Celebrating Silentes

*200 copies limited edition* Renowned Italian ambient composer Gigi Masin returns with his latest immersive creation, Imploding in a Blinding Darkness, Pt. 2. This new release deepens the evocative soundscapes and emotional textures that define his g…

*200 copies limited edition* Italian ambient pioneer Gigi Masin returns with his captivating new album, Implodendo In Una Accecante Oscurità, Pt. 1. The title, which translates to  "Imploding in a Blinding Darkness", hints at the immersive sonic jour…

*200 copies limited edition* Exactly two years after “They Cast No Shadows” comes “Tertium Quid”, third CD from the LHAM project headed by Bruno De Angelis (Mana ERG) and Giuseppe Verticchio (Nimh) which once again leads the listener through complex …

* Limited edition of 200 copies.* Simon Balestrazzi’s new effort make use of a rather sparse instrumentation. The prepared strings of a battered Ukrainian tsymbaly (a percussion-stringed instrument similar to the hammered dulcimer) are excited with a…

*200 copies limited edition* The road does not end: it abandons us, and in its abandonment it invites us to pause, listen, and wander within what cannot be possessed, only perceived. "The Dead End Road" is a journey along a road that leads nowhere, i…

*200 copies limited edition* The series of double albums by Gianluca Becuzzi for St.An.Da/Silentes, which began in 2020 with "In Between", continues. Like its predecessors, "American Requiem" combines drone guitar with sacred themes, creating composi…

In an incredible stroke of luck, the Silentes sub-imprint, 13, returns with a long-awaited, expanded reissue of one of their most beloved and sought-after releases, Gigi Masin's incredible "Plays Venezia". An homage to the city that he calls home, is…

Simon Balestrazzi's new solo effort calls for the ear to linger on things shrouded in fog, sounds meandering between vision and reality. Highlighted by the mysterious shots by Adriano Zanni you can now enter an awkward soundworld where nothing can be…

*200 copies limited edition* "Desert Smell", a precious collaborative album by Fabio Orsi and Massimo Amato, is fundamentally centred on suffused and dreamy ambient atmospheres, with inserts of ethereal female voice, suspended notes of reverberated p…

The London based singer and keyboard player Dominic Appleton, known since the early eighties for his musical activity in the post punk/dream pop band Breathless, and perhaps even more for his vocal contributions to the legendary This Mortal Coil proj…

"This is another perfect Nimh album, a world of magnetic, somnanbulic, fuzzing, moving electronic textures and drones covered by glacially melancholic guitar parts. These recent years there have been many descent projects published under the dark amb…

**200 copies** "Like The Snow delivers his first work after five years of research and experimentation. The project comes to life collecting a series of tracks that travel through electronic and ambient music in a dark sound world... At times almost …

A single, long, deeply moving, slow and expanded drone-track, built on everchanging sonic masses, low frequencies, strong electric/electronic sounds, field recordings, feedbacks, buzzes, hisses, rough distortions, sunken organ chords, subdued inserts…

This is the final chapter for this project run by Gianluca Becuzzi - well known for his old dark wave project Limvo but also for his solo works and collaborations with Fabio Orsi. Final Archives is a sort of collection of rare tracks recorded from 19…

**200 copies** Another gem by Fabio Orsi to launch the new decade in the best possible way. A long journey of over one hour that aptly summarizes the whole sound world that Fabio has created during the years. Ambient textures and long electronic excu…

*200 copies limited edition* The early Eighties in France and the UK: the Post-Punk, Dark and Cold Wave scenes broke onto the music world. Usher San in Dijon, France was starting his career with Coït Bergman, Metal Radiant and as Anthon Shield and DZ…

A series of electroacoustic/acousmatic perfomances by TeZ (known for his collaboration with CLOCK DVA and the works on 13/Silentes with Fabio Orsi), based on live processing of acoustic sounds and field recordings. The improvisation with hybrid DIY a…

*200 copies limited edition* A series of electroacoustic/acousmatic perfomances by TeZ (known for his collaboration with Clock DVA and the works on 13/Silentes with Fabio Orsi), based on live processing of acoustic sounds and field recordings. The im…

*200 copies limited edition* A series of electroacoustic/acousmatic perfomances by TeZ (known for his collaboration with Clock DVA and the works on 13/Silentes with Fabio Orsi), based on live processing of acoustic sounds and field recordings. The im…

This is an unreleased and “lost” new album by Deison and Mingle conceived in 2014 /15 right after the recording and the release of their debut collaboration-album "Everything Collapse[d]". After the passing of Andrea Gastaldello (“Mingle”) in 2021 an…

