• CD,  Distribution

    Chöd ‎– Bardo Thodol

    febrero 3, 2025

    Chöd ‎– Bardo Thodol
    Label: Old Captain ‎– OCCD34
    Format: 2 × CD, Compilation, Limited Edition
    Country: Ukraine
    Released: 31 Aug 2017
    Style: Dark Ambient, Industrial, Tribal

    The Tibetan word «Chöd» means «to cut off’ or «to slay», represented in icons by the victory banner and ritual knife. In Chöd, an adept symbolically offers the flesh of their body in a form of a tantric feast. The skin of the practitioner’s body represents surface reality or maya: it is cut from bones, the true reality of the mindstream. The similarities between the Chöd ritual and the prototypical initiation of a shaman are obvious, although there is an essential difference between the two: the shaman’s initiation is involuntary, whilst a Chod(pa) chooses to undertake the ritual death of a Chod ceremony as a will. Traditionally, Chöd is regarded as challenging, potentially dangerous and inappropriate practice for meditating practitioners. An external Chöd is to wander in fearful places where there are deities and demons, whereas an internal Chöd offers one’s own body as food to the deities and demons: the Ultimate Chöd is to realize the true nature of the mind and cut through ignorance. Enter the charnel fields of the obscure monk of the Chöd project to witness the offering of a corpse to the vultures of the tradition that inspires terror. The object of ignorance, the root of samsara, which is holding the «I» as truly existent must be killed as the inner enemy, delusions, and the way of the dharma practice: to achieve liberation, ultimate happiness, cessation of all the sufferings, rebirth and death. Pure occult Evropean tradition in flesh and bones to hurt you. Filed alongside Zero Kama or Ain Soph. Raw, elemental, primordial 22 tracks / 100 minutes of the original ritual retrieved from 1996-1999 DAT-tapes. The layout is executed by Mauro Berchi (Eibon Records). A 300 2CD edition of Chöd’s legacy in a 4-panel matte-laminated Digipak.

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    Michel Des Airlines ‎– Orbiteur

    febrero 2, 2025

    Michel Des Airlines ‎– Orbiteur
    Label: Ediciones Toracic ‎– TD-71
    Format: CDr, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered
    Country: Spain
    Released: May 2018
    Style: Ambient, Experimental

    ORBITEUR is a hypersonic suborbital spaceplane concept that could transport 50 passengers from Earth to Uranus in 90 minutes.

    The main challenge lies in increasing the reliability of the different components, particularly the engines, in order to make their use for passenger transportation on a pentecostal basis.

    ORBITEUR is the 2nd. release by MICHEL DES AIRLINES for TORACIC. Space music for cosmic-minded people. Created with love.

    MICHEL DELACROIX plays synths, string machine, drum computer and vocoder. Recorded 2017/2018 at Studio Syncoxis (Limoges- France)
    Recording assistant: Renaud Cerveau. Mixed at Toracic Studio (Madrid)

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    Vidna Obmana – The Trilogy

    enero 18, 2025

    Vidna Obmana – The Trilogy
    Label: Zoharum – ZOHAR 159-2
    Format: 3 CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Compilation, Limited Edition, Reissue
    Country: Poland
    Released: Mar 28, 2018
    Style: Ambient

    Vidna Obmana. The first recordings under this moniker appeared in the mid-1980s. Initially in his work he penetrated very rough industrial sounds, but at the beginning of the following decade he turned to ambient music with subtle ethnic undertones. His first albums, where he successfully explored this style and which also brought him wider notoriety, were ‘Passage in Beauty’ (1991), ‘Shadowing in Sorrow’ (1992) and ‘Ending Mirage’ (1993), composing a trilogy in both sonic and visual sense. A few years later, they were reissued in one package by the American label Relic.

    This year marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the last album from these three. This is a good opportunity to bring the entire trilogy to light again, as it is considered one of Dirk Serries’ outstanding achievements as Vidna Obmana. On top of that, all three albums, both in the form of a triple compilation and as single discs, have long been unavailable and reach quite high prices on auction sites. The discs received a new graphic design, their sound was also remastered by the artist himself. We can enjoy over three hours of these classic ambient sounds again.

    The triple album is released in an 8-panel digipak and it is strictly limited to 400 pieces. The cover is designed by Maciej Mehring based on the photographs by Martina Verhoeven. Dirk Serries himself is responsible for the mastering. The whole production process was overseen by Michał Porwet.

    The trilogy will be also available as a limited wooden box with an expanded content

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