• GH Records

    noviembre 4, 2017

    Camerata Mediolanense – Le Vergini Folli 

    Label: Prophecy Productions ‎– AB 083 LU
    Format: 2 CD Book
    Country: Germany
    Released: 2017-10-27
    Style: Modern Classical, Experimental

    Camerata Mediolanense is an ensemble of Italian musicians who gained recognition in the Neofolk/Neoclassical scenes by blending darkwave and post-punk with the musical spirit of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The group was born in Milan in 1994, founded by harpsichordist/musicologist Elena Previdi. Literally translated as “a group of chamber musicians from Milano”, Camerata Mediolanense is renowned for creating music according to the traditions and history of Italy and Europe’s classical and folk music, and by using sublime voices, martial percussions, keyboards and electronic devices.

    With its new album, “Le Vergini Folli” (english: “The Foolish Virgins”), Camerata Mediolanense has created a dense, lush work that places the piano in the foreground and uses a strict musical language of tonal harmony which is out of fashion nowadays and thus immerses the listener in the sounds of centuries past. Guided by the pure beauty of simple melodies, channeled through love songs, and interpreted by enchanting female voices, “Le Vergini Folli” is unique to the band’s discography in that the album is devoid of percussion, driven primarily by the captivating interplay of vocals and vintage pianos that date back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

    Lyrically, the gaze of Camerata Mediolanense remains focused on the artistic and aesthetic achievements of the past. Six of the song lyrics are poems from “forgotten literature” written by Italian women of the past and two taken from Italian poet Petrarch (1304-1374), considered one of the greatest love poets of world literature and the founder of humanism (Camerata Mediolanense dedicated their entire previous album, “Vertute, Honor, Bellezza”, to his works).

    Unlike all of the group’s previous works, which are deliberately organized into a specific sequence, the band invites listeners to freely change the order of the tracks on “Le Vergini Folli” to enhance and diversify the experience. Release your mind and unlock the inner secrets of Camerata Mediolanense!

    “Le Vergini Folli” is available as a Digipak CD and as 2xCD hardcover book (18×18 cm, 60 pages) with liner notes, lyric translations (English, German, French, Spanish), historic portrait photos of “foolish virgins” and an 8-track bonus CD featuring both a new song, and alternate versions of old and new tracks.

    Edition:
    – 2xCD hardcover book (18×18 cm, 60 pages, 500 copies available)

    Tracklist:
    1. Lacrime Di Gioia
    2. Scrissi Con Stile Amaro
    3. Notte Di Novelli Sogni
    4. Mi Vuoi
    5. Notte Ancora
    6. Pace Non Trovo
    7. Dolce Salire
    8. Quando ‘l Sol

    Bonus CD:
    1. Anime E Inchiostri
    2. Quando ‘l Sol (strumentale)
    3. Pace Non Trovo (versione)
    4. Vergine Bella Che Di Sol Vestita
    5. Notte Di novelli Sogni (strumentale)
    6. Notte Ancora (piano solo)
    7. Mi Vuoi (ripresa)
    8. Canzone Alla Vergine (2017)

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  • GH Records

    octubre 30, 2017

    La Breiche ‎– Le Mal Des Ardents

    Label: Cold Spring ‎– CSR224CD
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: UK
    Released: 06 Feb 2017
    Style: Dark Ambient, Folk, Experimental

    LA BREICHE (“the witch”) features two well-known musicians: Arexis and Lafforgue of Stille Volk – a band best known since 1994 as one of the pioneers of Pagan Folk in Europe – and of Pagan Black French band Sus Scrofa.

    “Le Mal Des Ardents” (“Holy Fire”) is a concept album about fears, terrors, about the balance between folklore and reason, myth and common sense, light and darkness, past and present, modernity and archaism. The album marries minimalism, purity, a fine approach and ancient instruments: traditional music (hurdy gurdy, shawm, polyphonies, percussion, gongs); the gloom of oppressive dark ambient; the slow pace of ritual music, wavering between modernity and archaism. Voices rise towards beauty, lifting it away from some occult mud. Holy Fire takes us back to a forgotten world – a primal, ancient, wild and free world, pervaded by secret dances of sorcerers’, unfathomable forests, remote and lifeless places. 6-panel digipak.

    Tracks: 1. Le Mal Des Ardents (4:38) | 2. La Nef Des Fous (6:46) | 3. Apôtres Du Chaos (1:53) | 4. Froide Lune (5:46) | 5. Enfers (8:04) | 6. L’Oracle Du Soleil (3:37) | 7. L’Antre Du Pesteux (7:13)

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  • GH Records

    octubre 29, 2017

    Сруб ‎– Топь

    Label: Infinite Fog Productions ‎– IF-47
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
    Country: Russia
    Released: 01 Dec 2014
    Style: Neofolk, Post-Punk, New Wave

    “ТOПЬ” means SWALE on english. The first part of the trilogy “Swale. Shadow. Fog.”
    Swale – first simbol. First step in dark. Dive into the limbo.
    Songs of dying herbs. Anticipation of the night. Twilightn. One of the faces of YOU, who going “By The Secret Paths”.
    ¥ Occult Rock ¥ Post Punk ¥ Dark Folk ¥

    Reviews:

    ”Phenomenal. Most important discovery of the year, the best album of the year and best album in any kind of Russian Rock music for last 15 years.” – CTHULHU COLLECTOR
    ”Best album if the year…” – Atmospheric Doom Metal

    “Feels like the band’s absolute detachment from the present day events is what makes it Russia’s most actual band of the time.” – 10/10 – RockCult

    “Wicked herbs cut at night by the devils using knifes made of foxes jaws, misty swamps, thickets and windbreaks, ferns, barbed wet branches striking your face, the fear of someone unexpectedly touching your shoulder on an empty path through the predawn field and distant sounds of evil laughter. All of this is here.”- The Gazing Abyss

    “The album immediately plunges the listener into the maelstrom. This is one of the main SRUB features – a deep sound made with relatively poor equipment. The sound canvas is drawn by buzzing semi-liquid synths, a guitar breaking through them, distinctive bit with hi-hats starring, and of course the voice of Igor Shapranskiy. His singing is so much enchanting that you start to mention the lyrics only by the end of the album. The sound of SRUB is cold and aloof as if it were calling into the swamp, in a quagmire, where the listener will inevitably drown. The feeling of being deep in the wild either near the abandoned hunting lodge or in the moss-covered woods, or at the quiet forest lake is accomplished by using the sample sounds of frogs croaking and wild birds singing.
    And this is yet another SRUB unique feature – the atmosphere of Slavonic Occultism and Pagan Mysticism brought by the original lyrics and viscous sound. ” – 9/10 – BritishWave

    “While we predict an inglorious demise for all the Joy Division imitators, the Russian post-punk becomes more and more compelling. SRUB’s debut full-format album is opened by tons of heavy grooves and reverberation. Authentic devilry penetrates deeply into the lyrics and melodies of SRUB. Something comparable could be heard on “Pornography” of The Cure. The indisputable achievement of “By the secret path” is the omnipresence of an ancient Russian horror. ”- Katkov Hype Music Blog

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