Urze De Lume – Ventos Da Terra FriaLabel: Equilibrium Music – EQM049, Equilibrium Music – EQM049BKFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, NumberedCountry: PortugalReleased: 24 Apr 2023Style: Ambient, Neofolk, Folk Focused on the traditional Portuguese imagery and inspired by the ancestry of primitive Iberian culture, “Ventos da Terra Fria” reignites the soundscapes that illustrate the territory, from its first human vestiges to the near extinct rural world of present times, where shamanism, paganism and the duality between the sacred and the profane have become little more than a time-worn vision. Drawing from a palette of multiple traditional instruments, and borrowing from select field recordings, URZE DE LUME have built a unique…
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Alternative 4 – The Brink
Alternative 4 – The BrinkLabel: Prophecy Productions ?– Pro 128-2Format: CD, AlbumCountry: GermanyReleased: 2012Genre: RockStyle: Doom Metal, Prog Rock Alternative 4 is Duncan Patterson’s (ex-Anathema, ex-Antimatter, Íon) latest brainchild. With the band name derived from the eponymous Anathema album from 1998, the musical and atmospheric direction of this band is given: a solid rock foundation enriched with painful piano and string arrangements, sometimes on the verge of ambient music, sometimes offering the big influence of the rather dark and abysmal side of Pink Floyd. All this can already be witnessed on last year’s debut album «The Brink» which now receives its re-release to mark the beginning of Alternative 4’s and…
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Free As Dead – Tombeau Vital
Free As Dead – Tombeau VitalLabel: 4iB Records – 4iB CD/1215/019, Decimation Sociale – noneFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: SingaporeReleased: 04 Feb 2016Style: Experimental, Industrial, Noise, Abstract Free As Dead is another project of prolific French Harsh Noise Wall artist Romain Perrot, who deviates from his other known projects like walled noise acts Vomir and guitar noise Falot. Free As Dead builds it’s disturbing ambience with harsh funeral organ noise, and together with the collaborative efforts of Andy Bolus (of Evil Moisture) Tombeau Vital creates an almost soundtrack-like horror story revolving around Perrot’s (pervasive) alter ego of a B-Grade masked monster and his doll captive. This is a conceptually heavy…
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Shinkiro / 蜃気楼 – Archive: Volumes I – III
Shinkiro / 蜃気楼 – Archive: Volumes I – IIILabel: Old Captain – OCCD42Format: 2 × CD, Album, Compilation, Limited EditionCountry: UkraineReleased: 13 Jun 2018Style: Dark Ambient, Experimental, Industrial Shinkiro is a dark ambient project from Japan, formed in 2003 by Manabu Hiramoto who dwells in organic isolation full of pulsating drones and elegiac solaris ambiances. Based on the old recording sessions in 2003 – 2007 this release captures the darkest and most beautiful moments of Shinkiro’s music: low-key synth textures merged with rhythmic cadences and slight distortions gradually unfolding roaming melodies, magnetic and cold undercurrents, ethereal epiphanies and ever present longing for the unattainable abyss. Three early unreleased albums assembled…