*250 copies limited edition* Stefano Gentile and Dirk Serries met almost thirty years ago when Stefano’s Amplexus label released Vidna Obmana’s seminal classic "The Transcending Quest" on a limited 3” CD. Fast forward twenty years later, after the en…

If during the early years of his long and prolific artistic activity, Fabio Orsi made extensive use of acoustic and concrete sound sources in his music, often painting very 'earthly' environmental realms, more recently he has definitively 'taken off'…

*200 copies limited edition* In its apparent bare simplicity, “Fade, Remain” is Iluiteq's most uncompromising and intimate album to date. Delving into the universal human condition of experiencing a loss and coping with a new phase of life, Iluiteq h…

*300 copies limited edition* Describing his ideas behind "F(our) Ward", Edley ODowd notices that the combination of sound and visuals were “essential to delivering a message”- points out Edley talking about his foray into new territory. “I wanted to …

"Due scritti imperfetti" contains three compositions meticulously put together by Giancarlo Toniutti, Deison and Massimo Toniutti. The location chosen for this collaboration was primarily the recording studio in Udine where, in a two-year timespan, t…

*200 copies limited edition* This compelling new compilation CD encapsulates a unique period of sonic exploration by Pragma, one of the many visionary projects of sound artist TeZ. This archive brings together 11 immersive tracks created between 2018…

In these early Pragma works, sound artist TeZ channels a primal industrial and electronic spirit, blending cosmic and concrete sonic elements to guide the listener through alien, pagan landscapes marked by entropic rhythms and magical atmospheres. Fo…

* Edition of 200 * After "September Winds", Giuseppe Verticchio/Nimh and Daniela Gherardi are back as Twist of Fate with their newest offering entitled "Where the Dusk has no End". Sounds and atmospheres constantly bordering shadows and light, in a s…

*200 copies limited edition* "I Know Your Voice, but It’s Hard to Find in the Crowd" is a concept album centered on the use of the voice. What shape does the voice take when conveying an emotion? The compositions in this work are made up almost exclu…

*200 copies limited edition* Continuing the luminous path forged by his previous CD, “The Visions of a Dream Traveller”, Like the Snow returns to paint vast cinematic soundscapes that breathe with emotional depth, shifting seamlessly between disrupti…

In ‘Punti d'Incontro’ the sound is fragmented and broken up, just like splinters or bits of broken glass, into infinite pieces. Through the stages of duets and trios, Eugenio Sanna, Lucio Bonaldo and Michele Scariot give life to buzzings, high-pitche…

*200 copies limited edition* "Ever Expanding" unfolds like a fissure in the continuity of the real. Each sonic fragment carries the memory of an archaic gesture, while also heralding a form yet to come. Nothing asserts itself, yet everything emerges …

1996 release ** CD in a card sleeve held in an A5 wraparound card folder. "Quest is the project of Frans De Waard (member of Kapotte Muziek and Beequeen). Quest started as a solo project of Frans and was initially called QST, influenced by Pete Namlo…

2010 release  ** "Five superb tracks of deep and evocative ambient music, enriched with echoes of ancient ritual suggestions. The immense spaces and the abyssal deepness of the sea, but also the sound of the bowels of the Earth, the colour of the san…

2011 release  ** "Enrico Coniglio's four tracks on Dialogue One don't differ radically in style from those on I, though the former are in spots perhaps louder and more texturally wide-ranging. Next to no details are provided about sound sources (save…

2011 release ** "Extreme and uncompromising electronic stimulations, vibrations and synthetic pulsations floating off, disturbing buzzes and algorithmic waves in expansion, fragmented and deconstructed Synthetic Chaos... But also hints of hypnotic un…

2011 release ** "Frail and delicate ambient atmospheres, clusters of rarefied piano notes lying on discreet drones, soft and evanescent clarinet riffs, suggesting and catching natural sounds... Light and ethereal pastel-coloured musical plots... Eigh…

2011 release ** "A collection of fascinating and obscure "nocturnal sessions” alternated with more "classic" electronic parts based on sequencers and synthesizers, more abstract and minimal sonic sketches, involving and tense deep drones musical mixt…

2001 release ** "Kozo Ikeno is a trumpet and electronics player from Japan. He creates experimental jazz, abstract break beats and field recordings. He is out now with this new album produced in Italy by Braxtone Records. It is a real must for experi…

*200 copies limited edition* After a careful evaluation of numerous international proposals, Landscape 2024 announces the official selection of the ten finalist works in the SoundArt category. Curated by the Zeugma Collective and now in its fourth ed…