Noir stories for the harsh winter

 

(The Midnight Ensemble is a one man Dark Jazz project from Knoxville, TN, leaded by Ken W).

 

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Danse des esprits abandonnés

 

(Dead. is a Post Punk/Industrial band from Rennes, France, founded in 2013, formed by Bernard Marie, Berne Evol and Brice Delourmel).

 

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Lebe die Qual allein

 

(Schwarzer Tag is a German Experimental/Dark Ambient/Drone band from Leipzig, formed by Schwarzer Tag and Eva Petersen; using English poetry from the last centuries, works full of loneliness, oppression and terrible foreboding are created. Eva's voice, from ethereal whisper to painful distortion, unfolds over a solitude pulse of 808 basses. Sublime noise competes with weeping guitars, strange moaning synths all underlied with deep, dark drones).

 

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Laments of the forgotten forest

 

(Ov Pain is a Darkwave/Dark Ambient/Drone band from Aotearoa, New Zealand, formed by Renee Barrance and Tim Player).

 

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The harmony of irreversible nostalgia

 

(Jonny Greenwood (Oxford, 1971) is a British lead guitarist, keyboardist, programmer and composer; he is the lead guitarist and keyboardist of the rock band Radiohead, and has composed numerous film scores.

 

Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist and a prominent player of the ondes Martenot, an early electronic instrument. He uses electronic techniques such as programming, sampling and looping, and writes music software used by Radiohead. He described his role as an arranger, helping transform Thom Yorke's demos into finished songs. Radiohead albums feature Greenwood's string and brass arrangements, and he has composed for orchestras including the London Contemporary Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra).

 

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Art without restrictions

 

(Kim Gordon is a bassist, guitarist, and vocalist born in Rochester, New York on 28 April 1953 and raised in Los Angeles. Primarily a visual artist, Gordon moved to New York City and formed Sonic Youth in 1981 with Thurston Moore (her husband from 1984–2012). Gordon also formed the musical projects Body/Head, Free Kitten, Ciccone Youth, Harry Crews, and Mirror/Dash).

 

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La tecnologia per raggiungere l'immortalità

 

(Thee Maldoror Kollective is an Italian band from Turin, Piedmont. The project started in 1991 as a Black Metal band called Funeral Fog, then changed name to Maldoror in 1997 and finally in Thee Maldoror Kollective in 2001; since the last name change they evolved in an Industrial/Avant-garde sound).

 

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Eternal flesh suffering

 

(Coil was an English pioneer band formed in London in 1983 by John Balance as a solo side project to Psychic TV, Coil developed into a full-scale musical group in 1984, when Balance cemented a partnership with Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson. Christopherson had been a founder of Psychic TV and member of Throbbing Gristle. For over twenty years Coil would be at the forefront of European experimentalism and electronic music.

 

John Balance (1962-2004) died tragically in an accident at his home on November 13th, 2004. Peter Christopherson decided that, with the passing of John Balance, Coil would not continue. Peter Martin Christopherson died 24 November 2010).

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De kwetsbaarheid van interne monsters

 

(Porcelain Mionotaurs is a Dutch project from Jason Köhnen of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble. Dark Dubstep and Breaks, heavy bass, ethnic drums sit alongsidevaried instrumentation and interludes of jazz/noize experimentalism).

 

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Våreksplosjon av det kalde havet

 

(Action & Tension & Space is a spaced out instrumental lo-fi lounge outfit from Oslo, Norway, consisting of members from bands like The Low Frequency in Stereo, Lumen Drones, Electric Eye, Soft Ride, Ape Club, Undergrünnen and the European backing band for Ryley Walker; the band is formed by Julius Lind, Ørjan Haaland, Øystein Braut and Per Steinar Lie).

 

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Legalizing abuse of power

 

(Max Richter is a German-born British composer, born 22 March 1966 in Hameln, Germany. He co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus, with which he stayed for ten years, he has worked with, among many others, Roni Size and Future Sound of London. Owner of Studio Richter Mahr).

 

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Tranen uit de diepte van de ziel

 

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

 

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Irregular refraction of sound waves

 

(Echodrone is an Alternative/Shoegaze band from San Francisco, CA, formed by Eugene Suh, Brandon Dudley, Mike Funk and  Andy Heyer).

 

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Green ethers from the southwest

 

(Beak (stylized as BEAK>) is an English Experimental Neopsychedelic Rock music band from Bristol, consisting of Geoff Barrow (Portishead), together with Billy Fuller (Robert Plant's Sensational Space Shifters) and Will Young (Moon Gangs).

 

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Postsynaptic inhibition of serotonergic receptors

 

(Fibril is an Experimental/Shoegaze/Noise band from Texas, formed by Mari Maurice, Matthew Seidel, Alton Jenkins and Matt Hudson).

 

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Versetti per i crimini del futuro

 

(Detour Doom Ensemble is a Doom Jazz act from Italy and Germany. The band was formerly founded in 2014, a fusion of members from several bands from Italy and USA: Macellaria Mobile di Mezzanotte, Colloquio, Spiteful Womb and Rosengarten. Creating dark atmospheres, persuasive and dilated, directly inspired by visions in monochromatic dreamscapes and deserts is the goal of this project, Detour Doom Ensemble pays tribute to the atmosphere of Film Noir.

