Cold Spring News - 16 Апреля 2010 - serrRgraphiC de.sigN.O.I.S.E.

The second album of Across The Rubicon. After a long period of silence ATR returns with new material, natural continuation of the style known from the debut. Orchestral arrangements, bombastic rhythms, strong martial accents and melancholic atmospheres. Music, lyrics and artwork are related to the dark time of Great War 1914-1918, first worldwide conflict, which was to be the last one. For fans of Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, In Slaughter Natives etc. Digipak.

• All Across The Rubicon Titles

"Zov Predkov" (The Call Of The Wild) is the first full-length album from the well-known masters of deep, ritualistic, shamanic Dark Ambient. Ad Lux Tenebrae hail from north of Rifey Mountains, Russia. Great powerful sounds from Primeval Ural Woods. It is possible to compare Ad Lux Tenebrae with Halo Manash. Ltd x 963 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve.

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"Fabrication 2" is the sequel to "Fabrication”, the first collaboration between Richard Chartier and Asmus Tietchens released in 2007 (Die Stadt). Whereas for the first collaboration the idea developed from the project around reinterpretations of Chartier’s "Postfabricated”, this time the efforts were directly focused on the reinterpretation of specific basic sound material. This material can be found on the first disc of "Prefabrication 2″, which was constructed by Richard Chartier alone in Montreal and Washington, DC. "Fabrication 2″ is the reworking of this sonic basis by Asmus Tietchens. Whereas the first CD has traces of subtle dematerialised rhythmic structures, the second disc is a study in minimalism and concentrated sound manipulation. Ltd x 500 copies in a gatefold digifile, with original artwork by Richard Chartier.

• All Asmus Tietchens Titles • All Richard Chartier Titles

Blind Jesus are Stefano Pillia and Andrew Hooker. This is a journey into free improv noise ambient performed by the duo comprised of Stefano Pilia (3/4havebeeneliminated) on guitar, audio collages and effects, and media artist Andrew Hooker on electronics. Ltd x 300 copies with a full-size insert. Italian import.

• All LP / 12" Vinyl

Conceived as a manifesto for the Von label, "Choir" is an audiovisual experiment, that takes the shape of an installation and live media event, as well as a limited edition video work. The image and sound is a superposition of source material selected by the artists and overlayered in order to produce a ghostly image an "hypnotic tantric metal experience” as some of the first viewers of the piece told. Choir is an hypnotic journey into the imaginary of this two artists.The sound is asynchronous and comes from different selection creating an amalgam of sources and influences. This release presents the Ghostly Choir of the influences and imaginary background of these two artist. Ltd x 500 copies in a card sleeve.

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Live recording of the spirited Changes concert at the 4th Flammenzauber Festival, March 2004. Many of the tracks are taken from the "Fire Of Life" album, alongside a previously unreleased track and some rare tracks. Changes prove once again that they are the true representatives of apocalyptic folklore! Features guest appearances by Markus Wolff (Waldteufel) and B'eirth (In Gowan Ring).Ltd x 300 copies on red vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, with artwork by Nicholas Tesluk. ACT FAST!

• All Changes Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl

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. Australian import.

• All Funerary Call Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl

Lago Morto is a band conceived by Italian artist Nico Vascellari as contribution to the exhibition ‘Rock Scissors Paper’ (Kunsthaus Graz). Lago Morto is ‘a social punk sculpture’, a way ‘to turn the model of the cast band upside down. Lago Morto is about things that casting calls usually exclude - targeted aggression, unpredic social effects and local politics’. The result is a band that toured for 15 days in Vittorio Veneto in non musical venues such as bar, osteria, pizzeria, launderette, video store etc. The LP contains all 14 songs the band has created. Ltd x 300 copies with a full-size insert. Italian import.

• All LP / 12" Vinyl

LIYR is a French martial act born in 2008. Heavily inspired by neoclassical, bombastic percussion and industrial martial sounds Liyr creates his own characteristic atmosphere. Behind the harshness of the percussion, there is an esoteric thought about Celtic tradition and legends - LIYR is the God of Sea in Celtic myths. But the main idea is that we all live in a changing world dominated by sort of feelings like hate and love, fear and pleasure - in his music and lyrics LIYR talks about all these feelings. Digipak.

A really stand apart Luasa Raelon recording, so well-conceived and composed. This 40-minute long journey is inspired by the art of Bocklin, Caspar David Friedrich, Fulci and classic B&W horror movies. Very well-crafted Dark Ambient / blackened Death Industrial sounds, for fans of Lustmord, Wilt etc. Ltd x 500 copies.

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"'Gene P' was released as a cassette in 1980, and among the true Bianchi devotees old = best. On the first track (both tracks are untitled) Bianchi uses tape-loops of what could vaguely sound like gamelan music, or wind chimes. Its music with not many changes, music that is not loud and actually quite pleasing. The other side is more experimental. It uses vinyl, scratchy vinyl that is, with the needle jumping all over the place... A most typical work from the years of cassette releases" (Vital Weekly). Ltd x 200 numbered copies in a 7" sleeve.

