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Light of Shipwreck - From The Idle Cylinders (Crucial Bliss)
Label info: "Light Of Shipwreck is a one-man band operated by Ben Fleury-Steiner, a Deleware-based drone artist and owner of the excellent Gears of Sand Recordings imprint, which has released discs from some of our favorite ambient/drone/drift artists including Encomiast, Cordell Klier, and Aidan Baker. It was actually through Aidan Baker that we found out about Ben's Light Of Shipwreck project; knowing that we're fanatics for "heavy ambient" sound, Light Of Shipwreck was recommended as something we should check out. At first expecting something more along the lines of the kind of floating ambient rumble that marks so much of my favorite Baker solo stuff, I was pleasantly surprised by how percussive the tracks I heard online from LOS were, the dense, ominous feedback drones and heavy rumbling ur-riffs floating freely over a mechanistic tribal-rhythm freakout. We ended up getting in touch with Ben from Light Of Shipwreck and it turned out that he had a nearly hour-long disc that he wanted to have released through our Crucial Bliss imprint, and here we are: a three-track full length of rich, crushing power-ambient, titled From The Idle Cylinders, a reference to the American Objectivist poet George Oppen whose work is a consistent influence on Light Of Shipwreck's imagery, with huge slabs of resonant sheet metal shimmering in an ocean of heavenly feedback and reverberating guitar drone, and surges of droning tribal Krautrock percussion floating along with distorted ambient doom power chords and washed out vocal cord bliss, each track running upwards of 20 minutes in length. A totally breathtaking piece of music, like Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Can, and Earth swirled together into an austere, hypnotizing heavy-trance masterpiece. [...]"
(pro-printed CD-R, oversized sleeve, $10.00, last copy)
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Luasa Raelon - Into The Void (Crucial Bliss)
Label info: "Finally, after a pronounced delay, we're presenting the latest in grim, Cthulhian ambient death from David Reed, the man behind the Snip-Snip CD-R label and the ice-drones of Envenomist. With Luasa Raelon, Reed uses deep-frozen synthesizers and electronics to construct pitch-black sonic sculptures that evoke lost cities carved from obsidian whose masterless machines have been left to grind on into eternity, or descents into stygian pits whose bottoms cannot be gauged. Into The Void is the newest masterwork from Reed, recorded in 2006 and presented here as a five-chapter narrative that chronicles a doomed space exploration, where all that is left are the faint transmissions of apocalyptic dread drifting back at us through time. Beyond ominous, and gorgeously eerie, Reed continues to craft some of the blackest, heaviest drift this side of Gruntsplatter, Troum, Lull, Yen Pox, Melek-Tha, Lustmord, and Megaptera. [...]"
(pro-printed CD-R, oversized sleeve, $10.00)
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Black To Comm - Rückwärts Backwards (Dekorder)
Black to Comm is the sound project headed by March Richter, head of German label Dekorder. His debut album relies mostly on processed shellac and vinyl loops, field recordings and assorted instruments (gamelan, organs, guitars, pianos among others) to forge 8 tracks of surreal ambience and crackling grooves. The carefully constructed arrangements make this more than just a patchwork of random sounds and the pieces even have a somewhat bittersweet and emotional quality to them. Last but not least, the tracks linger just long enough to leave an impression without wearing out their welcome.
(CD, six-panel digisleeve, $12.00)
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[ abstract electronics ] [ experimental ] [ field recordings ] [ plunderphonics ]
Lucisferrato - Childish Songs For Ugly Useless Dead Friends (Der Angriff)
To put it shortly, there is nothing that sounds like Lucisferrato. Layered and processed voices form the spine of this project's unique and very strange sound, and it often comes across as a hellish opera performed by a schizophrenic. Beautiful and haunting at the same time. This 10" is part of the Prometheus series put out on Der Angriff.
(10", $16.00, last copy)
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Lucisferrato - Ahnenschein (Der Angriff)
First CD release from this St. Petersburg artist, with one 35 minute track of thundering layered sounds and the imperious vocals this project has become known for.
(CD, oversized cardboard sleeve, to be restocked soon)
Linija Mass - Trud / Mechano-Faktura / Proletkult / Kinematika Mechanizmov (Der Angriff)
Box set that brings together re-releases of the Trud tape, the Proletkult LP on Membrum Debile Propaganda and the Mechano-Faktura CD-R along with a fourth disk of previously unreleased material. A monument of essential Russian industrial.
(3 CD + 1 CD-R box set, to be restocked soon)
[ futurism ] [ industrial ] [ old-school industrial ]
Stalnoy Pakt / Anthesteria / Mikhail Vavich - Dedicated To The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 (Der Angriff / Indiestate Distribution)
Label info: "This split release is a commemoration of one of the most tragic pages of Russian history in the 20th century - the Russo-Japanese War. This lost war became a deep scar in the national consciousness of that period and turned out to be among the most painful and powerful incentives for the following first Russian revolution (1905) and the further eventual decline of the Russian monarchy.
This CD is an attempt to revive the deep anxiety and the premonition of the upcoming relentless social shock which had overwhelmed the Russian nation in those times. Stalnoy Pakt presents maybe its most melodic tracks to date here, the distinctive band's multi-layered dark ambient fused with old military Japanese song samples and old Russian lyrical narrations, sometimes adorned with piano chords or martial drums. Anthesteria's cold gloomy tunes are combined with choir chants and gramophone record samples that aggravate the atmosphere of the dull waiting for the imminent disaster.
The album is concluded with an authentic historical recording of the classic track of the period called "Na Sopkakh Manchzhurii" performed by a very famous singer of that time, Mikhail Vavich. This funeral waltz dedicated to the victims of this war drives the overall feel of despair and grief up to the highest limit. The album could be compared to the best examples of historically inspired works but with its own very special and purely Russian depressive mood. An absolute must!"
(CD, A5 sleeve with inserts, $18.00, last copy)
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[ martial industrial ] [ neoclassical ]
Eisenkrone - Morgen... Ist Ein Anderer Tag (Dictature)
2 tracks of high-quality martial music with loud drumming, droning organ sounds and operatic voices.
(7", $10.00, on sale)
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The Soul That Creates - Le Mouroir / Das Narrenschiff (Dictature)
New French project that provides us with two tracks of structured drones and percussive rhythms reminiscent of Deutsch Nepal on this debut release.
(7", $10.00, on sale)
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[ drones ] [ percussive industrial ]
Various Artists - La Liste Noire (Dictature)
A presentation of French dark ambient and death industrial projects. Features exclusive material from Dusk of Hope, Catharsis, Chöd, I-C-K, Ilhevs, Derniere Volonte, Taedium Vitae and Blaster Korps. This is the first print of 500 copies issued in 2001, and an interesting opportunity to see the evolution of these projects over the years.
(CD, digisleeve, to be restocked soon)
[ dark ambient ] [ death industrial ]
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