Cyclotimia – CelestisLabel: Shadowplay Release – SPR 114, Zhelezobeton – ZHB-XXIX, Monopoly Records – noneFormat: CD, Album, Limited Edition, ReissueCountry: RussiaReleased: 30 Oct 2010Style: Downtempo, Experimental, Ambient Cyclotimia’s album “Celestis: Space Ceremonial Music” is inspired by the activity of a well-known American aerospace company Space Services Inc. which among other things specializes in sending human ashes into space (via their subsidiary Celestis Inc.). Moreover, the compact discs with this music have prowled the outer space twice while being on board rockets launched from the spaceport America in New Mexico. This happened for the first time in April 2007 (“Legacy” project), and for the second time in May 2010 (“Pioneer Flight”…
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Neznamo – Aiwyâstô
Neznamo – AiwyâstôLabel: Muzyka Voln – MV-IXFormat: CD, Album, Limited Edition, NumberedCountry: RussiaReleased: 22 Apr 2015Style: Dark Ambient, Dronef somebody still doesn’t know, behind the Neznamo project stands the Moscow-based musician Dmitry Shilov who stepped on the path of ritual ambient music in 1996 under the stage name of Unknown. After releasing five albums on the “Strely Peruna” (“Perun’s Arrows”) label, the project temporarily fell in a lethargic sleep but woke up again in 2006 with a renewed name and approach.As Neznamo Dmitriy has released several mini-albums on his own label Moonsun Productions, as well as a number of collaboration works with several other acts from the Russian drone underground:…
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Eonic – Secret Land
Eonic – Secret LandLabel: Zhelezobeton – ZHB-XXVIIFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: RussiaReleased: 05 Apr 2010Style: Downtempo, Ambient Secret land lost in an unknown dimension… Like ancient ruins this place hides the traces of stories, which are told in this new album by the St. Petersburg project Eonic. This is their 6th release (and 2nd “professional” CD) and it easily combines different stylistic approaches, making its own way to the listener’s heart. Ethno-gothic in vein of Dead Can Dance and Arcana is layered over tout electronic rhythms a la Delerium and Enigma and spiced by pleasant psychedelic arrangements. Musicians don’t hesitate to step on the territory of pop-ambient and even new-age,…
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Hypnoz – Breath Of Earth
Hypnoz – Breath Of EarthLabel: Zhelezobeton – ZHB-XVFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: RussiaReleased: 28 Jul 2008Style: Dark Ambient, Experimental, Ambient Hypnoz is a project of Dmitry Zubov, a musician from Moscow suburb Fryazino, the town that endowed the lovers of post-industrial music with such names as Hum and Staruha Mha. His first composition was recorded in 1993, and during its existence Hypnoz has released one CD on the Moscow label Insofar Vapour Bulk, which gathered tracks from different periods, a couple of very limited CD-Rs, and participated on the compilation “Iznutri” by the Ewers Tonkunst label with a fragment of a composition from this album. Aside from Hypnoz Dmitry plays…
