RhaD – METAMUSIC Label: Unexplained Sounds Group – USG066 Format: CD, Album, Stereo Country: Italy Released: 18 Jun 2021 Style: Musique Concrète, Experimental, Abstract
RHaD (Research for Historical Audio Documents) is a side project of Raffaele Pezzella (better known as Sonologyst). What Pezzella brings us here is a concrete example of something of what I have always believed – that ALL sound is music, whatever its source (radio transmissions, telephonic conversations, hi-fi test signals, old and forgotten documentaries, unknown field recordists). More than that, there is something else that goes beyond the simple creation of seemingly random sound collages; there is no doubt that here we have the uncovering of secret worlds and other realities, existences parallel to ours and yet separated by vast temporal and spatial distances. Here we have recordings and found sounds that have been manipulated in such a way as to render their contexts irrelevant and meaningless. Subtle concatenations of sound and substance, mood and context, in some instances creating a sense of otherness, that what we’re hearing are broadcasts from dimensions and realities that are not the one we live in. It’s exactly like trying to tune into a specific station on a vintage radio set but you don’t quite know where it is: as you turn the dial this way and that, you catch glimpses of other lives and other existences playing out just like your own. They are of our world and yet not part of it either. These six “metasonic” messages from seemingly emanate from an unknown Otherwhere and that alone will entice us to listen further and more deeply, in the hope of catching something that will peel back the layers and give us what we’ve yearned for. And that, I think, is where the true beauty lies in this album.
Vetrophonia – Vizualizacija Label: Ultrasomnambula U – USU 01 Format: DVD, DVD-Video, Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered Country: Russia Released: Apr 2017 Style: Experimental, Industrial, Noise
Tracklist 1 – Тридцать Три И Одна Треть – Шумовизуальная Поэза (2014-2016) 33:40 2 – Столетие Манифеста «Искусство Шумов» Луиджи Руссоло (Концерт В ГЭЗ-21. 11.03.2013) 31:22 3 – Обращение Дев Непорочных Голубицами Небесными (Концерт На Пушкинской-10. 03.08.1996) 49:00
The video disc «Vizualizacija» by St. Petersburg-based project Vetrophonia (Alexander Lebedev-Frontov & Nick Soudnick) consists of several parts. First of all, this is the completely new multimedia album created in 2013-2016 with the help of Yuri Kovalskiy (Worms, Monument Straha), entitled «33 1/3». The album is comprised of the carefully crafted half-hour long collage of various industrial and retro-futuristic sketches, analogue video-noises and meticulously constructed soundtrack perfectly matching the visual part. Despite the quite abstract nature of this work, it keeps the viewer in suspense during all its length and dense saturation of images is compensated by the peculiar sense of humour. The disc also contains the digital version of the live material «Turning Virgings Into Doves» originally released in 1996 on VHS, and the recording of a gig in Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21), St. Petersburg, played on 11.03.2013 to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of publication of the famous «L’arte dei Rumori» manifesto by Luigi Russolo.
Lex-Or – Futuro Pasado Label: Fill-Lex Records – FLCS-05 Format: Cassette, Album, Special Edition, Limited 25 copies Country: Spain Released: 10 Oct 2020 Style: Techno, EBM, Experimental
/ / / ESP / / / Lex–Or vuelve a Fill-Lex Records con su primer álbum en solitario, canciones que marcan un fin de una etapa. El disco está compuesto de dos partes:
Futuro, temas compuestos entre 2019-2020 una mirada crítica hacia un fin que nos envía cada día a lidiar con nuestros propios miedos y nuestras inseguridades. No es música de baile es música desde las entrañas.
Pasado, canciones compuestas en un periodo anterior, desde un directo en su estudio en 2014 con la canción paisajes cerebrales, a algunos temas que pasan del 2015-18, estando más próximos a la pista de baile y a sus patrones más rítmicos, volviéndose un techno oscuro y decadente.
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Lex-Or returns to Fill-Lex Records with their first solo album, songs that mark the end of a stage. The album is composed of two parts:
Futuro, songs composed between 2019-2020 a critical look towards an end that sends us every day to deal with our own fears and insecurities. It is not dance music, it’s music from the bowels.
