Merzbow – ((VIBRA)) MMVII CD Enhanced / Audio + Video Limited edition ( 300 copies) GH Records – GH -141 CD FULL VIDEO included ONLY in the «physical version»( format CD Enhanced / Audio + Video )
Merzbow Live, 07/03/2007 at the OCCC (October Center for Contemporary Culture, València, Spain) within the series of concerts of Sound Art and Experimental Music ((VIBRA)).
Organization and direction by Rubén García Villaplana.
Video recording by Jose Moral Bravo.
Merzbow (メルツバウ Merutsubau) is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by Masami Akita (秋田 昌美 Akita Masami).
The name Merzbow comes from the German dada artist Kurt Schwitters’ artwork Merzbau, in which Schwitters transformed the interior of his house using found objects. The name was chosen to reflect Akita’s dada influence and junk art aesthetic. In addition to this, Akita has cited a wide range of musical influences from progressive rock, heavy metal, free jazz, and early electronic music to non-musical influences like dadaism, surrealism, and fetish culture. Since the early 2000s, he has been inspired by animal rights and environmentalism, and began to follow a vegan, straight edge lifestyle.
As well as being a prolific musician, he has been a writer and editor for several books and magazines in Japan, and has written several books of his own. He has written about a variety of subjects, mostly about music, modern art, and underground culture.
Lorenzo Abattoir is an Italian-based noise artist and sound engineer from Torino. His work takes shape in a context of underground extreme noise music to become accessible through projects related to sound art. “The sound of chaos merging with order, where every detail and nuance seems to be carefully regulated and controlled”.
Lorenzo Abattoir is the founder of the electroacoustic collective Mare di Dirac in which realized ritualistic performances based on minimalistic approach and unconventional musical instruments, combined with the study of natural sound effects and resonances, also militates in SATANISMO CALIBRO 9 (Official Page) Infernal Industrial band from Italy…
Abattoir & Satori – Megaloschemos Label: Gradual Hate Records – GH138CD Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition Released: 26 Jul 2018 Style: Industrial, Ritual, Dark ambient
Tracklist: 1 The Great Vow 2 Hesychasm 3 Sabazius 4 Adrastus 5 Eschatology (dp mix) 6 Hermetism 7 Octoechos
All tracks composed by Lorenzo Abattoir (IT) & Dave Kirby (UK) Except «Eschatology» composed by Dave Phillips
Satori, continuing a project first started in the 1980’s founding member Dave Kirby brings an onslaught of industrial soundscapes, pounding drums and a dystopian vision of a world commited to destroying itself. Comprising a mixture of harsh noise and power electronics with a harder and heavier percussive beat than before Satori enter 2018 with a collection of new songs “Dispossession” based on the physical and mental disconnect facing everyone in the modern world. A constant pervasive undercurrent of violence, the feeling of a society on the brink of a total meltdown and the fears and torments of the powerless individual.
Lorenzo Abattoir is an Italian-based noise artist and sound engineer from Torino. His work takes shape in a context of underground extreme noise music to become accessible through projects related to sound art. “The sound of chaos merging with order, where every detail and nuance seems to be carefully regulated and controlled”.
Wind Atlas – An Edible Body Label: Gradual Hate Records – GH 137 CD Format: CD, Album, Digipak Country: Spain Released: 26 Jan 2018 Style: Dark wave, Cold Wave, Post-Punk,Experimental
An Edible Body, Wind Atlas’ new album, marks a turning point in the band’s trajectory. Their third record builds a new space for the band to experiment and play with new sounds and electronic rhythms. Strangely, An Edible Body is the band’s most experimental album and at the same time the most accessible.
After a change in the band’s formation at the end of the Lingua Ignota (BFE, 2015) tour, Wind Atlas take a break from performing as to discover new sounds and work on a new album. Without a bass player, the band turns to electronic music as an answer for mixing their ritual ways with new intensities and rhythms never explored by them before. If their first albums, the EP Fen Fire (BPR, 2012) and The Not Found (BPR, 2013), were essentially influenced by 4AD’s eighties bands like Cocteau Twins or Dead Can Dance, with Lingua Ignota, Wind Atlas discover an array of possibilities beyond the bands initial reverb-pumped folk songs. Opening up to post-punk, primitive sounds and spiritual chants, they begin to include post-industrial hints that would later crystallize in the form of this new album, An Edible Body.
