Ionophore – Sinter PoolsLabel: Malignant Antibody – Treatment06Format: CD, AlbumCountry: USReleased: 14 Mar 2016Style: Ambient, Drone, ExperimentalIonophore – Sinter Pools Ionophore is the project of the SF Bay Area/London-based multi-instrumentalists Leila Abdul-Rauf, Jan Hendrich, and Ryan Honaker. The trio weaves dark electronics and neoclassical soundscapes with heavy drones, seamlessly melding the orchestral strings of Honaker, the horns and voice of Abdul-Rauf, and electronic manipulations of Hendrich. Working closely with mastering magician Myles Boisen (known for his work with Angelo Badalamenti, John Zorn, Fred Frith), the result is an entrancing original sound, combining cinematic tones with beat-driven, ethereal ambience. A genre-bending and highly creative album that embodies the more adventurous and…
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Andrew Chalk, Ralf Wehowsky & Eric Lanzillotta – Yang-Tul
Andrew Chalk, Ralf Wehowsky & Eric Lanzillotta – Yang-TulLabel: Cold Spring – CSR220CDFormat: CD, ReissueCountry: UKReleased: 11 Apr 2016Style: Drone, Experimental A legendary sound collaboration formed of two lengthy pieces. The first track features Andrew Chalk (Mirror, Ora, Ferial Confine) gently reworking the sound materials of Ralf Wehowsky (P16.D4). A hypnotic, slowly-evolving drone with waves of mysterious sounds, static and glitches. The second piece, on the other hand, finds Ralf Wehowsky composing a frenzied journey into otherworldly realms using sound material from Andrew Chalk and Eric Lanzillotta (Eye Music). These pieces reflect a sound unique from the work of any of the three individual participants, but clearly related. Subtle, but…
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Z’EV – Eleven Mirrors To The Light
Z’EV – Eleven Mirrors To The LightLabel: Cold Spring – CSR196CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 28 Dec 2015Style: Industrial, Drone Z’EV completes an alchemical exploration of Concord and Dissonance that began with the cosmological equations of Sum Things and then clasped the elemental quintet of air, water, fire, earth and spirit in A Handful of Elements. Now, with Eleven Mirrors to the Light, Z’EV plays with the intersection of light and dark, catching waves of luminescence between prisms and mirrors that fragments particles into shimmering washes of sound. Z’EV’s trademark percussion transforms into glistening soundscapes and drones, one part subterranean and another subatomic.
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Common Eider, King Eider – Extinction
Common Eider, King Eider – ExtinctionLabel: Cold Spring – CSR219CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 11 Apr 2016Style: Drone, Dark Ambient, Doom Metal A new ritual from this long running doom/drone/ambient collective, offering up modern manifestations of ancient energies, channelled into smouldering swathes of ceremonial hypnosis and explosive gouts of blood-red radiance. Extinction is an extended ceremonial rite conducted below ground at the Wisp House (R.I.P.). A song suite of psychedelic devotionals assembled from reverb drenched industrial drones, billowing clouds of metallic throb, and churning, rhythmic bombast. Fields of ghostly incantations suspended in the ether, draped over metallic murmurs and moaning melancholia. The low end rumble of monk-like chants beneath the soft…
