Invoking the last days prophets

Shiny cherubs lights your way to the cloud beds.

(John Zorn is an american saxophonist and composer, born 2 September 1953 in New York City, USA. He owns the Tzadik record label and has worked with a large number of experimental musicians, particularly in improvised music, modern classical music and jazz, though he has produced music in most styles. Zorn's recorded output includes records by two bands of his own, Masada (a klezmer band playing music that is often described as Jewish jazz) and Naked City (an often aggressive mix of jazz, rock and grindcore). He has also worked with musicians like Bill Frisell, Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Keiji Haino, and Bill Laswell. He has written music for television and film, which has been collected in the ongoing Filmworks series of records on his Tzadik label. Some of these are jazz-based, others are classical. He has also written several "game pieces", in which performers are allowed to improvise while following certain strucural rules. Bar Kokhba Sextet is a free/avant-garde/jazz ensemble, formed by Cyro Baptista, Erik Friedlander, Greg Cohen, Joey Baron, Marc Ribot, Mark Feldman).

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A muse broken mirror

Growls toward all matter Principles.

(Mika Vainio and Stephen O’Malley are both seminal figures in the experimental underground having established themselves in the epoch defining acts Pan Sonic and Sunn O)). Whilst they explored different worlds, one abstracted guitar drone metal, the other hard rhythms and analog atmospheres, there was always an underlying thread which bound both acts: massive blocks of sound, vast cavernous spaces, a sense of drama and the foreboding along with a deep exploration of the physical experience unlike any previously experienced). 

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True wishes to you, beloved disgrace

Past recalling every time you are awake.

(The Body, the duo of Lee Buford and Chip King continue to defy the constraints of what it means to be a “heavy” band, seamlessly combining composition or production approaches from hip hop, pop, classical, as well as rock and electronica resulting in a rich and utterly singular sound).

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Hidden pleasures of death

Seeking freedom after life.

(JK Flesh is a project/alias of Justin Broadrick of Godflesh, Final and Jesu.Intense noisy beats to crush weak souls).

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A strange world inside a burning forest

Beware of thy lights of bad presages.

(Drawing its six members from diverse musical backgrounds, Bell Orchestre has come together to form one of the most cohesive and intuitive bands making music today. It’s as if the group as a whole has tapped into a very particular, very distinct energy: like that of an approaching storm. To say they are an instrumental band is like saying El Greco was just a painter, or Frank Gehry just builds museums: it fails to capture their essence. In many ways, Bell Orchestre is the sum of not only its parts, but the sum of its influences and inspirations. Among those influences can be listed such diverse artists as Lee “Scratch” Perry, Arvo Pärt, The Penguin Café Orchestra, and Talk Talk. But like all great artists, Bell Orchestre have taken their disparate inspirations and processed and transformed them into their own work, so that it no longer sounds like a collection of influences; it sounds like nothing other than Bell Orchestre).

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Submerged in dreams

Reflected lights on quiet waters to calm down the inner beast.

(Pan•American is an USA experimental electronic music ensemble. It is the alter ego of Mark Nelson, vocalist and guitarist for the band Labradford, who first began recording under the name in 1997; a journey across the deep gold within).

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Last prey on earth before horns blows

Grim tones announcing the end of dreams.

(Paris based 4-pieces dark souls inspired by avant-garde references such as Voivod, Neurosis and Godflesh; dark dense echoes from a forbidden cave altar)

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Entering the black hole of infinity

Reminiscences from a sad wrong past time.

(The Earth King arises as a side project from Dead Man's Hill's brain Bart Piette; as DMH, it sounds as an electronic, death industrial, martial, neo-classical and post-industrial band).

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Cutting heads in dead's day

Blood is running down the drain in this night of pure hate.

(Side project from Secret Chiefs 3 former leader Trey Spruance, that blends everything from Bollywood Funk and traditional Middle Eastern sounds to Death Metal and Drum n Bass).

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Glowing metals decorating doors of suffering places

 When darkness reaches out the beyond paradises.

(Originally formed as Vlad in France in 1993 as a solo project lead by Vindsval, Blut Aus Nord are creators of a hallucinogenic universe, erasing all preconceived ideas of black metal -and extreme music in general-. Crossing out from atmospheric black, avant-garde/industrial metal to dark ambient, they share the wall-noise with p.h.o.b.o.s., a Paris based 4-pieces dark souls inspired by avant-garde references such as Voivod, Neurosis and Godflesh).

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Lethal dosis of noise

Revelations from dark entities of shades.

(Experimental and influential British band, formed in Birmingham in 1988 by former Napalm Death and Head Of David member Justin Broadrick and G. C. Green. They were one of the first bands that combined metal riffs with drum machine rhythms and are highly regarded as pioneers of industrial metal).

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Surviving into low oxigen ambience

Defraction of tears from an eye-closed angel.

(Khost are a Birmingham, UK based industrial/doom duo, headed by Andy Swan (Iroha). Since their inception in 2013, they have shared the stage with Godflesh, Final, JK Flesh, Conan, Con-Dom, Moss, Anaal Nathrakh, My Silent Wake, Empires Of Light, Goatess, OvO and more. 

