Between Black and Violet 1980 – 1983
** Limited numbered Edition of 150 ** 18 tracks that document the evolution and extreme versatility of Paul Chain’s music between the years 1980 and 1983. These tracks are testimony to his vast musical influences and broad horizons that touched on British psych, Italian prog, classical music, hard rock, the German experimental scene, punk and new wave. Never Officially Released Digitally Remastered From The Legendary “relative Tapes”.
L’isola che non c’è
** Limited and numbered to 310 copies. 180 Gram Vinyl. 2021 Stock ** Minotaura Records presents L'Isola che non c'è , Rimini, 10 Aprile 1982 by Paul Chain Group. Recorded live at Pub "Isola Che Non C'è" (Rimini) 10 April, 1982. Concert organized by Franco Fattori (RIP), the storied DJ from Radio San Marino and Controradio Firenze, and of Aleph Club and Slego." Edit and mastered by Thomas Hand Chaste. Arranged By – Claud Galley, Paul Chain, Thomas Hand Chaste. Bass – Claud Galley. Drums – Thomas …
In the Darkness
** Edition of 500 ** Rediscovering an artist like Paul Chain is a very important moment for the musical culture of old fans and younger rockers who, for age reasons, could not live firsthand the artistic evolution of one of the most brilliant musicians of the entire Italian music scene. "In the Darkness", originally published back in 1986, is the second work of Paul Chain Violet Theatre, a band in which Catena surrounds himself with talented musicians, including some former bandmates at the time…
Dust of Human Race
Raffaele Pezzella's Sonologyst made it to these pages a couple of times (Vital Weekly 1225, 1194, 1134 for instance) and here is a new one, with a quote from Ovi on the cover "Wherever you look, there is nothing but the image of death" (well, in Latin), which, perhaps, says something about the darker nature of the music. Maybe it is a sign of grim times, but in his previous work, Sonologyst wasn't a bundle of laughs either. As I noted previously, you could think that Pezzella's is gothic, but it…
Musick From Madness
**200 copies** Musik From Madness is a collection of previously unreleased material, recorded between 1986 and 1990. Schloss Tegal is an American ambient psychogenic sound project duo consisting of Richard Schneider and Mark Burch, that has existed since the 80s, recording conceptual albums that explore extreme and sometimes morbid subjects. The name comes from a castle outside of Berlin that was one of the first psychiatric hospitals. The castle was destroyed and the patients exterminated durin…
Arbeitstitel
Monobeat Original is the new project by Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, drummer and founding member of the legendary Krautrock band Faust. An odyssey of dark-tribal-ritualistic-krautrock with a cinematic bent. From the atavic to the post-industrial and the renewal of a distant and hypnotic Krautrock. Music from a future too far away. Zappi W Diermaier drums, keyboards, psalter, voice. Elke Drapatz drumeffekts. Amaury Cambuzat guitar. Uwe Bastiansen guitar. Dirk Desselhaus guitar, bass guitar, Artwork …
The Erivar
Italian duo Capricorni Pneumatici started in 1987, taking their name from an Aleister Crowley book. This CD is part of their 30th Anniversary and they have produced two new albums to mark the occasion. This album, "Lake Of Fire", presents an ambient and ritual world view that sinks deeply into female vocals. 71 minutes of music using percussion, voices, bowed harp guitar, electronics, music concrete and treatments. Digipak.
Lake of Fire
Italian duo Capricorni Pneumatici started in 1987, taking their name from an Aleister Crowley book. This CD is part of their 30th Anniversary and they have produced two new albums to mark the occasion. This album, "Lake Of Fire", presents an ambient and ritual world view that sinks deeply into female vocals. 71 minutes of music using percussion, voices, bowed harp guitar, electronics, music concrete and treatments. Digipak.
