"Procession" heralds the reawakening of the acclaimed swedish dark ambient project Desiderii Marginis, an album that sounds at the same time warmingly familiar and inspiringly new. While Desiderii Marginis is perhaps not as prolific as some other acts, it's "quality over quantity" motto always makes it well worth the wait and this is certainly no exception. The eight pieces that make up this new album stand firmly on their own, and yet form an even more remarkable whole. Johan Levin envokes a grand soundscape, beneath the faded remnants of the celestial spheres where timbres have space to grow, evolve and reflect off each other, a sombre, melancholic thoughtfullness, a calm to dwell in, and long back to. The atmosphere of the album is not that of solid darkness, or an abyss opening beneath you, but rather a wintery pale, grey dusk casting long, sweeping shadows. A haze that makes you uncertain if it’s really getting lighter or darker. We're honored to welcome Johan Levin's long standing project to the ever expanding Cyclic Law family.
Edition of 1000 copies in 6 panel Digipack. 8 Tracks. Running Time 51:.40
Showing posts with label dark ambient. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dark ambient. Show all posts
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
Leæther Strip : Dark Passages + Seasons Change - I Don't [2010]
CD 1 > Dark Passages (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1-1 Dark Passages 5:35
1-2 Twisted Games 7:58
1-3 Everything Dies 9:03
1-4 Violence 5:33
1-5 Embracing Life's Fire 5:41
1-6 Amanda 13:02
1-7 The Dead Stare 7:28
1-8 Lilith 20:21
1-9 When Hate Takes Over 1:59
CD 2 > Seasons Change - I Don't
2-1 The End Of The Road 5:47
2-2 Black Magic Man 5:43
2-3 Bondage Is Not A Crime 5:42
2-4 Seasons Change - I Don't (Featuring Amanda Eisemann) 4:58
2-5 Dead Swan 5:12
2-6 It's Not Real 2:56
2-7 It's So Real 3:35
2-8 Door With No Handle 4:43
2-9 My Shadow Is Your Home (Extended) 8:47
2-10 Dark Passages (Extended) 7:57
2-11 Everything Dies (Extended) 9:02
2-12 Voluntary Confinement (Secret Mix) 5:16
2-13 Embracing Life's Fire (Mortiis Remix) 3:50
2-14 My Shadow Is Your Home (Ehron Vonallen Remix)
Empusae : The Hatred Of Trees [2008]
1. The Hatred Of Trees 15:46
2. Undead Soil 6:53
3. Fragments Of Cerebral Dimensions 10:35
4. Hard Boiled Wonderland (Inspired By H. Murakami) 8:07
5. Waanzin 10:26
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Frostwinter : Awake Before Awakening [2011]
01 A Simple Solution 1:29
02 Broken Things Without An Intention 3:21
03 Nephelopsia (A Vacant Journey) 4:15
04 Profundus 3:26
05 Vivisektionskammer 9:39
06 The Negation Of Will [The Wetation Ov Nill Mix by Tarsus] 6:17
07 Flowers Of Doom (Quiet Earth) [Mix by Rostiges Riesenrad] 3:57
08 Into Nothingness [Execution Mix by Gird_09] 5:40
09 Violence And Culture [The Bitch Is Crying Mix by Anal Oder Nicht Sein] 3:28
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Flint Glass + Polarlicht 4.1 + Transistor : Zoran's Equation [2011]
Zoran’s Equation is a collaborative instrumental album from France’s Flint Glass and Germany’s Polarlicht 4.1 with Transistor (Polarlicht’s side project), and the results are an album that plays like an experience rather than just music. The static, ambient, and dark sounds on each of the album’s 10 selections seem to create sci-fi worlds from your favorite video game or movie, transporting you with ease and precision. While it may not be for everyone, anyone looking for a musical experience is likely to enjoy this fantastic, soundtrack-like collection of songs.