In search of this new sound, the band decide to record the album in New York with Sean Ragon, main figure of the current post-industrial scene, leader of the band Cult of Youth -whom they meet after performing together in Barcelona- and occasional guitarist of Psychic TV, seminal band of the industrial music scene: the chemistry in the studio was immediate. An Edible Body was recorded in just two weeks, one freezing month of February in 2017, at Sean Ragon’s basement studio in Maspeth, Queens, New York.
The album experiments not only with new sounds but also with new forms of speech. That’s why “Desertor»opens the album, a crude and simple song, in which the voice finds itself almost alone, in the aridity of a desert, threatened by a noise in the background. Interferences interrupt the words and the voice goes out of tune due to tape manipulation.
That interference foretells what is to come, the anticipation of a new affirmation called “Shedding Light”. The drum machine blends with the acoustic drums and metal plates, the synthesizers stand out and the voice sings ironically to a new reality, built in a more assertive and cruder way than in previous albums.
Despite the apparent distance between songs, An Edible Body sounds oddly solid. The dark ambient sound of “Camino de la cruz” is far from “How to Liquify” or “Ruins”, the most unabashed pop song the band has composed to date. In a way, Sean Ragons production gives unity to an eminently heterogenous album. The eastern influences of Lingua Ignota reappear in “Herencia de Jade”, with a danceable industrial beat that takes on more significance when performed live.
“En la cruz” is a techno tribute to San Juan de la Cruz and probably, one of the central tracks on the album. The new version of some of the verses from his Cántico espiritual combined with a dense rhythm that culminates in a polifony of voices affirming the existence of the force of the invisible, product of Sean Ragon’s magic in the studio thanks to the sound processors used on bands like Coil or Chris and Cosey.
On the other extreme we find “Under these Waters”, a sound poem that sings to a theme present in the band’s imaginary from the start: the uncanniness of water. “Under these Waters” is a song with a strong sexual component built through hipnotic cadences and suggestive synthesizers.
“To Clarice” is a post-industrial ballad, fundamental to understand Wind Atlas’ new vibe. Again, the influence of poet Leopoldo María Panero is reflected in the lyrics, which speak of a cathartic encounter. “To Clarice” is also an offering to writer Clarice Lispector, as well as a recognition of one’s body and the foreign body, its senses and its meanings.
The album is out on January 26 through labels BFE Records and Hidden Track on vinyl, and GH Records on CD
Pylar – La Gran Obra Label: Sunneurosis Records Format: CD, Album Limited to 250 copies Country: Spain Released: 2016 Style: Experimental, Avantgarde, Doom Metal
After the successful second album, PYLAR collective returns with a new release: La Gran Obra. This CD is limited to 250 copies (a number that touches upon the threshold of madness) and is inspired by Alchemy. In the same way as the alchemical process, La Gran Obra is divided into three parts: Nigredo, Albedo and Rubedo. Throughout this piece, the enigmatic heresiarchs manage to manipulate the lost language of colour and the complex esoteric symbolism of ancient science, dropping clues to the follower and allowing them to walk down the path of the ineffable. The second side, Speculum (ArboNargAl), is a perfect mirror image of the first. In a sense, an infinite loop has been created between the two sides with the purpose of bending time and entering a level of existence where our subconscious memories live.
PYLAR has once more presented us with a veil which we can choose to lift in search of the key to uncover the last of their holy mission.
1.Song Of Ophelia ( live ) 08:09 2.A Lapse In Time ( live ) 05:07 3.Sontay ( live ) 05:11 4.To One Dead (live) 05:00 5.Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep ( live ) 04:07 6.As Mist That Forsakes The Morass ( live ) 06:14 7.Misanthrope ( live ) 06:54 8.Gure Bazterrak ( live) 03:35
His last concert at La Noche de los Candiles 2016, Almócita. In memory of Igor Sanchez, rest in Peace
GH Records was raised with the intent of providing a breeding ground for Darkwave, Neo-Classical, Medieval, Dark Folk, Dark Ambient, Industrial… music and related genres in Spain and the World.
