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DRONE RECORDS ҉ NEWSFLASH ҉ NOVEMBER 2019 ҉ Dear Droners, Mind Travellers and Sound Explorers, we gladly present you the Newsflash for November 2019 (7th update this year)! In this update you find great new albums from CISFINITUM, LUSTMORD, SIAVASH AMINI, SWANS, DEATHPROD, STEPHAN MALLINDER, RAPOON, ABUL MOGARD, E. RADIGUE, A. PATERAS, FELICIA ATKINSON, KASSEL JAEGER, CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX, and many more.. but AS USUAL, SOME PERSONAL RECOMMENDATIONS from this list: DAINA DIEVA - Kas CD (Vibora) : wonderful 2nd CD (finally in stock) with most subtle / emotional drone layers by the Lithuanian performer MOLOCH CONSPIRACY - Baclou CD (Eighth Tower Records) : dark cinematic / orchestral ambience using field recordings from French Guijana MARY JANE LEACH - Pipe Dreams LP (BLUME): re-discovery of this New York drone minimalist, with two unpublished archive pieces BOURBONESE QUALK - Laughing Afternoon CD (Klanggalerie): re-issue of debut LP from 1983, most authentic political post industrial ROLAND KAYN - Scanning 10 x CD BOX (Reiger Records Reeks) : so far unpublished epic composition from the 80' s, extremely monolithic, droney, otherworldly, 600 minutes long! DEISON / MINGLE - Everything Collapse(d) LP (Aagoo Rec) : their first collaboration, extremely dense atmospheric electronica with high emotional impact Pre-orders & reservations are possible. Please note the PRICES with your order! Most of the titles listed are in stock, others are backorderable quickly. All prices are in EURO and do NOT include postage & handling costs! Usually the minimum order amount is 25 Euro. The FULL mailorder-backprogramme is viewable (with search- & orderfunction) on our website www.dronerecords.de . Please send your orders & all communication to: [email protected] The Listening / Streamling URLs are NOT viewable anymore for all items in the e-mail as it leads to a higher activity of Spam filters. Sorry! BEST DRONES !! BarAka[H] NR. TITLE FORMAT LABEL & CAT-NR YEAR? SHORT INFO / EDITION / LIM.?/ SPECIALS PRICE the promising dark ambient project from New York on a new collaboration with Swedish DÖDSAPPARATEN (known also from the CD as "dB/Mz" on Silken Tofu) - the ultimate mixture of death industrial and dark melancholic ambience, 1 AJNA & DÖDSAPPARATEN - Seasons CD Reverse Alignment RA-46 2019 sucks you in! - " 'Seasons' form a synthesis of Ajna's murky isolationism with €12,00 Dödsapparaten's harsher industrial expression making way for a musical story that highlights the darker sides of life. Ultimately being a dedication to a lost friend." - lim. 200 copies third LP for this rising and favoured 'experimental / orchestral ambient drone' artist from Teheran / Iran, inspired by the "other night" conception of MAURICE BLANCHOT, focusing on the special consciousness state between sleep, dream 2 AMINI, SIAVASH - Serus LP ROOM40 - RM497 2019 and being awake ("body and mind in an in-between state")... - the album gets life €26,00 and (e)motion from this contradiction, mirroring the interchange of somber moods with moments of harmony and relief, totally suspended in the nocturnal dark.. comes with DL code re-issue of this Italian dark ambient masterpiece from 1999 (third album from AMON, shortly released after the DR-29 "Aura" 7" on Drone Records), comes Eibon Records AMN017R / now with a full bonus CD of live material (9 pieces) from various concerts - "Dark do-CD Silentes Minimal Editions 2018 3 AMON - The Innermost Legacy ambient with unearthly and ghostly melodies + unidentified sound sources" - if €15,00 SME 1868 you're into the new wave of CYCLIC LAW or REVERSE ALIGNMENT acts, this is a great addition of an early dark ambient jewel.. poetic and introspective ambience (waving synths, piano, bells, soft crackles + found sounds..) with soothing and fascinating effect through the whispered and spoken lyrics, the whole feels like a moony +half surrealistic, tender sensual 4 ATKINSON, FELICIA - The Flower and the Vessel do-LP Shelter Press SP110 2019 massage, the musical part could be compared to ANDREW CHALK for example... €29,00 "The album’s 11 songs span a vast pantheon of whispering textures, opaque moods, and surreal spoken word, leading the listener through a mirrored hall of beguiling mirages.." - black vinyl version 1 more unreleased sculpture recordings from BERTOIA's archive, which was now fully opened to issue his earliest recordings, the CD version has one extra track !! " Like his sculptures, Bertoia never titled his recordings but frequently referred to CD Sonambient FW1035CD 2019 5 BERTOIA, HARRY - Experimental I / Mechanical I specific concepts he was pursuing. These are among the earliest known €15,00 examples of Bertoia using terms which would become more common in the years to