Newslist Drone Records 31. January 2009
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DR-90: NOISE DREAMS MACHINA - IN / OUT (Spain; great electro- acoustic drones of high complexity ) DR-91: MOLJEBKA PVLSE - lvde dings (Sweden; mesmerizing magneto-drones from Swedens drone-star, so dense and impervious) DR-92: XABEC - Feuerstern (Germany; long planned, finally out: two wonderful new tracks by the prolific german artist, comes in cardboard-box with golden print / lettering!) DR-93: OVRO - Horizontal / Vertical (Finland; intense subconscious landscapes & surrealistic schizophrenia-drones by this female Finnish artist, the "wondergirl" of Finnish exp. music) DR-94: ARTEFACTUM - Sub Rosa (Poland; alchemistic beauty- drones, a record fill with sonic magic) DR-95: INFANT CYCLE - Secret Hidden Message (Canada; long-time active Canadian project with intelligently made hypnotic drone-circles) MUSIC for the INNER SECOND EDITIONS (price € 6.00) EXPANSION, EC-STASIS, ELEVATION ! DR-10: TAM QUAM TABULA RASA - Cotidie morimur (Italy; outerworlds brain-wave-music, monotonous and hypnotizing loops & Dear Droners! rhythms) This NEWSLIST offers you a SELECTION of our mailorder programme, DR-29: AMON – Aura (Italy; haunting & shimmering magique as with a clear focus on droney, atmospheric, ambient music. With this list coming from an ancient culture) you have the chance to know more about the highlights & interesting DR-34: TARKATAK - Skärva / Oroa (Germany; atmospheric drones newcomers. It's our wish to support this special kind of electronic and with a special touch from this newcomer from North-Germany) experimental music, as we think its much more than "just music", the DR-39: DUAL – Klanik / 4 tH (U.K.; mighty guitar drones & massive "Drone"-genre is a way to work with your own mind, perception, and sub bass undertones that evoke feelings of total transcendence and (un)-consciousness-processes. Music for contemplation, meditation, grandeur) sophistication. Non-Entertaining Music! DR-41: DRONAEMENT–Wassermond (Germany; debut vinyl of east german Drone-Composer; wonderful drone-music based on watersounds) DR-42: REYNOLS – 10.000 Chickens Symphony (Argentina; this NEWSLIST DRONE RECORDS obscure outfit from Buenos Aires works on the sound of – at least – 31. JANUARY 2009 10.000 chickens – an amazing & mindblowing field recording - experiment!) DR-46: REUTOFF – Reutraum IV (Russia; vinyl-debut for this trio from - VINYLS – CASSETTES – CDRs – DVDs - CDs – PRINTMEDIA – Moscow – a mixture of rhythmic industrial with dark & depressed ambient tunes, made in the heart of the decay) THIS NEWSLIST / SUPPLEMENT IS A SELECTION OF NEW DR-50: ULTRASOUND – Death comes from the left ENTRIES HAVING ARRIVED HERE IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS (Netherlands/USA; very emotional guitar drones at its best, this is pure SINCE THE LATEST NEWSLIST (DEC. 2007) . yearning transfered into sounds..) THE FULL MAILORDER PROGRAMME WITH ALL TITLES IS LISTED DR-58: URE THRALL - Premonition 9/11 IN THE DATABASE on www.dronerecords.de (USA; Californian artist creating the most impressive soundscapish depth-drones with an incredible emotional depth) PLEASE STATE PRICES WITH YOUR ORDER TO AVOID DELAYS BITTE IMMER PREISE MIT ANGEBEN ! SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA 10" VINYLS (price € 12.00 each) ALL PRICES IN EURO !! ( "EMBRACE THE UNKNOWN" ! ) SUB-02: ASIA NOVA - Magnamnemonicon 10" red-white / pink 0. AVAILABLE LABEL–RELEASES DRONE vinyl, artwork by Ure Thrall RECORDS / SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA SUB-03: NOISE-MAKER'S FIFES - Zona Incerta 10" insect-sounds! two different vinyl-colours, artwork by Mars Wellink (VANCE ORCH) SUB-04: CISFINITUM – Devotio 10” sacral church-bell sounds, The following DRONEs and SUBs are currently available: white vinyl, artwork by TILMANN BENNINGHAUS DRONE RECORDS 7”-SERIES FIRST EDITIONS (price € 7.00 each) SUB-05: BIG CITY ORCHESTRA - Drone Gnomes 10" pure acoustic DR-75: IN MEDITARIUM - Mare Internum (Ukraine; esoteric inner- impro-trance music from San Francisco's drone-magicians! cosmic / mother-womb drones, pre-symbolic surroundings attracting SUB-06: RLW - Contours Imaginaires 10" three mesmerizing high- your unconscious) tension pieces by the legendary ex-P16.D4-member DR-77: LUNAR ABYSS QUARTET - Brusnika (Russia; ethno ambient SUB-07: OÖPHOI - Potala 10" first ever vinyl by the italian deep Industrial with a shamanistic & hallucinogenic aura from this rising star ambient master, mirroring holy places from the St. Petersburg scene!) SUB-08: HUM - The Spectral Ship 10" most sensible & emotional DR-79: AALFANG MIT PFERDEKOPF - Fragment 36 (Germany: drone-ambience, sound like universal mantras experimental drone-ambience with high dynamics and philosophic approach) DR-80: RYN - Whistle and I'll Come to You (U.K.; power-drones based on field recordings