LULL - 'That Space Somewhere'
CD £9.50 - out Friday 2nd December

        

Cold Spring proudly present the first new album in 14 years from LULL - the pioneering, isolationist dark ambient project of MICK HARRIS (SCORN, FRET, ex-NAPALM DEATH).

LULL was conceived by Mick Harris in 1990, in an attempt to create music that would stretch, if not forsake entirely, the structures of conventional music by developing and exploring sound without beats.

MICK HARRIS ON LULL:

"I finally heard the way of recording, making profound sounds. Lull is purely something I can get lost in, as far as trying to create these imaginary spaces. And that's what I always tried to do - to create. I'm a lover of sounds. I love collecting sounds. Playing with those sounds using various software until I created something new from that sound. Which for me end being what I call "a droner" or "a drift", I'd use those to create a piece of music, or a sound-scape. That's what I'm doing with Lull. Just trying to create soundscapes. And to this day, still, absolutely love doing that".

THAT SPACE SOMEWHERE:

"I haven't made Lull records since 2007 so... with this pandemic, I have time on my hands. I've used that time, I think, to the best. Going to the music-room is pretty much an everyday thing to me. Which has been the best thing because I've not been able to do this since the 90's when I had various studios... Since the lockdown I had all this time on my hands and I created a lot of good music, which I'm actually happy with.

I'm a fisherman. It gives me a lot of space. It gives me immense pleasure. For me it's about going to the river. I like moving water. The seasons change, the river changes with the seasons. It clears my mind, gives me ideas, gives me the space to be by myself and with nature... just listening to the sounds around me.

LULL is quite natural for me. It's an extension of me. Drifting. Just going to darkness. Into a space. LULL is drifting and droning, discovering more and more what can be done with sound. These soundscapes hugely appeal to me".

Mick Harris interview August 2020, courtesy of Peek-A-Boo Magazine.

CD presented in a matt-laminate digipak with majestic artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja).

**COMBO DEAL** LULL 'That Space Somewhere' CD + LULL 'Moments' 2LP Brown £29 Adv.

AEOGA - 'Obsidian Outlander' CD (Aural Hypnox) - £12.50

"Obsidian Outlander" slowly weaves together a droning fabric of guitars and analogue synths that melt together with abstract sounds and field recordings. Whereas earlier works have been more holistic in nature, "Obsidian Outlander" is maybe the most narrow-focused thus far - bound only to a certain frame and concept. The album exhales its nocturnal essence upon the listener and inhales this sensory experience back into Aeoga's mythopoetical dimension, crystallizing into a vision of a vigil standing before a slowly throbbing corpsecloth, while the black loom weaves the fabric of UN-inverse-OM. Ltd x 500 copies enclosed in a customised and screen-printed Sublunar series cardboard cover, including three two-sided insert cards.

ARKTAU AON - 'Ikuisuus Näkyy Luiden Läpi' CD (Aural Hypnox) - £12.50

Thought lost and subsequently forgotten, a complete album by AIH & AIL of ARKTAU EOS and Jaakko Vanhala of ZOÄT-AON was rediscovered. This unknown chapter in the evolution of the classic Finnish ritual sound originates from sessions held in May 2005, when Arktau Eos was still unnamed, beginning work on their seminal opus 'Mirrorion' and Zoät-Aon had just released the equally influential 'Star Autopsy' CD. The album retains the original title of the sessions: 'Ikuisuus Näkyy Luiden Läpi', Finnish for 'Eternity Shines Through The Bones', and for the purpose of this release the group is named simply ARKTAU AON. Enthusiastic, youthfully vigorous and decidedly ominous ritual music. Boasting a raw but good, clear sound, 'INLL' remains unaltered save for its 2013 mastering. Second edition, Ltd x 250 copies enclosed inside a screen-printed cover, including a textual and two two-sided insert.

ARKTAU EOS - 'Catacomb Resonator' CD (Aural Hypnox) - £13.50

Every man is a catacomb resonator; our very being resounds with hidden desires, dreams of unknown origin, and deeper still, primordial voices of our buried ancestry. We are a labyrinth unto ourselves; and equally we stand as a totem-pole at the crossroads of a universe, gazing into distant horizons. We are a nameless grave from which the self divine may rise to witness new constellations light up on the darkening firmament. It is this process which the sixth Arktau Eos album attempts to convey: led by abyssal psalmody, the sonic tapestry is interwoven with dusty, crackling electronics of a bygone era and other, subtler elements for an all-enveloping sound that readily lends itself to prolonged listening sessions. Between the two segments, mixed as a seamless whole, lies the secret canticle: heard by few, yet ever present. Ltd x 423 copies enclosed in a customised, screen-printed 7" outsized 6-panel cardboard cover with booklet.

