Bionulor – Sacred Mushroom ChantLabel: Wrotycz RecordsFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: PolandReleased: 07 Jan 2011Style: Experimental, Ambient Created on the basis of author’s creative method called the “100% sound recycling” (treatment of the human voice without additional sounds or instruments). Inspired by the work of such artists as Aube and William Basinski, Bionulor again rakes the past, looking like an alchemist for the most appropriate material for his work. “Sacred Mushroom Chant” is a record created solely on the basis of treatment of the human voice without additional sounds or instruments. Each of the five tracks is based on a separate part of the sound source. Then the base is: an archival…
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Troum – Mare Morphosis
Troum – Mare MorphosisLabel: Transgredient Records – TR-09Series: Power Romantic – 3Format: CD, AlbumCountry: GermanyReleased: Dec 2013Style: Ambient, Drone, Experimental, Post Rock This is the third & final part in the “Power Romantic” series, released end of 2013 on Transgredient Records as CD (TR-09). “What comes with the Power Romantic trilogy (which pt. 1 and 2 are: Mare Idiophonika, Grote Mandrenke) is brooding from the core of Troum’s universe. Relating Troum with strong Romantic tropisms is like sewing an endless canvas. In every musical piece they work, the two musicians BarakaH and Glit[s]ch navigate a vast sea of sound, recalling the Romantic feeling in front of deep landscapes that reflect…
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Agalloch – The Mantle
Agalloch – The MantleLabel: Grau – Grau 001 CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: GermanyReleased: 2011Style: Black Metal, Experimental, Neofolk “The Mantle” is a grand multi-dimensional opus of 70 minutes featuring their dark melancholic metal with post rock and neo-folk elements. References range from Pink Floyd, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sol Invictus, Ulver, Dissection, Fields Of The Nephilim and a lot more
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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…