Pasado, songs composed in a previous period, from a live in his studio in 2014 with the song “Paisajes Cerebrales”, to some songs that go from 2015-18, being closer to the dance floor and its rhythmic patterns, becoming a dark and decadent techno.
Futuro – tracks 2019-2020 Pasado tracks 2014 – 2018 Mastering en Sountess Studio
Legión de Arrutac By Diego Arandojo & Van Delay (Paco Alcazar) Label: Gradual Hate Records / Series:Hate The Modern World – H.T.M.12 CD Format: CDr pro, Album, Limited Edition DVD Box Country: Spain Released: 2020 Style: Dark Ambient, Industrial, Ritual, Spoken Word
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«Legión de Arrutac» da cierre a la trilogía iniciada en 2017 con «Arrutac» y, posteriormente, «Vástago de Arrutac» en 2018. Un trabajo inquietante, narrativo y visceral, que narra el extraño culto de Arrutac, una entidad indescriptible y sus discípulas, extraviadas en la noche de los tiempos.
Con «Legión de Arrutac», tanto Diego Arandojo, en textos y locución, como Van Delay, en la musicalización esotérica, nos traen una historia que podría encuadrarse dentro del género épico dark.
«¡Arrutac, Arrutac, Arrutac!», claman las mujeres que alimentan el culto con lágrimas, sudor y sangre. Una obra que dejará perplejo incluso al espíritu más impertérrito.
«Legión de Arrutac» da cierre a la trilogía iniciada en 2017 con «Arrutac» y, posteriormente, «Vástago de Arrutac» en 2018. Un trabajo inquietante, narrativo y visceral, que narra el extraño culto de Arrutac, una entidad indescriptible y sus discípulas, extraviadas en la noche de los tiempos.
Con «Legión de Arrutac», tanto Diego Arandojo, en textos y locución, como Van Delay, en la musicalización esotérica, nos traen una historia que podría encuadrarse dentro del género épico dark.
«¡Arrutac, Arrutac, Arrutac!», claman las mujeres que alimentan el culto con lágrimas, sudor y sangre. Una obra que dejará perplejo incluso al espíritu más impertérrito.
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«Legion of Arrutac» closes the trilogy started in 2017 with «Arrutac» and later «Arrutac’s offspring» in 2018. A disturbing work, narrative and visceral, which tells the strange cult of Arrutac, an indescribable entity and his disciples, lost in the night of time.
With «Legión de Arrutac», both Diego Arandojo, in texts and locutions, and Van Delay, in the esoteric musicalization, bring us a story that could be framed within the dark epic genre.
«Arrutac, Arrutac, Arrutac,» cry the women who feed the cult with tears, sweat and blood. A work that will perplex even the most undaunted spirit.
ARTUTAC By Diego Arandojo & Van Delay (Paco Alcazar) Label: Gradual Hate Records / Series:Hate The Modern World – H.T.M.08 CD Format: CDr pro, Album, Limited Edition DVD Box Country: Spain Released: 2017 Dark Ambient, Industrial, Ritual, Spoken Word
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COME, ARRUTAC . COME. WE WAIT FOR YOU. PLUNGED IN THE OVAL SWIMMING POOL. IN THE WATER THAT IS NOT WATER.
What is ARRUTAC ? An angel, a demon, a spirit?
ARRUTAC is and it’s not. A presence. A moment. An excessively deep sensation, which strolls around for the matter and the energy. Nobody can describe it with accuracy. BUT IT WILL COME.
ARRUTAC WILL COME.
This musical work, where the exploration and the mystique melt, is provided with the narration and texts of Diego Arandojo, writer and hermetist, and music by Van Delay. Together they are in charge of invoking ARRUTAC along an intense CD, with reminiscences to old forbidden recordings as found footage.
COME, ARRUTAC . COME.
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VEN, ARRUTAC. VEN. TE ESPERAMOS. SUMERGIDAS EN LA PISCINA OVAL. EN EL AGUA QUE NO ES AGUA.
