• The Mystery Of The Bulgarian Voices* Featuring Lisa Gerrard ‎– BooCheeMish

    The Mystery Of The Bulgarian Voices* Featuring Lisa Gerrard ‎– BooCheeMish

    Label: Prophecy Productions ‎– PRO 228LP
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, 180 gr 
    Country: Europe
    Released: 2018
    Style: Folk

    The Mystery Of The Bulgarian Voices will release their first album of new studio recordings in over two decades on May 25th, 2018. Better known to many as Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares (Grammy winner for “Best Traditional Folk Recording”), ‘BooCheeMish’ sees the esteemed Bulgarian choir performing together with erstwhile 4AD Records label mate Lisa Gerrard (co-founder of the duo Dead Can Dance) on several tracks, thereby uniting two of the most distinctive vocal acts working in music. Gerrard, who is also well known for her movie soundtrack work on films such as ‘Gladiator’ and ’The Insider’, has often spoken about the influence the choir exerted on her singing technique when she discovered their music in the early 1980’s.

    In successfully connecting Bulgarian folklore with other traditions and cultures, the album manages to retain the unique identity of the voices, vocal styles and techniques of the individual choir members, even when allying them with acoustic accompaniment such as stringed instruments and various types of percussion, including beatbox.
    Once described as “the marriage of the avant-garde and the Middle Ages”, the magic of the ensemble stems from its success in mastering Bulgaria’s diverse, age-old vocal traditions while simultaneously sounding strikingly modern and original, thanks to the unique choral music structure – multi-part a cappella arrangements that transform its collective sound into strange colours as if something other than the human voice is being heard.

    Edition:
    – LP (180g vinyl, black) incl. printed inner sleeve and protection sleeve

    Tracklist:
    01. Mome Malenko
    02. Pora Sotunda
    03. Rano Ranila
    04. Mani Yanni
    05. Yove
    06. Sluntse
    07. Unison
    08. Zableyalo Agne
    09. Tropanitsa
    10. Ganka
    11. Shandai Ya
    12. Stanka

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  • Wind Atlas ‎– Lingua Ignota

    Wind Atlas ‎– Lingua Ignota

    Label: Gradual Hate Records ‎– GH139 CD, Twilight Records ‎– TW 1.156
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Spain
    Released: June 2018
    Style: Darkwave, Folk, Psychedelic Rock, Post-Punk, Experimental

    Recorded and mixed by Javier Ortiz Fullton at Estudios Brazil in december 2014. Studio Assistant: Marcos Bandera. Mastered at Yves Roussel Mastering by Yves Roussel in january 2015. Cover art is “Magic Circle” (1886) by John William Waterhouse. Artwork designed by Raúl Q. de Orte.

    Credits
    Backing Vocals – Raúl Pérez Pérez, Raúl Q. De Orte, Sergi Alejandre
    Bass – Iván Montero
    Bouzouki – Sergi Alejandre
    Drums – Raúl Pérez Pérez
    Guitar – Sergi Alejandre
    Lead Vocals – Andrea Pérez
    Mastered By – Ives Roussel
    Mixed By – Javier Ortiz
    Recorded By – Javier Ortiz
    Santoor – Raúl Pérez Pérez
    Synth – Raúl Q. De Orte

    Wind Atlas’ music has gained in nuances, drifting smoothly from dark dream-pop and new-wave passages (which remind us of Dead Can Dance) to gloomy postpunk atmospheres similar to those of Crispy Ambulance, Durruti Column or In Camera.
    Music to think of an unknown continent, to look for the lost alchemical formula, to eventually discover Talos the robot hurling rocks at the Argonauts. Music that requires to do nothing but listen, a task that nowadays appears almost impossible.

    The message is conveyed in an imagined language from a terra incognita, the lingua ignota. Each song is like an accent or a period, like a comma, a verse, a whole chapter of a liturgical chant. Gibberish for those who relish the best soundtrack by Basil Poledouris and the 4AD catalogue.

    The album was recorded in Estudio Brazil (Madrid) with Javier Ortiz and mastered in Yves Roussel Mastering (Barcelona).

    “Wind Atlas, if “Ecdisis” is any indication, sound a bit like Sioux Sioux after the Banshees broke up, if she had gone in a more interesting direction. Or maybe if Peter Murphy had started a project with Sioux Sioux? Something like that. Truth is, it doesn’t matter once those early Edge/Chameleons guitars, full of melodic urgency despite their simplicity, hit; the ritualistic feel of the backing turns up their immediacy even more, to the point where the whole composition seems to depend on them.

    But that voice, ringing through the ether, also needs something, anything, to happen, lest the sands of time swallow her whole. It’s a mystical, otherworldly trip…“

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    La música de Wind Atlas es rica en detalles, deslizándose refinádamente de oscuros pasajes dream pop new wave (que bien traen a la memoria a Dead can Dance) a la bruma de atmósferas postpunk que podían hacer grupos como Crispy Ambulance, Durruti Column o In camera.

    Música para pensar en un continente no conocido, buscando una formula alquímica perdida, y acabar descubriendo al robot de Talos apedreando argonautas. Mejor dejémoslo así, en no hacer nada mientras se escucha, una tarea que se nos plantea hoy en día imposible.

    El mensaje se proyecta en un idioma imaginado de una terra incognita, la lengua ignota. Cada canción es como una tilde o un punto, como una coma, un versículo, un capitulo entero de un canto litúrgico. Un galimatías entre quienes disfrutan de la mejor banda sonora compuesta por Basil Poledouris y el catalogo de 4AD.

    1.Eurydice’s Chant 02:38
    2.Sound Of Gold, Rhythm Of Jade 05:17
    3.The Sun Rises 03:47
    4.Hylé 02:40
    5.Stalker 05:13
    6.The Goddess Is Where It Is Venerated 05:43
    7.Ecdisis 04:44
    8.Demona 06:35
    9.The Joy Of The Auloniad 02:30

    Buy: https://gh-records.com/shoegazer/2015-wind-atlas-lingua-ignota.html