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- BARRY ADAMSON + PAN SONIC + THE HAFLER TRIO -

Out 9/10

BARRY ADAMSON + PAN SONIC + THE HAFLER TRIO 'THE HYMN OF THE 7th ILLUSION' 12" (CSR241LP) £14

Pan Sonic, arranged and edited by Barry Adamson (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Magazine), with an additional re-arrangement by The Hafler Trio. Here, Barry Adamson and Pan Sonic is performed by the Hljomeyki choir and Pan Sonic. "...a blend of an Icelandic choir performing Barry's (treated) microtonal, urgent score is slowly infiltrated, first with an electronic breath and then by well-rounded bass that evolves into a satisfactory crescendo before the scary humhum returns... highly successful" (Vital Weekly).

The Hafler Trio's wonderful extended reworking "weaves strong drones together before levelling them to start anew. At times it sounds eerily like the soundtrack to "the monolith" from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, but the intermittent digital crackles and processing bring the listener forcefully up to the present tense. If you are interested in abstract and experimental electronic music, the Hafler Trio deliver a solid remix".

35 minutes. Originally released on CD by Icelandic label Kitchen Motors in 2001, now released on vinyl for the first time by Cold Spring.

Produced by Barry Adamson, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and Pan Sonic. The cover art features Icelandic electronic composer Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson having a brain scan performed while listening to this disc.

180g vinyl with matt card sleeve. Comes with download card.

- COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER -

OUT 25/09

COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER 'SHRINES FOR THE UNWANTED, RESPITE FOR THE CAST ASIDE' CD (CSR243CD) £9
	The triumphant reawakening of San Francisco’s masters of behemoth ritualistic darkness… Within “Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside”, bone, antler and voice produce connective threads between the worlds, as guitar and percussion punctuate shifts in mood. Voices call to the spirits, and the spirits call back in return. Recorded in 2016 during four private, collective only rituals, the pieces pull the listener through the darkest and most overgrown trails of the blackest forest. Monumental and horizonless ritualistic black ambience. Vocal visitations by A.C. Way of Sutekh Hexen. Spot-varnished digipak.
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER COMBO! BUY BOTH RELEASES FOR A SPECIAL COMBINED PRICE! COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER - 'Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside' CD (CSR243CD) COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER - 'Extinction' CD CSR219CD)
Common Eider, King Eider Autumn Tour (NL / FR / IT) 22/09, De Onderbroek, Nijmegen (NL) 24/09, We Hate Rock N Roll #3, L'auréole, Tincques (FR) 26/09, Terminus Bar,Rennes (FR) 28/09, LE 17,St-Etienne (FR) 30/09, L’Homme Sauvage Festival,Le Bois Perché, Aspet (FR) - with La Breiche 04/10, Volume, Milan (IT) 05/10, BLAH BLAH, Turin (IT) 06/10, TBA, Grenoble (FR)

- VISIONS OF DARKNESS -

OUT 25/09

VARIOUS ARTISTS 'VISIONS OF DARKNESS (IN IRANIAN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC)' 2 x CD (CSR242CD) £10

A gathering of majestic, heavy, dark ambient, ritual, drone and noise music from Iran. Highly original and monolithic, with stunning production, Visions Of Darkness stands shoulder to shoulder with the giants of the Dark Ambient scene.

In a country where youth culture has been heavily restricted for so long, it’s significant when a cultural form such as this has an opportunity to reach a wider audience – aided by the abstract nature of dark ambient, drone and noise. In comparison, the dance music scene has a harder time taking root in Iran due to the illegality of men and women dancing in public together. However, the growth of the experimental electronic scene is going to be about more than a mere novelty reaction to a political paradigm shift. The darkness here is a consequence of the mood of the artists – darker after the country was put on a black list and more restrictions were applied to many things, including monetary transactions to and from Iran. As a consequence, Iranian artists have a great difficulty getting the resources to better develop their projects. Despite this, the enthusiasm and will for Iranian musicians to promote their music shines through.

Artists: Ali Phi, Alphaxone, Anunnaki Signal, Crows In The Rain, Downtown Of HongKong, DSM, Hossein RangChi, idft, Limen, Mehdi Behbudi & Vahide Sistaani, Narcissa Kasrai, Nojan, Nyctalllz, Poo Yar, Reza Solatipour, Rhonchus, Saint Abdullah, Soheil Soheili, S.S.M.P., Xerxes The Dark, XSIX.

- TREPANERINGSRITUALEN -

LTD BLOOD RED VINYL - OUT NOW!