When beginning to listen to Zoran’s Equation’s opener, “Mange-Machine,” it is very obvious that the album is presenting a story of some kind with the sounds of air, faint talking, static, and clicks and beeps that sound like that of a machine being built. The sound is haunting and almost sinister in nature. The third song on the album, “Which Does Not Exist, Exists” brings with it a feeling of discovery just as its title suggests and almost bounces you into the moments of said discovery, while “The Ice People” is ripe with the sounds of footsteps and what could be machinery or maybe stalactites falling in a frozen cavern; incredibly effective and interesting. Listening further on, the album drags you deeper into the various dark sounds and ambience, perfectly illustrated by “Isolation” and “Aurore Australe.” The final track on the album, “Sleeping Beauty” is a beautiful creation of contemplative sounds that lead you through to the final seconds of the music and leave you to contemplate the world you’ve just traversed as well as the meanings that could be drawn up from its sounds.
Flint Glass, Polarlicht 4.1, and Transitor make a great combination, creating ambient, dark, industrial soundtrack music that captures as well as entertains. The music itself beautifully illustrates its own world and draws you in, full of depth and ambience. This collection isn’t for everyone, but those who are willing to explore it with an open mind will find it hard to tear themselves away from the world of Zoran’s Equation.
01 Mange-Machine 5:18
02 Immortals 4:36
03 Which Does Not Exist, Exists 4:58
04 The Ice People 4:37
05 Gondwana 3:35
06 Isolation 4:15
07 Aurore Australe 4:41
08 Frozen Bodies 4:09
09 Lost Souls 5:54
10 Sleeping Beauty 4:18
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Flint Glass : From Beyond EP [2009]
01 Al Takwi 5:49
02 Ghroth 0:16
03 Hypnos 5:42
04 Yegg Ha 0:15
05 Al Azif 6:54
06 Xurhn 0:28
07 The Hound 10:00
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Funerary Call : Beckoning At The Black [2004]
"Beckoning At The Black" is six tracks of sheer black orchestral ambience with the requisite crunching drums and whispered / distorted vocals. Add to this the ominous waves of electronics, the odd piano piece, very popular nowadays within this style of music, a little drone-like passage and what sounds like a panpipe in full flow. The music created gives the perfect impression of creeping unease and discomfort and ever impending dread that it‘s ultimately trying to convey. A sort of nightmare music for the nightmare generation.
01 Unto The End We Call 3:36
02 Black Art 3:46
03 Hel's Hymn 4:26
04 Hill Of Skull And Bone 3:40
05 Of Death's Breath 2:59
06 Beckoning At The Black 4:10
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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Funerary Call : Dark Waters Stirred [2010]
Heralded as one of the progenitors of black ambient music, Funerary Call (aka Harlow MacFarlane of Sistrenatus) returns from dormancy with his darkest release to date. "Dark Waters Stirred" is a ceremonial maelstrom of ominous electronics, doom-laden guitars and dark ambient textures. An audial descent into ritualistic obscurity and misanthropy. Features guest appearances from the likes of Deathlord (Blasphemy, ex-Conqueror), and Troy Southgate (H.E.R.R., Seelenlicht) amongst others.
01. With Curse 6:11
02. Words Of Power 6:30
03. Miasma 8:51
04. Equestrian Seals 4:37
05. Dark Waters Stirred 7:13
06. Crown Of Iron 16:51
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Sunday, May 27, 2012
Gustaf Hildebrand : Starscape [2004]
1 Eta Carinae 7:45
2 Dead Transmissions 8:24
3 Journey To Orion 8:10
4 Worlds Of A Distant Sun 7:07
5 The Cygnus Loop 6:57
6 Descending Into The Silent Depths 5:52
Credits▼
Composed By Gustaf Hildebrand
Mastered By Peter Bjärgö
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V/A : Perception Multiplied, Multiplicity Unified [2001]
01 Stratvm Terror – Killing Me [5:30]
Composed By – Tobias Larsson
02 raison d'être – The Mournful Wounds [9:40]
03 Atomine Elektrine – Plasmoid Detection [9:33]
04 Cataclyst – As He Scourged The Earth [5:23]
Composed By – Johanna Rosenqvist
05 Panzar – Industrielles Massenmord [4:59]
06 Necrophorus – Arcane Angelicum [7:12]
07 Bocksholm – Bi-Rath, The Beast Of The Forge [5:26]
Composed By – Peter Andersson
08 Svasti-ayanam – Chenrezig [7:38]
09 Grismannen – Psychedelic Rectoscope [3:12]
Notes▼
Subtitled "The Manifold Of Peter Andersson".
