• CD,  Distribution

    Anemone Tube / Post Scriptvm ‎– Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes

    septiembre 7, 2025

    Anemone Tube / Post Scriptvm ‎– Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes
    Label: La Esencia ‎–cure.11
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered
    Country: Spain
    Released: 19 Dec 2016
    Style: Dark Ambient, Industrial, Abstract, Experimental

    CD comes in full color cardboard sleeve and white offset paper cardboard slipcase with golden typography, including a 4-page booklet. Limited edition of 144 copies, hand numbered

    For lovers of soul-shredding funeral music built on dissonance / Triggering spiritual delight / Intended for church performance

    Under the headline “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes” Anemone Tube and Post Scriptvm present a collaborative album with a truly unique concept: Originally applied to a particular style of ancient ritual music, in the Classical era the term Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes attained a negative connotation and was used to criticize those compositions – which, instead of instilling listeners with the desired pious euphoria, incriminated them with a sense of dread, existential anxiety, feelings of
    death and decay. Finding this aesthetic choice to be most appropriate for the present era, the two post-industrial projects attempted to create their own “Discordant Death Litanies” for the XXI century.

    The idea is culled from a semi-fictional biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, written by a 19th century Russian author. In the chapter describing Bach‘s childhood and early education, his older brother – who was also his music teacher and mentor – dissuades him from composing those “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes” as they dangerously steer the Christian liturgy into a “wrong” direction of primordial chaos. In reality Bach never dealt with such dark notions, but created the most versatile and accomplished musical glorifications of the Christian god ever composed.

    Yet tempted by the imagination of real “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes”, Anemone Tube and Post Scriptvm stage a linear, gradually unfolding “oratorio” which begins with layers of lush brass synths resounding a time and place enveloped in ancient mythical beauty. The pristine serenity, however, slowly deteriorates through the influx of anguish, social decay and profanity. Raw field recordings, throbbing electronics, metallic tremors, distant voices and chants portrait a life of numbness and confusion, where man – tormented by ignorance, ignoble desires and anger – has become a plaything of insane “Weltanschauungen” and the commercialization plague. In a world where spirituality is reduced to rituals of sadness, the prophetic – and confirmed – certitude that the end of civilization is close at hand prevails.

    Composed, recorded, edited and mixed by Anemone Tube 2013–2016, with field recordings made in Kyoto, Nanjing and Shanghai, 2007/2009 and synthesizer. Gong sounds and additional samples on Irruption of the Whore by Post Scriptvm, 2013. For Ola.

    Buried in Fabula
    Dark and Nameless Gods
    Laterne D’Horreur
    Composed, recorded, edited and mixed by Post Scriptvm in Trepan Studios, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2014–2015.

    Mastered by Hunter Barr, 2016.

    Cover drawings by Post Scriptvm, 2016.
    Typography, design & inner sleeve photo by Anemone Tube, 2016.
    Photo detail of Tryptic of Saint Stanislaus the Bishop, painted and guilded limewood, Hans Süss von Kulmbach, ~1610; Gallery of Medieval Art, Warsaw.

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  • GH Records

    Anemone Tube ‎– The Three Worlds – Vanity Of Allegory

    septiembre 7, 2025

    Anemone Tube ‎– The Three Worlds – Vanity Of Allegory
    Label: The Epicurean ‎– cure.19, La Esencia ‎– LER020/2017
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Europe
    Released: 23 Oct 2017
    Style: Dark Ambient, Experimental, Industrial

    Far reaching pleasures will be at hand – Anemone Tube reveals a series of three CDs entitled “The Three Worlds: Allegory of Vanity / Forget Heaven / Vanity of Allegory”, referencing a cosmological treatise on the universe from the Theravada Buddhism of the 14th century, the subject matter of which is the description of three levels of existence of all beings and mythical creatures.

    This extensive retrospective release contains selected tracks from various tapes released between 1997 and 1999 – mostly rare and unavailable today – as well as yet unreleased tracks recorded between 1997 and 2013, a.o. outtakes from the “Death Over China” recordings, handpicked and recontextualized by Anemone Tube, representing the project’s roughest and most atmospheric material up to date, ranging from depressive ritual experimental ambient over dark rhythmic industrial soundscapes to whirlwind noise. Sharply mastered by Hunter Barr for a powerful, contemporary sound, each CD comes in a 6-panel digifile featuring beautiful photography by Dario Lehner and is available as single CD as well as a limited edition 3 CD set in a lavish slipcase with poster, sticker and patch.

