February 14, 2023

Bright harmonies as starfires

 
(Blurred Ladies - The Female Experience In Shoegazing is a global Shoegaze compilation made by MBSR Records label).
 

Thousand and one hallucination nights

 
(The Rough Guide To Psychedelic India is a Psychedelic/Folk/World compilation made by English World Music Network label).
 

Counting butterflies on sleepless nights

 
(Screen Vinyl Image is an Alternative/Shoegaze/Darkwave band from Virginia, formed by Jake Reid and Kim Reid).

Poems for my beloved dead friends

 
(Dark Noveau is a Darkwave/Post Punk compilation made by Metropolis Label from Philadelphia, PA).
 

उच्च ऊंचाई वाले पठार से रोता है

 
(Ruhail Qaisar is a musician and producer from Ladakh, India; he explores the confines of memory, the dry rot of intergenerational trauma, and the eerie swarms of the human unconscious, incorporating vernacular concepts, poetic gestures, and improvised chaos).
 

February 13, 2023

Implosion poen/Smärta implosion

 
(Lustmord (Brian Williams, 1964) is a Welsh industrial musician, sound designer and film score composer. He is often credited for creating the dark ambient genre with albums recorded under the name Lustmord. His experimental work has been described as "not traditionally 'musical'" with "more clearly visual aspects". 
 
Karin Park (1978) is a Swedish-Norwegian singer, songwriter and music producer; her music has been described as variously "electro-goth" and "industrial-pop").
 

Nature and Man in a single entity

 
(Qrixkuor is a Black/Experimental/Death Metal from London, UK, formed by S. [Steve P.] (guitar, vocals), DBH [Dani Ben-Haim] (drums) and VK [Phil Kusabs] (bass)).
 

Почитание ведущих сущностей

 
(Phurpa is a Russian musical collective and performance group currently formed in by Alexey Tegin, Daniil Zotov and Dmitry Tarakanov, recording and playing authentic ritual music of Bon, the oldest Buddhist tradition from Tibet, using ritual instruments and special tantric singing technique.
 
Alexei Tegin, a founding member and leader of the group, started exploring and experimenting with traditional and ritual music in the middle of the 1990s, at a legendary Cardinal Art Factory (Фабрика Кардинального искусства) in Moscow, led by Vladimir Epifantsev, controversial actor, director and propagator of trash-culture. Of crucial importance was his introduction to the spiritual tradition of Bon and Dzogchen and his meeting with singing masters of Gyumay and Gyuto tantric colleges.
 
Phurpa project is named after Phurpa Drugse Chempa (phur pa 'brug gsas chem pa), one of the five tutelary deities of the Father Tantra in Bon tradition (this unique deity has a lower part of his body shaped in a form of phurpa, or kīla, three-edged peg/knife, widely used in tantric Buddhist rituals). Band members are constantly studying ancient Tibetan liturgical practices and ceremonies of Bon tradition, both theoretically and practically. 
 
Phurpa uses ritual Tibetan instruments to perform their music, which includes dungkar (horn made out of huge seashell), dungchen (three-metre-long horn/trumpet), silnuyen (flat cymbals), nga (double-sided drum), damaru (drum, made out of human skulls), kangling (human thighbone trumpet), shang (bon tambourine), rolmo (other type of cymbals), etc.
 
Queen Elephantine is a Doom/Drone Metal band formed in 2006 in Hong Kong (currently based in Philadelphia), formed by Indrayudh Shome, Samer Ghadry, Brett Zweiman, Nathanael Totushek, Ian Sims, Camden Healy, Floris Moerkamp and Buddy van Nieuwenhoven. Their sound is a nebulous worship of heavy mood and time - a pilgrimage through cosmic sludge. The shapeshifting post-apocalyptic rock band draws from psychedelia, doom, drone, and noise as well as free jazz and sacred music from around the world). 
 

