We Were Dancing -- we won´t get old

Genre: soundscape, minimal, lo-fi

We Were Dancing is the moniker of 21 year old drone-head Robin Rådenman. On "Mixtape vol.1 - we won´t get old", Robin continues to explore soundscapes built of distorted sounds and lo-fi field sessions. He clearly states his leading roll in the Swedish neo-electronic scene. This release should really be listened to in the crappiest little boomblaster you can find. Hi-Fi is for the bourgeois!

Tracklist:
01. Eaten by the sea - Simrishamnsgatan
02. We were singin´ (alcohol edit)
03. We won´t (pt.1)
04. We won´t (pt.2)
05. We could hide in there, for winter
06. Our childhood memories, beneath incomplete buildings, tourism and commerce
07. I´m waking up to us

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Martin Dot - Open Sky

Genre: ambient, noise, soundscapes

The album recorded in 2004. It is very minimal in the number of used sounds but tries to describe vast spaces. Perfect for relaxing purposes.

Wind - mp3 archive/VBR

Caul - Apophasis

Genre: dark ambient

"Brett Smith working under the moniker of Caul uses his music as an alternate path to experiencing God. In webzine interviews he makes it no secret that the sounds that he composes as Caul serve as a medium for communicating his experience with God and as a conversation between himself and God [“Last Sigh”(1998) and “Opus” (2005)]. With “Apophasis” Caul gives the listener an almost 45-minute oeuvre into understanding God using what is known in mystic theology as “via negativa” or the “negative way” - expressing/sharing a knowledge of God by pointing the listener in the direction of what God is NOT, rather than what God is. The sounds found within this varied soundscape encompass cavernous drones, bursts of cacophony, and solemn synthesized orchestral melodies that converge into an overall reflective and brooding ambient testimonial of one individual’s pathway to God."
Larry Johnson (c) 2006
Apophasis is "negative theology"- a view of God determined by defining what
God is not.
Recorded June-July 2006 at Epiphany Studios, Baldwin City KS.
All music by Caul.
Click here to download full album.

Pawel Grabowski - Notes from the House of Dead

Genre: dark ambient, noise

There are three tracks on Pawel Grabowski's Notes from the House of Dead: one that interpolates a little female chant and shifts it into a spectral presence, and two others stark enough that they'll make you wish you had a little human accompaniment for comfort, corporeal or not.
According to the brief online liner note that accompanies the EP, Grabowski sketched Notes as an attempt to keep things short while maintaining a sense of tension. On those measures, he more than succeeds.
"The Dead," the longest of the three at five and a half minutes, immediately immerses you into a cavernous underworld of disorienting echoes and foreboding murmurings.
"The Box," at about half the length of "The Dead," is more arid and spacious, trading claustrophobia for agoraphobia; occasional snippets of a throaty scratch suggest the point of view of a marooned astronaut on some desert moon.
And then there's "Break," with its theremin-ish female voice, echoing and repeating like gothic dub amid horror-flick scrapings. The full set it available from a relatively new netlabel, Silence Is Not Empty, at silence-is-not-empty.com.

ZIP archive with cover

Sepulcrum Spei - Algor

Genre: dark ambient, medieval folk, drones

“Algor” is the second work of the Italian project Sepulcrum Spei. The soundtrack for a journey into the “grave of hope”. Four tracks created by drones, background textures, environmental samples and minimalist folk performed on harp and flute.
Stones and drones create a perfect deep, dark and obscure ambient accompany by a sad, melancholic, desperate solomizate of far flute and a soft touch of harp. A voyage into the medieval grave dark era!

Bruma
In extrema spe
Vestitas
Algor

Sempervirens - Mainland Rain

Genre: ambient, gypnose, soundscapes

Sempervirens (latin) it means evergreen... this is usually a state of some plants which have always leafs perepetual green ... a sort of defense of the tree from sun and nature adversity... In the same way this project creates a profound, abyssal and borderless, narcotic soundscapes... a perpetaul cyclic hypnothic evergreen thoughts!
"Mainland Rain": conceived after about a year of arrangements and composition - as the numbing, frozen piece of scalding, paralytical hymns finally comes about unveiled. Taking a surrealistic approach, to spire right onto the concepts based upon the end of the world as we know it. For what it has been, shall in the mind, once again become the smoldering, atomic pile of rubble. As in the light of this title, it would shade off the last lustres of light, through the relentless rain of the last days. All those bloodlike hallucinations, up-given hope & dreams, memories - which for long have been stored away into the depths of one's subconscious - recalled and lived through, for this very last time again. As within those structures, a myriad of mutilated location-recordings unfold from beneath the fathomless, abysmal drones, composed under the intoxication of various mind-altering substances; Brainwave-altering structures, chosen and put together specifically through some study of audiophysics and the effects that certain frequencies could have on the human mind and the sonic instinct. In the bliss of somnolence and eternity, life begins a new.

mp3 ZIP archive + art work

Formication - Pieces for a Condemned Piano

Genre: dark ambient; experimental


One cold & bright August evening, in the empty car park of a sleepy village pub, we discovered the condemned piano.
During the time we spent with the remains on that August evening, we gathered 13 samples using various field recording techniques. The wooden keys, stripped bare, had expanded in the rain and so playing the instrument in the usual fashion was out of the question. Instead, we forced the music from the strings in other ways.
We took these extracts back into Harmsway and spent the following months reducing, expanding, compressing, torturing, stretching, warping & beating this music from them. Presented here is our lament for that condemned piano.
The piano is no longer there. It now only exists in memory, in these photographs and in the music we have made. We have provided it with a proper interment and in return, it has given us is its most beautiful and poignant performance to date.

On The Dying Pathway
The Final Stage Of Traum
Exit