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    Urze De Lume – Bravios

    septiembre 19, 2025

    Urze De Lume – Bravios
    Label: Not On Label (Urze De Lume Self-Released)
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Portugal
    Released: Sep 1, 2025
    Genre: Folk, World, & Country
    Style: Folk, Neofolk

    Da fraga à penedia,
    Do córrego ao ribeiro,
    Da brisa à ventania,
    Da chispa à fogueira.

    “Bravios” invoca e convoca os mais ancestrais elementos que habitam a paisagem da alma portugalesa. Na sublime arte das musas, com maestria urdida, os Urze de Lume oferecem com destemor o seu sacro ofício num tributo ao imorredouro, à natureza naturante e naturada, coroando aquilo que é, em essência, verdadeiramente Real, porque incorruptível, porque indomável.

    Do cervo ao berrão,
    Da alcateia à vara,
    Do gamo ao trovão,
    Do monte à serrania.

    Pois este inspirado animismo sonoro brota de incriada nascente, dando de beber ao inquieto espírito, que saciado e silente se permite reverdecer. Entre bruma e breu se entreabrem os portais que conduzem ao arbóreo concílio do rei das árvores. Em telúrico cortejo se pontifica a soberania da terra, que com silvano espírito corpuscular se eleva ao firmamento, num serrano uivo que tudo expressa sem que uma única palavra seja proferida. No entanto, ainda assim tudo é bem-dito, pela bem-aventurada montesa vara que canta e cura.

    por Alexandre Gabriel

    For this inspired sonorous animism springs from an uncreated source, giving drink to the restless spirit, which, sated and silent, allows itself to grow green again. Between mist and gloom, the portals open that lead to the arboreal council of the king of trees. In a telluric procession, the sovereignty of the earth is pontificated, which with sylvan corpuscular spirit rises to the firmament, in a mountain howl that expresses everything without a single word being uttered. And yet, still, all is well-spoken, by the blessed woodland staff that sings and heals.

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    Last Dominion Lost ‎– Abomination Of Desolation

    septiembre 8, 2025

    Last Dominion Lost ‎– Abomination Of Desolation

    Label: The Epicurean ‎– cure.15, La Esencia ‎– LER017/2017
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
    Country: Europe
    Released: 23 Oct 2017
    Style: Industrial, Experimental

    Last Dominion Lost has existed since 1992, formed out of the ashes of Merge (a project created by Dominik Guerin, founding member of SPK, and Jon Evans). With the inclusion of John Murphy (ex-SPK, Whitehouse, Current 93, Death in June), the transition was complete. In April of 1992 the recording sessions for what was to become „The Tyranny of Distance“ began (released on Germany’s Tesco Records). 16 years later, the opportunity arose to reform the slumbering project. With the welcome addition of Ash Wednesday (Crashlands, Einstürzende Neubauten) and Julian Percy (Ratbag) initial recordings and rehearsals began in May of 2008. In November of 2015 Till Brüggemann (Gerechtigkeits Liga, Krank) joined LDL.

    Desolation: total, utter, without remit. Departure, loss, absence, yawning valleys of noise. The overture moans from the terminal ward. The humiliation of the cadaver, the scouring of abandoned houses and rubbish heaps, a planet blasted by the fruits of hubris. The last sigh of bathos: “It is finished“.

    Such is the subject matter and sentiment of this follow-up to the much acclaimed albums “Snowdrops From A Curate’s Garden“ and „Towers of Silence“ which put Last Dominion Lost firmly on the throne of post-industrial music. “Abomination of Desolation” is consistent with their development into a dark and profound direction, and yet saturated with the noise and feedback that taps deep into the genre’s conscience: Metallic percussion and the screams of terror, ritual chants and anxious atmospheres, all used and abused in order to create the most accurate soundtrack of desolation.