ARKTAU EOS - 'Eremos' CD (Aural Hypnox) - £12.50

"Eremos" is one of the most involved and intense creations from Finnish ritual ambient outfit Arktau Eos. While intentionally minimal on the surface, layer upon layer of subtle, haunting, and evocative sounds are slowly revealed to the attentive listener. "Eremos" aims at nothing less than the total transition of the listener to the desert realms implied by the title. Old synthesizers and ritualistic acoustic elements are seamlessly blended with even more obscure aural phenomena, including field recordings captured in Northern Finland and the untamed steppes of Mongolia. Solitude bestows its own distinct gifts upon the seeker. "Eremos" is expansive; the desert that opens before the listener is not a locus of temptations or simple retreat, but a vivid inner mindscape of dramatic confrontations and transformations between flora, fauna, stellar matter, earth, and stone. Gradually they shed away the humanness in its most banal sense, until man identifies with the scorpionic voice of power that carries to the ends of the earth - and cosmos. Ltd x 440 copies enclosed in a customised, screen-printed cardboard cover including an oversized folded insert on old paper stock.

ARKTAU EOS - 'Mirrorion (Telegnostic Edition)' CD (Aural Hypnox) - £14

A stunning reissue of the debut album by Arktau Eos, originally released in 2006. Presented in seventeen chapters that can be approached as singular gateways or a slowly unfolding journey of epic proportions, "Mirrorion" is a challenging, complex work. Born of intense private musico-magical sessions held in places abandoned by man and further refined in the temple-laboratory of the duo, it is the distillation of seven arduous months of work. As the title suggests, "Mirrorion" is the music of stellar light thrown down from the Heaven's zenith and its eldritch reflections in the depths below, uniting atavistic elemental noise with serene passages of crystalline, spectral ambience. Ultimately, "Mirrorion" seeks to surpass such earthly definitions in favour of a non-dual vision of reality, hopefully transforming the listener in the process. For this recording Arktau Eos have favoured an organic approach with majority of instrumentation being of acoustic variety, including the unearthly choral of the kanglings, piercings blasts of windbones, accelerating steel-plate rolls, singing bowl and various kinds of stringed instruments. Ltd x 493 copies enclosed in an oversized screen-printed multi-fold A5 cardboard cover, including an 8-panel booklet with historical and other additional notes, plus eight full-colour insert cards within a stamped envelope.

AURAL HYPNOX - 'Underworld Transmissions' CD (Aural Hypnox) - £13.50

Underworld Transmissions was an Aural Hypnox label series, filmed and captured on tape in the private séances held in their subterranean lodge located in Oulu, Northern Ostrobothnia. The concept was to invite artists from the Helixes collective, in different combinations, to establish through sound and movement an elemental communication. In a greater sense, apart from personal goals, these séances aimed to bring forth the seasonal currents of the lodge; the undertone of the Aural Hypnox label and the artists involved (Arktau Eos, Halo Manash, Aeoga, I.Corax, Zoät-Aon, Lingua Fungi etc). Each session was guided by a unique automatic-portal-portrait reflecting the planetary and stellar distances seen at that particular time in the lodge altar mirror-receiver. All audio was captured live on tape by using binaural recording technique. Films were captured during séances and also in the preceding and subsequent sessions that took place in Other Rooms and in the surrounding wilderness. The candles have been extinguished; transmissions completed. This second edition is housed in an oversized, screen-printed cardboard 7" cover, and includes a 16-page xeroxed booklet, plus download code. Ltd x 290 copies.

