Karnnos – RemembranceLabel: New Approach Records – NAR38, Winter Serpent – WNS003Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, StereoCountry: PortugalReleased: Nov 21, 2024Style: Ethereal, Experimental Initially self-released in 2019, “Remembrance” showed Karnnos exploring new territories, with bass-driven tracks, subtle layers of guitars, keyboards and flutes, tribal-like percussion, with a rich sonic palette given by instruments such as the hurdy gurdy, the harp, the zither, the rabel, the metallophone or the accordion. The pace of the record is slow, the tone is somber, like a nocturnal journey through the ruins of nature and memory. Now reissued on Digipack limited to 200 copies
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Free As Dead – Tombeau Vital
Free As Dead – Tombeau VitalLabel: 4iB Records – 4iB CD/1215/019, Decimation Sociale – noneFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: SingaporeReleased: 04 Feb 2016Style: Experimental, Industrial, Noise, Abstract Free As Dead is another project of prolific French Harsh Noise Wall artist Romain Perrot, who deviates from his other known projects like walled noise acts Vomir and guitar noise Falot. Free As Dead builds it’s disturbing ambience with harsh funeral organ noise, and together with the collaborative efforts of Andy Bolus (of Evil Moisture) Tombeau Vital creates an almost soundtrack-like horror story revolving around Perrot’s (pervasive) alter ego of a B-Grade masked monster and his doll captive. This is a conceptually heavy…
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Shinkiro / 蜃気楼 – Archive: Volumes I – III
Shinkiro / 蜃気楼 – Archive: Volumes I – IIILabel: Old Captain – OCCD42Format: 2 × CD, Album, Compilation, Limited EditionCountry: UkraineReleased: 13 Jun 2018Style: Dark Ambient, Experimental, Industrial Shinkiro is a dark ambient project from Japan, formed in 2003 by Manabu Hiramoto who dwells in organic isolation full of pulsating drones and elegiac solaris ambiances. Based on the old recording sessions in 2003 – 2007 this release captures the darkest and most beautiful moments of Shinkiro’s music: low-key synth textures merged with rhythmic cadences and slight distortions gradually unfolding roaming melodies, magnetic and cold undercurrents, ethereal epiphanies and ever present longing for the unattainable abyss. Three early unreleased albums assembled…
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Phurpa – Chöd Ritual / Grotta Santarcangelo
Phurpa – Chöd Ritual / Grotta SantarcangeloLabel: Old Europa Cafe – OECD 249Format: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: ItalyReleased: Nov 2017Style: Overtone Singing On July 07 2017 PHURPA performed a «Chöd / Chod» live ritual in Santarcangelo / Italy.The ritual was held inside a cave (grotta on Italian).Chöd / Chod is an ancient practice of cutting through tensions, fears, and obstacles in our life.In Chöd / Chod, we visualize making an offering of our body, which is transformed into whatever is wanted by all beings in all realms.In this vast offering we create and cultivate a flow with everything around us and are in contact with the boundless dimension of ourselves.Chod…
