• CD,  Distribution

    African Imperial Wizard – Nzinga Mbande


    African Imperial Wizard – Nzinga Mbande (Vinyl, LP)
    Label: Tesco Organisation ‎– Tesco 153
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
    Country: Germany
    Released: 02 Dec 2022
    Style: Experimental, Tribal, African, IDM, Darkwave, Neo-Classical, Folk, Abstract, Dark Ambient, Downtempo


    “Nzinga Mbande” is the new album by the African Imperial Wizard collective. It is the soundtrack of the armed liberation from the imperialistic oppression that our continent has endured for far too long.

    The “Nzinga Mbande” manifesto consists of eight martial symphonies. They all been have composed enduring pain and suffering and serve the purpose of giving our countries, which have been lacerated and battered by centuries of colonialism, the epic military ceremonies they deserve.

    Our main goal with this new musical opus is to hand out orders to our troops and to maintain our military cohesion, the culmination of which will translate to Pan-Africanism and the profound intimidation of our enemies.
    If you do not sense any danger coming, this could be the first sign of you losing your mind and if you listen carefully, you may already be able to hear the wailing of your dead haunting the battlefields devastated by our armed forces.

    Because today more than ever, enough is enough. We won’t stop arming our warlords and their rebel battalions. We won’t stop arming our bloodthirsty mercenaries. We will continue to rely on our proud women warriors, who will follow in the footsteps of our ancestral queens Nzinga Mbande and Sarraounia and will reduce to ashes all those who dare show them and their devastating bastions any resistance. Make no mistake, we will not hesitate to resort to rearming our children. Our child soldiers helped us before, and they will do so again without a moment’s hesitation in the face of what we have had to put up with. We would rather see them die by our side in excruciating pain than letting them fall to your Machiavellian enslaving doctrines.

    Nothing has been forgotten of the painful wounds that colonisation inflicted upon Africa. We counted every hand you cut off, every rape, every slave raid, every looting, every torture session, every poisoned watering hole, every crime, every assassination, every mass murder, every massacre, every genocide, every mass grave and every hour of forced labour which you imposed on us. Mark our words: our dead have slowly but surely been counted.

    The toll is outrageous, and the abominable numbers speak for themselves and the horror we have been through. But believe us, we are more determined than ever and, may our gods be our witnesses, our vengeance will be all the bloodier. Barbaric invaders, look around you, we are already here, ready to draw our old Kalashnikovs and don’t worry, they do still work, and we can assure you they won’t jam.

    Finally, African Imperial Wizard will come to play their most glorious laments in your cemeteries. Our sorcerers will make sacrifices on your graves to the memory of Soundiata. We will glorify the spirits of our great forefathers who fell in battle. The same fate awaits you.

    Let the slaughter begin

  • CD,  Distribution

    Ole Lukkøye – Zapara


    Ole Lukkøye – Zapara
    Label: Fulldozer Records – FDCD43
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Digipak
    Country: Russia
    Released: 03 Mar 2021
    Style: Darkwave, Psychedelic Rock, Tribal, Fusion

    Fulldozer Records presents an extended reissue of the significant Russian album of the 90s – Ole Lukkoye «Zapara», originally released on vinyl in 1993 by the label Antrop. Ole Lukkoye does not need a special introduction: the ethno-electronic band from St. Petersburg, which has existed for more than three decades, is well known to all connoisseurs of world music and psychedelia, not only in Russia, but also far beyond. Since its inception in 1989, Ole Lukkoye has released 8 full-length albums, which were released in Russia, Germany and the United States and received good press coverage. Starting from 1994 the band toured extensively throughout Europe, and five years later met the legendary German krautrock band Faust. The result of this collaboration was the recording and release of the album «Crystal Crow-Bar» in 2000 on the Klangbad label, owned by one of the Faust founders Hans Joachim Irmler, as well as the release of two other Ole Lukkoye albums on this label. The permanent leader and songwriter of the band Boris Bardash, among other things, is known for his participation in the recording of Theodor Bastard’s albums «Pustota» and «Beloe: Hunting For Fierce Beasts». A very special place in the creative heritage of Ole Lukkoye is occupied by the first album «Zapara», recorded in 1993 at the Antrop studio in St. Petersburg with the participation of engineer Yassin Tropillo. The album had a great influence on the sound of famous modern Russian ethno-electronic groups and on the entire Russian world music scene.

    As those who have not yet had the opportunity to hear this album and who have heard it for the first time today rightly point out, it is hard to believe that such music was recorded in Russia in 1993. The unique and original sound of the album «Zapara» has absorbed both the influences of the best examples of the 80s darkwave scene and the tunes of various ethnos of the world, as well as the psychedelia of meditative rock and the avant-garde techniques of jazz fusion. Roughly seven musicians took part in its recording, and the range of instruments extends from keyboards, percussion and acoustic and electric guitars to bassoons, cello and banjo. The album’s magical spirit-lifting atmosphere is enframed by hypnotic recitatives in Russian performed by Boris Bardash and Andrei Lavrinenko. The canonical CD version of the album is supplemented with two previously unreleased bonus tracks: the meditative instrumental «Enfilade», recorded in 1993 at the studio of the Leningrad House of Radio, and the first version of the song «Toomze», which was recorded in 1995 at DDT studio in St. Petersburg, but was never included in this form in the eponymous album released a year later.


  • CD,  Distribution

    African Imperial Wizard – Behanzin


    African Imperial Wizard – Behanzin
    Label: Tesco Organisation ‎– TESCO 150
    Format: CD, Album, Compilation
    Country: Germany
    Released: 15 Dec 2021
    Style: Experimental, Industrial, Tribal, IDM

    These eleven tracks, all recorded in Luanda, Angola, orchestrate the military vengeance march of an entire bloodied continent that stands proudly and which, day after day, keeps arming itself in the shadows.