CAVERNA DELLE ROSE - 'Elysian Chants' LP Black (Slaughter In Art) - £23
CAVERNA DELLE ROSE - 'Elysian Chants' LP Blue Marbled (Slaughter In Art) - £25
CAVERNA DELLE ROSE - 'Elysian Chants' LP Green Marbled (Slaughter In Art) - £25

Vinyl edition of this fantastic album from 2021, which comes in three colour choices. Inspired by magical rituals and practices from antiquity to modern times, Caverna delle Rose stands as a liminal musical project between research and reinterpretation. Conducted by AimA (Les Jumeaux Discordants, iNsCissorS, Allerseelen), 3Evor Ameisie (Northgate, Almagest!, Camerata Mediolanense) and Diego Cinquegrana, the Caverna delle Rose project draws an anthropologically coherent sound bridge between ancient practices and beliefs and contemporaneity. "Elysian Chants", the group's first release, takes us on an evocative journey through seven Orphic Hymns (Late Hellenistic Period) and a Song of Creation. "If the veil is not torn beyond the visible, our knowledge will have been only an illusion and our existence a shadow among the shadows". Reminiscent of the spirit of The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud or Hagalaz Runedance. Comes with artcard and download code. Ltd x 300 copies on 180gm heavyweight vinyl, over 3 colourways: Black Ltd x 180, Blue Marbled Ltd x 60 copies, and Green Marbled Ltd x 60 copies. CD edition also back in stock!

COLUMN ONE - 'W.Transmission 1-5' 5 x CD Special Edition Wooden Boxset (Zoharum) - £85

This special edition features the Regular 5CD Edition in slipcase below, and is presented in a Column One insignia laser engraved WOODEN BOXSET. Also contains 3x A6 photos signed by the collective, a double-sided A3 poster, a back bag with CO logo (triple cross), 3 pins with the different symbols of the collective. Ltd x 50 copies with hand-numbered certificate of authenticity.

Price includes Registered Shipping.

STRICTLY ONE PER CUSTOMER ONLY!

COLUMN ONE - 'W.Transmission 1-5' 5 x CD Boxset (Zoharum) - £48

Presented for the first time on CD, "World Transmission" is a series of rare tracks, consolidated and performed by COLUMN ONE in chronological order to document some of its phases. This work exists as a stepping stone while its essential creators were at work.

"W.T. 1", recorded 1991-92 (released as a tape-only release in 1992), focused on the roots of COLUMN ONE that lie in a combination of coded key sounds and images, degrees and movements of immersion and subversion into their consciousness. These recordings take place without variations in a psychic Space; without raising claim of wanting to enter a musical universe. This CD also documents the first attempts to experiment with tape and sound in 1984, over previously unreleased tracks. "W.T. 2" was originally released on LP + 7" in 1993 was created with voices, violin, bells, steel, real and electronic percussion, tape-manipulation, organ whistles, accordion, xylophone, keyboards and more. "W.T. 3" was an attempt to follow the physical aura of religious architecture. It documents COLUMN ONE over two days in a church, repelling the vibrating body of this concentrated space using microphones, effects, a record player, AMP, and speakers. The manipulated sounds were radiated into the room, but the key and character of the recording are to be found in the architectural presence of the church itself. "W.T.4" is the revised document of a COLUMN ONE event on 3rd April 1998 at Eimer in Berlin. Vibrations of "Ritual" materials were produced with acoustic instruments and sounds from the direct environ. Vibrations in a vault, in the centre of Berlin, with all COLUMN ONE members in white robes in catacombs scenery. "W.T.5" was recorded in August 2001 and August 2010. Under the banner of "Continuum", is the final chapter in the World Transmission series [read more about the concept of these albums].

Regular Edition, encased in an outer matt card slipcase, flood-printed on the inside, with each of the 5 albums is presented in its own 6-panel glossy digisleeve. Ltd x 150 copies.

FINAL (JUSTIN K. BROADRICK) - 'I Am The Dirt Under Your Fingernails' CD (Fourth Dimension) - £11.50

Since 1983, Justin K. Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu, Council Estate Electronics, The Sidewinder, etc.) has been producing largely solo, but sometimes collaborative, work under the FINAL moniker. Beginning as a more obviously power electronics-inspired project it has during the past two decades or so evolved into one which still retains that sonic intensity but has a more expansive sound. "I Am the Dirt Under Your Fingernails" is the latest album, comprising nine tracks each named and numbered after the album's title. "IATDUYF" violently pushes us through a murky world of suffocating textures, crepuscular guitars, serrated noise and what appear to be random bursts of sawmill grind which together create the perfect backdrop to today's newscape. This is a relentless sound that's absolutely unforgiving as it hammers home anger and despair with little respite, illustrating very clearly that JK Broadrick has been one of the very few to contort the uncompromising approach of early power electronics into wholly new and contemporary forms rife with greater possibilities. Ltd x 400 copies in a digipak.