to flood you mind away) DR-81: WÄLDCHENGARTEN – The Leech (Danmark; heavy-gravity drones, raw & sluggish) DR-82: PETER WRIGHT – Air Guitar (New Zealand / U.K.; guitar- mantra-drones, obscure & lovely guitar explorations & field recordings) DR-83: HELICE PIED – Conduit No. 2 (Greece; ex-NIXILX NIJILX – processed field recording-drones with symbolic & conceptual inter- relations) DR-84: YUI ONODERA - Synergetics (Japan; oceanic contemplation drones shimmering like light-reflections) DR-85: MURMER - In their homes and in their heads (US/UK/FR; captivating field recording compositions and a crazy handmade cover!) DR-86: LICHT-UNG - kristall (Germany; feedback & high-tension impro-drones from these new radical german artists) DR-87: SEETYCA - The Lake (Germany; poetic acoustic landscapes, organic drones) DR-88: HATI- Recycled Magick Drones (Poland; archaic trance music played on gongs & ethnic instruments) DR-89: SHRINE - Distorted Legends Pt.1 (Bulgaria; dream & distortion drones to look behind the surface) 1 1. VINYLS * AMBARCHI, OREN - In the Pendulum's Embrace do-LP (Southern Lord SUNNLP78, 2008) € 15.00 * AER - Project 7" (Touch Seven TS03, 2007) [lim. 500] € 7.00 Das 2007er TOUCH-Album erschien schon wenig später in edler AER ist ein neuer Name und doch nicht wirklich ein neuer Name, denn Aufmachung auf SOUTHERN LORD, dem SUNN O)))-Label! dahinter steckt JON WOZENCROFT, der seit Jahren für die TOUCH- "OREN AMBARCHIs In The Pendulum‘s Embrace (TO:78) kommt Releases die stilvolen Fotos macht & Covers designed. Sein Beitrag für daher mit wunderschönen Jon Wozencroft-Fotos als Touch-Touch. Und die neue TOUCH SEVEN 7"-Serie besteht aus sanfter aber volumiger mit nicht weniger schönen Titeln: ‚Fever, A Warm Poison‘, ‚Inamorata‘, auraler Klang-Watte & versteckten Mikro-Klangobjekten, speziell ‚Trailing Moss In A Mystic Glow‘. Verschleppte, nachdenklich- designed für Lautsprecher und Kopfhörer. verträumte, einzelne Gitarrennoten, Cymbalsirren, Glasharmonika- "Aer is the occasional recording name for Jon Wozencroft, art director drones, Atem beraubend! Ambarchi wagt sich auf Gefühlsebenen, and editor for Touch. Project began as a film soundtrack for The wie man sie sonst nur von Loren Mazzacane Connors oder Morton Overcoming of Hazard, by Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, a 3-monitor Feldman kennt. Gebannt lauscht man, bis der letzte Nachhall verklingt. installation piece presented in the crypt of St. Pancras Church in Die Töne schweben wie Löwenzahnsamen, verwehen wie Rauch- London. It uses four atmosphere recordings, shortwave radio and an kringel. Fast leichter als Luft, und doch zu schwer für ein Herz allein. organ stop -- an attempt to confuse inside and out. Mixed with Mathias Fast 18 Minuten geht das so, ein Knacken, ein Beben, ein Dahindriften, Gmachi using Digital Performer, one side is for headphone listening, the sonor, rätselhaft. Wollte man danach greifen, gar festhalten, wäre da - other for speaker playback." [label notes] nichts, das man greifen könnte. Nur ein Vermissen, ein Phantom- "...AER concocts a darkly minimal soundscape of field recordings and schmerz. Wenn er der ‚Geliebten‘ nachsinnt, pflückt Ambarchi von den hushed melody. The sounds from the street outside, footstep, voices Saiten seiner E-Gitarre noch dunklere Noten, die dahin mäandern und talking, singing, sirens, thunder (or automobile backfires, or perhaps ein Echo wie einen Schatten, wie eine schwarze Schleppe hinter sich firecrackers), interwoven with strange clicking, machine like chatter, like her ziehen. Die Töne werden etwas dichter gesetzt und überlagern sich, a spinning bicycle wheel, random clanks and clatters, room noise and auf halber Strecke kommt Streicherklang (Veren Grigorov) als other sonic detritus, while beneath it all, warm whirring melodies drift up Begleitung dazu. Es hört sich anfangs fast wie ein Akkordeon an, das from below, adding nuance and mood to what might otherwise be a Trübsal bläst. Harmonie und Resonanz breiten sich aus wie die Farben straight field recording, a rhythm way off in the distance or buried way auf Rothkobildern. Beim Track ‚Mystic Glow‘ mit seinem sonoren, fast down in the mix, is sometimes discernible, but only barely, and in fact, stehenden Dröhnen und Wummern harft der australische Melancholiker could be a trick of the ears, random sounds falling into place, creating auch noch auf einer Akustikgitarre. Und stimmt in den letzten 2 Minuten not-really-there rhythms. But it hardly matters, we hear them, and they einen Singsang an, der rückwärts zu laufen scheint. An sich ist Touch offer a sort of ghostly structure to the proceedings. Quite nice, and we kein Hort für blaue Blumen. Ambarchis Tristesse ist jedoch so can’t wait to hear more." [Aquarius Records review] mitternachtsblau, wie es blauer nicht geht." [Bad Alchemy] "OREN AMBARCHI continues his otherworldly investigations with