¿Qué es ARRUTAC? ¿Un ángel, un demonio, un espíritu?
ARRUTAC es y no es. Una presencia. Un instante. Una sensación excesivamente profunda, que vaga por la materia y la energía. Nadie puede describirlo con exactitud. PERO VENDRÁ.
ARRUTAC VENDRÁ.
Trabajo musical donde la exploración y la mística se funden, cuenta con la locución y relatos de Diego Arandojo, escritor y esoterista, y la musicalización de Van Delay(Paco Alcazar, historietista, ilustrador). Juntos se encargan de invocar a ARRUTAC a lo largo de un CD intenso con reminiscencias a viejas grabaciones prohibidas a modo de found footage.
Paco Alcázar es un autor que ha generado un mundo propio en el que se mueven personajes enfermizos pero carismáticos, inmersos en un humor negro y surrealista. Sus cómics tiene también la virtud de ser directos, concisos y claros; habitualmente, no dejan indiferentes a nadie. Empezó publicando a principios de la década de los noventa del siglo pasado en fanzines y producciones alternativas de pequeñas editoriales, con obras arriesgadas y muy personales recopiladas en el libro Daño gratuito (2010). En 2002, y junto a Miguel B. Núñez y Miguel Brieva, dirigió la revista Recto, una publicación alternativa y experimental. Algo antes, a finales de 2001, Paco Alcázar empezó a publicar una serie en El Víbora, Mecanismo blanco, que escribió y dibujó hasta el cierre de esta popular revista en diciembre de 2004. Muy poco después, en marzo de 2005, creó para el semanario El Jueves la serie Silvio José, el buen parásito, en la que sin perder su personalidad como autor incide en su muy particular visión crítica del mundo, en esta ocasión vehiculada en personajes socialmente inadaptados. También ha colaborado con sus tiras, historietas e ilustraciones en publicaciones como Rolling Stone, MAN, Mondosonoro, Nosotros Somos Los Muertos, El Manglar (donde desarrolló su serie La prisión portátil), Rockdelux, Cinemanía o El País Semanal. Aparte de los tomos recopilatorios de Silvio José, ha publicado libros y cuadernos como El manual de mi mente (2008), Rojo (2012), La industria de los sueños (2012) o Huracán de sensatez (2013).
La otra faceta creativa de Alcázar es la música, terreno en el que lleva en activo desde principios de los años noventa. Empezó formando parte del grupo Henderson Faith hasta que en 1994 empezó a grabar su propia música (mezcla de pop, noise, rap y otros estilos), con el nombre de Funnier than Suicide. También ha colaborado con otras bandas, como D Members o Hell Brains, y junto a Miguel B. Núñez, su amigo también historietista, formó el dúo Humbert Humbert. Otro de sus proyectos en solitario es Los Super-Asesinos, nombre que Alcázar utiliza para grabar música más ambiental, de sonido muy “cinematográfico” y con reminiscencias del jazz. Una de sus últimas formaciones (que Alcázar califica de “no-grupo”) es Van Delay, con la que ha grabado discos como The Romantic Spectrum u Objetos de poder.
En junio de 2014 surgió un conflicto con la empresa editora de El Jueves. RBA, propietaria de la cabecera, retiró una portada en la que se hacía referencia al cambio de monarca. La portada estaba dibujada por Manel Fontdevila i representaba la figura del rey pasándole a su hijo una corona llena de excrementos y moscas. El autor, entre otros colaboradores de la revista, consideró la retirada un acto de censura por parte de la empresa y abandonó su trabajo en El Jueves. Junto con los otros colaboradores que renunciaron a seguir en el semanario, Alcázar fundó la revista satírica digital mensual Orgullo y Satisfacción. En junio de 2014 empezó a dibujar también en la revista Mongolia.
Publicaciones: Arrrebato, Mono Gráfico, Recto, El Víbora, NSLM, Rolling Stone, 40, MAN, Rockdekux, Cinemanía, El Jueves, El País Semanal, Blab!, El Manglar, Usted, ¡Caramba!, Mondosonoro.
Series: Mecanismo blanco, Silvio José, el buen parásito.