HALO MANASH - 'Elemental Live Forms MMV - Initiation' CD (Aural Hypnox) - £14

"Elemental Live Forms MMV - Initiation" is a recording of the first public Halo Manash live ritual, and also a complete, previously unreleased work in itself. The work was presented only a single time, also being the only time the four involved personae of the group performed together as one. The live ritual, recorded over a decade ago in Tampere, Finland, focuses on the boundless elemental form returning from metaphysical pilgrimage - it bridges the worlds of being and non-being. Ash and antler, blood and bone, drum and drone, tree and metal collide to create an intense audial journey between worlds - one of re-birth, initiation, and primal thundering. Much more than a mere live recording, this seminal work is now finally released in a package as an object of power. It was handmade in the underground Aural Hypnox laboratories, featuring various guiding sigils, inserts and historical notes from the Halo Manash archives. Ltd x 444 copies enclosed in an oversized screen-printed A5 cardboard cover including a booklet, 4-panel xerox-insert and eight, two-sided insert cards within a stamped envelope. A work of sublime beauty!

HALO MANASH - 'Haudattujen Valvoja' CD (Aural Hypnox) - £13

The material on this Halo Manash album weaves together the sacred meetings of the group over the course of four years. The sonic portals in "Haudattujen Valvoja" are all authentic live recordings captured in the group's private Temple Hwaar. Slowly submerging, distant hymns performed mostly through self-made instrumentation and found Otherworldly Roots, with all instruments manipulated live through amps, cabinets and amplified speakers. Compared to earlier Halo Manash albums, the resurrected resonances in "Haudattujen Valvoja" lean towards a more unpolished yet flowing elemental sound. The elemental, rhythmical language of "Haudattujen Valvoja" fosters a shimmering yet haunting haze, that guides the perceptive listener far from the domain of conscious and logical mind towards the subliminal realms where the posture of Aqua-Aurorae awaits. Ltd x 400 copies enclosed in a customised, silk screen-printed cardboard cover, including an 8-panel booklet and four, two-sided insert cards.

KLEISTWAHR - 'Common Values' CD (Fourth Dimension) - £11.50

"Common Values", Kleistwahr's 13th album, gathers six cuts that on one hand continue Gary Mundy's (RAMLEH) penchant for exploring more serrated sonic landscapes and, on the other, keep those in check with a tempered approach to atmospherics that this time round is widened further by almost kosmische-like curdled organ playing, electronic swirl, psychedelic guitar mainlined from one of Saturn's outer rings, and occasional haunting yet despairing vocals that are more pronounced than ever before. "Common Values" is a title itself that simultaneously commands empathy as well as a wry nod towards the irony at work. If anything serves as a common thread in all of Gary's work then it's not only in his love of stratospheric sounds, but also this deep sense of anguish due to hoping things will improve whilst knowing that humanity is its own worst enemy. "Common Values" sounds both like a basic recognition of a quality most individuals are possessed with whilst they tear each other apart because of perceived differences or a disagreement over fundamental truths, illuminating this more than ever. Ltd x 300 copies packaged in the classic Broken Flag-style mini-gatefold LP style sleeve, with photography by Chris Low.

KLEISTWAHR - 'Do Not' LP (Fourth Dimension) - £17

Limited edition reissue of an ultra-rare Broken Flag cassette (BF52), by Gary Mundy of Ramleh's longstanding solo endeavour, originally released in 1986. Unavailable for over 30 years, this is a must-have record by all those with an interest in Ramleh and their offshoots, the Broken Flag archives or, more broadly, anything from this fertile period in noise / avant--garde music from the basement. Ltd x 300 copies with insert. Mastered by Sion Orgon. Artwork by Gary Mundy and Puppy38.

Both Kleistwahr vinyl have the same cover image, but with different back print.

