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**CD version** "Window In is Michael Vallera’s third full length offering on Denovali, following All Perfect Days (2018) and Vivid Flu (2017). The four tracks that compose Window In are an exercise in density, movement, and space. Raw studio recordings of electric guitar were taken as the foundation, then heavily altered and manipulated through sampling, erasing the trace back to origin of the sound. The result is a series of vignettes that are unattached to a particular source but instead exist…
** Edition of 200 ** The compositions on this album started out after travelling to Normandy (France) where a week long I took inspiration on the quiet beaches listening to the sounds of the waves, the wind and the natural sounds. Starting out with field-recordings from church bells and improvised sessions on organ the idea arose to recreate the ever ongoing soundscapes of self-preservation as heard on those beaches. After moving from Antwerp to Brussels new inspiration came. New impressions fr…
With Kulverzuchter Bas van Huizen returns to Moving Furniture Records for his third album. After the visceral and noisy releases Kluwekracht (2015) and Waanzintraan (2016) this album offers more minimal and ambient explorations. Kulverzuchter and the accompanying video are perhaps Bas at his most understated. On this album he seems to embrace doubt and uncertainty. The music is hazy, ambiguous and uncanny. The textures are toned down and the sound less layered, but there is a lot happening below…
Formed in Japan after the collapse of the noisy, SPK-ish White Hospital — the other half of which, Jun Konagaya, went on to continue as Grim — Vasilisk consisted of Tomo Kuwabara and Yukio Nagoshi, with other members (including longtime fixture of the Japanese underground, drummer Tatsuya Yoshida) joining in from time to time.
Live Blood was compiled from two live sessions held in Tokyo in 1992 and 1993, music is like a looser version of the explorations into African tribal music manifested by a…
20 musicians from around the world created a neofolk / neoclassical charity compilation for the Armenians of Artsakh who were prosecuted and forced to move from their land last Winter...
Imbaru, Walden, Regard Extrême, Uwe Nolte (Orplid) and many others. Mastering has been done by Paul Lavigne (InfoKontrast Mastering, London, UK).
Compilation and idea by Thalie Némésis
You can’t speak of industrial music without mentioning the cassette tape. The tape was an essential format in the formative years of the experimental, industrial underground, and has remained a significant factor within the post-industrial scenes ever since. Where right now the cassette tape is going through some kind of fetishized hipster-revival in other scenes, in industrial, experimental and noise music it never died. The tape was a revolutionary format for Paolo Bandera as well, who capture…
More than 30 years since their first release, French Regard Extrême are back with a new album, their third on Steinklang. Stylistically, Eco Solemnis builds upon the foundation established on previous albums: medieval music and orchestral neoclassical with elements of martial industrial. In comparison to the previous album of new music, 2021's Ars Veterum, Eco Solemnis incorporates more prominently the neoclassical elements of earlier Regard Extrême, but without abandoning the medieval, even mon…
On their third album, Finnish Dieux Des Cimetières continue to explore the territory of the martial post-industrial underground. Achingly melancholic melodies, sweeping strings, atmospheric orchestrations, martial percussion and pulsating synths combine to create an intricate album of esoteric neoclassical and martial industrial. Influenced by authors such as Giuliano Kremmerz, Oswald Spengler, H.P. Blavatsky and Mircea Eliade, Säkeitä esoteerisesta Euroopasta (Verses on Esoteric Europa) looks a…
Division S are here again - and this time they don't drink alone. As always, the Italians have an unhealthy obsession with alcohol, as is testified not only in the name of the album and many of the tracks, but also the music. There is a psychedelic, outlandish weirdness to be found in the weird atmosphere and feel of this music. What to call it? Tags one often finds attached to Division S ring hollow and untrue on a deep level, despite being superficially suitable. Yes, there are elements of neo…
With titles such as Membranous Glomerunonephritis, Cleidocranial Dysostosis and Alessitimia (more familiar to English-speakers as alexithymia), Italian Whiterat firmly put the focus of Conglomerate Malaction on all things disfigured, diseased and aberrant. In the form of a vicious deluge of harsh noise, the tape plunges deep into the distressing, mortifying depths of corruption.
Blaring walls of crackling static; distorted and manipulated sounds of abused metal; ear piercing shrill screeching. F…
Do you like your power electronics totally old school, totally depraved, totally filthy? Then look no further: Swedish/American project Kontakt Service (joint union of Ideal Father and Human Vault) will provide just what you're looking for. With the pictures and quotes on the cassette sleeve lifted from the classic Swedish crime smut magazine Kriminal Journalen, one could say Kontakt Service are wearing their heart on their sleeve. This is all about that classic low-brow tabloid sleaze.
And musi…
"Dämmerung" is the second compilation release by Dark Awake, the first one being released in 2015. With a discography tens of releases in almost 20 years, the time is certainly ripe for the Greek project to release another one. Starting from 2013's "Soil, Blood ...And The Reaping Of Light" and proceeding all the way to 2024's "Archemoros", this tape is an authoritative slice-through of the Greek project's extensive back catalogue. The selection of eleven older tracks is completed by one previous…
Total Purge For The Living is a whole made of contrasts. Harsh, abrasive, chaotic power electronics noise exploding with distorted violence meshes with atmospheric, ominous yet peaceful layers of slowly evolving synths. Deafening noise gives way to powerful percussions. Distorted, disturbing speech samples are laden over minimalistic drones. Vologne draws power from the friction of these internally opposed elements, creating industrial noise compositions with considerable emotional and atmospher…
Hot on the heels of last year's tape EP "Total Purge For The Living" (also on Steinklang), French Vologne present their debut album. "Lost Illusions Turned Into Black Rage" continues, evolves and expands upon the EP, elevating Vologne's industrial soundscapes to the next level. Whilst still firmly rooted in the tradition of analogue synthesizer driven power electronics, death industrial and harsh noise, the album expands the French one-man project's palette with, for example, elements from rhyth…
Hailing from Viterbo in north western Italy, Alya Serpentis are a duo performing neofolk/dark folk. On "The Sky Falls Down", their debut release, they present a brand of neofolk that is at the same time both traditional and experimental. "The Sky Falls Down" deals with the dichotomy of matter and spirit, science and religion, and man stuck in the middle. Alya Serpentis make their unusual sound into a vessel for the mystery, wonder and dismay of a world that on one hand defies and exceeds descrip…
2025 stock John Zorn and Bill Laswell are two of the Downtown scene’s most consistently intrepid musical explorers, and PainKiller, formed in 1991 is their longest running project together. “The Prophecy,” the first official PainKiller release in over ten years, was recorded live in Europe in 2004–5 and pulls together music from several concerts into a powerful and mind blowing suite unlike anything the group has ever released before. Featuring master drummer Yoshida Tatsuya (Ruins, Korekyojin)…
*2024 stock. 50 copies limited edition* Recorded to 1/4 inch tape on a 2-track reel to reel during 2021 by Ben Van Houdt using oscillators, tape recorders, tube preamp and effects.
First Complete, Authorized Release of alto sax giant’s 1972 Olympia performance transferred from the original tape reels recorded by the ORTF and housed in the INA (the Institut national de l'audiovisuel). Released by Elemental Music in cooperation with the Cannonball Adderley Estate and INA France. Includes an extensive booklet with rare photos; essays by acclaimed jazz author and historian Bob Blumenthal and producer Zev Feldman, plus testimonies by Tia Fuller, Lou Donaldson & Vincent Herring,…