CODES: - Drone Records
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CODES: - Drone Records
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are sounds of a quite different character generated with electronic<br />
feedback loops. The underlying radio signal may sometimes be heard<br />
emerging from the dense processed sound.” [Matt Rogalsky]<br />
* RORIKAT – Oki Oki CD (Horus CyclicDaemon HCD 5, 2002)<br />
€ 13.00<br />
„Aus Nord-Siberien habe ich, glaube ich, noch nie eine CD in den<br />
Händen gehalten, geschweige denn rezensiert. Es gibt halt immer ein<br />
erstes Mal und ich muss sagen, dieses erste Mal gefällt mir!<br />
Ausgefallenen Musik machen die beiden Russen da, hauptsächlich<br />
elektronisch, aber mit einigen akustischen Instrumenten und einer<br />
großen Portion Einfallsreichtum und Experimentierfreude. Die Musik zu<br />
beschreiben fällt nicht ganz leicht: ein wenig Ambient, eine gute Portion<br />
Psychedelik und Post-Rock, verhallte Akustik-Gitarren treffen auf Kling-<br />
Klang-Elektronik, <strong>Drone</strong>s und gelegentlich weibliche Vocal-Schnipsel.<br />
Eine nicht wirklich düstere Mischung, vielmehr kindlich verspielte Musik,<br />
mal völlig abstrakt, mal fast tanzbar; immer aber sehr originell. Eine<br />
wirklich tolle Mischung, die das Duo JULICA RORICA und EUGENE T<br />
da geschaffen haben; Abgeschiedenheit scheint sich doch gelegentlich<br />
auszuzahlen. Diese CD klingt auf eine nicht leicht definierbare Weise<br />
"nordisch", hier muss man ja fast sagen "sibirisch". Vielleicht macht es<br />
zu einem guten Teil der tendenziell helle, klare und obertonreiche,<br />
differenzierte Klang der Musik, der an weite Landschaften, klare Luft<br />
und kalte Sonnentage erinnert; auf jeden Fall eine Art Klang, der mir<br />
sehr zusagt. Wem ein Großteil der "üblichen" IDM-Glitch-Musik zu<br />
seicht, der "normale" Post-Rock zu schwülstig, "konventioneller"<br />
Ambient zu ernst und wem die sogenannte "experimentelle" Musik zu<br />
verkopft ist, all jenen und noch vielen mehr, sei "Uki Uki" ("Liebe")<br />
wärmstens ans Herz gelegt. Zusammen mit der äußerst<br />
geschmackvollen Gestaltung im (in der auf 500 Exemplare limitierten<br />
Erstauflage) weißen Klapp-Digipak mit sibirischen Fotos eine rundum<br />
gelungene Veröffentlichung. Musik für einen kalten Sommer. Wirklich<br />
sehr schön!“ [P.E. / BLACK magazine]<br />
“Russian duo consisting of Eugene & Julica make spacey, abstract<br />
instrumentals. Heavily delayed guitar strumming, accompanied by<br />
various random sounds and minimal hand drum percussion. Light & airy<br />
ambient guitars with subtle rhythms. Very relaxing yet propagates<br />
passion. A strange odd ditty, acoustic guitars, tiny cutesy little lead<br />
synth and sometimes an itty bitty Power Puff girl vocal. Gurgles, burps<br />
and blips. It's great to hear synths playing nice with guitars. The<br />
definition of quirky this is. Indescribable stylistically. More strangeness,<br />
more quality, more inventiveness. Very unique sound! A bit like David<br />
Bowie's "Sound and Vision" (Low).<br />
Beautiful noise. Fascinating cinematigraphic, chaotic dream of drones<br />
and distortions with ambient, multidimensional, psychedelic, ironic, and<br />
hypnotic guitars. All friends of electronics will be pleased by this<br />
amazing dada-like music from the very north of Siberia...” [label info]<br />
* SACHER-PELZ – Mutation for a Continuity 4 x CD-Box (EES’T /<br />
Alga Marghen MART001/4, 2002) [ed. of 480] € 45.00<br />
Prä-MB Projekt mit Material von 1979 & 1980 !! Wiederveröffentlichung<br />
von vier raren Cassetten. We got some absolute last copies of this box!<br />
"Very few are aware of the beginning of Maurizio Bianchi's adventures?<br />
