• Distribution,  Vinyl

    Aun – Fiat Lux

    noviembre 13, 2017

     

    Aun – Fiat Lux
    Label: Cyclic Law ‎– 76th Cycle, La Esencia ‎– LER013/2015
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Black with white/blue splatter
    Country: Canada
    Released: 2015
    Style: Dark Ambient, Drone, Experimental

    AUN’s music as always suggested forays into other dimensions, be it to imaginary worlds, industrial wastelands, through space and time, or via mind altered states. From the ominous dystopian artwork, of a city being drained of its energy by some mysterious black hole, to the first notes of the title track “Fiat Lux” we are once again transported on AUN’s otherworldly travelling path. Ever since the space industrial and power electronics of AUN’s previous Cyclic Law cult release “Black Pyramid”, the world has become even more sinister, but in contrast, “Fiat Lux” exudes even more of AUN’s melancholic hopefulness. The disintegrating chords and densely textured waves, anchored by a left field industrial pulse, invoke occult drug enhanced, future psychedelia. Created in part in their Montreal studio, these tracks were extensively performed live, prior to recording, and refined while on tour breaks in Montpellier, Barcelona and Tokyo. The energy of these cities is definitely at work in these recordings, which also features a French connection of experimental heavy hitters: Witxes, Frédéric D. Oberland and Philippe Petit have helped round out Dumais and Leblanc’ arsenal. FIAT LUX: Let there be light, from light will come darkness.

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  • CD,  Distribution

    Common Eider, King Eider ‎– Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside

    octubre 9, 2017

    Common Eider, King Eider ‎– Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside
    Label: Cold Spring ‎– CSR243CD
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: UK
    Released: 25 Sep 2017
    Style: Drone, Experimental, Dark Ambient

    The triumphant reawakening of San Francisco’s masters of behemoth ritualistic darkness…

    Within “Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside”, bone, antler and voice produce connective threads between the worlds, as guitar and percussion punctuate shifts in mood. Voices call to the spirits, and the spirits call back in return. Recorded in 2016 during four private, collective only rituals, the pieces pull the listener through the darkest and most overgrown trails of the blackest forest. Monumental and horizonless ritualistic black ambience. Vocal visitations by A.C. Way of Sutekh Hexen.

    Common Eider, King Eider is headed by Rob Fisk (ex-Deerhoof), Andee Connors (A Minor Forest, legendary aQuarius boss).

    Spot-varnished digipack

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  • CD,  GH Records

    Jarl ‎– Case 1959 – Dyatlov

    septiembre 25, 2017

    Jarl ‎– Case 1959 – Dyatlov
    Label: Reverse Alignment ‎– RA-12
    Format: 2 × CD, Album, Limited Edition
    Country: Sweden
    Released: 31 Jul 2015
    Style: Dark Ambient, Minimal, Experimental, Drone

    Erik Jarl is active as Jarl since autumn 1999 and member of postindustrial act IRM. He has released CDs on several different record labels through the years and describe his music as turbulent, withdrawn electronics. A mixture of ambient, industrial and drone.This new double CD consists of three long tracks, the longest Jarl has done so far.
    Artwork and photography is done by the outstanding artist Karolina Urbaniak.
    This recording is based upon Dyatlov Pass Incident which took place in northern Ural Mountains in Russia during winter 1959. It resulted in the deaths of nine ski-hikers and until today, although some sources claim they have the solution, the cause of the events remains an unsolved mystery.

    Recorded in Norrköping Östergötland Sweden by Erik Jarl.
    Artwork and photography by Karolina Urbaniak.
    Mastered by Peter Andersson.

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