SiJ – The Lost WorldLabel: Reverse Alignment– RA-13Format: CDr, Album, Limited EditionCountry: SwedenReleased: 31 Aug 2015Style: 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.…
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Moljebka Pvlse – A Transformation
Moljebka Pvlse – A TransformationLabel: Reverse Alignment – RA-16Format: CDr, Album, Limited Edition 100 COPIESCountry: SwedenReleased: 23 Oct 2015Style: 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…
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Donis – Bez Grazdanstva (Без Гражданства)
Donis – Bez Grazdanstva (Без Гражданства)Label: Autarkeia – vinyl 012 avi 068Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, White VinylCountry: LithuaniaReleased: Feb 2016Style: 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…
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Sal Solaris – Thresholds
Sal Solaris – ThresholdsLabel: Zhelezobeton – ZHB-LXIIFormat: CD, Album, Limited Edition, NumberedCountry: RussiaReleased: 15 Mar 2016Style: Dark Ambient, Electro, Experimental, Industrial, Techno “Thresholds” is the first Sal Solaris solo album in 15 years marked by a variety of collaborations, splits and minor releases. From a musical point of view this is probably the most complex and certainly the most rhythmic work of the duo which opens a new chapter in its history. The Sun radiates and cools down. Mountains erode and grind into sand. Any system tends to minimum energy and maximum entropy, that is to uniformity. But while chaos does not reign yet, the universe is a complex thermodynamic…
