Bisclaveret – in hortis… aegri somnia (early recordings) Label: Dark Vinyl Records – DV63 Format: CD, Album, Compilation Country: Germany Released: 2015 Style: Dark Ambient
Tracks 2, 3, 7 – previously released on “… Aegri Somnia” EP (2001) Tracks 1, 4, 5, 6 – previously released on “In Hortis …” EP (2003) Tracks 8, 9 – previously unreleased Tracks 10, 11, 12 – previously released on live album “Er Roud El Aater fi Nezaha El Khater” in series I4I (2005) Track 13 – it was intro opening Bisclaveret’ live performances in 2001-2003
On its 15th anniversary, Bisclaveret has gathered a special compilation collecting early recordings, lifted mainly from their first CDR releases»Aegri Somnia» and “In Hortis”, but also adding a few individual songs from their concert album “Er Roud El Aater fi Nezaha El Khater” and a number of rarities: versions and unreleased songs. The whole material has been designed in such a way that it creates a coherent album. The material has been re-mastered by Łukasz Miernik (often appearing live with Bisclaveret), who is also responsible for the sound of the last disc “Theu Anagnosis”.
“In Hortis… Aegri Somnia” is a summary of the early activities of the group, a reminder of archival recordings that, although they differ stylistically from what the band is performing today, show what the evolution of Bisclaveret sound looked like. The evolution of the band which has been firmly rooted in the ambient scene since its very beginning
Dark Awake – Anunnaki Label: Sleaszy Rider Records – SR LP-004 Format: Vinyl, 12″, Album Country: Greece Released: 09 Dec 2016 Style: Dark Ambient, Neo-Classical, Neofolk, Industrial
“Anunnaki” is DARK AWAKE 4th full length album that contains 9 new songs.
An esoteric mystical and spiritual music that must be felt not just heard. There are dark ambient parts without of earth instrumentation, that lead to powerfull martial industrial parts that inspire war and dominion. An abysmal orchestration that will send your soul to places beyond. The absolute masterpiece of dark music. Dark Awake ’s brand new opus takes inspiration from the ancient gods of Mesopotamia, Anunnaki. Anunnaki are a race of superhumanly powerful humanoid beings who were once worshipped by several of the tribes and cultures of Mesopotamia.
Anemone Tube / Post Scriptvm – Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes (Vinyl, LP) Label: La Esencia – LER015/2016 Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Golden Vinyl Country: Spain Released: 19 Dec 2016 Style: Dark Ambient, Industrial, Abstract, Experimental
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.
Standard vinyl edition comes with golden vinyl, full color cover with spine, printed paper inner sleeve and high-quality PVC sleeve with silkscreen printed golden typography. Limited edition of 200 copies.
Ref: LER015/2016, La Esencia Release date: Late January, 2017
Myth and the Relation to the World Recueillement (Sa Propre Mort) Irruption of the Whore 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.