come: 'experimental', 'mechanical' " -After putting ARCANA to rest in the past year, "Peter Bjärgö has now channelled his creative energy towards his solo works. On what is now his 4th full length solo 6 BJÄRGÖ, PETER - Structures and Downfall CD Cyclic Law 141st Cycle 2019 album, we are granted a calm, thoughtful and at times somber aural voyage. €13,00 Melodic atmospheric guitar work, lush string arrangements and slow, heavy percussive rhythms are present and elevated to new heights. - ed. of 500 rare cassette-only release by the 'experimental / low-fi dronescapes' duo, 7 BJERGA / IVERSEN - Empire of Dirt MC Abandon Ship Records 2007 recorded live in Amsterdam April 2007; lim. 100, C-41, full-colour cover, red €9,00 cassette, ONE second hand copy (VG+) in stock second LP (after 'Assembly' co-released by RRRecords, 2015) by the exceptional noise & power electronics project of Seattle-based ARVO ZYLO, with stunning studio material collected over 10 years, feat. many guests such as DAN BURKE 8 BLOOD RHYTHMS - Civil War LP + BOOK No Part of It 2019 (ILLUSION OF SAFETY), DAVE PHILLIPS, BRUCE LAMONT (YAKUZA, €35,00 BLOODIEST), WYATT HOWLAND (SKIN GRAFT), etc.. - we got few copies of the ART edition (lim. 100) with gatefold cover and 44 page foll colour book, on RED vinyl first ever re-issue of the first LP (1983) by UK (post) industrialists BOURBONESE QUALK - one of our favourite albums from that time as it contains such a great variety of material (13 tracks), always changing between aggression / rhythms, CD Klanggalerie gg312 2019 9 BOURBONESE QUALK - Laughing Afternoon dark moody stuff and spheric melancholia... combined with a radical political / DIY €14,00 approach without dogmas.. the CD re-issue has three rare bonus tracks from the same period. Definitely one of the re-issues of the year !! nerve-bending noise improvisations and dynamic suspenseful developments by BEAT KELLER (customised feedbacker guitar), GREGOR SIEDL (clarinet and Attenuation Circuit ACU electronics), and CAO THANH LAN (electronics and prepared zither), not for the 10 CAO KELLER SIEDL - Modulus of Resilience CD 2019 €12,00 1010 faint hearted... 8 live- and studio tracks, recorded in Switzerland and Austria - "The modulus of resilience is defined as the maximum energy that can be absorbed per unit volume without creating a permanent distortion" the third and final album by the project of CHRIS CARTER, COSEY FANNI TUTTI and NIK COLK VOID - "The rhythms, created by Chris Carter, formed the Conspiracy International foundation and starting point from which the process began of melding the live 11 CARTER TUTTI VOID - Triumvirate CD 2019 €13,00 CTICTVCD2019 instrumentation of Cosey Fanni Tutti and Nik Void’s searing guitars, vocals, effects and the arsenal of sounds each had amassed from a variety of sources, some sounds manipulated to extremes, all fed into the mix.." different from the "Circle of Days" circle, this rare (so far only on cassette) album has two side-long, untitled tracks, more floating and synth-based, ebbing and MC Faraway Press 2019 12 CHALK, ANDREW - Paradise Lost flowing in smooth melancholic textures, feat. the voice of NAOKO SUZUKI (the €13,00 wife of DAISUKE SUZUKI) for the first time... prof. colour cover and tape (C-40) back in stock this most intense / dramatic and epic Musique Concrete work ("monster")- composed 1997/98: 'Ausufernde Electro-Akustik und Musique CHION, MICHEL / LIONEL MARCHETTI / JEROME Concrete der drei französischen Komponisten, wo sich Kriegs/Kampf-geräusche, 13 do-CD Fringes archive 03 2003 €15,00 NOETINGER - Les 120 Jours orientale Gesänge, Stimmen und found sounds und massenhaft konkrete Geräusche aller Art zu einem dynamischen, intensiven Ganzen vermengen.. ein wahrhaft monumentales Werk!' [Drone Rec] a new project with ANDREW CHALK, plus: TOM JAMES SCOTT (known from the awesome LIBEREZ) and ECKA MORDECAI on Cello - 12 miniatures of extreme 14 CIRCAEA - The Bridge of Dreams LP Faraway Press FP 033 2019 impressionism... "Birds love the woods - If you are not a bird - you will not know €18,00 its truths - A quiet life is much the same. - How would anyone know it - without living it ?" Zhelezobeton ZHB-LXXVII / on 7. Sept 2018 DMITRY VASILYEV, legendary Russian writer, curator and label- CD 2019 15 CISFINITUM - Monochrome Aquarelist aquarelist 47-19 / owner (MONOCHROME VISION) drowned forever in the ocean waves near €12,00 2 KultFront KF-XXXV Sevastopol (Krim) => long time friend and earliest Russian industrial project CISFINITUM dedicated this remarkable poly-rhythmic release to him, "an alchemical fusion of angelic chorales and dub techno pulsations" using middle age chorals, non-square rhythms, and conceptual links to the Pyramid of Giza and alchemist John Dee, thus forming a complex eulogy.. the second album for this French doom industrial