Apoptose – Die Zukunft Label: Tesco Organisation – TESCO 128, Tesco Organisation – 128 Format: CD, Album Country: Germany Released:2018 Style: Dark Ambient, Ambient, Downtempo, Synthwave, Modern Classical
In the four years of production Apoptose selected a wide range of different singers for this album. Most outstanding is classical trained tenor Daniel Sans. He sings «What Power Art Thou» – a song that was composed by Henry Purcell in the late 17th century. Apoptose and Sans preserve the complex harmonic structure of the original translating it into a breathtaking five minute ride in apoptotic soundspheres. They succeed in conjuring up Purcell’s «cold genius» that had already fascinated legendary countertenor Klaus Nomi in the 1980s. Other voices on «Die Zukunft» include the gloomy spoken words of the advance single «Time-lapse City», the lost girl’s voice on the title track and two female singers on «Dornen». Consistent with the album title Apoptose does not look back, but is heading for novel territories within the dark ambient music genre
Aviador Dro Y Su Maquinaria Humana – Acción Contra El Pasado – Directo. Madrid. 1980 Label: Dead Wax Records – DW023, Mecanica – MEC052 Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition Country: Poland Released: 12 Dec 2019 Style: Minimal, Synth-pop
Tracklist: A1. La Interferencia A2. La Modelo A3. La 5ª Glaciación A4. Cadena de Montaje A5. Nuclear Sí A6. La Chica de Plexiglás B1. Corazón de Batidora B2. El Retorno de Godzilla B3. La Cicatriz en la Fábrica Roja B4. Anarquía en el Planeta B5. ¡No os Soporto más! B6. Cita en el Asteroide Edén
Aviador Dro are without a doubt the most avant-garde and influential techno-pop band from Spain. They started in 1979 and this year are celebrating their 40th anniversary playing shows, re-releasing some old works, publishing a book and also a new album.
«Acción Contra El Pasado” was recorded in Madrid in December of 1980 and is one of the oldest live performances of which there is a recording evidence. This concert is legendary not only for its age, but also for including some unreleased songs, a couple of early covers by Kraftwerk and Sex Pistols and vintage versions of classic tracks. «Aviador Dro y su Maquinaria Humana» (exactly as it was announced on the original flyer) was formed at that time by Biovac N, Fox Cicloide, Placa Tumbler, Derflex Tipo IARR, CTA 102, X, Metalina 2 and Cyberjet. A priceless piece of history restored and remastered from the original cassette recorded directly from the mixing desk.
Drawings created by the Polish artist Michał Arkusiński.
The Frozen Autumn – Pale Awakening (2 × Vinyl, Blue) Label: Avantgarde Music / AV447LP Format: 2 × Vinyl, Album, Reissue, Blue Country: Italy Released: 2022 Style: New Wave, Synth-pop, Darkwave
Pale Awakening is the debut album by The Frozen Autumn, which originally saw the light in 1995 following the demotape Oblivion and various live gigs in Italy and abroad. These led to the CD release of this concept album with crepuscular sounds, at times inspired by the sound of 4AD and Projekt Records, that unfold between reflective and atmospheric moments, imbued with melancholy with more rhythmic openings, yet always characterized by a common feature: the oniric plane, the certainty of the existence of parallel realities, the escape from everyday life to embark on an inner journey, aware that «there is something beyond».
27 years after the first edition, Avantgarde Music re-releases Pale Awakening in two valuable collectible formats: 12 «colored double vinyl in a gatefold cover with lyrics.
The Wyrm – Muertos Label: GH Records – GH 152 K7 Format: Cassette, Album Country: Spain Released: Mar 25, 2022 Style: Darkwave, Electro, EBM, New Wave, Synthwave, Minimal
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The Wyrm brings this post-pandemic year 2022 its latest work entitled Muertos. Dark, cold and minimalist tints very much in the vein of bands like Cabaret Nocturne or Boy Harsher to stand out from a scene that died in the pandemic. Muertos is a song to the dead who have not been. Those that we have seen only on television and that are just figures. Virtual and nameless. So are the songs of this new work. without titles and direct from the sewers.
