavior.
Deprivation – Keep My Grave Open
Label: New Approach Records – NAR24
Format: CD, Album
Country:Portugal
Released: Nov 2022
Style: Industrial, Power Electronics
Deprivation is an Italian Death Industrial/P.E. project active since 2012.
With a few releases under its belt, the project had been refining its sound during
these years and can now present a cohesive identity inside the genre.
«Keep my grave open» pays homage to the old
names of Italian Industrial and presents us an immersive work of slow passed
Death Industrial, sometimes dissonant yet almost atmospheric.
A perfect soundtrack for the bleak times ahead and a morbid tribute to the dead.
Archon Satani – In Shelter
Label: Dark Vinyl Records – DVLR 6
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: Germany
Released: Apr 2005
Style: Dark Ambient, Experimental
Archon Satani. A dark ritual project, playing eerie and haunting industrial ambient music with a satanic background, obsessive percussions and frightening demonic voices. The original line-up consisted of Tomas Pettersson and Mikael Stavöstrand. They worked together from 1990 to 1993, then the former went on to form Ordo Equilibrio, while the latter continued under the name Archon Satani, as well as with his other project Inanna.
Tracklist
1.Sheltering – Offering 16:01
2.Fleshseed 11:39
3.Deadbeat 16:59
4.Entering An Soul 10:23
5….In Abhorence 13:56
Valborg – Urknall CD-7 Box
Label: Lupus Lounge – WOLF107, Prophecy Productions – WOLF107
Format: Box Set, Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered
Country: Germany
Released: 17 May 2019
Style: Black Metal, Death Metal, Experimental
«Urknall» is a 7CD box set with all studio recordings of Valborg until 2015. As such, it contains the band’s first five albums «Glorification Of Pain» (2009), «Crown Of Sorrow» (2010), «Barbarian» (2011), «Nekrodepression» (2012) and «Romantik» (2015) as Digipak CDs with entirely new artworks as well as the early demos «Songs For A Year» (2002-2003) and «Radio Valborg» (2004-2006) as cardsleeve CDs. Besides the CDs, the robust slipcase box offers an exclusive, 64-page booklet. «Urknall» is limited to 500 numbered copies.
Tracklist:
Glorification Of Pain:
Crown Of Sorrow:
Barbarian:
Nekrodepression:
Romantik:
Demos I: Songs For A Year
Demos II: Radio Valborg
Der Blutharsch / Taciturne – The Moment Of Truth / Der Brotkasten
Label: WKN – WKN 22
Format: CD, Compilation, Remastered + CD, Mini, Reissue
Country: Austria
Released: Oct 2004
Style: Industrial, Experimental, Chiptune
Der Blutharsch was the main project of Austrian musician Albin Julius (1967-2022). Following in the footsteps of Autopsia and Laibach, Julius created 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 – The Track Of The Hunted
Label: WKN – WKN 10
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, 2nd
Country: Austria
Style: Neofolk, Industrial, Ambient
Der Blutharsch was the main project of Austrian musician Albin Julius (1967-2022). Following in the footsteps of Autopsia and Laibach, Julius created 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.
Phurpa – Ya Tog Rid Pa’i Gyer
Label: Zoharum – ZOHAR 145-2
Format: 2 × CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Poland
Released: 03 Jul 2017
Style: Overtone Singing, Drone, Experimental
This double album is the successor to the previous release entitled “Chöd” from nearly a year ago. The new release shows how Phurpa constantly transforms itself through their own musical exploration as well as personal spiritual development. Apart from intensive concerts, its members are famous for their long meditation trainings/sessions. This constant movement, the exploration of various techniques and discovering new inspirations in eastern culture makes Phurpa musicians more and more eager to use traditional instruments in addition to their distinctive “rgyud-skad” singing, thus enriching the already familiar formula. By emphasizing the sacred and spiritual nature of their activity, they seek to enrich it in such a way that the listener can find the novum, bearing in mind that not only the aesthetic but very spiritual world of the ancient deities of the Bön tradition is particularly important. The title, referring to the magical quest for the universe, should set the direction for the interpretation, or be merely a pretext or an invitation to this mystical journey.
hibalba / Alone In The Hollow Garden & Nam-Khar – Yang Trol Lé
Label: Nihilward Productions – NAUGHT27
Format: CD, Limited Edition
Country: Ukraine
Released: 05 Apr 2017
Style: Ambient, Dark Ambient, Experimental
«Yang Trol Lé» is merging the primordial energies of Shibalba / Alone In The Hollow Garden & Nam-khar into the physical manifestation of a limited digipack CD edition, featuring new artwork & three songs from each act, with a total play time of 50 minutes.
