• GH Records

    Anemone Tube ‎– The Three Worlds – Forget Heaven

    Label: The Epicurean ‎– cure.18, La Esencia ‎– LER019/2017
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Europe
    Released: 23 Oct 2017
    Style: Dark Ambient, Industrial, Experimental

    Far reaching pleasures will be at hand – Anemone Tube reveals a series of three CDs entitled “The Three Worlds: Allegory of Vanity / Forget Heaven / Vanity of Allegory”, referencing a cosmological treatise on the universe from the Theravada Buddhism of the 14th century, the subject matter of which is the description of three levels of existence of all beings and mythical creatures.

    This extensive retrospective release contains selected tracks from various tapes released between 1997 and 1999 – mostly rare and unavailable today – as well as yet unreleased tracks recorded between 1997 and 2013, a.o. outtakes from the “Death Over China” recordings, handpicked and recontextualized by Anemone Tube, representing the project’s roughest and most atmospheric material up to date, ranging from depressive ritual experimental ambient over dark rhythmic industrial soundscapes to whirlwind noise. Sharply mastered by Hunter Barr for a powerful, contemporary sound, each CD comes in a 6-panel digifile featuring beautiful photography by Dario Lehner.

    “The Three Worlds” is a work about transience on many levels, perfectly elucidated in the Buddhist Sutra “Far Reaching Pleasures”, “The three worlds are transient like clouds in autumn / Birth and death of all beings unfold like a dance / Their lives rush away… more
    credits

    Music composed, mixed & edited by Anemone Tube. 1–6 recorded September 1996 – February 1997, previously released as Forget Heaven cassette (Bawler Productions, 1997). 7 + 8 recorded September 1997, sounds: Thomas Gith, 7 previously released on Forget Heaven/Angel Falls CDr (Solipsism, 2000). 8 voice: Sven Birker, previously released on Basisgleiche Verschiedenheiten comp. cassette (Bawler Productions, 1997). 9 recorded September 1997, loop: Origami Galaktika, previously released on Ambient Intimacy 3 comp. CDr (EE Tapes, 1999). 10 recorded 2000, previously unreleased. 11 recorded December 1998 – August 1999, previously released on Split CDr with Tarkatak (Trümmer Kassetten / Transfixional Entertainment, 1999).

    Concept, art and design by Anemone Tube 2015/17. Photography by Dario Lehner 2015, set design, photo editing by Anemone Tube 2015/17. Mastering by Hunter Barr 2017.

    The Epicurean . cure.18
    La Esencia . NER019/2017
    Format: CD & download
    Playtime: 68:14 min

  • Artists,  GH Records

    Day Before Us

    Day Before Us is an ethereal, neoclassical and dark ambient music project formed (in 2010) by the
    anthropologist and sound producer Philippe Blache, joined in 2015 by the
    Russian based singer, lyricist and poetical writer Natalya Romashina. Physical
    albums are signed and distributed by Rage in Eden, Twilight Records, OPN
    records, GH Records…The project occasionally gives live performances, writes
    scores to international art events and participates to intermedia
    collaborations. In itself the music presents dense, solemn, melancholic and
    profundly emotional soundscapes in touch with the mysterious ineffable beauty
    of the nature, depicting with nuances the vastitude of the inner worlds. Main
    sources of inspiration come from the antique and the romantical poetry,
    symbolical seneries, mystical love, spiritual journey…

  • Distribution,  Vinyl

    Aun – Fiat Lux


     


    Aun – Fiat Lux
    Label: Cyclic Law ‎– 76th Cycle, La Esencia ‎– LER013/2015
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Black with white/blue splatter
    Country: Canada
    Released: 2015
    Style: Dark Ambient, Drone, Experimental

    AUN’s music as always suggested forays into other dimensions, be it to imaginary worlds, industrial wastelands, through space and time, or via mind altered states. From the ominous dystopian artwork, of a city being drained of its energy by some mysterious black hole, to the first notes of the title track “Fiat Lux” we are once again transported on AUN’s otherworldly travelling path. Ever since the space industrial and power electronics of AUN’s previous Cyclic Law cult release “Black Pyramid”, the world has become even more sinister, but in contrast, “Fiat Lux” exudes even more of AUN’s melancholic hopefulness. The disintegrating chords and densely textured waves, anchored by a left field industrial pulse, invoke occult drug enhanced, future psychedelia. Created in part in their Montreal studio, these tracks were extensively performed live, prior to recording, and refined while on tour breaks in Montpellier, Barcelona and Tokyo. The energy of these cities is definitely at work in these recordings, which also features a French connection of experimental heavy hitters: Witxes, Frédéric D. Oberland and Philippe Petit have helped round out Dumais and Leblanc’ arsenal. FIAT LUX: Let there be light, from light will come darkness.