Wednesday 24 November 2010

Symbiosis - 2008 - Slavine

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Cold Ambient

Country: Italy 

Label: Frozen Landscapes Productions 

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 102 mb 

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About Release:

After a handful of demos and split recordings, the Italian ambient project of Valerio Orlandini released his debut album, 'Slavine' through Frozen Landscapes Productions at the end of 2008. Slavine similarly to previous outputs is wintry themed dark ambient music with both the typical ambient drone parts, but also with plenty of melody and some piano sections too. Occasionally the album does have some epic like tendencies though far from bordering on any martial qualities. Vocals also briefly appear though as just whispers and if your not paying full attention to the music you'd be likely to miss them. However there spoken in Italian anyway so in my case I guess it doesn't matter much since I don't understand the language (unfortunately). The album generally carries a melancholy feeling to it and of course the music is rather cold in character. For example its not hard for me to picture myself wandering through a forest covered with snow or just imagining large mountains among endless landscapes, but then again as I write this review I find myself staring out the window looking at a fresh batch of snow falling from the sky above me. I can easily say this is an album built for the winter season and one that I'm sure would sound great via headphones while in nature or perhaps whilst just driving around slowly taking in the snowy landscapes. All in all at forty four minutes and produced quite well too, Slavine is a beautiful and a stunning debut release for Symbiosis. If you've enjoyed past Symbiosis releases or if you also enjoy artists like Vinterriket or even Ildjarn's ambient excursions then I'm quite sure you'll find much to love on this album.

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Beyond Sensory Experience & Moljebka Pvlse - 2009 - Zielona Góra

Release type: Split

Style: Industrial/Ambient

Country:  Sweden

Label: Ur Muzik

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 160 mb 

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About Release:

First release out on "Ur Muzik", new Polish label founded by Greg Siedlecki (the man behind Horologium). This is a collaborative work by Beyond Sensory Experience and Moljebka Pvlse. Both bands were invited in April 2008 to play a concert in Zielona Gora, Poland. After the concert the two bands joined together on stage and recorded the raw material for this release. This material was then taken to chilly Stockholm and reworked by the artists. The result is a monumental, 70 minutes long, dark ambient work that unifies the excellence of Beyond Sensory Experience and Moljebka Pvlse's worlds.

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Beyond Sensory Experience - 2008 - No Lights In Our Eyes

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Industrial/Ambient

Country:  Sweden

Label:  Cold Meat Industry

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 130 mb 

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About Release:

After months of long Nordic nights, intense recording sessions and creative outbursts Beyond Sensory Experience release No Lights In Our Eyes on which they further develop their characteristic and much commended sound. The examination of life that began on Pursuit Of Pleasure and The Dull Routine Of Existence advances and now focuses on death and the subconscious sides of life. Musically, No Lights In Our Eyes ranges from coldest minimalism to the darkest orchestral eruptions, becoming an addictive stimulus for your inward eyes. Expect first class dark atmospheres with a distinctive BSE twist!

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Tuesday 23 November 2010

Beyond Sensory Experience - 2006 - The Dull Routine Of Existence

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Industrial/Ambient

Country:  Sweden

Label:  Cold Meat Industry

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 139 mb 

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About Release:

n The Dull Routine of Existence, the Swedish duo Beyond Sensory Experience find themselves carefully scrutinising the conventions of everyday life applying an impressive new take on their characteristic experimental dark ambient. This time delivering dark, complexly melodic and rhythmic waves of sound that penetrates mind and body. In short, this is BSE at their very best.Beyond Sensory Experience was formed in Uppsala, Sweden in 2001 by Drakhon and K. Meizter. The Dull Routine of Existence is their second release on Cold Meat Industry, after starting their journey with four albums on the Italian label Old Europa Café.6-panel digipak!

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Henrik Nordvargr Björkk & Beyond Sensory Experience vs. Kenji Siratori - 2006 - Hypergenome666

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Industrial/Ambient

Country:  Sweden

Label:  Old Europa Cafe

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 216 mb 

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About Release:

These 2 great scandiniavian dark-industrial projects lead by MZ.412 members are here making an excursion in Kenji Siratori acid world made of encrusted blood & semen, made by all the information in the universe plus several bits from other dimensions!