Before starting the complex and compelling production of many records<br />
and tapes in the early eighties under the M.B. trademark, Maurizio<br />
Bianchi was documenting the new music scene writing essays and<br />
reviews for independent magazines. It was August 1979 in Milan, Italy<br />
and his sound was strengthening when he felt the time had come to<br />
prove his desire for something new. So he started his first solo project,<br />
under the name Sacher-pelz. He assembled a concrete equipment --<br />
the endurance of M.B. had started. During the following few months four<br />
C60 magnetic tapes were created 'Cainus' (August/September 1979),<br />
'Venus' (October/November 1979), 'Cease to Exist' (December<br />
1979/January 1980) and 'Velours' (February/March 1980), a couple of<br />
copies for friends, never getting an official distribution. Surely a very<br />
private moment but still the first and only production at that time in Italy<br />
to go beyond the TG movement, the direct reference. Ees'T records got<br />
into possession of the original masters and decided this was the right<br />
moment to let those obscure sonorities see the night light. The tapes<br />
were remastered for a more powerful digital sound featured in this four<br />
CD boxset including the original graphics and liner notes as well as a<br />
new visionary essay, written expressly for this edition. After a long<br />
research in the archives spread around the Italian territories a few more<br />
documents were found (the original presentation text titled 'Sacher-pelz:<br />
mutation for a continuity', a collage titled 'Pure art for crime people',<br />
more graphics and reviews) and they are also included here. Edition of<br />
480 copies." [label info]<br />
* SCHLOSS TEGAL – The Myth of Meat CD (Waystyx <strong>Records</strong><br />
WR07, 2006) [ed. of 330 copies] € 13.00<br />
Very uncompromising & sinister new release of the US Industrial-group<br />
about torture and tortured flesh & cannibalism. A mixture of field<br />
recordings, found sounds, electronics...eerie & organic sounding<br />
noises, “something” is living inside these sounds…<br />
“limited to 330 copies edition, absolutely new material. great design,<br />
heavy paper case + booklet” [label info]<br />
* SILK SAW – Prestation mCD (Waystyx <strong>Records</strong> WR 23, 2006)<br />
[lim.100 special art cover) € 22.50<br />
Collector’s item on WAYSTYX, this fabric pressed mini-CD in art-cover<br />
with 5 tracks and a playtime around 20 minutes.<br />
* Niko SKORPIO – Escape from Heaven CD (Some Place Else,<br />
SPECD06036, 2006) € 13.00<br />
Überraschendes neues Album von NIKO SKORPIO, der sich allen<br />
Einordnungsversuchen weiterhin erfolgreich entzieht:<br />
Schizophrenes Stimmengemurmel, Mantra-<strong>Drone</strong>s, plötzlich Metal-Riffs<br />
& Beats, cooler Sprechgesang, Hypno-Loops, faraway-Sphären,<br />
orientale Melodien, digitale Verfremdungen, jedes Stück hier ist anders<br />
als der Vorgänger, eine Mischung aus dark ambient industrial, doommetal,<br />
und experimentellem ambient, abgründig as hell !!<br />
“Curious as always, I wanted to hear the new Niko Skorpio record, but I<br />
thought it would have been better in the hands of Niels Mark Pedersen,<br />
our fellow Vital Weekly reviewer for the more dark and rhythmic music.<br />
But always check out yourself, and you may have guessed right: I like it.<br />
I expected some doom and gloom along the lines of Cold Meat Industry<br />
and yes, there are a couple of tracks that could have been easily made<br />
by, say, In Slaughter Natives, throughout this album there is a strong<br />
and healthy sense of experimentalism. Niko Skorpio, the man in<br />
