The Joy Of Nature – The Empty Circle, Part I: Swirling Lands Of Disquiet And CatharsisLabel: Ahnstern – Ahnstern31Format: CDCountry: AustriaReleased: May 2008Style: Dark Ambient, Acoustic, Experimental The Joy of Nature is a multimedia project from the Azores, with music as its main focus.Musically, “The Joy of Nature” is like a serpent always renewing itself – never resting in one shape, changing the form but keeping the same essence.“Swirling Lands of Disquiet and Catharsis” is the first part of a trilogy entitled “The Empty Circle”.Each part of the trilogy has a correspondence with the three main hermetic-alchemical phases: Nigredo, Albedo and Rubedo and, at the same time and correspondingly, to…
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Trepaneringsritualen – Yours Is A Kingdom Of Death
Trepaneringsritualen – Yours Is A Kingdom Of DeathLabel: Old Europa Cafe – OECD 244Format: CD, CompilationCountry: ItalyReleased: Jul 2017Style: Dark Ambient, Industrial This is unification! Two sides from split LPs — with Body Cargo, and Deathstench respectively — joined into the whole they were always meant to be. »Yours Is A Kingdom of Death« is an exercise in somber slow-moving death chants, ritualistic in appearance and in intent. A renunciation of the created world; a glorification of the New Man; he who is beyond life and death, existing as pure flame alit in eternal void.
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Common Eider, King Eider – Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside
Common Eider, King Eider – Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast AsideLabel: Cold Spring – CSR243CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 25 Sep 2017Style: Drone, Experimental, Dark Ambient The triumphant reawakening of San Francisco’s masters of behemoth ritualistic darkness… Within “Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside”, bone, antler and voice produce connective threads between the worlds, as guitar and percussion punctuate shifts in mood. Voices call to the spirits, and the spirits call back in return. Recorded in 2016 during four private, collective only rituals, the pieces pull the listener through the darkest and most overgrown trails of the blackest forest. Monumental and horizonless ritualistic black ambience.…
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Maurizio Bianchi – Elegietroniche
Maurizio Bianchi – ElegietronicheLabel: 4iB Records – 4iB CD/0114/020Format: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: SingaporeReleased: 15 Apr 2016Style: 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.
