Aun – Fiat LuxLabel: Cyclic Law – 76th Cycle, La Esencia – LER013/2015Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Black with white/blue splatterCountry: CanadaReleased: 2015Style: 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…
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Common Eider, King Eider – Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside
Common Eider, King Eider – Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast AsideLabel: Cold Spring – CSR243CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 25 Sep 2017Style: 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.…
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Jarl – Case 1959 – Dyatlov
Jarl – Case 1959 – DyatlovLabel: Reverse Alignment – RA-12Format: 2 × CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: SwedenReleased: 31 Jul 2015Style: 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 He has released CDs on several different record labels through the years and describe his music as turbulent, withdrawn electronics.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…
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Vladimír Hirsch – Scripta Soli
Vladimír Hirsch – Scripta SoliLabel: Old Captain – OCCD33Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, DigipakArtist Country: CzechiaLabel Country: UkraineReleased: 2017Genre: ElectronicStyle: Modern Classical, Industrial, Dark Ambient, Ambient, Experimental Scripta Soli (“The writings of the earth”) is a thematic contemplation triggered by a great Czech artist in the form of a fictive experience during an apocalyptic war catastrophe, perceived by a person imprisoned in the bunker. Epically dramatized, it consists of 12 figurative parts to strip moral vacuum accumulated by memories, fears, visions and expectations of the inevitable, like echoes from the devastated core, sonically interpreted by the ground and aborted on the surface. Vladimir Hirsch offers expressionist sharpness and contrast to…