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Raising noise in dogmatic beliefs

Skin furrows revealing the suffering of addictive monotony.

(JK Flesh is an illbient/noise project/alias of Justin Broadrick of Godflesh, Final and Jesu. An industrial point of view about scorn-like pathways)

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The dark forces will not help us...

Brutal nightmare into oxidative atmosphere.

(Hari Maia is a musician who lives in Brazil – Rio de Janeiro. His style varies greatly between Noise, Experimental, Power Electronics, Harsh Noise and others).

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Organic sounds created by unlive entities

 Squelching beats of a synthetic cerebral stem.

(Secret Chiefs 3 is a Trey Spruance project that blends everything from Bollywood Funk and traditional Middle Eastern sounds to Death Metal and Drum n Bass. Trey has worked with other Mr. Bungle members Danny Heifetz and Trevor Dunn as well as William Winant and Eyvind Kang just to name a few).

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Accelerating the involution of Corpus Luteum

The slow pain towards the burial of a walking companion.

(Locrian is am experimental music/drone rock band from Chicago, Illinois, USA, formed in late 2005; Mamiffer is the experimental ambient/noise music project of Faith Coloccia and Aaron Turner, from Seattle Washington).

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Tанец смерти разрушает республику

 Kissing witches in the coven deep in the forest.

(Secret Chiefs 3 is a Trey Spruance project that blends everything from Bollywood Funk and traditional Middle Eastern sounds to Death Metal and Drum n Bass. Trey has worked with other Mr. Bungle members Danny Heifetz and Trevor Dunn as well as William Winant and Eyvind Kang just to name a few

In their words: Welcome to the Mausolée Méchanique!

Here we have two new SC3 arrangements of Saint-Saëns' immortally bewitching black tone-poem for the undead. We think it can function as a kind of alternate Christmas carol. An endless parade of cheap pixar sugar plum faeries attempting to dance in our heads holds zero enchantment, whereas the winter passage through the gate of the dying sun is inherently otherworldly, and begs for a cold but lively meditation on "Mors Triumphalis". Some will have heard our initial 2012 arrangement of Danse Macabre, the one we played at hundreds of SC3 shows and on the [sold out] 2013 "Apocryphon of Jupiter/Danse Macabre 7-inch record (which represented the limit of what we can pull off as a 5-piece live band, and of which there is no digital version). Since then there have been three increasingly elaborate arrangements, hybridizing SC3 with other, larger ensembles. The mother of all these arrangements in scale and depth is the FOURTH ARRANGEMENT "Superdeluxe" (2017) on offer right here. It's a complex weave of obsessively rendered elements built upon the foundation of our own first arrangement, but now incorporating the genius work of many other voices who have contributed to the entire history of this piece. For example, harmonic inventions from Franz Liszt's solo piano version of Danse Macabre copiously pepper this arrangement, and his ideas can now be heard redistributed among the various instruments of a hugely expanded FORMS Mausolée Méchanique (which is all %100 human playing, irony intended). New contextual inspirations from some orchestrion roller organs of yore, and sonic settings from certain renderings on Mighty Wurlitzer also now find their way deeply into the maze. Read all about it in the liner notes. This arrangement also weaves elements from Liszt's "Totendanz" into the tapestry, a stunt that would require some explanation if we were to digress (and we will later on). Elements from our other previous arrangements are also present, noting especially performances from the SECOND ARRANGEMENT, which we did for the New Music Works Ensemble, conducted by Philip Collins. The "Superdeluxe" arrangement is a very comprehensive presentation that took some doing.

Which brings us to the Krasnoyarsk version. Here we have long awaited first fruits of our collaboration with the Traditional Russian Orchestra of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.

2014's Third Arrangement (also presented here) was done as part of a program of SC3 repertoire music adapted for this amazing and adventurous 61-piece Soviet-style orchestra, accompanied by SC3 as the rhythm section. The arrangement, specifically for this ensemble, bursts the whole original Mausolée Méchanique (band-clustered-around-a-Theatrical-Organ thing) wide open, and fully indulges all the opportunities of traditional Russian instrumentation (domra, balalaika, bayan, gusli etc). To accommodate this ambitious hybridization, the entire approach to the piece had to be re-imagined from the ground up, and a host of new counter lines and voicing approaches came up as a result. The recording here was made at the concert in Kansk, Siberia. More info and musical examples in the liner notes.

Track 2 Recorded on 30/8/2014 in Kansk, Russia, at the closing of the 13th International Kansk Video Festival).

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Drums behind the blue moon

A travel inside garden of delights at high cities of man's sons.

(Life Garden was formed in 1989 from the ashes of Maybe Mental whose two core members were David and Su Ling Oliphant. They invited poet George Dillon to the group, but tragically he passed away by the time when they released their debut "Caught Between the Tapestry of Silence and Beauty" (1991). Subsequently, Life Garden added Peter Ragan and Bill Yanok, who eventually departed in 1995. As Life Garden, Oliphant and company went on to release a number of simultaneously meditational, tribal, and percussive tapes and CDs, including some collaborative works with the equally as transcendent Voice Of Eye. Life Garden broke up in 1999).