Tracklist:
1. Shibalba – Mantras of the Lotus-Eyed God
2. Shibalba ft. Of Earth And Sun – Anantashesha
3. Shibalba – Hymn To The Climbing Scarab
4. Alone In The Hollow Garden & Nam-Khar – Samantabhadra
5. Alone In The Hollow Garden & Nam-Khar – Shama
6. Alone In The Hollow Garden & Nam-Khar – Sangye Menla
Having its inspiration in tibetan spirituality & other ancient aesthetics, the union between Alone In The Hollow Garden & Nam-Khar offers a transcendent ritual experience for supporting the path to the natural liberation of the soul.
Alone In The Hollow Garden: chanting, throat singing, amplified strings, kantele, metal percussion, kangling, mey ney & pungi flutes, damaru, rol-mo, tibetan bells & gongs.
Nam-Khar: analogue synthesizers, drones, textures, effects, rhythm programming.
All rituals channeled, performed & recorded by Alone In he Hollow Garden & Nam-Khar MMXVI. Mixing, mastering, cover drawings & artwork by A.I.T.H.G.
Shibalba – Nekrologie Sinistrae (Orchestra Noise Opus I)
Label: Agonia Records – ARCD212
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Poland
Released: 02 Oct 2020
Style: Industrial
Shibalba is a project whose main focus is set on expressing shamanic, trance-like music, by the use of ethnic instruments and musical technics peculiar to religious rituals. The new album «Nekrologie Sinistrae (Orchestral Noise Opus I)» for the first time introduces industrial elements to the band’s sound.
The new album was recorded, mixed and mastered by George Emmanuel (Lucifer’s Child/ex-Rotting Christ) at Pentagram Studio in Greece. Giacome Del Po’s painting «At The Gates Of Hell» graces the cover artwork.
Alongside traditional instruments (such as Tibetan horns & singing bowls, bone & horne trumpets, darbukas, ceremonial bells & gongs or percussion instruments made of bones and skulls) the band incorporates contemporary synthesizers and guitar drones. The music is richly detailed and multidimensional, while its outcome is deep, unsettling and subconscious, offering an otherworldly voyage.
Ikon – As Time Goes By (The Original Ikon)
Label: Dark Vinyl Records – DV81, Nile Records Australia – DV81
Format: CD, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered, Limited Edition
Country: Germany
Released: Jun 22, 2018
Style: Goth Rock, Darkwave
In January 1992, IKON entered the studio to record what was supposed tob e the band`s debut single „As Time Goes By“ b/w „Never Ending“. Over three days from 17 january, a total of 8 songs were recorded and the band was reasonably satisfied with the results. Shortly afterwards, an accident lead tot he partial erasure oft he drums for «As Time Goes By“, making it impossible to finish and also wiping the plans for it tob e the main single track. The remaining songs were mixed over the following weeks, but the band was not happy with the results overall, so the project was shelved.
By mid 1992, IKON decided to attempt to remix the tracks and select another single option, but this time encountered a new problem: the tape was beginning to oxidize, making it impossible to play. The band was faced with the prospect of being forced to use the initial unsatisfactory mixes.
In 2016 this original IKON session, known as «As Time Goes By“, was given one final facelift by repairing and cleaning up any tape issues, and presenting the songs in a more natural light. It was decided that no more songs would be added to CD1, not to detract from IKON’s studio debut.
CD2 contains the complete January 1st Arthouse live show, which has never been released in full. This show was recorded within a couple of weeks of the Frontline session, and is a a fitting addition.
Although many of these tracks have been mixed on numerous occasions over the years, and feature on various CD’S, the session known as ‘As Time Goes By’, the original IKON studio session, was given one final facelift in 2016, repairing and cleaning up any tape issues, and presenting the songs in a more natural light. It was decided that no more songs would be added to CD1, not to detract from IKON’s studio debut. CD2 contains the complete January 1st Arthouse live show, which has never been released in full. This show was recorded within a couple of weeks of the Frontline session, and is a a fitting addition.
Tracklist:
CD1-STUDIO (38 min):
AS TIME GOES BY (2016) 3:01 / NEVER ENDING (2016) 3:25 / WHY (2016) 3:12 / REALITY IS LOST (2016) 4:08 / ALIVE (2016) 3:14 / FEAR (2016) 3:48 / THE LOST (2016) 3:37 / ALONE (2016) 3:13
CD2-LIVE (42 min.):
SUICIDE (Arthouse 1992) 3:59 / NEVER ENDING (Arthouse 1992) 3:22 / AS TIME GOES BY (Arthouse 1992) 3:01 / WHY (Arthouse 1992) 3:21 / THE AWAKENING (Arthouse 1992) 3:20 / ALIVE (Arthouse 1992) 3:07 / DEVOTION (Arthouse 1992) 2:43 / ALONE (Arthouse 1992) 3:27 / REALITY IS LOST (Arthouse 1992) 4:08 / THE LOST (Arthouse 1992) 2:45 / SHE SMILES (Arthouse 1992) 4:12 / FEAR (Arthouse 1992) 4:20 + 6 hidden Bonustracks (24 min of unreleased Demos from 1992)
