Vulturum – Vivi Di Luce Riflessa b/w Voraussage Label: Sangue Dischi – SD 08, Trips und Träume – TT14 Format: Vinyl, 12″ Country: Italy Released: 2011 Style: Psychedelic Rock, Experimental
12″ LP, black vinyl housed in a nice die-cut cover + printed innersleeve designed by Luca ‘Yeti’ Battaglia who is also Vulturum’s drummer.
A1. Vivi di Luce Riflessa B1. Voraussage
Vivi di luce riflessa was recorded during the Vineta sessions. The first Vulturum song to feature two complete drum parts, it awaited completion for more than a year, something that could not shine of its own, the exact thing one would expect from a song about people who don’t deserve to have songs written about. Its counterpart is Voraussage, a forecast, a prophecy, an alternate version of something yet to come, an ode to wasted summer days meant to be listened to in the dead of winter, a final chant to disenchantment.
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.
The Moon And The Nightspirit – Holdrejtek Label: Auerbach Tonträger Format: CD, Album, Digipack Country: Germany Released: 15 Aug 2014 Style: Folk, Ethereal
Since their debut «Of Dreams Forgotten And Fables Untold», The Moon And The Nightspirit belong to the most popular proponents between Medieval, Pagan Folk and World Music. With «Holdrejtek» («lunar sanctuary»), its fifth and arguably strongest album so far, the Hungarian duo makes its debut on Auerbach Tonträger / Prophecy Productions. On their latest effort, The Moon And The Nightspirit stay true to their style, which is coined by ethereal vocals, violin, acoustic guitar and percussion, yet appear more mature and diverse than ever in terms of composition and instrumental arrangement. Just like its predecessor «Mohalepte», «Holdrejtek» is much influenced by a deep veneration for and love of nature as far as its concept is concerned, while this time, mastermind Mihaly Szabo approaches the subject in a less romantic and more intellectual way. The lyrics are rife with the philosophical idea of simultaneous oneness and duality of micro- and macrocosm, which is attributed to Hermes Trismegistos and his screed «Tabula Smaragdina».