 

The band is formed by María Ruvalcaba Uribe (Vocals, Lyrics, Sax),  Adriano Vincenti (Synth, Samples, Drones, Drum programming), Michele Malaguti (Synth, Guitar), Izzy Op de Beeck (Trumpet, Flugelhorn) and Giovanni Leonardi (Bass, Guitar, Synth, Samples).

 

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Серфинг на острове монстров

 

(Messer Chups is a Russian surf band formed in Hamburg in 1998 and originally consisted of Oleg Gitarkin (bass) and Annette Schneider (synths). They had several member changes and in 2003, they invited Lydia Kavina - the most famous thereminvox-player and grand-niece of its inventor - to release Crazy Price and Vamp Babes. 

As of 2016, Messer Chups is based in St. Petersburg, Russia and works as a trio consisted of Oleg "Gitaracula" Fomchenkov (formerly known as Oleg Gitarkin) on guitar, Svetlana "Zombierella" Nagaeva (formerly known as Zombi Girl) on bass and Dr. Boris (Boris Israel Fernandez) on drums)).

 

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Songs from a deadly crown

 (H6llb6nd6r is an Experimental/Drone/Noise duo from Roscoe, NY, formed by Toby Poser and Zelda Adams).

 

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Admiring the shadows of consciousness

 

(Ensemble Economique is an Experimental/Drone/Abstract project from Manila, UT, leaded by musician and mastering/mixing engineer Brian Pyle).

 

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L'eterna lotta continua

 

(The Gluts is a Post Punk/Psychedelic Rock band from Milan, Italy, formed by Nicolò Campana, Marco Campana and Claudia Cesana).

 

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Indånder drømmende aromaer

 

(Asger Baden is Danish composer, pianist and producer; he has made a name for himself as a film and TV-series composer with his atmospheric music featured in world-acclaimed productions such as “Breaking Bad” and “The Wolfpack”).

 

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Sitting on Orion's belt

 

(Black Hearted Brother is an English Dream Pop/Shoegaze band from London, formed by Neil Halstead (Slowdive), Nik Holton (HOO) and Mark Van Hoen (Seefeel)).

 

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Onóir an divinity uilíoch

 

(Maheshvara is an Irish atmospheric dark metal one-man project,  formed by  Ivan Mikhailik, who mixes elements of different music genres (Ritual/Ambient/Darkwave), and Sanskrit Texts).

 

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Essences of the wet soil

 

(Theo Travis is a British saxophonist and flautist, born in 1964 in Birmingham, England, UK).

 

 

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Scènes de la fin de la liberté

 

(Pensées Nocturnes is a French one-man avant-garde black metal band, founded by Vaerohn (Les Chants Du Hasard) in 2009).

 

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Sowing melodic seeds

 

(Beth Gibbons (January 4, 1965, Exeter, England) is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the singer of Portishead).

 

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Breezes of remote kingdoms

 

(Carla dal Forno is an Australian singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist; she is a member of the groups F ingers and Tarcar, and formerly cult Melbourne outfit Mole House).

 

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Dziecinne szlochy z zamarzniętych lasów

(Beth Gibbons (January 4, 1965, Exeter, England) is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the singer of Portishead).

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De poëzie van stille woorden

 

(Geier aus Stahl is a Dutch one-man Experimental/Post Punk project based in Rotterdam, leaded by Leonard Prochazka).

 

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Falling into dark void

 

(Vyva Mellinkolya is a musical collective out of Louisville KY created by Angel Diaz, the one permanent member. Angel is also in group known as The Achaeas with Tai Lendh and Chase Palmer).

 

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Navigating in dream labyrinths

 

(Kim Gordon is a bassist, guitarist, and vocalist born in Rochester, New York on 28 April 1953 and raised in Los Angeles. Primarily a visual artist, Gordon moved to New York City and formed Sonic Youth in 1981 with Thurston Moore (her husband from 1984–2012). Gordon also formed the musical projects Body/Head, Free Kitten, Ciccone Youth, Harry Crews, and Mirror/Dash).

 

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Sanger av snøfnugg

 

(Action & Tension & Space is a spaced out instrumental lo-fi lounge outfit from Oslo, Norway, consisting of members from bands like The Low Frequency in Stereo, Lumen Drones, Electric Eye, Soft Ride, Ape Club, Undergrünnen and the European backing band for Ryley Walker; the band is formed by Julius Lind, Ørjan Haaland, Øystein Braut and Per Steinar Lie).

 

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Голоса древних

 

(Parzival is a Russian Martial/Industrial group based in Denmark, founded in 1999, 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. The band is formed by Dmitry Bablevsky, Julia Popova, Peter Mesnickow and Tim Ellegaard).