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Beyond Sensory Experience - 2005 - Pursuit Of Pleasure

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Industrial/Ambient

Country:  Sweden

Label:  Cold Meat Industry

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 131 mb 

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About Release:

With Pursuit Of Pleasure Beyond Sensory Experience takes yet another leap into the unknown, deepening the all-embracing concept of their 2003 trilogy, with an accentuated focus on life in general and Advanced Human Sexuality (AHS) in particular. On this release a pattern that permeates the history of time is investigated without blinders. Beyond Sensory Experience delivers a characteristic blend of haunting dark ambient soundscapes, experimental electronics and arcane dialogues, which set the listener on an unforgettable musical and scientific journey.The Swedish duo Beyond Sensory Experience started back in 2001 when Drakhon (MZ.412, Nordvargr/Drakh, L/A/B) joined forces with the scientist/artist K. Meizter. After a series of critically acclaimed releases on Old Europa Café (Italy), BSE has now moved on and made their first release on Cold Meat Industry.

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Monday 22 November 2010

Beyond Sensory Experience - 2004 - Korrelations

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Industrial/Ambient

Country:  Sweden

Label:  Old Europa Cafe

Format: MP3@CBR, 256 kbps

Size: 112 mb 

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About Release:

The production of the anounced special box was cancelled and replaced by the 4th CD in the BSE series with unreleases BSE material plus remixes by Mr. Nordvrgr, Alk0, Do Shaska, Alexxx & more.... This disc integrates and close the BSE first CD series completely produced on OEC ...Coming as usual in ver stylish digipack !

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Beyond Sensory Experience - 2003 - Urmula

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Industrial/Ambient

Country:  Sweden

Label:  Old Europa Cafe

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 112 mb 

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About Release:

Second part of a trilogy produced during 2003 ! Those recordings are the result of an intense creative process performed in the nordic absence of sun. It takes off where Tortuna ended, spiralling further down the dark ambient soundscapes. Wonderfull dark ambient sounds with exoterical inspiration from Mr. Drakh (star of MZ.412) & the scientist K. Meizter. Digipack plus booklet in the same vain of the 1st album!

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Beyond Sensory Experience - 2003 - Ratan

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Industrial/Ambient

Country:  Sweden

Label:  Old Europa Cafe

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 133 mb 

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About Release:

Third & final part of the BSE trilogy during 2003 ! It takes off where Urmula ended, spiralling further down the dark ambient soundscapes. wonderfull dark ambient sounds with exoterical inspiration from Mr. Drakh (star of MZ.412) & the scientist K. Meizter , digipack plus booklet in the same vain of the 1st & 2nd album!

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Beyond Sensory Experience - 2003 - Tortuna

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Industrial/Ambient

Country:  Sweden

Label:  Old Europa Cafe

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 121 mb 

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About Release:

Beyond Sensory Experience (BSE) is an ambitious project created by Drakhon (MZ. 412, Nordvargr/Drakh, Al-Wahaar Dhin) and K. Meizter. With their first release "Tortuna", BSE delivers a unique album, which is a tasteful blend of dark-ambient soundscapes, calm organic melodies, looped voice samples and rhythmic superstructures. The entire album is draped with suppressed noise and flavored with Drakhon trademark guitar-art. Tortuna is a fifty-two minute journey that twists your imagination and alters your perception leaving you with a warm but latent massive feeling.  After each listen you will find yourself ending up in a different place with a totally new perspective. This is the first part of a Trilogy to be released in one year !

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Sunday 21 November 2010

Sturmpercht - 2009 - Schattenlieder

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Alpine Folk

Country:  Austria

Label:  Percht

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 306 mb 

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About Release:

Three years have passed since Sturmpercht released their cult-album „"Geister im Waldgebirg"“. now the masters of ALPINE FOLK are back with their new album "„Schattenlieder - eine kleine Nachtmusik für Waldteufel und Berggeister“. The album features 20 diverse and unique songs full of alpine mystic, heathen legends and tales about strange fairies and pagan rites. "“Schattenlieder”" entrains you into deep forests, arcane mountains and dark chasms and guides you to hidden places in the depth of the central European forests, where hunters meet strange creatures from dusk til dawn. The atmosphere of the album varies between gnarled songs about creepy fairies, catchy folk hymns and dark songs about the hard life in high alpine regoins. The lyrics deal with alpine myths, forest tales and hunter sagas. “Schattenlieder” is the perfect "soundtrack" for misty autumn evenings as well as for dark winter nights. The album features a large variety of instruments and sounds: obscure, strange, folky, psychedelic, but always original and weird, in Sturmpercht's very unique way. “Schattenlieder” is a completely unpredictable album - each track is a "standalone", but contributes to the overall ambience of this alpine folk masterpiece and in the end the album creates a round, whole atmosphere. With almost 80 minutes of scary/dreamy folk songs, the album definitely sets a new benchmark within the Alpine Folk genre. On "Schattenlieder" Sturmpercht proudly introduce their new band-member: Waldwuudz alias cz of Vinterriket / Atomtrakt / Nebelkorona / Dannagoischd / Battle Dagorath... "Schattenlieder" was again supported by several Sturmpercht-friends, first of all Gerhard Hallstatt, who helped the band a lot from the beginning on, Markus Wolff (Waldteufel), Arnica, and Meri Tadic of Eluveitie. 20 songs / 78 min.

