In the lands of eternal punishment

 

(Five the Hierophant is an instrumental Experimental rock/Metal/Dark Jazz band from London. The band was formed around 2014 by Chris Hancox, Krzysztof Włodarski and Mitch Barret).

 

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Die Störungen des Äthers streicheln

 

(German-Sorbian musician and composer Carolina Eyck was introduced to the theremin by her parents at the age of 7. She took her first theremin lessons with Lydia Kavina.

 

After her debut in the Berlin Philharmonie in 2002 she has been invited to concerts and festivals around the world. It was not long before she was known as one of the best theremin soloists worldwide.

 

At the age of 16, Carolina developed a new precise playing technique, called the 8 finger position technique. She published the first extensive theremin method book entitled "The Art of Playing the Theremin" in 2006.

 

With this technique the player is able to tune the theremin to their hand and rely on their finger positions, rather than correcting notes after they are audible. This method is now being used by thereminists around the world and has revolutionized how the instrument is played.

 

In 2016, Carolina began touring her solo Theremin & Voice program. She breaks new ground by using a surround sound system, allowing her theremin to break free and fill the space. Loops and choirs developed on stage fly through the room in sync with the movements of her dance-like performance. Balancing between minimal and progressive electronic music, Carolina's melodic and partly fixed composition style leaves plenty of space for her virtuoso improvisations.

 

Her transcription of Ennio Morricone's "The Ecstasy of Gold" got more than 15 million views online. Carolina has released several solo albums, including "Elegies for Theremin & Voice" (2019) and "Thetis 2086" (2022).

 

Over the years, Carolina has collaborated with various musicians, conductors, ensembles and symphony orchestras, such as Fazil Say, Heinz Holliger, Michael Sanderling, Gürer Aykal and Brad Lubman, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Bern Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Argentine National Symphony Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.) and Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg.

 

Carolina has performed in concert halls around the world, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., MONA (Museum of New and Old Art) Tasmania, Konzerthaus Berlin, Bozar Brussels, Rudolfinum in Prague, Großes Festspielhaus Salzburg, Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK) Buenos Aires, Teatro National de Guatemala and Centro Gabriela Mistral Santiago, Chile.

 

In 2006, Carolina won the International Competition for Composers arranged by Radio/TV Berlin-Brandenburg for her orchestral composition "Sciciani".

 

In 2015, she received the German Echo Klassik in the category "Concert Recording of the Year (20th/21st century music)" for playing the Theremin Concerto "Eight Seasons" by Kalevi Aho, conducted by John Storgårds and played with the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, published in 2014 by BIS records).

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Amintiri care ies din frig

 

(Katharos XIII is a Romanian Black/Experimental/Ambient band; they started as experimental Black Metal band and turned into a Dark Jazz/Doom-Black Metal band, now they are formed by Manuela Marchis (vocals), F. (guitars, keyboards, vocals), Sabat (drums), Alex Iovan (tenor saxophone) and Hanos-Puskai Péter (bass)).

 

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Ερευνώντας τα βάθη του μυαλού

 

(Solar Music Library is a Space/Kraut/Psychedelic/Funk Rock band from Thessaloniki, Greece. Founded in spring 2013 by Wonder Bra (Drums), Soto Moto (Bass), Kappa (Guitars/Loops/Melodica)

and prObi (Guitars/Loops)).

 

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Nell'oscurità arriva il rimpianto

 

(Last Call at Nightowls is an International musical collaborative group comprising of maestro Adriano Vincenti of Rome, Italy (Detour Doom Project, Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte, Senketsu No Night Club) and rounded out by Melbourne, Australia multi instrumentalist Terry Vainoras (Vainoras and the Altar of the Drill, Neon Dread), Giovanni Leonardi (Senketsu No Night Club) and Mexican saxophonist Maria Ruvalcaba Uribe.

 

Together they have carved out a musical language through file sharing and improvisation that encompasses dark ambient, doom jazz and noir soundscapes).

 

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Rituali dall'interno della terra

 

(Hyperlacrimae is an Italian Dark/Industrial project formed in 2016 by Nocturnerror (aka Carmine Laurenza) & 11xxx27 (aka Erminio Granata)).

 

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Using the eternal transmuting power

 

(Magic Wands is a Shoegaze/Dream Pop duo formed in Nashville, TN, by guitarists and vocalists Chris and Dexy Valentine. Based in Los Angeles, the band is known for their shimmering and dreamy sound, which incorporates elements of gothic post punk, and dark dream pop. Their music is characterized by its heavily-textured guitars, droning synths, and ethereal vocals, which are designed to create an otherworldly atmosphere).

 

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猫の月の上を飛ぶ

 

(Tokyo Shoegazer (東京酒吐座) is a Japanese shoegaze band originating from Tokyo.The band was originally formed as one-off band for the purpose of performing at Sasabuchi Hiroshi's birthday live party at Shibuya O-WEST on October 12, 2010. The original line-up was Sasabuchi on drums, Watanabe Kiyomi (Kara, Acid Android) on guitar, Yuki (Presence of Soul) on vocals and guitar, Yoshi (Presence of Soul) on guitar and the K (101A) on bass. Their songs are mostly draws element from shoegaze, post-rock, noise rock and dream pop).