Diego Arandojo nació en Buenos Aires, Argentina, en 1978. Realizador cinematográfico, guionista y escritor.
Publicó los libros «Cuentos Macabros para Sonámbulos» (2004), «Pecados para compartir» (2005), «Esquina 718» (2009 y 2010), “Bastón de Mando, un secreto guardado durante 30 años” (2014), “La vida secreta de las empanadas” (2014), “Lafarium” (2015), “Te odio tanto” (2015), “Déjame en paz” (2015) y “Los Yibins” (2015).
En 2001 ganó una beca del Fondo Nacional de las Artes; en 2004 el premio a mejor guión de cortometraje (también en el FNA); en 2012 el premio a mejor guión de documental otorgado por Argentores; y en 2016 a mejor serie documental, también otorgado por Argentores.
Como guionista de televisión ha trabajado para Promofilm Argentina-España, Discovery Networks USA, Canal 9 y Canal Encuentro. Para éste último desarrolló más de 14 series documentales.
Sus cortometrajes The Selenite Phlegmator (El Flemador Selenita) y The child Robin Hood’s varicose veins (Las várices del niño Robin Hood) han sido seleccionados y exhibidos en Cuba, Argentina y USA.
También co-dirigió el mediometraje de ciencia ficción Las 77 páginas, junto a Mauro Savarino, presentado en 2010 en el “II Congreso Ciudad de Toledo”, España, y editado en DVD por GH RECORDS.
Realizó tres largometrajes documentales: “30 años de silencio, el secreto de Guillermo Alfredo Terrera”, “Opium, la Argentina Beatnik” y “Alcatena”.
Satøri – Dispøssessiøn Label: COD noizes – SHUM18 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition Country: Russia Released: 25 Dec 2018 Style: Power Electronics, Industrial, Dark Ambient, Experimental, Noise
British industrial veterans Satori was formed in Margate, Kent by Dave Kirby and Robert Maycock in 1984. Origially called Psychopath. Satori have released material on cult labels which represented post-industrial music culture in its absolute form: Zeal SS, Broken Flag, Cold Spring Records, Tesco Organization / Functional Organization, Malignant Records and many more. They collaborated and splitted the stage with Sutcliffe Jügend, Nadja, Abbatoir and Merzbow. Comprising a mixture of dark ambient, harsh noise and power electronics with a harder and heavier percussive beat than before Satori now present a collection of new songs “Dispossession”.
Album, consisting of twelve tracks with a total length more than an hour, has been released as a luxury matte laminated digipak housed in a matte laminated cardboard slipcase decorated with glossy stencil UV-varnish printing.
01. Old Recipe For Modern Society Recorded in February-March 2003. Released on the CD compilation Extreme Music From Russia (Susan Lawly, 2004). Dedicated to the phenomenon of oprichnina implemented by the tsar Ivan IV «Grozny» in Russia between 1565 and 1572. Sound sources: radio, digital synthesis & processing.
02. Vision Reflections Recorded in November 2003. Released on the CD compilation Like Music To Their Ears Vol. 2 (Mechanoise Labs, 2004). Sound sources: radio, digital synthesis & processing.
03. No Hamsters Were Harmed During The Recording Of This Song Recorded in December 2004. Released on the CD compilation Roulette Russe Pour Un Peu De Caviar (Monochrome Vision, 2007). Sound sources: Rokton, Polyvox, Faemi-1M, radio.
04. Kopusta! Previously unreleased. Recorded in March 2004 for the compilation «Amazing Hare Johann», which never came out. Sound sources: radio, female voice, found samples, digital processing.
05. Submarine Lysergine Recorded in July 2004. Released on the Untitled split CD-R with Lunar Abyss and Timur Kujanov (Extremal Psychonauts, 2004). Sound sources: Yunost-21, Polyvox, distortion pedal, radio, digital processing.
06. BZ Recorded in January-February 2005. Released on the double CD-R compilation How To Stay Young & Healthy In A Modern World (Abgurd, 2006). Named after BZ toxic substance. Sound sources: Polyvox, radio, guitar, breath, digital processing.