    By the fans, “Abomination of Desolation” will be met with mixed feelings – as recordings began with John Murphy in 2015 and through his untimely death that year had to be finished without him, the acknowledged grandsigneur of post-industrial music. The album’s theme and musical approach were originally intended by John for a KRANK release: An electronic album, reflecting on John’s experiences when he was first hospitalized, comatose, and hooked to a breathing machine which was constantly creating bizarre sounds.

    The result stands as a brief and concise display of the group’s ability to create an unmistakable old school sound with contemporary production value. The album runs for ten tracks clocking in less than 40 minutes total and features new member Till Brüggemann (Gerechtigkeits Liga), as well as guests Nikolas Schreck, Lori Goldston and John Murphy’s beloved wife Annie Stubbs among others. With a firm electronic/analogue backbone, a delicate contrast of percussions of various origins and uncanny vocals, this is a truly dark affair, and while towards the end of the journey some more aggravating feedback loops crawl in, it never gets upfront aggressive.

    With the crisp mastering job of Hunter Barr it is safe to say that “Abomination of Desolation” will not lag behind its predecessors at all, but forge their deserved status as genre icons.

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    Anemone Tube / Post Scriptvm ‎– Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes

    septiembre 7, 2025

    Anemone Tube / Post Scriptvm ‎– Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes
    Label: La Esencia ‎–cure.11
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered
    Country: Spain
    Released: 19 Dec 2016
    Style: Dark Ambient, Industrial, Abstract, Experimental

    CD comes in full color cardboard sleeve and white offset paper cardboard slipcase with golden typography, including a 4-page booklet. Limited edition of 144 copies, hand numbered

    For lovers of soul-shredding funeral music built on dissonance / Triggering spiritual delight / Intended for church performance

    Under the headline “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes” Anemone Tube and Post Scriptvm present a collaborative album with a truly unique concept: Originally applied to a particular style of ancient ritual music, in the Classical era the term Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes attained a negative connotation and was used to criticize those compositions – which, instead of instilling listeners with the desired pious euphoria, incriminated them with a sense of dread, existential anxiety, feelings of
    death and decay. Finding this aesthetic choice to be most appropriate for the present era, the two post-industrial projects attempted to create their own “Discordant Death Litanies” for the XXI century.

    The idea is culled from a semi-fictional biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, written by a 19th century Russian author. In the chapter describing Bach‘s childhood and early education, his older brother – who was also his music teacher and mentor – dissuades him from composing those “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes” as they dangerously steer the Christian liturgy into a “wrong” direction of primordial chaos. In reality Bach never dealt with such dark notions, but created the most versatile and accomplished musical glorifications of the Christian god ever composed.

    Yet tempted by the imagination of real “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes”, Anemone Tube and Post Scriptvm stage a linear, gradually unfolding “oratorio” which begins with layers of lush brass synths resounding a time and place enveloped in ancient mythical beauty. The pristine serenity, however, slowly deteriorates through the influx of anguish, social decay and profanity. Raw field recordings, throbbing electronics, metallic tremors, distant voices and chants portrait a life of numbness and confusion, where man – tormented by ignorance, ignoble desires and anger – has become a plaything of insane “Weltanschauungen” and the commercialization plague. In a world where spirituality is reduced to rituals of sadness, the prophetic – and confirmed – certitude that the end of civilization is close at hand prevails.

    Composed, recorded, edited and mixed by Anemone Tube 2013–2016, with field recordings made in Kyoto, Nanjing and Shanghai, 2007/2009 and synthesizer. Gong sounds and additional samples on Irruption of the Whore by Post Scriptvm, 2013. For Ola.

    Buried in Fabula
    Dark and Nameless Gods
    Laterne D’Horreur
    Composed, recorded, edited and mixed by Post Scriptvm in Trepan Studios, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2014–2015.

    Mastered by Hunter Barr, 2016.

    Cover drawings by Post Scriptvm, 2016.
    Typography, design & inner sleeve photo by Anemone Tube, 2016.
    Photo detail of Tryptic of Saint Stanislaus the Bishop, painted and guilded limewood, Hans Süss von Kulmbach, ~1610; Gallery of Medieval Art, Warsaw.

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