• Distribution,  Vinyl

    Anemone Tube / Post Scriptvm ‎– Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes (Vinyl, LP)

    enero 20, 2017

    Anemone Tube / Post Scriptvm ‎– Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes (Vinyl, LP)
    Label: La Esencia ‎– LER015/2016
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Golden Vinyl
    Country: Spain
    Released: 19 Dec 2016
    Style: Dark Ambient, Industrial, Abstract, Experimental

    For lovers of soul-shredding funeral music built on dissonance / Triggering spiritual delight / Intended for church performance

    Under the headline “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes” Anemone Tube and Post Scriptvm present a collaborative album with a truly unique concept: Originally applied to a particular style of ancient ritual music, in the Classical era the term Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes attained a negative connotation and was used to criticize those compositions – which, instead of instilling listeners with the desired pious euphoria, incriminated them with a sense of dread, existential anxiety, feelings of
    death and decay. Finding this aesthetic choice to be most appropriate for the present era, the two post-industrial projects attempted to create their own “Discordant Death Litanies” for the XXI century.

    The idea is culled from a semi-fictional biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, written by a 19th century Russian author. In the chapter describing Bach‘s childhood and early education, his older brother – who was also his music teacher and mentor – dissuades him from composing those “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes” as they dangerously steer the Christian liturgy into a “wrong” direction of primordial chaos. In reality Bach never dealt with such dark notions, but created the most versatile and accomplished musical glorifications of the Christian god ever composed.

    Yet tempted by the imagination of real “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes”, Anemone Tube and Post Scriptvm stage a linear, gradually unfolding “oratorio” which begins with layers of lush brass synths resounding a time and place enveloped in ancient mythical beauty. The pristine serenity, however, slowly deteriorates through the influx of anguish, social decay and profanity. Raw field recordings, throbbing electronics, metallic tremors, distant voices and chants portrait a life of numbness and confusion, where man – tormented by ignorance, ignoble desires and anger – has become a plaything of insane “Weltanschauungen” and the commercialization plague. In a world where spirituality is reduced to rituals of sadness, the prophetic – and confirmed – certitude that the end of civilization is close at hand prevails.

    • Standard vinyl edition comes with golden vinyl, full color cover with spine, printed paper inner sleeve and high-quality PVC sleeve with silkscreen printed golden typography. Limited edition of 200 copies.

    Ref: LER015/2016, La Esencia
    Release date: Late January, 2017

    Myth and the Relation to the World
    Recueillement (Sa Propre Mort)
    Irruption of the Whore
    Composed, recorded, edited and mixed by Anemone Tube 2013–2016, with field recordings made in Kyoto, Nanjing and Shanghai, 2007/2009 and synthesizer. Gong sounds and additional samples on Irruption of the Whore by Post Scriptvm, 2013. For Ola.

    Buried in Fabula
    Dark and Nameless Gods
    Laterne D’Horreur
    Composed, recorded, edited and mixed by Post Scriptvm in Trepan Studios, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2014–2015.

    Mastered by Hunter Barr, 2016.

    Cover drawings by Post Scriptvm, 2016.
    Typography, design & inner sleeve photo by Anemone Tube, 2016.
    Photo detail of Tryptic of Saint Stanislaus the Bishop, painted and guilded limewood, Hans Süss von Kulmbach, ~1610; Gallery of Medieval Art, Warsaw.

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  • Distribution

    Day Before Us ‎– Nihil Interit

    enero 19, 2017

    Day Before Us ‎– Nihil Interit
    Label: Rage In Eden ‎– RAGE114
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
    Country: Poland
    Released: 01 Dec 2016
    Style: Dark Ambient, Modern Classical, Darkwave, Experimental   

    SOLD OUT

    Day Before Us is an ethereal and dark ambient music act formed by Philippe Blache and whose trajectory has involved working across lyrical sound poetry and scores for art events as well as film experiments. The project is notably recognized for its releases published by Rage in Eden, Twilight Records and Opn Records. The emotional content of this new album emphasizes moments of blurry sadness, intimacy, sacrality and evocativeness while the stylistical shape carries on a musical dynamic between atmospheric sound minimalism, brightly devotional then classical singing qualities, orchestrally cinematic harmonies and brooding tones…

    Otros trabajos de Day Before Us / Other references →

    → Day Before Us ‎– Ode A La Nuit D’Ombre
    → Day Before Us ‎– Adorned path of Stillness
    → Day Before Us – Misty Shroud Of Regrets
    → Day Before Us ‎– Prélude à l’âme d’élégie
    → The Ever Sounding Sea Of Grief by Philippe Blache
    → Antikatechon ‎– I Feel Nothing But Repulsion
    → Day Before Us / Nimh – Under Mournful Horizons

    → Philippe Blache – Tristitiam Et Metus Tradam Portare Ventis

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  • CD,  Distribution

    Dwarfstar ‎– Perplexing Reality

    enero 18, 2017

    Dwarfstar ‎– Perplexing Reality
    Label: Epidemie Records ‎– EPR087
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered
    Country: Czech Republic
    Released: 19 Dec 2016
    Style: Ambient

    Dwarfstar is an ritual avantgarde transcendental musical project from Hungary. Dwarfstar’s first album was finally realized under the title of „Perplexing Reality”. The album contains 5 tracks in 61 minutes and come as limited edition of 300 hand numbered copies in jewel case.

    For fans of Ulver, Manes, Thy Catafalque
    Dwarfstar has a strong spiritual background which is rooted in the ideas of Transcendental Voidism. Both the lyrics and the atmospheres concentrare on the Gnostic Knowledge, which helps to liberate the Transcendental Souls of human creatures from the prison of the material cosmos, from the claws of the transcendental paradoxon. Dwarfstar has nothing to do with those very popular empty-headed so called “satanic” views which are based mostly on goalless self-destruction, goalless hatred towards mankind, worshipping „darkness” etc. while in the background the so called followers are into partying, friendship, love and sex. NO!! Dwarfstar is a real manifestation of Rebellious Spirit and has two concrete goals: 1. God-Man realization (to reach the final Enlightenment) 2. To inspire the others (only the real Seekers) on their way of searching for the final Enlightenment. Of course the music of Dwarfstar is recommended for every open minded listener who like dark atmospheres in music and/or musical avantgardism, but this project can be completely appreciated only by the Real Spiritual Seekers (if there is any amongst the listeners of modern extreme music). Very important to mention that however Dwarfstar is deeply spiritual, but not religious at all. Dwarfstar concentrates on pure spiritual values, beyond the level of the religious rituals and religious force-glorification. Of course if somebody still needs some religious rituals which are useful for the given person on his/her own way of inner development, that is absolutely understood and not refused at all. But it does not mean, that Dwarfstar should ever support any kind of religious idiotism (the ways of holy blasphemy). When it comes to those forms of religious attitude which are based on zealotry, blind-belief, blind following and often malignant hypocrisy, Dwarfstar is definitely anti-religious. Dwarfstar also refuses the life-standards of the modern world and it’s decadent societies. Also very important to mention, that Dwarfstar does not represent any political or nationalistic views.

     

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