    Decolonization wars, civil wars, cold war, ethnic wars, barbaric wars, let no one dare believe the African people’s struggle is over. The oppression of the Western civilization has devastated our infrastructures, severely weakened our governmental agencies, violated our religious institutions, and battered our economic fabric.

    For our cultures to never again be humiliated, for your oppression to never again be a degrading threat, for our recurring famines and your ceasefires to never again be fertile grounds for the shameless exploitation of our natural resources, African Imperial Wizard fights back and will fight back over and over again.

    To finance the arming of our revenge-hungry factions, African Imperial Wizard presents Behanzin, our brand-new CD which gathers the 11 tracks of our first two opuses, the Cetshwayo kaMpande EP and the Isandhlwana LP. This record is intended to be the echo of a violent revolt that will spell the end of the tyrannical exploitation of our proud nation!

    To all the rebels, commandos, dissidents, guerrillas, and squadrons plotting their fierce revenge, African Imperial Wizard offers you the soundtrack to your bloodthirsty retaliation! We will never bow down again to your ruthless battalions! Never again will we turn a blind eye to your inhuman crimes. From now on, we will mercilessly retaliate blow for blow. uSuthu!

    African Imperial Wizard

    Track listing
    Track 1: Cetshwayo kaMpande 4:35
    Track 2: Opoku Waré 3:59
    Track 3: Idris Ibn 4:15
    Track 4: Hanni-baal Barca 5:06
    Track 5: Almamy Suluku 5:27
    Track 6: Mansa Moussa 4:44
    Track 7: Béhanzin Hossu Bowelle 5:08
    Track 8: Hangbè 7:00
    Track 9: N’Nonmiton 6:48
    Track 10: Zulu kaMalandela 6:12
    Track 11: Ezana of Aksum 5:01

  • GH Records

    TSIDMZ, Gregorio Bardini ‎– Oriente E Occidente

    Label: Old Europa Cafe ‎– OELP 015
    Format: Vinyl, LP, White Vinyl – 100 Handnumbered Copies
    Country: Italy
    Released: 2015
    Style: Folk, Industrial

    Tibetan bells, Eastern and Western Gregorian chants, Mongolian throat singing, Pakistan flutes, bagpipes, Tunisian Mizwab, Sufi dhikr, martial drums, ethnic and tribal drums, speeches of personalities like E. Pound, P. P. Pasolini, Imam Khomeyni; majestic scenarios representing, in a whole ethnic-industrial musical opera, a picture of the various identities, peoples and traditions living on the great geographic space called Eurasia.

    “Eurasia” was also the name of the first Gregorio Bardini cd, now totally replayed with TSIDMZ.

    All the songs have been re-composed and re-played by Gregorio Bardini and TSIDMZ in 2014.

    All the flutes are played by Gregorio Bardini.

    Mixed at Tetsuo studio.

    Final Mastering by Peter Andersson (Raison D’ Être).

    Graphics and layout by Emily NewResistance.

    Tracklist:
    A1. Canto per i morti
    A2. Die Sklavenmoral und die Herrenmoral
    A3. Gestige Revolution gegen die Macht des Goldes
    A4. Non fu l’uomo a creare il coraggio, o l’ordine, o la grazia

    B1. Cicli Cosmici
    B2. Tamerlano
    B3. Esoteriemo Islamico
    B4. Lusso e Capitalismo

    Buy: 25 € http://www.gh-records.com/1155-tsidmz-gregorio-bardini-oriente-e-occidente.html

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  • GH Records

    Nimh – Circles Of The Vain Prayers

    Label: Rage In Eden – Rage 110
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Poland
    Released: Feb 2016
    Style: Experimental, Ambient, Tribal


    Giuseppe Verticchio (aka Nimh, Hall of Mirrors, Maribor, Twist of Fate…) is known for his high-quality post industrial dronescapes and ethno-ritual sound productions through various technologies, field recordings, noises and treated acoustic instruments.
    Since 2002 his materials have been notably published by Rage in Eden, Silentes, Malignant, Eibon Records, Naked Lunch Records …
    Developped around loops, samples and minimal acoustic sequences, this new Nimh album offers thrilling sonic sound rituals with a distinctive aestheticism which embraces the universe of pantheistic, pagan and animist beliefs.
    The music originally explores the mystical influences, the meaningful sacred energies, dreamlike hypnotic effects obtained by obsessional sound patterns and cyclical rhythms.
    “Circles of the Vain Prayers” is a great companion of later works from Nimh, including “The Missing Tapes” (Silentes, 2007), “Krungthep Archives” (Silentes, 2011). Your perfect ambient, entrancing and blackened music pilgrimage to revisit sacred places of foreign small scale societies. 

    Buy: 12 € http://www.gh-records.com/1084-nimh-circles-of-the-vain-prayers.html

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  • Distribution

    Vasilisk – Whirling Dervishes

    Vasilisk – Whirling Dervishes

    Label: Steinklang Industries
    Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
    Country: Austria
    Released: 31 Mar 2014
    Style: Tribal, Experimental

    Re-issue of the debut album from Japanese tribal / industrial pioneers Vasilisk(Tomo Kuwahara, Yukio Nagoshi and Chiaki Kuwahara), after the split of White Hospital. Originally released back in 1987 on Eskimo Records (Ltd 300), “Whirling Dervishes” features unusual instruments: African skin-drums, African flute, Tibetan percussion, Ancestor’s voices. Recorded and mixed in Tokyo from December ‘86 to March ’87, now remastered with additional bonus track. Ltd x 350 copies in a 6-panel digipak.

    Buy: 12 € http://www.gh-records.com/858-vasilisk-mkwaju.html