disguise behind the Some Place Else label, has a vast catalogue of<br />
works that go back to the late nineties, but in his musical approach he<br />
harks back further, at least on this album. He states that his album can<br />
be described as 'industrial music' standing in the traditions of Throbbing<br />
Gristle, Coil or Psychic TV. But Niko Skorpio plays his version of<br />
industrial music with digital means. Just like his big examples, Skorpio<br />
doesn't play 'just' noise, there are also moments in which things are<br />
quiet and introspective, such as in the intense opening piece 'Dawn:<br />
The Gathering Of Vultures'. Some rhythm plays a role, and things start<br />
to sound militant and upright. Skorpio has made a richly varied album of<br />
various moods and styles that makes however a solid and unified<br />
impression. A great album of turning an 'old' style into something 'new'<br />
and with an own signature.” [Fdw / Vital Weekly]<br />
* SOLA TRANSLATIO – Enigma CD (Hic Sunt Leones HSL034,<br />
2006) € 13.50<br />
SOLA TRANSLATIO ist das Gemeinschaftsprojekt von ALIO DIE und<br />
OPIUM und dies ist das dritte Album. Das besondere an ENIGMA liegt<br />
in der Verwendung mysteriöser konkreter Field Recordings, die die<br />
instrumentell-fliessenden Sounds umgarnen und umranden... viele<br />
handgespielte Instrumente wurden aufgenommen, wie Zither & Flöten,<br />
Pianotunes…zusammen mit der Artwork hat das einen mystischen<br />
Touch und verbreitet eine besinnliche, sehr unaufdringliche<br />
Stimmung…is it the mind-space or the space-mind??<br />
“The third awaited cd by Opium and Alio Die is finally out! rich of<br />
ambient textures that bring to lose themselves into different labyrinth's<br />
peregrinations, and to bathe the borders in flowing abyss.. eight<br />
imaginary landscapes wavering between the earth and the cosmos,<br />
sometimes returning on the dark atmosphere of the first album, but with<br />
a little acoustic element more clear..” [label info]<br />
* SORIAH – Chao Organica in A Minor CD (Beta-Lactam Ring<br />
<strong>Records</strong> mt105, 2006) € 13.00<br />
Kontemplation pur von diesem obskuren Künstler ! Orgel-Oberton-<br />
<strong>Drone</strong>s und gutturale Gesänge, esoterisch & spirituell, aufgenommen in<br />
einer Kirche in Portland.<br />
“Like a bolt from the blue, the saccharine rich organ drone sets the<br />
supper for this winding piece of esoterica. Take equal parts Messiaen<br />
organ atones and the beguiling, echoed baritone moans of a<br />
disembodied spirit (with just a dash of pungent myrrh pouring over a<br />
cup of the very thickest Turkish coffee) and the environs of Soriah are<br />
partially breached. This magnificent choral suite for antique church<br />
organ is paired with a second vocal suite for Tuvan throat singing. The<br />
bone trembling multi-timbres of Soriah's commanding throat singing<br />
crack open and become a cathedral as the rumbling is pulled through a<br />
wash of electronic effects. Of chaos is a new religion erected. Soriah's<br />
crushing passion play becomes a bombastic bodhisattva that leaves all<br />
average messiahs staying indoors for the second coming. Also sprach<br />
Soriah! For fans of drone, Mirror, Coleclough, Af Ursin and avant-garde<br />
that stands the test of time.<br />
From out of the fir-lined mists of the Pacific Northwest's primordial<br />
musical soup is spawned the singular performance and sound sculptor<br />
Soriah. Spilling initially from a rock and roll womb, but building on years<br />
of intensive studies in Tuvan throat singing and classical Indian raga<br />
chanting, Soriah both subverts and elevates tradition by weaving the