TREPANERINGSRITUALEN 'PERFECTION & PERMANENCE' LP (CSR198LP) £16
	Trepaneringsritualen explores themes of religion, magick and the hidden realms of consciousness, taking its musical cues from the old school of ritual ambient & death industrial. Rhythmic and seething at times, and oozing forward with a creeping sense of desolation at others, Trepaneringsritualen conjures forth bleak but mesmerizing visions of the end-times. "Perfection & Permanence": a hymn to Isis; a further exploration of the duality of the holy harlot, the black skinned Magdalen, mother and concert of the Christ; Yeshua Ben Yosef, son of MAN; the shameful dead, those who sold their brothers, condemned to forever roam the earth; to transgress the abyss, to mortify flesh, towards cosmic renovation. It is lonely, it is awful; on the verge of physical death, but still unable to understand; absolute perfection may be attained through WILL. A conversation with angels, in archaic tongues; Eiríkr inn Sigrsæli sold his blood and kin to desert rats for corporeal power. Eirikr, we spit on you.; from across the abyss, it rises. Ceaseless, blood-churning, terrible; an incoherent accusation by the mirror image, he who's blood was shed to atone another man's sins. Without bloodshed there can be no salvation. Ltd x 500 copies on blood red vinyl.
"...a perversely satisfying experience. With Perfection & Permanence, Ekelund has created that most chimeric of beasts: an accessible, even what some might say commercial, noise album. The shadowy world of power electronics and by extension death industrial can be tough for a novice to navigate, but Trepaneringsritualen makes for an excellent starting point." (Pitchfork)"

- PENNY RIMBAUD'S KERNSCHMELZE II -

OUT NOW!

PENNY RIMBAUD'S KERNSCHMELZE II 'CANTATA FOR IMPROVISED VOICE' CD (CSR239CD) £10

Kernschmelze: ‘the dying gasps of the Age of Enlightenment’. 'Kernschmelze II' is a cantata for voices, in this case the voice of CRASS songstress EVE LIBERTINE, processed by CHARLES WEBBER to almost choral proportions. Working on Kernschmelze II alongside Eve Libertine, PENNY RIMBAUD has been able to produce a classic album on a par with their ‘Acts of Love’ of 1984 (Crass Records). Libertine’s sparse, vulnerable poetics counter the almost Wagnerian scale of the work, challenging preconceptions of what music should be and making strong suggestions as to what it might yet become. Extreme electronics sourced solely from vocal sounds to create noise music of an intense and highly demanding nature. Ecopak with artwork by GEE VAUCHER.

PENNY RIMBAUD COMBO:

BUY BOTH RELEASES FOR A SPECIAL COMBINED PRICE! £16

PENNY RIMBAUD'S KERNSCHMELZE II - 'Cantata For Improvised Voice' CD (CSR239CD)

PENNY RIMBAUD'S L'ACADÉMIE DES VANITÉS (CRASS) 'Yes Sir, The Truth Of Яevolution' CD (CSR223CD)

- KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI -

OUT NOW!

KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI 'KOSMOGONIA' CD (CSR238CD) £10.50

Unnerving, intense, bloodcurdling, sinister, dramatic - the music of "Kosmogonia" features Penderecki's famous, unorthodox instrumental techniques, and some of the darkest music ever composed.

Hailed by The Guardian as "Poland's greatest living composer", Krzysztof Penderecki is the maestro behind the unforgettable, disturbing music on The Shining (including 'De Natura Sonoris No. 2', featured here). A complex tapestry of sound with striking use of pizzicato and flexatone, with aggressive barrages from brass and percussion, dissonant woodwind chords, spoken and hissing sounds, fervent strings, swirling organ, climactic choral and solo vocals.

Krzysztof Penderecki's unique music has featured in films such as: The Shining, The Exorcist, Children Of Men, The People Under The Stairs, Shutter Island, Inland Empire, Fearless, Wild At Heart, and recently featured on the Twin Peaks reboot.

Thanks to the estate of Krzysztof Penderecki, Cold Spring are honoured to present this masterpiece in digital format for the first time since the 1974 vinyl release. Sympathetically remastered for CD by Denis Blackham and Martin Bowes. 6-panel digipak.

OUT NOW ON COLD SPRING:


SUN RA \| MERZBOW 'Strange City' LP Green (CSR229LP) £16	KHOST 'Governance' CD (CSR237CD) £10.50	SHE SPREAD SORROW 'Mine' LP (CSR231LP) £14
Officially licensed from Irwin Chusid of the SUN RA estate, Cold Spring's Justin Mitchell negotiated rare and unreleased tracks from the SUN RA archive to be remixed and treated by Masami Akita. The tracks incorporate the jazz power of SUN RA, carried into brutal excess by the legendary Japanese artist, MERZBOW. This release is available in two distinct editions: 180gm green vinyl with download code (Ltd x 300) - and a matt laminated digipak CD. Please note that both formats have completely different music! Free release stickers when purchased directly from Cold Spring!	"Governance" continues KHOST's immersion in themes of detachment and dissonance. With demoralizing vocal terror, hypnotic nightmarescapes, frost-encrusted tones, and horrifying rhythms, Governance devastates the listener with nearly fifty minutes of entrancing yet hazardous tectonic doom-laced revulsion. Features guest appearances from Eugene Robinson (OXBOW), and Jo Quail, and includes a remix of the track 'Coven' by Tel Aviv artist Adrian Stainburner. 6-panel digipak.	"Mine" is the second release for the Italian artist Alice Kundalini with her solo project She Spread Sorrow. Between the dark rooms of an abandoned college, where whispers and obscene thoughts mingle, where little bells and distortions come together, the inner voices are fleeing to the rules of harmony to awaken a darker sound, hidden and deprived, of those who have something to hide. Ritual deathscapes, obscure Death Industrial, sinful Power Electronics. Ltd x 300 copies with digital download code.

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