    “The Three Worlds” is a work about transience on many levels, perfectly elucidated in the Buddhist Sutra “Far Reaching Pleasures”, “The three worlds are transient like clouds in autumn / Birth and death of all beings unfold like a dance / Their lives rush away like a mountain stream / Vanish like lightning in the sky”, which serves as the contextual framework for the CD series and is translated in the most beautiful and poetic fashion with three painstakingly arranged photographic scenes based on vanitas symbolism of old masters’ paintings.

    The object photograph “Vanity of Allegory” plays with the dissolution of all phenomena, the transience of all things, all allegories, featuring an extinguished candle, jewellery – and the artist himself, vacuously pointing his finger a skull laughing at the spectator from the mirror. All that is combined with poetry suggesting the dissolution of the ego, seemingly closing the circle. Besides collected tracks from old and recent cassette releases and compilations, this also features three unreleased tracks from the “Death Over China” recordings and therefore represents the newest cut from the trilogy and thus musically bridge

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  • Distribution,  Vinyl

    Anemone Tube / Post Scriptvm ‎– Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes (Vinyl, LP)

    enero 20, 2017

    Anemone Tube / Post Scriptvm ‎– Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes (Vinyl, LP)
    Label: La Esencia ‎– LER015/2016
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Golden Vinyl
    Country: Spain
    Released: 19 Dec 2016
    Style: Dark Ambient, Industrial, Abstract, Experimental

    For lovers of soul-shredding funeral music built on dissonance / Triggering spiritual delight / Intended for church performance

    Under the headline “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes” Anemone Tube and Post Scriptvm present a collaborative album with a truly unique concept: Originally applied to a particular style of ancient ritual music, in the Classical era the term Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes attained a negative connotation and was used to criticize those compositions – which, instead of instilling listeners with the desired pious euphoria, incriminated them with a sense of dread, existential anxiety, feelings of
    death and decay. Finding this aesthetic choice to be most appropriate for the present era, the two post-industrial projects attempted to create their own “Discordant Death Litanies” for the XXI century.

    The idea is culled from a semi-fictional biography of Johann Sebastian Bach, written by a 19th century Russian author. In the chapter describing Bach‘s childhood and early education, his older brother – who was also his music teacher and mentor – dissuades him from composing those “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes” as they dangerously steer the Christian liturgy into a “wrong” direction of primordial chaos. In reality Bach never dealt with such dark notions, but created the most versatile and accomplished musical glorifications of the Christian god ever composed.

    Yet tempted by the imagination of real “Litaniæ Mortuorum Discordantes”, Anemone Tube and Post Scriptvm stage a linear, gradually unfolding “oratorio” which begins with layers of lush brass synths resounding a time and place enveloped in ancient mythical beauty. The pristine serenity, however, slowly deteriorates through the influx of anguish, social decay and profanity. Raw field recordings, throbbing electronics, metallic tremors, distant voices and chants portrait a life of numbness and confusion, where man – tormented by ignorance, ignoble desires and anger – has become a plaything of insane “Weltanschauungen” and the commercialization plague. In a world where spirituality is reduced to rituals of sadness, the prophetic – and confirmed – certitude that the end of civilization is close at hand prevails.

    • Standard vinyl edition comes with golden vinyl, full color cover with spine, printed paper inner sleeve and high-quality PVC sleeve with silkscreen printed golden typography. Limited edition of 200 copies.

    Ref: LER015/2016, La Esencia
    Release date: Late January, 2017

    Myth and the Relation to the World
    Recueillement (Sa Propre Mort)
    Irruption of the Whore
    Composed, recorded, edited and mixed by Anemone Tube 2013–2016, with field recordings made in Kyoto, Nanjing and Shanghai, 2007/2009 and synthesizer. Gong sounds and additional samples on Irruption of the Whore by Post Scriptvm, 2013. For Ola.

    Buried in Fabula
    Dark and Nameless Gods
    Laterne D’Horreur
    Composed, recorded, edited and mixed by Post Scriptvm in Trepan Studios, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2014–2015.

    Mastered by Hunter Barr, 2016.

    Cover drawings by Post Scriptvm, 2016.
    Typography, design & inner sleeve photo by Anemone Tube, 2016.
    Photo detail of Tryptic of Saint Stanislaus the Bishop, painted and guilded limewood, Hans Süss von Kulmbach, ~1610; Gallery of Medieval Art, Warsaw.

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