Date: July 29th 2007

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- Latest additions -

Cyclotimia - Celestis: Space Ceremonial Music CD (Gravitator Records)
Dvar - Jraah Mraah CD (Gravitator Records)

No Xivic - Uneksija CD (Onyxia)
Lieutenant Caramel - Early Tape Works CD (Monochrome Vision)
Frank Rothkamm - Moers Works (1982 - 1984) CD (Monochrome Vision)

Megaptera - You Will Never Survive This Nightmare CD (Live Bait Recording Foundation)
Tapio Kotkavuori - Terra Hyperborea CD (Gemina Stella)

Ovro - Gegendurchgangenzeit CD (Some Place Else)
Moljebka Pulse - Sadalsuud CD (Some Place Else)

- On the way -

Cloama - s/t CD (New Old Sentinel)
Cloama & Gelsomina - The Duellists CD (New Old Sentinel)
Closing the Eternity / Ad Lux Tenebrae - Nearby Being CD (Epidemie)
Mlehst - An Old Broom Knows All The Dirty Corners CD (Belief)
Altar of Flies / M Frisk / Gjalp "Krig Pest Svält Död" C34 (Nil By Mouth)
Fire in the Head - You Too Shall Burn 3"CD-R (Nil By Mouth)
Restock: Mortuor - Nekro/Schizo 3"CD-R (Nil By Mouth)

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- Detailed list of additions -

Cyclotimia - Celestis: Space Ceremonial Music (Gravitator Records)
Leaving aside their Wall Street portfolios and the corporate world for a second, Cyclotimia bring us an album of cosmic-themed IDM-ish ambient (not too far from Bad Sector's Kosmodrom) that is actually going to be sent to space soon. Here, read it for yourself: "Through an arrangement with U.S. aerospace company Space Services Inc. and its subsidiary Celestis Inc., a copy of this album will be incorporated into a payload that is scheduled for flight to space aboard a powerful rocket. Cyclotimia has been named the official musical group for Celestis' Legacy Flight."
(CD, clear jewel case, 13 €)

Dvar - Jraah Mraah (Gravitator Records)
The mysterious creatures of Dvar are back with a whole new repertoire of otherworldly songs and playful little ditties. Thankfully not much has changed since the last time, and "Jraah Mraah" has the same hobgoblin-like vocals and impish melodies that make every one of their albums a fairy tale for the ears, keeping with the oral tradition that is essential to the genre. There's one key difference though: the tale is no longer being told from the point of view of an omniscient narrator in your language, but directly by the gnomes, trolls and pixies themselves in theirs. Wonderfully enchanting as always.
(CD, clear jewel case, 13 €)

No Xivic - Uneksija (Onyxia)
First full-length CD from this project from Finland whose previous releases were put out by Drone, Taâlem and Neuroscan. 8 tracks of dark ambient drones with melodic elements. Painted artwork by Samuli Kontio.
(CD, digisleeve, 13 €)

Lieutenant Caramel - Early Tape Works (Monochrome Vision)
Label info: "Lieutenant Caramel is the artistic alter ego of french musician Philippe Blanchard, known also under Denier Du Culte, Pierre Bouchet and Felipe Caramelos monikers. His albums were released by Old Europa Cafe, Music For Consciousness Rape, Metamkine, Plate Lunch, Dedali Opera and Edition Suicide Commercial. He was the founder of Acteon and Studio Forum labels, as well of yearly festival Bruit de la Neige ("Noise of the snow") devoted to the memory and legacy of the legendary futurist Luigi Russolo, who was the author of noise music idea and manifesto.
Travelling the world, he collects the resonant matters at the time of his journeys (Syria, Iran, Rome, Venice, Madrid, Sarmakande, Roumania, Moscow, St Petersbourg etc). He have won several international prizes - GMEB in Bourges, Radio France, The Muse in Circuit (Mauricio Kagel), CIMES-FICS in Prague. Recently, he is back to studio again, working on the new album. Meanwhile, we are proud to present his first works from the mid 80s, appearing in digital format for the first time: "Après les horreurs, suit naturellement la beauté"!"
(2CD, jewel case, 15 €)

Frank Rothkamm - Moers Works (1982 - 1984) (Monochrome Vision)
Old-school industrial experimentations recorded between 1982 and 1984 by Frank Rothkamm, a professionally trained musician who used to release his material on his own Flux Records label. Somewhere between tape collage, free-form ambient noise and chamber music, at times reminiscent of some instrumental Maria Zerfall tracks.
(CD, clear jewel case, 11 €)

Megaptera - You Will Never Survive This Nightmare (Live Bait Recording Foundation)
Re-release of an old tape on Slaughter Productions along with live recordings from a May 2001 performance in London (where, on a side-note, yours truly performed for the first time as Sedaye Marg).
(2CD, jewel case, 15 €)

Tapio Kotkavuori - Terra Hyperborea (Gemina Stella)
Label info: "Musically the artist himself describes Terra Hyperborea as "post-apocalyptic dark-ethno-ambient". Its semi-organic, semi-electric soundspheres are trance-inducing, almost hypnotic, varying from soft mood adjustments to more focused incantations and chants. Kotkavuori's main weapon of choice in this battle against silence is the didgeridoo, but tons of other instruments - such as vocals, rainsticks, shaman drums, coffee maker, synthesizers, kitchen knives etc. - have been used as well. All in all, these recordings create a shamanistic ambiance with a dark twist characteristic to the Left Hand Path. [...]"
(CD, clear jewel case, 11 €)

Ovro - Gegendurchgangenzeit (Some Place Else)
Label info: "An exercise on aural pathworking. Cinematic isolationist dark-ambient soundscapes, very evocative... you are taken through rainy seas, soaked, shipwrecked, underwater, underground... and what sights you see, what beings you meet on the way is left for your subconscious to reveal. Deep listening for small hours. Sit back, relax and let your mind go."
(CD, clear jewel case, 12 €)

Moljebka Pulse - Sadalsuud (Some Place Else)
Label info: "Mathias Josefson is a sound-artist from Stockholm, Sweden, and currently attending the royal university college of fine arts. His main project is Moljebka Pvlse, which is an experimental music group that works with both electronic and acoustic instruments, as well as with field recordings and found sounds. What comes out is hypnotic and meditative soundscapes.[...]
The name Sadalsuud refers to a star of the same name in the constellation of Aquarius. The name comes from an Arabic phrase meaning "the luckiest of them all". Nevertheless the album is rather earthy-sounding, yet mystical and surreal, almost claustrophobic at times. The sound is vaguely reminiscent of some works by Nurse With Wound, Maeror Tri or The Hafler Trio, but carries the trademark Moljebka Pvlse feel. [...]"
(CD, digipak, 12 €)