 

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An unpleasant Uber experience

 

(Gazelle Twin is the stage name of Elizabeth Bernholz, a British composer, producer and musician from Brighton, England. Walling conceived the project when she watched Fever Ray perform at the 2009 Loop Festival. She noted how "her show reminded me how powerful and liberating costume is, and I became interested in the power of disguise").

 

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Eksynyt maallisten kauhujen metsään

 

(Oranssi Pazuzu is a Finnish Black/Experimental band, formed in 2007 by Jun-His (vocals, guitar), Korjak (drums), Ontto (bass guitar), Moit (guitar) and Evill (synthesizers, organ, effects). Oranssi (Orange) in the band's name refers to cosmic energy and the color of the first light rays in the Big Bang, while Pazuzu is a mythic demon of the wind, also appearing in the film The Exorcist).

 

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Для тех, кто не вернется...

 

(IC3PEAK are Nick Kostylev and Nastya Kreslina, both audiovisual artists based in Moscow (Russia). They create not music only but all the visual stuff also (photography, vj-ing, music videos, cover art & merch). Their music is a natural synthesis of analog and digital sound, deep bass, icy and sharp vocal and wailing of DIY synth in the background, while the visual part is full of noise and sugary glitch mixed with realistic and smooth minimalism).

 

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Breathing in the warm outback winds

 

(HTRK (to be pronounced as 'HateRock"), began performing in 2003 as a duo consisting of Sean Stewart and Nigel Yang, both ex-members of Portraits of Hugo Perez. Later adding vocalist Jonnine Standish, the group took on a more haunting sound; citing such major influences as the electronic music label Mego, The Birthday Party, Krautrock, David Lynch and Suicide, HTRK combined highly textured guitar noise with groove-laden basslines and profound drum machine patterns).

 

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Koordinierte Schwingungen externer Quantenorbitale

 

(Glaring is a Darkwave/Experimental/Post Punk solo project by german musician Anna Nin from None).

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កិត្តិយសដល់ព្រលឹងដ៏សប្បុរស

 

(Dengue Fever is a northamerican band from Los Angeles who combine Cambodian rock and pop music of the 1960's and 70's with psychedelic rock and other world music styles; the band was formed in the late 1990's, when keyboardist Ethan Holtzman discovered Cambodian psychedelic rock music while traveling in that country. Coincidentally, his guitarist brother Zac Holtzman had discovered the same music while working at a record store.

 

The brothers formed Dengue Fever in 2001 to perform songs recorded by Cambodian artists like Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Serey Sothea, Pen Ran, and others, most of whom died or disappeared during the Khmer Rouge regime. The band first recruited bassist Senon Williams, saxophonist/flutist David Rallicke, and drummer Paul Smith.  The band then decided to add a vocalist who could sing the Khmer lyrics of the Cambodian songs they hoped to play, and auditioned singers in the Little Phnom Penh area of Long Beach. The band selected Chhom Nimol, who had previously been a well-known singer in Cambodia before emigrating to the United States).

 

 

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In memory of wind softness

 

(Hailing from Birmingham, UK, Broadcast, formed of Trish Keenan (vocals), Roj Stevens (keyboards), James Cargill (bass), Tim Felton (guitar) and Steve Perkins (drums); Broadcast’s intimate experimental pop is fuelled with references to the work of the seminal BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Ennio Morricone or John Barry. Often associated with Stereolab in the early days, the sound of the band has developed considerably. Unfortunately, lead singer Trish Keenan died of pneumonia on 14 January 2011 at the age of 42).

 

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Opowieści o intensywnej intrydze

 

(Kroniki Filmowe Polish Library Music 1963-78 is a Polish Stage & Screen music compilation made by Polish label GAD Records).

 

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Viento frío del sur

 

(Die Noia Futuriszka is an Argentinian project of Ferrán Pont Vergés (formerly of "Rayos Catriel," "FMH," "Tecnofilia," and "Horacio Nuevatemporada"). Ferrán's musical career is extensive. His first two bands were "Martín Maguceno" and "Tamboor," both in the city of Córdoba, where he was born. Later, in Buenos Aires, he actively participated in the sonic movement, alongside Gabriel Lucena, with the trio "Rayos Catriel," a post-punk, shoegazer, and sonic act that left its mark on the scene of that decade.

 

In the early 2000s, he founded the improvisational band "FMH" alongside Lucena, Gabriel Funes, Sebastián Descarzo, Henrik Svensson, and Guillermo Barceló. Around 2010, he joined the shoegaze band "Horacio" as a guitarist. 

 

DNF began in 2005 as a solo project of ambient and noise music. He released the CD "Politikaan Foresztaatsz" under the Fuga Discos label, and a second independent digital album called "Davola." After 2020, he returned to post-punk, darkwave, and krautrock, with touches of shoegaze. That year, he released the album "Horizonte de un salón," which received widespread acclaim in the US and Europe. In 2023, he released the album "When" and presented it live in Córdoba, as part of an exhibition of his paintings that strongly correlate with the songs. 

DNF currently consists of Ferrán Pont Vergés and Diego Centurión on guitar and vocals, Un Snark on synthesizers and bass, and Rudolph Heinz on bass).

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