07. The Glass From Leng Previously unreleased. Recorded in November 2003 for a compilation dedicated to H.P. Lovecraft, which never came out. Sound sources: radio, digital synthesis & processing.
08. RNS (wry loop mix) Recorded in April 2004, previously unreleased. Sound sources: a track by Public Immorality – Radio NaziSatanica, digital processing.
09. Disassembler Recorded in November 2004. Released on the CD-R compilation Negative Message From Collective Mind (Spirals Of Involution, 2005). Sound sources: Polyvox, radio.
10. Ether Spy Babka_rkTM4x4 Recorded in July 2005. Released on the double CD-R compilation Avtogen-Shaitan (Ostroga, 2007). Sound sources: Rokton, distrortion pedal, radio, Udmurtian women choir.
11. Mamasha Recorded in November 2005. Released on the CD compilation Red Square (KultFront, 2005).
12. Travka Zeleneet Recorded in January 2004. Released on the split mini-CD-R Thalamus with Ritualnaya Bioingeneria and Hladna (KultFront / Zhelezobeton, 2005), commemorating the first embodiment of the «Thalamus» festival. Sound sources: radio, found samples, digital synthesis & processing.
13. Splinters Recorded in September 2003. Released on the V.A. CD-R compilation (Nixrec, 2006). Sound sources: radio, singing bowl, digital synthesis & processing.
14. Throughout Time Recorded in November 2005. Released on the double CD compilation …It Just Is (In Memoriam: Jhonn Balance) (Fulldozer Records / Nocharizma, 2005). Sound sources: Time Machines eponymous album, digital processing.
15. See You In 6 Hours Previously unreleased. Recorded on July 15, 2006 for the compilation of one second tracks «Sloppy Seconds», which never came out. Sound sources: plastic, radio, digital synthesis & processing. Dedicated to Katerina Zet.
All tracks constructed at Base Station and re-mastered in January 2019.
A new heart-stopping piece of work by Visonia in which sadness,happiness,hopeful and desperation are in a continuous battle. As a result of this distress and ad nauseam the Chilean artist has asked himself about the sense of life and figured out how to look on the bright side.Doubtless,If we talk about “Fake Wings”,we could point out that this one is an epic and thought-provoking album composed of 6 wicked tunes and released on lovely pinkwhite vinyl.
Label: Old Captain – OCCD35 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered Country: Ukraine Released: Dec 2017 Style: Experimental, Ambient
Masterpiece of experimental electronic music commemorating 30 years since its first release in 1987! “She was unique. Had a bad time in her childhood, her later years were never comfortable. But somehow she got an intensity, feeling of direction. Anything she didn’t know, she just learnt it. Awful history in the countryside, then in London, carrying the banner against injustices. I was in the studio many times with her, the single mindedness. Brilliant technician. Long time before sampling took hold, Caroline had 4-track loops, proper innovation. A bit insecure, had to be in a band (natural for the period) to begin, but when she got on her own, I honestly think her material is up with the best classical musicians, with rock’n’roll – just listen.”- by Danny Ayers, Nocturnal Emission, husband of Caroline K. Limited to 300 copies in a 4-panel matte-laminated black & white Digipak.
Arranged By, Composed By, Performer [Played By], Producer, Recorded By – Caroline K Executive-Producer [Executive Production For Original Release], Remastered By [Vinyl Tracks Remastered For CD] – Nigel Ayers Design [Uncredited] – Mauro Berchi
Label: Cold Spring – CSR235CD Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 08 Nov 2017 Style: Industrial, Power Electronics, Experimental
On his second album, Colossloth continues his esoteric sonic crusade of volatile yet absorbing audio textures. Cold electronica, with swathes of rhythmic power noise and industrial harshness, tempered with penetrating song structures.
Eleven tracks of austere, reflective and exploratory electronics for journeys made into the hidden realms underpinning daily life, spanning the bridge between gnosis and praxis. The dissonance of opposites falling into elemental synthesis with a sound and approach influenced from the past, present and future, letting us remain anachronistic yet temporal voyeurs in the abyss evoked forth.
