Gudelnaya Polyana – Solar Systo Togathering 2020Label: Zhelezobeton – ZHB-LXXXVFormat: 3 × CD, Album, Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered, Partially MixedCountry: RussiaReleased: 31 May 2021Style: Drone, Dark Ambient, Experimental, Ambient, Noise Here we have a three-hour long compilation of live recordings, made in September 2020 at Gudelnaya Polyana (Russian for “droning glade”) – the experimental stage of the Solar Systo Togathering festival. The concept of Gudelnaya Polyana is total drone, infinitely diverse, but united in its essence. Every year in any weather dozens of musicians gather in the woods of the Leningrad region to take part in this ritual action, keeping themselves warm with bonfires, hot pu-er tea and kilowatts of…
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Hiemis – Radix
Hiemis – RadixLabel: NoctivagantFormat: CDRCountry: SpanishReleased: 2020Style: Drone, Dark Ambient However, the cathedrals were not only temples strictly dedicated to religious worship; in turn, they become places of encounter, of discussion, of contemplation. Sanctuary of the Tradition of Science and Art, the Gothic cathedral must be seen as a sufficient concretion of popular ideas, trends and faith, as a perfect whole that we can go to without fear when we try to know the thoughts of our ancestors , in all fields: religious, secular, philosophical or social. The medieval builders, authentic creators of these complex and amazing buildings, breathed into their works a whole series of knowledge and hermetic messages.…
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Hiemis – Hyperborea
Hiemis – HyperboreaLabel: NoctivagantFormat: CDRCountry: SpanishReleased: 2019Style: Drone, Dark Akmbient The dark-ambient and cold-cinematographic styles definitely are the main sources of inspiration running through this opus. I also noticed a few experimental treatments, but globally speaking this is music to activate evil spirits. Haunting voices and deep, humming tones will accompany the listener during their nightmarish trip. «side-line»
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Hiemis – Zothique
Hiemis – ZothiqueLabel: NoctivagantFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: USAReleased:2022Style: Drone, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Dungeon Synth, Neo-Classical Zothique (Clark Ashton Smith)«He who has trod the shadows of ZothiqueAnd looked upon the coal-red sun oblique,Henceforth returns to no anterior land,But haunts a later coastWhere cities crumble in the black sea-sandAnd dead gods drink the brine. He who has known the gardens of ZothiqueWere bleed the fruits torn by the simorgh’s beak,Savors no fruit of greener hemispheres:In arbors uttermost,In sunset cycles of the sombering years,He sips an amaranth wine. He who has loved the wild girls of ZothiqueShall not come back a gentler love to seek,Nor know the vampire’s from the lover’s kiss:For…