KLEISTWAHR - 'Mobility' LP Single-Sided (Fourth Dimension) - £14

Limited edition reissue of an ultra-rare Broken Flag cassette (BF27), by Gary Mundy of Ramleh's longstanding solo endeavour, originally released in 1983. Unavailable for over 30 years, this is a must-have record by all those with an interest in Ramleh and their offshoots, the Broken Flag archives or, more broadly, anything from this fertile period in noise / avant--garde music from the basement. Ltd x 300 copies with insert. Mastered by Sion Orgon. Artwork by Gary Mundy and Puppy38.

KLEISTWAHR SPECIAL OFFER - 'Do Not' LP + 'Mobility' LP Single-Sided (Fourth Dimension) - £29

Buy both vinyl above for a special combined price - and save on overseas shipping!

Both Kleistwahr vinyl have the same cover image, but with different back print.

SUDDEN INFANT - 'Lunatic Asylum' LP (Fourth Dimension) - £18

Sudden Infant - Joke Lanz, with Christian Weber on bass, and Alexandre Babel on drums - lays on a battery of electronics, loops, field recordings and samples to complement mostly semi-spoken vocals. Short bursts of angular flex are heavily propelled by depth-charge rhythms, wry lyrical musings on modern living, and sensibilities hatched from years of experience in the worlds of sound art, abstract music, and industrialised junk-noise. "Lunatic Asylum" depicts a world in absolute disarray as the seams binding it together slowly fall apart to reveal jesters whose best attempts to glue everything back in place are built on bigger lies more transparent than ever. Meanwhile, citizens of the developed world turn on each other, with their descent into an ignorance nourished by half-baked cultural nuggets pre-packaged and sold as great and awe-inspiring work. Everything has to be recorded, photographed and shared as brain cells are decimated by false ideals, propaganda, exaggerated lifestyles. Such are the snapshots that resonate as "Lunatic Asylum" takes some well-aimed swipes at the human condition of the 21st Century. Features a fantastic guest appearance by Franz Treichler (The Young Gods). Artwork by Joke Lanz, Martin Baumgartner, Selma Marhaug, and design by Lasse Marhaug. Comes with release artcard.

UNFYROS - 'Alpha Hunt' CD (Aural Hypnox) - £12

The debut album of Unfyros delivers a unique mixture of old-school, mid-tempo black and heavy metal with a strong emphasis on dark, hypnotic and menacing atmospheres, through captivating, eerie melodies and haunting passages. The songs culminate on mind-altering dissonant guitar riffs, minimal yet heavy bass lines and powerful, bestial drumming. These all have been tied together by subtle synth tapestries and raspy vocals flowing out like an obscure black swarm of ghost daggers. Listen how the luminous darkness is calling and devouring One and All. Unfyros was founded in 2018 by Anti Ittna H (Hexvessel, Arktau Eos, Aeoga). Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak with 16-page booklet.

ZOAT-AON - 'Star Autopsy' CD (Aural Hypnox) - £12.50

Beautiful reissue of the debut release from Zoät-Aon (aka Jaakko Vanhala), originally released in 2005 and out of print for many years. The album presents nine multi-dimensional dark ambient tracks which range from radiant textures, mesmerizing and swirling soundscapes to dense, crushing walls of sound and hidden abstract melodies. By using conventional instruments, alongside various sound generating devices, such as analogue synthesizers and samplers, vocals and other carefully chosen sonic objects, Zoät-Aon (manages to create a unique, dynamic and truly enigmatic and expansive atmosphere that continuously spirals further towards the unknown areas of consciousness. Ltd x 477 copies enclosed inside a silver screen-printed, black matt cover, including a screen-printed booklet and an insert card.

ANDREAS RESCH - 'Requiem' CD (Weird Amplexus) - £7

Andrea Resch was one of the two members of the legendary Mynox Layh. "Requiem" is a genuinely unusual, sinister work of morbid atmospheres... disorienting as though waking from a nightmare. Immense, striding, sumptuous string arrangements create a majestic and inspiring atmosphere. A highly recommended "opera" in the vein of In The Nursery and old Laibach. There are no other words which could possibly describe the endless feeling of the album. This remastered edition features four bonus tracks taken from the soundtrack to Resch's short film "Orphéa". Ltd x 500 copies.

