Featuring music by: Carnera / Nytt Land / J Orphic / Svart1 / TSIDMZ / Valerio Orlandini / Kratong / Anenerbe Music Club / Porta Vittoria / Moon Far Away / Corazzata Valdemone
A compilation celebrating the boundary between Russia and Italy. In 1908, the devastating earthquake of Messina was one of the most tragic events ever occured in the XX century. Half of the population of the city was killed by this powerfull event, but those who survived were immediately helped by russian sailors berthed in Augusta. This compilation wants to celebrate this friendship and mutual help between two people, without borders or nationalist spirit, by merging italian and russian acts of the underground scene. A unique and variegated sound experience, and a symbol of mutual respect
Looking For Europe Book Diesel, Andreas/Gerten, Dr. Dieter
544 pages Publisher: Index Verlag Language: English Product Dimensions: 15.9 x 3.2 x 23.1 cm
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Neofolk has nothing to do with folksy sing-along music – this music stems from the dark Gothic music scene and is nothing to sway to. It is a playground for punky attitudes and SS death-heads, for pastoral romanticism and Riefenstahl aesthetics. For years now, feelings have been running high about Neofolk. No other contemporary music genre raises so many questions about freedom of art and freedom of speech. With more than 520 pages, Looking For Europe is the first book dealing in a comprehensive and non-dogmatic manner with the blackest chapter of the music underground. All relevant bands of the genre are portrayed in exclusive interviews and photos. The book highlights the field of tension Neofolk is situated in. The range goes from fragile folk to noisy Industrial, from right-wing anarchists to left-wing uniform wearers, from Paganism to Satanism and Christianity, from gay fetishism to obscure artistic treatments of ideological propaganda. ENGLISH LANGUAGE! 528 pages, paperback
Sieben – Our Solitary Confinement (2XLP, NUM, MAR) Label: Dark Vinyl Records – DVLP09 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Numbered, Marbled, Gatefold Cover Country: Germany Released: 03 Feb 2017 Style: Neofolk
Limited 49 copies in marbled vinyl, numbered, Gatefoldcover ; Remastered , with 20 min unreleased Bonusmaterial (“The Sound of His Horn, Part I – IV”)
This record was recorded at Redroom Studio, Sheffield, England, during 2002. It was written, performed and produced by Matt Howden. The original CD (TRI 151) came out on the Trisol/Iceflower label.
This was the first Sieben album to be a solo endeavour, but was before the looping phase of my Sieben career. That would come next, with the release of Sex & Wildflowers. Songs on this album were inspired by, or written in conjunction with photographs by Danish photographer Kristine Haffgaard. We inspired each other. This record has been mastered for vinyl by Bobby Bachinger at MAG Studio, Germany. Sleeve design by Martin Bedford.
This vinyl edition runs to two records. All songs from Our Solitary Confinement are included, plus an unreleased work, The Sound Of His Horn. Written at the same time, The Sound Of His Horn was intended to be a book CD release through Tartarus Press. The idea was that it would accompany the book the music takes its name from, by author John William Wall (pen-name Sarban). For some reason this never quite happened. It is possibly one of my most ambient works – though has its scary moments, principally because it was written to accompany a spooky tale. The music to the Sound Of His Horn pinches and intertwines musical lines and beats from Our Solitary Confinement, Voyager (an album released under my own name that I was also working on at the time), and Hellfires (Redroom 002, released 2001). I’m often working on quite a few projects at the same time. With those that aren’t central to what I do, as with the Sound Of His Horn, I enjoy being free of ‘writing from fresh’, and will lift and re-use material. So strange to come back to these pieces I’ve never re-listened to, and hear echoes of Our Solitary Confinement peek through the soundscape.