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The Wyrm apporte cette année post-pandémique 2022 son dernier ouvrage intitulé Muertos. Des teintes sombres, froides et minimalistes très dans la veine de groupes comme Cabaret Nocturne ou Boy Harsher pour se démarquer d’une scène morte dans la pandémie. Muertos est une chanson aux morts qui n’ont pas été. Celles que nous n’avons vues qu’à la télévision et qui ne sont que des chiffres. Virtuel et sans nom. Ainsi sont les chansons de ce nouveau travail. sans titres et direct des égouts
Ulver – Flowers of Evil (Vinyl LP | Black) Label: House Of Mythology – HOM 023 LP Format: Vinyl, LP, Black Country: Germany Released: 2020 Style: Electronic
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In the midst of the forest, the floor is littered with monstrous heads and mythical figures, frozen in torturous combat or threatened by wild beasts. A dragon fights a dog and a wolf. A lion sinks its teeth into the fire-breathing monster’s chest.
This sacred grove, near Bomarzo in Lazio, Italy, reveals the nightmare vision of Vicino Orsini, a sixteenth century nobleman. It’s a forest of symbols, suggesting a civilisation overrun by the beasts, demons and monsters of the primordial world. Soon after Orsini’s death, trees began to close in on these many peculiar beings, and green moss would eventually seize them. Slowly, nature finished what he had started.
Flowers of Evil, the new studio album from Ulver, finds the wolf pack exploring the fear and wonder of mankind’s fall from redemption. Visions similar to those of Orsini come to mind, as untamed life abounds:
THEY SPREAD TWIST AND TURN IN THE KILLING FIELDS
The threads of haunted places and images entwine. Have Ulver discovered new pastures under the sun? Or scoured the ruins of their own moonlit past? The truth is, they’re closer to their previous purlieu than perhaps ever before.
“Doom dance”, someone dubbed their last studio album, the critically acclaimed, Impala Award-winning The Assassination of Julius Caesar (2017). Flowers of Evil comes across as an unfeigned progression along the course set by that album, revealing a band moving deeper into beats and grooves, hooks and choruses, synths and guitars, yet sounding more stripped back, making room for the distinctive detail. Once again Michael Rendall (The Orb) and legendary producer Martin “Youth” Glover have taken crystalline care of the mix.
As Caesar demonstrated, Ulver haven’t abandoned any of their obsessions, worries or nightmares as they enter the gilded palace of pop. “One last dance / in this burning church”, Kristoffer Rygg announces on the album’s opening track, featuring old friend Christian Fennesz on guitar and electronics. It sees them locked inside their Hall of Mirrors. A slow build brings the music to the album’s pulsing theme:
WE ARE WOLVES UNDER THE MOON THIS IS OUR SONG WE HAVE LOVED AND WE HAVE LOST WE ARE READY TO GO
With Flowers of Evil Ulver have fled a burning Rome, only to confront further crime and corruption. ‘Russian Doll’, the album’s first single, moves determinedly through the night, with a story of unfolding tragedy and misery. ‘Machine Guns and Peacock Feathers’ brings fiery end-time imagery – “barrels are burning / great art will be destroyed” – with a disco beat and flashy ’80s synths. Dismal cries resound on ‘Hour of the Wolf’; echoing Bergman’s classic film, the song is dedicated to the hour between night and dawn, “when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most real”. ‘Apocalypse 1993’ reveals Ulver at their catchiest, its bounding-goat groove running hand in hand with a grand chorus depicting the catastrophic events at Waco, Texas, during the winter of that year – the very same winter that saw the birth of Ulver’s first incarnation. From that thorny undergrowth, this is what they have become: an eclectic, many-headed beast, chanting the ecstasies of the spirit and the senses.
Flowers of Evil unfolds with the shattering second single, ‘Little Boy’. A mysterious beat moves the track towards its thunderous climax, and here Michael J. York’s ominous pipes melt into the softer, moodier ‘Nostalgia’, a ’70s soul shuffle, and the heart-breaking Talk Talk-esque balladry of ‘A Thousand Cuts’. Finally, the wolves are back in the palace of excess, waltzing the night away. Yet around them, the wilderness rises, triumphant; “grass will grow over your cities”, as the Bible says.
