• CD,  Distribution

    SiJ – The Lost World

    mayo 16, 2016

    SiJ – The Lost World
    Label: Reverse Alignment– RA-13
    Format: CDr, Album, Limited Edition
    Country: Sweden
    Released: 31 Aug 2015
    Style: Ambient, Dark Ambient, Field Recording, Drone

    Vlad Sikach is returning to Reverse Alignment with a brand new SiJ album. This time with a grand force of collaborative artists such as Vadim Getiuk (Aeternam Nocte), Sergey Gabbasov, Tim Six (Creation VI), Vadim Grin (Dream Twice) and Robert Rich (among others). As is expected “The Lost World” shows the trademark of the classical SiJ sound, a lot of field recordings ending up with a very much organic and qualitive ambient, soothing and meditative but also combining rhythmic sections without loosing the floating touch of the atmospheres.

    Making this album Vlad Sikach took inspiration from the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with the same title. More than hundred years later, “The Lost World” now gets a new form and media via the interpretation of SiJ.

    SiJ is an Ukrainian industrial/dark ambient project consisting of two members Vladislav Sikach and Alena Perepadya. SiJ was created by Vladislav Sikach in March 2011 in attempt to develop unique sound combined with various industrial features mostly in sombre dark ambient way. For this reason, SiJ uses great number of instruments such as various guitars, drums and synthetizers as well as handmade mechanical or electromachanical sound devices.
    Recently SiJ started to use field recordings made in various places from urban streets to abandoned military and industrial facilities. Another tools for creating SiJ’s soundscapes are VST-technologies, digital sound processing and CSound sound-synthesizing programming language.

    SiJ used to cooperate with many ambient, dark ambient, drone, industrial and noise projects as well as with people who work only with field recordings.

    All SiJ works come with special graphic design made by photographer and designer Alena Perepadya

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  • CD,  Distribution

    Moljebka Pvlse – A Transformation

    mayo 13, 2016

    Moljebka Pvlse ‎– A Transformation
    Label: Reverse Alignment ‎– RA-16
    Format: CDr, Album, Limited Edition 100 COPIES
    Country: Sweden
    Released: 23 Oct 2015
    Style: Drone, Experimental, Field Recording

    Long timer drone act Moljebka Pvlse, mainly headed by sound artist Mathias Josefson (Skare, Negru Pvlse), found himself travelling to Israel in 2008 to perform and to scavenge for sounds in the field with co-worker Karin Widin. On A Tranformation the sounds collection from that travel has been thoroughly examined, dismantled and restructured together with freshly added material that has transcended its older form to a new being.

    The physical edition comes in two professionally made versions. One in 6-panel digipack (limited to 100 copies) and the other in 4-panel DVD digipack (limited to 50 copies).

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  • Distribution,  GH Records,  Vinyl

    Donis – Bez Grazdanstva (Без Гражданства)

    abril 13, 2016

    Donis – Bez Grazdanstva (Без Гражданства)
    Label: Autarkeia – vinyl 012 avi 068
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, White Vinyl
    Country: Lithuania
    Released: Feb 2016
    Style: Ambient, Experimental

    This long-planned LP is dedicated to a very close man of the author – his grandfather. Based on the story of his life, it reflects the post-war Lithuanian near border residents’ fates. Some were killed, others exiled or remained in the occupied territory of the Soviet system, which is an equivalent to the internal deportation or capitulation and surrender, hypocrisy. However, it turns out that even in such circumstances there’s possible a silent one person’s resistance against the entire system. In the dark Soviet times album’s hero dared to defy the executive instructions of their actions on the grounds that he was not a citizen of this country. In the events of turmoil, it can be considered a miracle that the latter had survived, but had not been exiled to the northern camps. He was issued an identity document “БЕЗ ГРАЖДАНСТВА” (in Russian, “No citizenship”).

    Album compositions encode the post-war era’s symbols from child’s memory while listening to the stories of relatives. “So called Wolf’s children – children wandering alone in East Prussia, which were protected by good people. «Flowering Gardens” – a generous harvest greeting exiles that returned home. “Cult servant” – a multi-layered and complicated personality and social status. “GEBURTSORT: SZINDAITSCHEN” – inscription in grandfather’s personal documents indicating the place of birth, current Žindaičiai town. “1977” – the symbolic year in which the album’s hero died, and a few months later, LP’s author was born.

    The record is done using only acoustic instruments and ambient sounds of the authentic grandfather’s life places: the remaining houses, attics with old craftsman’s tools, native whistling winds of Žindaičiai and chirping birds, church, yellow rusted documents and photographs, squeaky steps in Jurbarkas’ town cemetery…

    «БЕЗ ГРАЖДАНСТВА” is a melancholic, atmospheric instrumental ambient album for the human condition, when you become a stranger in your own homeland, imprisoned in a trap and a hard choice: to flee or to stay.

    Album’s tracks listing:

    A. “БЕЗ ГРАЖДАНСТВА”
    B. “GEBURTSORT: SZINDAITSCHEN”

    Album lasts for 40 min. Lim. E 150.

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