CHRISTIAN MARCLAY / OKKYUNG LEE / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - 'From The Earth To The Spheres Vol. 6' CD (A Silent Place) - £7

Reissue of the ultra limited eponymous LP from 2005. Performer / turntabilist Christian Marclay and cello improviser Okkyung Lee's track is the result of a live performance recorded at Tonic NYC in December 2003. Lee's powerful cello's stabs interact with Marclay's waves of screaming sounds creating a unique, stunning scenario. One of their heaviest conceptions to date, MCIAA's piece is built on electric guitars' strings moaning onto walls of space drones and electronics like ectoplasmic presences emerging from the brilliance of the Void. MCIAA's need of a non-finite "space music and art" aesthetics research has led them to etch a ghost track (instead of the final lock-groove you can find on the original vinyl) to un-seal the sounds from their actual support. Textured digisleeve.

JENNIFER GENTLE - 'A New Astronomy' CD (A Silent Place) - £7

Re-issue of the ultra rare 2005 Sub Pop release (Ltd x 100 copies), now in a digipak. This album is dedicated to Giovanni Paneroni, amateur astronomer and misunderstood genius. "A New Astronomy" is probably the most eccentric and out-there JG release to date. Recorded mostly in Marco Fasolo's bedroom on a 4-track cassette machine, the album was conceived as the imaginary soundtrack for some of their most bizarre, vivid dreams - obviously interspersed by the occasional nightmare. It's made by grainy, hallucinated musical scores trying to depict the beautiful, the scary, the annoying and the simply absurd inhabiting dreams. It runs the gamut from ghostly ambient drones to brain-damaged acoustic sketches, covering everything in between - furious guitar freak-outs and a homage to Joe Meek included.

JFK - 'Weapon Design' CD (Fourth Dimension) - £11.50

Reissue of the 2018 vinyl album from Ramleh's Anthony Di Franco (AX, Ethnic Acid, Novatron), whose long-running solo JFK project has been dedicated to the kind of concrete-mixed rhythmic pummel countless others would almost kill for since the cassette network culture of the 1980s. It's an immersive sound that, naturally, shares a little common ground with Ramleh yet emphasizes the monstrous chasms that can be drawn from a sturdy combo of bass-churn and galvanized beats. Whilst the labyrinthine textures beamed in from steelworks remain very much suggestive of a charred psychedelia twisted way beyond any stupid hippie dream, JFK's work remains hewn with a distinctive edge at once uncompromising and agile enough to pull you in without the slightest hint of a protest. Music perfect for the age always hinted at when younger by pessimistic sci-fi films that we sometimes appear to be living in. Ten devastating tracks of pure electronic mayhem - including 2 bonus tracks, exclusive to this CD edition. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / MATS GUSTAFSSON - 'Cosmic Debris Volume IV' CD (A Silent Place) - £7

CD reissue of the fourth volume in the ongoing "Cosmic Debris" series of split ART-LP releases set up by the Opalio brothers, aka MY CAT IS AN ALIEN (MCIAA), on their own Opax Records. This time the space improv duo from Torino, Italy, shared one side of a vinyl with Swedish radical saxophonist MATS GUSTAFSSON. On his track 'I Have Not Set Any Time Limits For The Attempt' Gustafsson plays tenor and slide sax, weevil sax, and electronics. In MCIAA's 'Everything Burns Like Cosmic Debris' the space brothers play astral and cosmic guitars, vocals, mouth harmonica, space toys and burning percussion. Digisleeve.

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / STEVE RODEN - 'Cosmic Debris Volume II' CD (A Silent Place) - £7

CD reissue of the second installment in the "Cosmic Debris" split ART-LP series. California visual / sound artist Steve Roden's contribution represents the unique experience of hearing him literally 'playing' guitar chords. MCIAA deliver another piece of 'cosmic debris', centered on multilayered echoes of voice, toy piano, space drones raising from a distant horizon, and their own physical gestures performed during the recording, which reproduce themselves through the air, re-play and give birth to echoes of real time that overcomes its own essence, becoming field recording itself, mirror and spectre of its immutability. Their track entitled also features Ramona Ponzini's Japanese bells contribution. Digisleeve.