First 3,000 copies come in a DiscBox Slider with a 12-page booklet with partial UV-varnish and deluxe cover.
#1 composed between 1999 and 2001.
#2, 4 to 7 and 9 composed in 2001.
#3 and 8 composed in 2000.
A release showcasing the influential, multi-talented Swede: Peter Andersson
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In Slaughter Natives : Recollection [2001]
Notes▼
Tracks 1 & 2 from "In Slaughter Natives", recorded 1988.
Tracks 3 & 4 from "Enter Now The World", recorded 1991.
Tracks 5 & 6 from "Sacrosancts Bleed", recorded 1992.
Tracks 7 & 8 from "Purgate My Stain", recorded 1995.
Limited to 3,000 copies.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Empusae : Error 404: Metaphorical Loss [2005]
1 Orix 8:50
2 Alkevar 10:31
3 Ekro-Alakin 7:55
4 Seygot 6:59
5 Neupridem 7:09
6 Urficae 7:26
7 Lamer Urco 7:03
8 Falmek 6:38
9 Pijnzallick 10:12
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Empusae : Funestus [2002]
01 Empusae – Agony (Misère I) 1:50
02 Empusae – Out Of Question (Misère II) 5:20
03 Empusae – God 5:35
04 Empusae – MasterSlave 4:06
05 Empusae – La Puissance 6:15
06 Empusae – Knowledge 4:36
07 Empusae – Oorlog 6:50
08 Empusae – Fantasm I 1:31
09 Empusae – Fantasm II 3:35
10 Empusae – The Binding Of Destruction 4:22
11 Empusae – Dark Alchemy (Harsh Floor Mix) Remix by HIV+ 5:14
12 Empusae – Misère (Featuring This Morn' Omina) 3:56
13 Empusae – Oorlog (Het Verdrag Van Melle Mix) Remix by Implant 6:05
14 Lith – E.G.O Remix by Empusae 5:12
Limited to 500 copies and packaged in a digipak.
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Ptarkh : Страх [2010]
This play tells that the world has become at the brink of nuclear war, deterrence was the general practice, however some missiles have reached their targets. The greater part of the narration is the track UnAmerica, which opens a technogenic zone of high radiation in front of us. It is an image of processes destructing every life and non-organic substance. It is an energy evaporating everything it influences. Sole survivors hopelessly force through infected zones searching for a little isle of life. It is a deadly harvest of mankind progress... and there is nothing left but fear.
1. Scorpo (7:00)
2. UnAmerica (46:17)
3. eGod (14:19)
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Archon Satani : The Righteous Way To Completion [1997]
1. A Shiny Day Of Destruction [14:59]
2. Another Great Moment In Paradise [9:11]
3. I Speak As I Lie [6:45]
4. Ende [13:24]
Notes:
Created at EMS and Ahab-MSP Studio during different sessions 1996.
Made in England.
Limited to 1000 copies. Comes with 4-page booklet.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Bad Sector : Transponder [2011]
01. Negative (5:18)
02. GruHiu (4:35)
03. Alexander 1922 (5:23)
04. Npoi (3:11)
05. Ou (4:45)
06. Transponder (3:46)
07. Maria 1954 (5:51)
08. S2000 (5:12)
09. Pnla (4:31)
10. Enemy (9:22)
11. Yst (4:52)
12. Waal (4:07)
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Monday, May 21, 2012
Archon Satani : In Shelter [1994]
Notes:
Planned and recorded in Arc's Workstation, 1994. Mixed at EMS, Stockholm, 1994.
Comes with 4-page booklet.
Two pressings of this CD exist.
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Sunday, May 20, 2012
Ptarkh : Insulin [2009]
Making the project author used a mass of sound effects, city ambience and dark atmospheres. Highly layered synthesized textures create a unique deep canvas. Very minimal in one place it can be very complex and loud in other. Music flows continuously smoothly going through vast scenes showing you the world of nightmares. This is nuclear performance for Geiger counter and cogwheel orchestra.
1. Insulin (80:04)
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