• CD,  Distribution,  GH Records

    Maurizio Bianchi – Elegietroniche

    septiembre 29, 2017

    Maurizio Bianchi – Elegietroniche
    Label: 4iB Records ‎– 4iB CD/0114/020
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
    Country: Singapore
    Released: 15 Apr 2016
    Style: Dark Ambient, Drone, Experimental, Industrial, Noise

    Elegietroniche displays the softer phase of MB’s long journey of musical experimentation with a focus on the spiritual themes of suffering and deliverance. This second chapter sees him moving away from the earlier stages of chaotic electronic incongruity into a religious and philosophical environment. This album revolves around a meditative soundscape of calming ambience, laden with distant church bells and choral chants layered heavily with the hum and drone of melancholy and desolation.

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    Attrition ‎– The Truth In Dark Corners…

    septiembre 18, 2017

    Attrition ‎– The Truth In Dark Corners…
    Label: Other Voices Records ‎– VOX8CD
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Russia
    Released: May 2011
    Style: New Wave, Industrial, Minimal

    Recorded live on the april 1985 tour of The Netherlands the set comprised many embryonic versions of tracks that were later recorded for the «Smiling, at the hypogonder club» album…with 2 unreleased songs!
    Originally released on Other Voices records.

    The truth in dark corners – Chain DLK review

    «The Truth In Dark Corners» is a recording of live tracks coming from the band’s 1985 Holland tour plus a closing track coming from a London gig.
    Back then Attrition were releasing their second album «Smiling, At The Hypogonder Club» on Third Mind and this release contains many tracks coming from that one plus «Shrinkwrap» (which was a single) and two unreleased tracks «In The Attic» and «The Aftermath».
    Formed on those days by Martin Bowes, Marianne Teunissen and Alex Novak, the band was creating their distinctive darkwave electronic sound which was capable to mix danceable rhythms and electronic experimental attitude.
    «The Truth In Dark Corners» contains good recordings of classic Attrition’s tracks (or at least they are what I consider their classics) like «Mind Drop» or «Pendulum Turns» and here you can listen them sounding direct and powerful.
    These recordings represent quite well the essence of the band on those days so I don’t consider this album only a release for hard core fans. And sleeve notes you’ll find by Justin Mitchell back then. I’m quite sure that if you a long time reader of our magazine you know this guy, because when he knew Attrition he was an electronic music enthusiast who became their friend but soon after he founded Cold Spring Records.

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    Vladimír Hirsch ‎– Scripta Soli

    septiembre 11, 2017

    Vladimír Hirsch ‎– Scripta Soli
    Label: Old Captain ‎– OCCD33
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Digipak
    Artist Country: Czechia
    Label Country: Ukraine
    Released: 2017
    Genre: Electronic
    Style: Modern Classical, Industrial, Dark Ambient, Ambient, Experimental

    Scripta Soli (“The writings of the earth”) is a thematic contemplation triggered by a great Czech artist in the form of a fictive experience during an apocalyptic war catastrophe, perceived by a person imprisoned in the bunker. Epically dramatized, it consists of 12 figurative parts to strip moral vacuum accumulated by memories, fears, visions and expectations of the inevitable, like echoes from the devastated core, sonically interpreted by the ground and aborted on the surface. Vladimir Hirsch offers expressionist sharpness and contrast to gouge out the focal sound from the background cacophonous substance to evoke stark and haunting imagery behind. Proving his expertise and repertoire he renders field recordings, electroacoustic and digital techniques through his typical metamorphic musicalization of primarily non-musical elements realizing the shrill, dynamic realities of the inner conflict: the titular sonic earth eventually turns into a grave.

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