NIMH - 'The Impossible Days' CD (Weird Amplexus) - £7

"The Impossible Days" reveals Nimh's (aka Giuseppe Verticchio, also of Twist of Fate, Hall of Mirrors, Maribor, We Promise To Betray) incredible capacity to introduce us into an unique world of "concrete" sounds that sublimate the common nature. All compositions are means of communication. Concrete noises and electronic frequencies are intertwined in an homogeneous spectral process, through synthesised micro-signals, spherical electronic sequences, a cascade of treated natural sounds, lysergic ambience, discreet repetitive metallic projections, and electronic treatments... Certainly among the most environmental, cinematic albums from Nimh. An immersive trip through colourful, multifaceted sounds. Ltd x 500 copies.

PSYGRAM - 'Gehörgänge' CD (Weird Amplexus) - £7

Psygram is Siegfried Fischer (voice, accordion, samples, percussion) and Dirk Grützmann of Temps Perdu? who is responsible for real time audio processing, electronics, loops and engineering. The group started around the same time as Temps Perdu?, with the music focused on surreal ambient-industrial soundscapes and hypnotic live improvisations in a studio setting with influences of electroacoustic music. "All our music is recorded in those magic moments where emotions, dreams and technology, melt together to archive a perfect musical copy of our subconscious. All selections generated from chance processes, ranging from random sampling techniques to free form improvisation". Ltd x 500 copies.

THE NEW BLOCKADERS - 'Live at Morden Tower (Expanded)' CD (Old Europa Cafe) - £12

"Live At Morden Tower" was first released in 1983 and re-released many times through the years on many different, limited formats. This seminal work now includes as a bonus the track "Live At Anti-Fest". All tracks have been remastered for CD from the original tapes. Comes in six panel digipak with cover design featuring the original artwork and statement used for the venue at the time. An essential piece of Noise history!

"Just about every Noise artist / group on the planet has (either directly or indirectly) been influenced in one way or another by Live At Morden Tower (Ron Lessard, RRRecords). "My first listening experience of TNB was Live At Morden Tower in 1983. I marvelled at the unbelievably relentless inaccessible intensity of their sound. I became fascinated by them" (Toshiji Mikawa, Incapacitants / Hijokaidan). "The Crackle of broken amplifiers precipitates a whole new order of independently morphing soundforms, all giving shape via flashes of metallic lightening, smashed glass, trashed microphone feedback and acoustic low-end pellets that scale the walls like slugs. Gradually accruing hypnotic significance, they birth spontaneous form in the shape of textures and recur with such accumulative force, they threaten to collapse the performance under its own weight" (David Keenan). Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.

GIANLUCA BECUZZI - 'Axis Mundi' 2 x CD (St.An.Da. / Silentes) - £15.50

"From religion and mythology, axis mundi is a pathway or bridge linking Earth, Heaven, and Hell... Becuzzi combines three distinct forms of instrumentation - synthesized drones, chanted vocals (samples from actual orthodox liturgical chants, apparently), and heavily distorted guitars. Thus, you have the landscape of Earth represented in the drones, Heaven in the chants, and Hell in the guitars... as a framing for exploration of the nearly two hours of material on this album, it works... Axis Mundi is yet another excellent addition to the Becuzzi oeuvre. Comparisons to Sunn O))) and drone metal are appropriate, but Becuzzi cannot be so easily pigeonholed" (Avant Music News). Ltd x 200 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve with photography by Stefano Gentile and artwork by Deison.

SARMOUNG - 'Naart Kaachitaa' CD (Zazen Sounds) - £12

Sarmoung is a shamanic Iranian band based in Berlin. Ancient sounds and rites performed by Persian primitive and rustic oriental instruments and movements. "When the tantric sound of a thousand years of Calendrical Rituals rattle in our ears, we started to sing through the cathartic experience, discharging grief, fear, anger, and love. To blow into the horns of historical blackout and initiate the nocturnal dance to ascent into the magical trance and joy which was the way of ancient rites. To set the sky on fire but never leave, so that to burn and to be burned. Sarmoung echoes the flares which were kept alive for centuries and awakens the lost memories of archaic wisdom of Shamans and the dark sages, so the glare shall destroy the false desires and nourish the chaos, thus the order rise again out of its womb. To plant the Tree of Life which is rooted in death". Naart Kaachitaa is a collection of musical tales inspired by the oldest Shahnameh, the Iranic Book of Kings called 'Stories of Nar' from the now Ossetian region in the Caucasus. The music is a narration based on Allanian text, Scythian breathing techniques, and Sarmatian healing methods. Digipak.