NID – A Fair MasqueradeLabel: La Esencia – LER 008/2013Format: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: SpainReleased: 16 Feb 2014Style: Neofolk, Industrial, Ambient We are glad to introduce the debut album of neofolk band NID. «A fair masquerade» recorded during summer 2013 in southern Italy, best summed up all the sound and the emotions that this band we want to transmit. «A fair masquerade» by NID is a kind of baroque parade where everyone wears a pompous and amazing mask on the stage of life but just because everyone is trying to stand out and emerge,in the end we realize that we are only equal and homologated. Therefore, the real «fair masquerade»…
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Cyclotimia – The Invisible Hand Of Market
Cyclotimia – The Invisible Hand Of MarketLabel: Shadowplay Release – SPR 148, Zhelezobeton – ZHB-XXXVIII, Monopoly Records – noneFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: RussiaReleased: Apr 22, 2014Style: Ambient, Dark Ambient, Downtempo, Experimental, Minimal The Moscow-based project Cyclotimia, well-known for its long-standing interest for the world of global finance, stockmarket speculators and multinational corporations, presents its new work «The Invisible Hand of Market». According to the musicians, this is not a conceptual album dedicated to the economic term of Adam Smith. In this case it’s rather a metaphor “invisibly” linking together various compositions created during 2010-2013. The album’s program consists of ten polystylistical tracks combining such genres as «post-industrial», «minimal(ism)», «dark…
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Day Before Us – Dim Shores of Eternity
Day Before Us – Dim Shores of EternityLabel: Les Nouvelles Propagandes – NP.032Format: CD, AlbumCountry: FranceReleased: May 5, 2025Style: Dark Ambient, Dark Electro, Darkwave, Drone, Ambient, Modern Classical Dim shores of eternity’ celebrates the return of the project «Day Before Us» in duet after a last album released by GH records for its 10th anniversary (2021). Along the years the project was bringing to the fore metaphysical themes and dark romanticized story tellings translated musically by ominous-rumbling electronic atmospheres, sonic experimentations and lyrical-elegiac ascending phrases. This new album honors those main components but with an enhanced sonorous cinematic dramaturgy for eerily fixed moments and sequences of transcendent beauty. Expressive and…
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Vidna Obmana – The Trilogy
Vidna Obmana – The TrilogyLabel: Zoharum – ZOHAR 159-2Format: 3 CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Compilation, Limited Edition, ReissueCountry: PolandReleased: Mar 28, 2018Style: Ambient Vidna Obmana. The first recordings under this moniker appeared in the mid-1980s. Initially in his work he penetrated very rough industrial sounds, but at the beginning of the following decade he turned to ambient music with subtle ethnic undertones. His first albums, where he successfully explored this style and which also brought him wider notoriety, were ‘Passage in Beauty’ (1991), ‘Shadowing in Sorrow’ (1992) and ‘Ending Mirage’ (1993), composing a trilogy in both sonic and visual sense. A few years later, they were reissued in one package…
