• GH Records

    octubre 18, 2016

    Alcest – Kodama

    Label: Prophecy Productions ‎– PRO 190
    Format: CD, Album , Digipack
    Country: Germany
    Released: 30 Sep 2016
    Style: Shoegaze, Post Rock, Black Metal

    “Kodama” the fifth album from Blackgaze pioneers, Alcest, marks the French duo’s ferocious return to the stylistic maximalism of its early albums while continuing the band’s relentless pursuit for new sounds and fresh ideas.
    “Kodama” is the Japanese word for ‘tree spirit’ and ‘echo’ and from the album’s structure and dynamics to its cinematic sound, “Kodama” indeed ‘echoes’ Alcest’s 2010 classic, “Écailles De Lune”. But this is no simple back-to-the-roots album: the band has more punch, rhythm and organic feel than ever before. While clearly influenced by bands like The Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, Dinosaur Jr, Grimes and The Cure, “Kodama” ultimately reveals itself as Alcest’s ‘Japanese album’, drawing substantial inspiration from Japanese art and culture.

    Originally triggered by Hayao Miyazaki’s anime film “Princess Mononoke”, “Kodama” picks up on the fate of its protagonist and, at its core, deals with the sensation of not belonging; of living in between worlds, be it city and nature or the physical and spiritual one. Duality is also crucial for the visual approach of the album, realized by French graphic designer duo Førtifem. Paying tribute to Japanese illustrators like Takato Yamamoto, the visuals portray contrasting elements like nature/urbanity, youth/death, femininity/animality and combine poetic elements with darker ones that were not present in Alcest’s earlier works.

    By giving the album a cultural, stylistic and compositional narrative, Neige and Winterhalter keep “Kodama” from just being the latest improvement on the Alcest sound and instead make the album a most rare and exciting thing: a vital, relevant record from a pioneer that not only upholds the band’s trailblazing legacy but actually makes you want to see where they go next.

    Buy: 13 € http://www.gh-records.com/1267-alcest-kodama.html

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  • CD,  GH Records,  Vinyl

    In Slaughter Natives  – Psicofonias – Las Voces Desconocidas

    octubre 14, 2016

    In Slaughter Natives  – Psicofonias – Las Voces Desconocidas

    Label: Gradual Hate Records GH 131 CD
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition , Digipack
    Country: Spain
    Released: 2016
    Style: Martial, Neoclassic, Industrial

    In the year 2008 the documentary called “Psicofonías: Las Voces Desconocidas” was shot by the film director Jose Moral. This was about the voices of dead people where echoes of spirits leave us some footprint after death. Humankind has believed during a long time that it is possible to communicate with dead people. 

    Over the years , seances, mediums and psychics have been possible instruments to make contact with the afterlife. So, EVP is an espiritual footprint and a communication link to the soundtrack in this documentary.

    This one relies on some of the most important projects of the Dark Ambient Industrial music: In Slaughter Natives, which is a pioneer in the symphonic industrial field and part of the legendary label Cold Meat Industry. This music project is formed by Jouni Havukainen who carries out an outstanding and deep work full of aspects where in some parts we can listen the voices of dead people.

    Artwork by Nickolay Busov ( Ufa-Muzak )

    ( Digipack 8-page booklet)  SOLD OUT

    Vinyl( 7″ Vinyl Clear only 50 copies (hand numbered) SOLD OUT

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  • GH Records

    octubre 4, 2016

    Dead Man’s Hill – Spirits

    Label: Steinklang Industries ‎– SK53
    Format: CD, Album, Enhanced
    Country: Austria
    Released: Oct 2010
    Style: Industrial

    Ritual Ambient, Neoclassic and Bombastic Martial Music and with this album, the band drags the listener into alternate realities and far away spheres.

    The lyrics are mainly dealing with travelling in these worlds.

    Dark and deep-dronning Ambient, mixed with strong and powerful Martial songs, varied with hypnotically mesmerizing Tribal parts.

    All in all the whole Album has a strong Death Industrial touch and even carries some Gregorian elements.

    Listen to this album, and let yourself take away to a intangible world, to far away shperes where things are just different to all You ever expected.

    “Spirits” includes a video from the track Road to Sweet Waters, made by Alex Hugin Wieser.

    Tracklist:

    1 Road To Sweet Waters 8:452 The Road Of The Antichrist 7:08
    3 And The Spirits Of Nature 7:53
    4 The Curse 5:25
    5 Travelling With The Spirits 6:27
    6 Entering The Alternate Reality 6:39
    7 The Road Back From Sweet Waters 9:37
    8 The Curse II 13:19
    Video Road To Sweet Water

    Buy: 13 € http://www.gh-records.com/32-dead-man-s-hill-spirits.html

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