Jaga nattliga lönnmördare

 
(Death And Vanilla is an Experimental/Alternative/Psychedelic band formed in Malmö, Sweden by Marleen Nilsson and Anders Hansson; they use vintage musical equipment such as vibraphone, organ, mellotron, tremolo guitar and Moog, to emulate the sounds of 60s/70s soundtracks, library music, German Krautrock, French Ye-ye pop and 60s psych).
 

Terror from the Ocean State

 
(Sightless Pit is an Industrial/Power Electronics project of duo Lee Buford (The Body) and Dylan Walker (Full of Hell) from Providence, RI. Buford and Walker are born collaborators, known for their ability to subvert musical expectations, transcend genre and plunge headlong into the unknown. The duo shares an affection for rhythm-based beat music, disparate electronic genres, dub, as well as darkly-hued atmospheric ambience).
 

Scanadh spás amuigh

 
(Nomadic Rituals are a heavy 3-piece Doom/Sludge metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Formed in 2012 by Craig Carson (bass, vocals), Peter Hunter [aka Frodo] (guitar) and Mark Smyth (drums)).
 

السفر عبر إيقاعات منسية

 
(Cosmic Analog Ensemble is the project of prolific Lebanese music producer and multi-instrumentalist Charif Megarbane, a one-man musical force who writes, performs and produces all of its creative output. With a DIY music ethos, Megarbane has crafted an inimitable style of instrumental music, a melting pot of global sounds that effortlessly glides between 1960s Italian library music, Middle Eastern psychedelia, afro-beat and hip-hop breaks).
 

Dead bodies on water

(A Witch House & Okkvlt Guide To Twin Peaks is a Witch House/Drone/Industrial/Experimental tribute compilation made by German Label Phantasma Disques, leaded by Cosmotropia De Xam, a German Musician, composer, designer and director, and well known as member of Mater Suspiria Vision, who are often recognized as pioneers of the witch house genre and visual aesthetics).

Hidden messages in the sand

 
(Sussan Deyhim (1958) is an Iranian American composer, vocalist, performance artist and activist. She is internationally known for her invention of a unique sonic/vocal language. Deyhim's music combines extended vocal techniques, digital processing, and the ancient mysticism of Middle Eastern music to create a deeply moving fusion of East and West.
 
Richard Horowitz (1949) is a film Music composer and actor from Buffalo, NY; Horowitz is well known as composer of scores as Any Given Sunday or Intersections [Collision]).
 

February 12, 2023

Dreaming into stroboscopic lights

 
(Echo Lake is an English  Dream Pop/Shoegaze band from London, formed by Thom Hill (guitar), Linda Jarvis (vocals, keyboards), Kier Finnegan (bass), Pete Hayes (drums), and Steve Green (guitar)).
 

ស្តេចគឺអមតៈ

 
(Sinn Sisamouth - Groove Club Vol. 4 is a Cambodian Psychedelic/Khmer Pop tribute compilation made by Lion Productions label.)
 

Terreur van die verste kant af

 
(Ophiuchi is a Black/Doom/Experimental band from Pretoria, South Africa (currently Utrecht area, Netherlands); its membership consists of one anatomically-modern human male.
 
By cleverly exploiting a variety of prehensile appendages, Ophiuchi arranges the sonics found in doom, sludge, black metal and folk music into a classically-derived, movement-based format. Influences include Portal, Blut Aus Nord, Tool, King Crimson and Yob).

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Ataların ritimlerini onurlandırmak

 
(Derya Yildirim is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).

Burning stars from above

 
(Ringo Deathstarr is a Shoegaze band formed in Austin, TX in 2005, formed by Elliott Frazier (guitar, vocals), Alex Gehring (bass, vocals) and Dustin Gaudet (drums)).
 

Het diepe mysterie van pijn

 
(The Lovecraft Sextet is a Dutch Dark Jazz/Black project leaded by Jason Köhnen from Bong-Ra and The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble).
 

Powołując się na świętą literę

 
(Schröttersburg is a Post Punk/Noise/Darkwave band from Płock, Poland, formed by Krzysiek, Michał Majcher and Rafał Strzemieczny).