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Infinite body parasites eating themselves

Catching shadows in the mirror of mortality.

(Experimental and influential British band, formed in Birmingham in 1988 by former Napalm Death and Head Of David member Justin Broadrick and G. C. Green. They were one of the first bands that combined metal riffs with drum machine rhythms and are highly regarded as pioneers of industrial metal). 

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There Is Nothing Left In This World...

 Inner apocalypse of anguished old souls.

(Brighter Death Now is the personal noisewall project of swedish Roger Karmanik, founder of Cold Meat Industry).

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A reborn in dub

Three sister silhouettes rolling across the light of knowledge.

(Based in Oakland, California, the group forges a curious alliance between middle eastern traditions and potent west coast circus, underground hip hop, breakbeat brass band, downtempo, glitch and dubstep).

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Fighting in barricades of noise

Burning flags against all aesthetic crap.

(100blumen is a punk-dnb-elektro band from Düsseldorf. Started as a rhythmic noise-dark-electro solo project by Marcel Nickels, become a three man band these days). 

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A cry from unknown soldier

Bursting blood throughout the most high battlefield.

(Joint martial industrial act of Marcin Bachtiak (Cold Fusion), Robert Marciniak (Rukkanor) and Radosław Kamiński (Ab Intra)).

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Dancing with evil souls

Sad dances to wait for winter decay.

(Secret Chiefs 3 is a Trey Spruance project that blends everything from Bollywood Funk and traditional Middle Eastern sounds to Death Metal and Drum n Bass. Trey has worked with other Mr. Bungle members Danny Heifetz and Trevor Dunn as well as William Winant and Eyvind Kang just to name a few. This record is a Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ -plus- SC3 rhythm section renditions of Saint Saens’ “Danse Macabre” (heard live lately) and Spruance’s “Apocryphon of Jupiter” (never heard). Features the Golden State Theater Mighty Wurlitzer in Monterey, CA, augmented by the band’s live magic organ rig, all played by the just-mentioned cast of «Mausolée Mécanique» mannequins)

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Nightmare in a necro-realm

Tortures souls searching for eternal rebirth.

(Belgian electronic, death industrial, martial, neo-classical and post-industrial band founded in 1998 by Bart Piette; dark tunes to wait apocalypse).

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Opening the sacred seals of death

The prophet's skull shall speak again...

(Greek Neoclassical/Martial/Ritual/Neofolk Music and Occult Philosophy band, a combination of soundscapes towards a deep and beautiful experience and even a sense of the sacred).

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Travelling across slippery spaceroads

 Exploring muddy hallways into dark cities of noise.

(Italian band, playing freejazz based on (math)rock structures. Their experimental amalgam of metal, math, no-wave, noise and electronics, led acclaimed composer John Zorn to describe their sound as "a powerful and expressive music that totally blows away what most bands do these days". In the running for the title of 'the world's hardest working band', ZU have performed over 2000 shows throughout Europe, US, Canada, Asia, Russia, Mexico and even Africa,  touring with the likes of

Mike Patton (as the Zu/Patton quartet), sharing the stage with Faith No More, Fantomas, The Melvins, Lightning Bolt, Sonic Youth, The Ex, etc. They have also collaborated with a vast number of musicians including Mike Patton, The Melvins, Dälek, Jim O' Rourke, FM Einheit (Einsturzende Neubauten), Peter Brötzmann, Eugene S. Robinson (Oxbow), Steve MacKay (The Stooges), The Ex, Thurston Moore,  Stephen O Malley, Damo Suzuki (Can), Mats Gustafsson, NoMeansNo, Joe Lally (Fugazi)).

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Marsch des totalen Sieges

(Founded in 1999, Parzival is a Russian electro-industrial group based in Denmark, which grew out of a previous project called "Stiff Miners". Heavily influenced by Kapital-era Laibach, the group creates an bombastic neo-classical music with electronic percussion, plenty of string and horn samples, and dramatic vocals mainly in german).

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Awakening of the sleepwalker

Talking to myself in total darkness.

(Charles Bobuck was co-founder of the much loved cult band, the Residents, where he was primary composer; retired from The Residents in 2015 but continued to compose for the group through 2017. In addition to his work with that band, he has recorded as a solo artist under various names including Charles Bobuck, Combo de Mechanico, Sonido de la Noche, Chuck, TAR, among others. Now he works simply as Hardy Fox.)

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Searching for bewitched messages from outside

Estochastic sounds coming outside the medium's throat.

(Hailing from Birmingham, this record mixed experimental dreampop with the most obscure growls from the vein of BBC Radiophonic Workshop, together 1960s-inspired vocals, under a heavily influence of ancient psychedelic sounds, moreover using samples taken from both library music compilations and real-life field recordings)

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Monkey is back!

After a very long rest time, travelling across life and learning about how to be happy into a monkey mood, here i am now, ready to share some strange and eclectic tunes coming out from my brain's deep depths. Here we go!