 

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שירים מהמדבר

 

(Berry Sakharof  (ברי סחרוף) is an Israeli rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer. Sakharof was born in Izmir, Turkey on 7 July 1957. He immigrated to Israel with his family when he was three years old. Sakharof's career as a recording artist started in Belgium as an original member of the post-punk band Minimal Compact. He was half of the duo Fortis Sakharof and has released numerous solo and collaborative albums since 1991, with several reaching certified gold or platinum status in Israel.

 

Dudu Tassa (Tel-Aviv, 1977) is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter and record producer of Mizrahi Jewish descent. Besides having had a successful solo career in Israel, Tassa has been the leader of Dudu Tassa & the Kuwaitis which plays new renditions of old Iraqi and Kuwaiti songs written and composed by Tassa's late grandfather and great-uncle, Daoud and Salih Al-Kuwaity, since 2011).

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Ursprunget till sorg

 

(Six Fingered People is an Electronic/Dark Jazz crossover project from Sweden formed by Daniel Rehn Lomberg and Kim Bernhammar).

 

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Punaisen metsän taikuuteen vedoten

 

(Šamane is an Experimental/Drone/Ethereal band from Tampere, Finland, formed by Saara Šamane (vocals & bass), Aleksi Kiiskilä (guitar & oud) and Otto Heino (drums)).

 

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המסורת לא מכירה בזמנים

 

(Dudu Tassa (Tel-Aviv, 1977) is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter and record producer of Mizrahi Jewish descent. Besides having had a successful solo career in Israel, Tassa has been the leader of Dudu Tassa & the Kuwaitis which plays new renditions of old Iraqi and Kuwaiti songs written and composed by Tassa's late grandfather and great-uncle, Daoud and Salih Al-Kuwaity, since 2011).

 

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Trapping quantized photons

 

(Bloody Knives is based in Austin, Texas consisting of Preston Maddox (bass, voice, keyboards, samples, programming) and Jake McCown (Drums, noise, programming, art). The band combines the sounds of heavy punk and industrial with blurry ambient electronics, shoegaze atmospherics, and 8-bit glitches and melodies).

 

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There is an eternity to know your flesh

 

(The Midnight Ensemble is a one man Dark Jazz project from Knoxville, TN, leaded by Ken W).

 

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Opening the basement where the clowns sleep

 

(29 Niebolt Street is a Darkwave/Synth one man project from Flint, MI, leaded by Jason Messler, who is inspired by horror and sci-fi soundtracks of the 80's).

 

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In the burning heat of loneliness

 

(Black Mare is the solo Ethereal/Dark project of Sera Timms (Ides of Gemini, Black Math Horseman, Zun).

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Waiting in cold snow

 

(Vyva Mellinkolya is a musical collective out of Louisville, KY, created by Angel Diaz, the one permanent member. Angel is also in group known as The Achaeas with Tai Lendh and Chase Palmer).

 

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უნივერსალური გეომეტრიის მოდელირება

 

(Sara Stuttgart  is a Post Punk/Coldwave one man project located in Tbilisi, Georgia).

 

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Life and death in four walls

 

(Jonny Greenwood (Oxford, 1971) is a British lead guitarist, keyboardist, programmer and composer; he is the lead guitarist and keyboardist of the rock band Radiohead, and has composed numerous film scores. 

Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist and a prominent player of the ondes Martenot, an early electronic instrument. He uses electronic techniques such as programming, sampling and looping, and writes music software used by Radiohead. He described his role as an arranger, helping transform Thom Yorke's demos into finished songs. Radiohead albums feature Greenwood's string and brass arrangements, and he has composed for orchestras including the London Contemporary Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra).

 

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Being part of the eternal cycles

 

(Coil was a pioneer band formed in London in 1983 by John Balance as a solo side project to Psychic TV, Coil developed into a full-scale musical group in 1984, when Balance cemented a partnership with Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson. Christopherson had been a founder of Psychic TV and member of Throbbing Gristle. For over twenty years Coil would be at the forefront of European experimentalism and electronic music.

John Balance (1962–2004) died tragically in an accident at his home on November 13th, 2004. Peter Christopherson decided that, with the passing of John Balance, Coil would not continue. Peter Martin Christopherson died 24 November 2010).

 

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Térdelve a csatatér közepén

 

(Kraschau is an Hungarian Martial/Industrial/Neoclassical one man project leaded by Adàm Bercès).

 

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Ind i skoven af ​​genklang

 

(Asger Baden is Danish composer, pianist and producer; he has made a name for himself as a film and TV-series composer with his atmospheric music featured in world-acclaimed productions such as “Breaking Bad” and “The Wolfpack”).

 

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Kaksi aurinkoa laskemassa horisontissa

 

(Šamane is an Experimental/Drone/Ethereal band from Tampere, Finland, formed by Saara Šamane (vocals & bass), Aleksi Kiiskilä (guitar & oud) and Otto Heino (drums)).

 

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Går igenom nostalgins labyrint

 

(Six Fingered People is an Electronic/Dark Jazz crossover project from Sweden formed by Daniel Rehn Lomberg and Kim Bernhammar).

 

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