• CD,  Distribution

    The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud – Were You Of Silver, Were You Of Gold

    octubre 9, 2025

    For Collectors!

    The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud – Were You Of Silver, Were You Of Gold
    Label: Arthur’s Round Table – ART 6
    Format: CD, Mini-Album
    Country: Switzerland
    Released: 1996
    Style: Industrial, Experimental, Neofolk

    Distributed By – World Serpent
    Copyright © – The Moon Lay Hidden
    Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Ouroubouros Publishing
    Made By – PMDC, UK

    Thanks to Kevin Rodley and Robert Prettner for constant mental support.

    World Serpent
    London

    Made in England

    © The Moon Lay Hidden 1996
    ℗ Ouroubouros Publishing Ltd. 1996
    Barcode (Text): 5 021958 457024 >
    Barcode (Scanned): 5021958457024
    Matrix / Runout: ART6 03 %
    Matrix / Runout (Mould On Inner Ring): MADE IN UK BY PMDC
    Mastering SID Code: IFPI L132
    Mould SID Code: IFPI 0445

    The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud (styled The Moon lay hidden beneath a Cloud) was an Austrian musical duo composed of Albin Julius and Alzbeth. Their music reflected their deep fascination with myriad aspects of European medievalism including ritual, clerical chants and the daily experience of the peasantry.

    Their music combined modern electronics, tape loops and samplers with medieval instruments such as hurdy-gurdy, shawm, and Hexenscheit. Alzbeth was the primary vocalist for the group and often sang traditional songs in numerous archaic languages including Middle High German, Latin and Old French. Julius provided distorted and backup vocals.

    When performing live, the band often played in old churches, fortresses, medieval prisons and theatres that provided an appropriate atmosphere for their static, militaristic performances.

    Early on, the band provided no official photographs or any more information outside of a Swiss mailing address found inside of the albums. The band rarely appeared live or granted interviews. No songs were ever given official titles. After their split, both of the duo were considerably more vocal and promotional images were released.

    With each subsequent release the band presented themes traveling further into European history and becoming more martial, choral and bombastic in approach, culminating in their final album; the largely World War II-inspired The Smell of Blood but Victory (1997)…

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  • Cassette,  Distribution

    A Crying Rose – Nacked & Savage

    octubre 9, 2025

    For Collectors!

    A Crying Rose – Nacked & Savage
    Label: Grabaciones Goticas
    Format: Cassette, EP
    Country: Spain
    Released: 02 Feb 1995
    Style: Goth Rock

    A1 Berlin Flowers II 4:40
    A2 Thy Promised Land 4:25
    B1 My Precious Femenine 3:40
    B2 Such Devoted Sisters 4:05

    Music By, Lyrics By – Paolo Greco

    The cover is an eight-page mini-booklet with text and photos.

    Wonderful nineties, far, far away is a whole generation of bands that picked up the baton from the great myths of Gothic Rock of the 80s, namely Mission, Cure, Sisters, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Fields of Nephilim

    The only reference to A Crying Rose, a project by a very young Paolo Greco (Ecodalia, Divina Esperanza).

    For die-hard collectors, cassette edition, sealed.

    A Crying Rose collaborated on two compilations:

    Seküencias De Culto Sampler II » Omnia Morte Cadut» 1995
    El Llanto De Las Sombras (Grabaciones Góticas 1985-1996) 1996

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  • Distribution,  Vinyl

    Dead Can Dance ‎– Spleen And Ideal (Vinyl, LP)

    septiembre 30, 2025

    Dead Can Dance ‎– Spleen And Ideal (Vinyl, LP)
    Label: 4AD ‎– CAD 3623
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
    Country: UK & US
    Released: 08 Jul 2016
    Style: Alternative Rock, Modern Classical, Ethereal

    Dead Can Dance’s second album, Spleen And Ideal (1985), saw them experiment more with instrumentation, abandoning guitars in favour of cello, trombone and timpani. Widely acclaimed, there was now a richness of uni cation between voice and music, lyrics and structure, showing they had a concrete sense of the aural ideal they were striving towards. It’s title was taken from Spleen et Idéal, a collection of poems by 18th century French poet Charles Baudelaire.

    The band’s official website stated that the album title was taken “from 19th Century symbolist ideals”. The title is directly taken from “Spleen et Idéal”, a collection of poems by French poet Charles Baudelaire which form a section of his magnum opus Les Fleurs du mal.

    Discussing the album’s musical style, All music commented that with Spleen and Ideal, Dead Can Dance “fully took the plunge into the heady mix of musical traditions that would come to define its sound and style for the remainder of its career. The straightforward goth affectations are exchanged for a sonic palette and range of imagination”

    The 2016 LP version is a repress of the original release.

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