GH Records (Gradual Hate Records), es un sello de música independiente que se forma en el año 2007. GH Records abarca un abanico diverso de estilos musicales y sonoros, desde música de corte neoclásico y orquestal a propuestas sonoras experimentales. GH Records también ha participado en producciones cinematográficas y teatrales. Estamos ubicados en Valencia Capital, desde allí salen todos nuestros pedidos.
Música: Trobar de Morte – Summoning The Gods. Vídeo de La Noche de los Candiles 2015: Almariya Audiovisual. Entrevista a Avencio DM (GH Records)
La Noche de los Candiles 2016, día 7 de Mayo, Sábado .
Almócita (Almería) Alpujarra Almeriense, a 40 kilometros de Almería Capital (evento gratuito)
Organiza: Ayuntamiento de Almócita. Patrocina la Conserjería de turismo y comercio, Gobierno de Andalucía. Organiza: GH Records
Desde hace ya algunos años, Almócita presenta inquietudes muy marcadas en relación con el Desarrollo Sostenible y la importancia que implica un elevado grado de concienciación que se traduzca en la voluntad de cambio necesaria para lograr una sociedad más respetuosa con el medio ambiente. Esas marcadas connotaciones ecológicas desembocaron en el año 2011 en la génesis de LA NOCHE DE LOS CANDILES. En su evolución como evento sometido a mejora continua, se llegó a la conclusión de que no bastaba con efectuar un apagón en la red de iluminación eléctrica y encender los candiles para lograr un alto nivel de concienciación – participación, había que ahondar un poco más y debía hacerse desde la perspectiva de recuperar aquella parte de espiritualidad e identificación con la naturaleza arrebatada a los seres humanos bajo el amparo del vertiginoso ritmo de cambio presente en las sociedades post industriales.
Dicho con otras palabras, tenemos la firme creencia que de poco o nada vale decir que se quiere ser responsable con el medio que nos rodea sin sentirlo realmente. La música amplifica las emociones y es por medio de la música – ligada a una puesta en escena que se envuelve en un halo de magia y misterio- como pretendemos, en la medida de lo posible, rememorar nuestra verdadera idiosincrasia natural y espiritual. Confeccionar un genuino antídoto que recupere nuestra emotividad despertando el lado más humano, parte menoscabada del propio ser consecuencia inevitable del turbulento y alienado tiempo que nos ha tocado vivir. De ahí la importancia otorgada en el evento a temas de expresión artística como son el encuentro de fotografía, las representaciones con fuego, la interpretación o la música antigua y tradicional. Todo lo que acontezca durante esa noche debe establecer un paralelismo profundo con quiénes somos de verdad y por qué estamos aquí. Recuperar aunque sólo sea por unas horas, un sentido romántico y un recuerdo de que lejos de ser la máxima expresión de la naturaleza, seguimos siendo una parte intrínseca de ella misma.
Bandas :
EBUROS / Ur-Folk (Àrnica y Keltika Hispanna)
Wind Atlas / Folk, Psychedelic Rock, Post-Punk, Experimental
Aura Noctis / Neoclassic, Dark Wave
Circuncelion / Dark Wave Minimal, Folk Avantgarde
Sesiones DJ: Contubernio DJs/ Issis Starlust y Plagio / Post Punk Minimal Electro After Punk… Mynationshit DJ/ Electronic Minimal
Label: Trips Und Träume – TT23 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue Country: Italy Released: 19 Jan 2015 Style: Industrial, Experimental, Ambient, Neofolk
Marking the 20th anniversary of Foresta di Ferro, for the first time in vinyl, “a soundtrack for an imaginary docudrama about faith, misfortune and fanaticism”, featuring Marco Deplano (Wertham, Caligula031), Richard Leviathan (Ostara, Strength Through Joy) and John Murphy (Knifeladder, Last Dominion Lost, SPK).
Limited to 300 copies, black vinyl w/ lyrics insert sheet.
Tracklist A1. Bury Me Standing A2. Harmony Of Pen And Sword A3. Oak Leaf A4. La Ultime Gnot B1. Kshatrya B2. Militia Christi B3. On The Marble Cliffs B4. Seppelliscimi In Piedi
