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

The Figurehead - The Figurehead

Genre: dark ambient; noise; drones

From the owner label of mirakelmusik EriK: The Figurehead.
Simply a great dark/drammatic/horror ambient masterpiece! Five tracks of a pure long journey into the deep grave of our shadows!
Drones, melancholic soundscapes, dust, ruins... a sailing into the darkenss.
RECOMMENDED LISTENING WITH HEADPHONES!!

Nightmares
Walking Dead
The Black Sun
The Awakening
The Darkness Falls