Rahoor
Italian duo Capricorni Pneumatici started in 1987, taking their name from an Aleister Crowley book. This CD is part of their 30th Anniversary and they have produced two new albums to mark the occasion. "Rahoor", recorded in 2017, is the third part of The Erivar trilogy. They present four songs that show industrial rhythms with a distinctive rhythm and a mysterious ceremonial landscape. 51 minutes of music using percussion, voices, electronics, and treatments. Digipak with drawings and sigils by …
Putredini Obnoxius
'Putredini Obnoxius' was the tenth Capricorni Pneumatici album, originally composed in 1991 for the Portuguese label Putrefactio but never published at the time. 26 years later it comes to light in this first edition, released from the original 1992 master tape. This CD is part of CP 30th anniversary releases. A "lost album" therefore, for the Milanese duo dedicated to a ritual ambient and psycho acoustics fused with ideas gleaned from the writings of Aleister Crowley. The manipulated voice of …
Cave Hill Ascension
** 2021 Stock ** Four tracks, including two of epic length, on heavyweight red vinyl, on which United Bible Studies founder David Colohan is joined by Alison O'Donnell (Mellow Candle, Flibbertigibbet, The Owl Service) and Dom Cooper (The Straw Bear Band, The Owl Service). Bless Us & Break Us with Mystery Upon Mystery is meditative and spiritual yet with a dark undercurrent, pairing soaring wordless choral vocals with brooding synth drones. Ritualistic percussion signals a change in direction, wi…
Opera Decima
Tip! 30th Anniversary Edition 2CD Digipack 4 Panels PVC Slipcase. Paul Chain's true masterpiece, the hypnotic “Opera Decima - The world of the End”, has been released on both a double CD and on a boxset of three LP's in late 1990, and it was out of print for decades. P. Chain "evil" minimalistic ambient attempts to shape sound itself using overlapping organic drones and electronic noises to create internal harmonies.
In these Ancient Times
All-new album by Robin Storey aka Rapoon. Founded in 1992 after Storey left Zoviet France, Rapoon soon became an outstanding ethno-dark ambient project that has gained a cult following all over the world. More than 80 albums have been released over those nearly 30 years, some more beat driven, others more playful and with ambient sounds and ethnic influences. Rapoon has never stopped evolving - think of Cultural Forgeries, an album full of unplugged acoustic music. Or Downgliding, full of compos…
Le Noyé
* Edition of 200. Oversize packaging. Poster color cover, close is 21x21 cm * "As Teatro Satanico we conceived these tracks in September 2018, when somebody advised us that Dmitry Vasilyev died by drowning in the Black Sea. Dmitry managed our first Russian gig in Moscow that same year, and we became friends. On the spur of the moment, to honour him composing some tunes looked like a sort of natural unconscious reaction to that bad news. Anyway, we stopped working on them almost immediately and w…
Malenkost
Describing a world of beauty, escape, sorrow, loss and catharsis usually needs a strong leap of faith and when it comes to music such a feat is almost impossible, modern day consumption is pulling us by the throats and we don’t have time to surrender, we don’t have time to let the fog, the mystery, the universal shine seek into our eyes and creep into our minds. There are exceptions, Cindy Lee is one of them, a rare all-in lifer, flickering candle.
Maple Death is beyond honored to team up with S…
Capricorni Pneumatici
* Edition of 250 * Capricorni Pneumatici began in 1986 as a research project about the esoteric/ritual implications of music and sounds, a full acoustic/concrete music set with voice and other means of producing and manipulating sounds: PVC tubes, air compressors, hammers, buckets, water, steel and aluminum tanks and plates, various metal and plastic objects. CP I was recorded live the 15th of June 1986 at The Cave, a subterranean private location.
No electronics of any kind was used during the …
Gli Abissi Fomoriani
Il Gran Diavolato is a territory that we have occupied and that we try to explore by playing every corner of it. This album represents its banchisa and its abysses, populated by the Fomori. These creatures confined to the depths and pervaded by pre-human ideas rarely grope on earthly beaches. To hear them is human, to listen to them is diabolical.” - Louise Burgers
Louise Burgers: voice, pre-human pedals. Gianlorenzo Nardi: drums, organ, voice, pedals. Recorded through subterranean direct record…
Mother
**Limited edition of 50 cassette tapes with extractable paper crochet holy image on white matte rough paper. Includes digital download**A long time agitator of the Turin music scene, Mother (solo project of Tommaso Bonfilio of SabaSaba) uses a mixture of tape cut-ups, crooked percussions, stretched voice and some random languishing instruments to convey an album filled with deep sweet and sour darkness in form of perverted songs as if in a collaboration between William Burroughs and Martin Rev.
Demonology In Dante's Inferno
**200 copies** Dante's Inferno, widely hailed as one of the great classics of Western literature, details Dante's journey through the nine circles of Hell. The voyage begins during Easter week in the year 1300, the descent through Hell starting on Good Friday. After meeting his guide, the eminent Roman poet Virgil, in a mythical dark wood, the two poets begin their descent through a baleful world of doleful shades, horrifying tortures, and unending lamentation. During their journey, Dante and Vi…
So
Bam Balan introduced the latest album by Japanese Ethereal Drone duo Sarry. Through Fuji Yuki's softly screamed vocals, gently echoing into madness, and 821's bass, which reaches for the innermost depths of the human heart, Sarry's music - at times incantational, at times narrative - explores the occult realm of sound that connects this world to the next. Taking elements from various genres such as Buddhist ritual music, krautrock, dark ambient, drone, hardcore and noise, and blending them into …