Tracklist: 1. One Last Dance 2. Russian Doll 3. Machine Guns and Peacock Feathers 4. Hour of the Wolf 5. Apocalypse 1993 6. Little Boy 7. Nostalgia 8. A Thousand Cuts
Label: Avant! – AV!050 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Italy Released: 13 Sep 2017 Style: Synth-pop, Synthwave, Minimal, New Wave
Sally Dige is a multidisciplinary artist known for her darkly poetic yet highly danceable electro-pop songs, DIY stylistic videos, design and visual art. Sally‘s deep and commanding voice, coupled with her analogue-visual-processes and overlapping artistic mediums has formed an identity that oscillates between the edges of aggression and fragility, old and new. Holding On was created during the time of intense inner turmoil. Despite being stretched to her emotional limits, Sally did not let the weight of her circumstances break her, instead channeling all of her pain and fears into the production of a series of incredibly powerful songs. Stunningly, Sally used only her voice and a single synth to create this album. Even with so little gear, the songs are anything but minimal. Each song has a minimum of 100 tracks and, for some songs, 100 tracks for just the drum section alone. Every audible sound has 20 other sounds swimming beneath it. These are songs written for dance floors but are sung about loneliness, death and the meaninglessness of existence. Sally‘s work tows the line between a blissful innocence and a heavy darkness. Think Gina X flavored post punk-disco rubbing against Twitch-era Ministry‘s lost Sade collab or Enya on LSD after a break up.
Track Listing : 01. Holding On 02. Emptiness 03. Be Gone 04. Sail to Me 05. I Can‘t Be 06. This Life 07. No Need to Pretend 08. Holding On (Forces Extended Mix)
A new heart-stopping piece of work by Visonia in which sadness,happiness,hopeful and desperation are in a continuous battle. As a result of this distress and ad nauseam the Chilean artist has asked himself about the sense of life and figured out how to look on the bright side.Doubtless,If we talk about “Fake Wings”,we could point out that this one is an epic and thought-provoking album composed of 6 wicked tunes and released on lovely pinkwhite vinyl.
Old Coroner – Inside Us .Terrific 12¨ purple vinyl and as Waste Editions crew are really into emotive and personal sounds ,on this occasion this new release “Inside us ” by Old Coroner can´t be otherwise. We can´t talk about a trend since the producer from Barcelona Victor Safont ,who is the man behind this project ,started producing synthwave music in 2003. Yes siree! Strength beats ,dark textures and touching Artwork by George Gold Design
Old Coroner is Victor Safont and was born in 2003 after one personal and musical development. This guy from Barcelona was part of a substantial punk rock band and also was as a dj a member of “Calma X”, a Techno,Electro and Drum n Bass colective .Moreover, he was part of the EBM project Awilum and captain in the project The Opposite which was strongly influenced by bands such as Front Line Asembly or Skinny Puppy. If we focus on in his firsts productions, we can see dark and personal hints which are willing to knock down some myths about electronic music. However, it wont be until 2016 when the cocept of this project has developed and felt more comfortable with its unmistakable dark melodies and its affinity for the 80´s synthwave.
Label: Wave Records – W058 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered Country: Brazil Released: 30 Nov 2015 Style: Darkwave, Coldwave, Ethereal
Kriistal Ann’s follow up to the ’Delirious Skies’ album is going to be released on Wave Records on November 2015. ’Cultural Bleeding’ is her third full-length solo album and presents 9 songs of ethereal dark melodies crafted with hardware synthesizers while performed in real-time action.
Having studies in classical terms of music, in the year 2007 Kriistal Ann decides to become member of the dark wave/gothic band ‘Resistance Of Independent Music’ and took the main role as a lead singer but also contributed in the compositions by applying her skills with beautiful eerie melodies.
After releasing 2 albums & various EPs with R.O.I.M. and performing her first live shows with the band, in 2013 she decides to start her personal solo project with the aim to extend the horizons of sound, through the inner stirrings and emotional changes that occur in the soul of every human being, which is affected by its environment, seasons and the culture in which he lives in.
Early in 2014 she creates with her partner Toxic Razor the minimal synth band ‘Paradox Obscur’ which was a trigger for expansion and interaction with the public and other artists ..
Since then she developed several sound channels and created several projects such as Toyotomi , influenced by the culture of the 80s, and the project Sine Silex, based on electronic – experimental sounds with atmospheric landscapes.
Her main activity is music, photography, poetry and selected collaborations based on mutual respect, professionalism and the love for art.
