• CD,  Distribution

    The Circular Ruins And Mystified ‎– Fantastic Journey

    febrero 4, 2025

    The Circular Ruins And Mystified ‎– Fantastic Journey
    Label: Cold Spring ‎– CSR298CD
    Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
    Country: UK
    Released: 08 Oct 2021
    Style: Ambient, Dark Ambient, Drone

    «Fantastic Journey» is an homage to writers such as Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and other pioneers from the early age of science fantasy.

    Stunningly adventurous dark ambient, dronescapes, pulsing synths, melancholic strings, and exploratory ambient electronica take us on a journey of imagination and ingenuity. Tales are woven of fantastic voyages and feats of scientific endeavour, through subterranean worlds, mysterious unexplored islands, Utopian societies, travels through time, and the farthest reaches of outer space.

    «Fantastic Journey» perfectly encapsulates the wondrous visions of these futuristic writers over the last 150 years. Designed for serious listening and exercising your imagination…

    Originally released in 2013, we are proud to release «Fantastic Journey» on CD-proper for the first time, with an exclusive 10-minute bonus track, taking the intrepid listener on one last marvellous adventure.

    Composed and performed using various samples, synthesizers, and field recordings by Anthony Paul Kerby (The Circular Ruins) and Thomas Park (Mystified).

    Final arrangements and mastering by APK
    Remastered for Cold Spring by Martin Bowes (The Cage)

    Original artwork by DataObscura
    Graphic Design by Abby Helasdottir

    Reviews;

    «The best approach is to take any book from one of these authors of the shelf, sit back in the most comfortable way, and read and play this music. What the musicians are doing here is simply offering nothing less than the best soundtrack for such a thing…reading about Captain Nemo and his submarine at home. With the tones produced in the titular piece, you are below sea level, wondering about the colours below the sea, the rusty vessel and the quiet life below deck… Field recordings are brought to life alter and age and die out again within the electronics these men have at their disposal… I found it very hard to peel myself out of that comfy chair and sit at the desk to commit words to this… hard to stop reading and listening… Another round of this very soon» (Vital Weekly)

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    Vidna Obmana – The Trilogy

    enero 18, 2025

    Vidna Obmana – The Trilogy
    Label: Zoharum – ZOHAR 159-2
    Format: 3 CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Compilation, Limited Edition, Reissue
    Country: Poland
    Released: Mar 28, 2018
    Style: 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 by the American label Relic.

    This year marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the last album from these three. This is a good opportunity to bring the entire trilogy to light again, as it is considered one of Dirk Serries’ outstanding achievements as Vidna Obmana. On top of that, all three albums, both in the form of a triple compilation and as single discs, have long been unavailable and reach quite high prices on auction sites. The discs received a new graphic design, their sound was also remastered by the artist himself. We can enjoy over three hours of these classic ambient sounds again.

    The triple album is released in an 8-panel digipak and it is strictly limited to 400 pieces. The cover is designed by Maciej Mehring based on the photographs by Martina Verhoeven. Dirk Serries himself is responsible for the mastering. The whole production process was overseen by Michał Porwet.

    The trilogy will be also available as a limited wooden box with an expanded content

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    Dasein‎ – РОА : Live In Yaroslavl

    noviembre 10, 2024

    Dasein‎ – РОА : Live In Yaroslavl
    Label: Ufa Muzak ‎– UFA 46
    Format: CDr, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered
    Country: Russia
    Released: 2011
    Style: Drone, Noise, Ambient

    This disc contains the full live-set of the Moscow based project «Dasein» on April 15th, 2011 in Yaroslavl, Russia.
    This is best cold white noise, a powerful and furious flow.
    «Bayonets into the ground!»

    One unique untitled track.

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