• All Maurizio Bianchi Titles

"The Bowls Of Anger" is based on Revelation, Chapter 16, Vs 1-21. It is a "...wounded work, lesioned during the altered spring of 2009, using ruinous electronics, a degenerate piano and waves in declay, with the deteriorated participation of Siegmar Fricke.... Extremistic judgments on a grazed world that is worshiping the Wicked One, certain to occur in the last part of the inspected times. It is a dark time for imponderable humanity, and "The Bowls Of Anger" wants to lead our minds towards an unpopular positiveness". Ltd x 200 numbered copies in a 7" sleeve.

• All Maurizio Bianchi Titles

First vinyl LP release on CX Records, Italy. Ultra bleak monotonous analogue synth mass from MB, everybody's dear noise grandad, and haunting subtle horror music from not-so-newcomer Cris X. The LP features new and exclusive tracks - a dark and deep experimental masterpiece. "Isolated in a fully aware immobility, the dramatic intensity of this unhealthy and plain sonorous document, provides peculiar experimental characteristics connected with animated views of a post-modern technology converging into a modulated transportation of collapsed particles" (M.B.). Pure Italian black quality! Ltd x 300 copies in a glossy sleeve with 2 inserts. Few copies in stock - ACT FAST!

• All Maurizio Bianchi Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl

Over the last few dogs days of summer 2008, Italy’s OvO and Canada’s Nadja got together in their adoptive city of Berlin at Einstürzende Neubauten’s andereBaustelle Studio. With engineer Boris Wilsdorf at the board, each duo began two songs and had the other duo finish them, Bruno and Stefania adding heavy, pounding rhythms and harsh, eerie vocals to Aidan and Leah’s ambient textures and bass-heavy drones. The album, while still heavy and still retaining signature sounds of both groups, turned out mellower than either band expected. But this mellowness gives the songs a greater sense of presence and allows for the intricacies and nuances of each individual’s contributions to be properly heard. With a final mastering by James Plotkin, this album sounds simultaneously harsh and lush, aggressive and warm. Having coffee after the sessions in the back garden, a wasp drugged on sugar flew into Leah’s coffee cup and drowned itself, traumatizing everyone at the . Ltd x 500 copies on black vinyl.

• All Nadja Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl

R.Y.N. are a UK-based duo probably best known for their Astral Death CD (Unrest Productions) and an excellent 7" on Drone Records. On this vinyl-only release R.Y.N. present 44 minutes of completely new recordings: a mix of archaic, unsettling, new and melancholy. This album took many months to record as a result of the careful attention paid to the record by the duo. This LP provides both classic R.Y.N. darkness plus even heavier oppressive, dark, soundscapes that can only be fully appreciated on vinyl over the two side-long tracks: Archaic Techniques Of Ecstacy and Provisional Sketch Of The Mind. If you don't know their work then this is definitely worth exploring. If you do know them then this is a must. Ltd x 233 numbered copies in a foldout silkscreened sleeve with spot varnish black on grey card stock and with inserts.

• All R.Y.N. Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl

"Until..." is a new set of dark ambient recordings built around the ideas of abstract compositional instructions similar in meaning and intent to those used by Karlheinz Stockhausen in such works as "From The Seven Days” and the the nature of auditory vibrations. Eager to create a diverse and ever changing catalogue of works Reformed Faction here embrace improvisation, a feature fundamental to all their recordings, with a different focus and sensibility allowing sounds to evolve slowly and sub-consciously across a unrestricted timescale. Reformed Faction are Robin Storey and Mark Spybey, both ex-members of zoviet*france and both with long established and productive solo careers as Rapoon and Dead Voices On Air respectively. Digipak.

"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are desired when dying. That's the essence of the Shadowdream existence". Shadowdream is a new project from Serbia, musically related to dark ambient sonorities, with a touch of neoclassical yet dramatic influences, inspired directly by the music of Tchaykovski and Prokofiev, and the movies of Bergman and Herzog. Ethereal visual music referring to the forgotten realms which are born under the darkest shadows, along with a stunning emotional state of melancholy.

Trama afonA is the sound/visual project by Lorenzo Scacchia - an attempt to tramaphonise (convey) what he sees in the dark and hears into silence. This Cinematic Dark Ambient album constitutes the first official release, gathering tracks composed between 2005 and 2008.TA pays particular attention to individual and specific human stories, rather than to history… focusing on what happens behind the scenes, aside, beneath. Opening doors and drawers using the sole curiosity as tool, walking backwards the traces of memory, wandering amid shades and details given by mystery, decadence, abandon, romanticism. Carefully delving into psychological dynamics. Openly denouncing the social plagues, but often humbly providing just visual and sound suggestions. Digipak.

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