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Sturmpercht - 2008 - A Wilde Zeit

Release type: Compilation

Style: Alpine Folk

Country:  Austria

Label:  Percht

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 236 mb 

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"a wilde Zeit" is a anthology, a early-years collection of rare songs and long deleted vinyls from the inventors of ALPINE FOLK music. the CD includes most songs from early 2003 until end of 2005, except the first LP/CD "Stürm ins Leben wild hinein". "a wilde Zeit" includes all 7inches, many songs from the mLP "alpine Bann- und Segenssprüche" and several compilation tracks, as well as one unreleased song. this CD was originally released in a limited edition of 100 copies in wooden case, but due to endless requests from fans and distributers, we decided to release the album officially now, in a (partially) remastered and widely expanded version. the CD comes in a 6-side digipack with stunning artwork. "a wilde Zeit" drags You away into the dark forests around the holy mount Untersberg, with all his fairies and strange creatures. many songs are telling Alpine tales and legends from long-forgotten times. some songs are martial hymns for mountain trolls, others are drinking songs for wild hunters and creepy creatures.

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Sturmpercht - 2006 - Geister im Waldgebirg

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Alpine Folk

Country:  Austria

Label:  Percht

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 223 mb 

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About Release:

One year has passed since the Austrian / south Bavarian Alpin-Folk formation Sturmpercht released their last 7". finally now here is their long awaited new album! "Geister im Waldgebirg" is a journey through the deepest central-European forests and mountains with all their strange creatures, fairies, myths and legends. the sounds and lyrics on this album are engrained in old pagan rites and cults, in hunters-legends and in tales from darkest woods and the people living there. the songstyles vary from powerful Martial-Folk hymns, over fragile Folk-balads, to weird songs about strange people and creepy animals. several great artists supported Sturmpercht in the making of this album: first af all Axel from WERKRAUM, who is a basic Sturmpercht-member since quite a while now. it's Axels perfect guitar- and flute playing and his skillful hands in mixing, that the Folk-songs have this brilliant late 60ies/early 70ies touch now. the close Sturmpercht-friends ALLERSEELEN, SANGRE CAVALLUM and WALDTEUFEL have also recorded fantastic songs especially for this album. Allerseelen and Sangre Cavallum also contributed several sounds from their large archives and Waldteufel additionally gave his voice for "Riesenbrüder". Sturmpercht is the only Folk-band, who created their own music style named "ALPIN-FOLK", which is absolutely unique up to now. anyway if you prefer straight or weird Folk: there is no way around this album for all kinds of Folk-Lovers. this album will be your closest friend in dark and frosty winter nights!

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Sturmpercht - 2005 - Der Marsch Der Wampelerreiter

Release type: EP 

Style: Alpine Folk

Country:  Austria

Label:  Percht

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 25 mb 

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About Release:

Released in a glossy fold-out sleeve. Limited to 365 hand numbered copies.

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Sturmpercht - 2004 - Sturm Ins Leben Wild Hinein! (2007 Re-release)

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Alpine Folk

Country:  Austria

Label:  Percht

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 124 mb 

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About Release:

New edition of the long soldout first Sturmpercht album. This album is pure weird Alpine-Folk music with martial drinking-songs, alpine battle-hymns and strange fairie-tales out from the deepest Austrian and Bavarian forests, all embedded in a breath of black Monty Python humour. a pearl of pure Alpine Folkmusic!

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Sunday 3 October 2010

Sola Translatio - 2006 - Enigma

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Ambient 

Country: Italy 

Label:  Hic Sunt Leones

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 140 mb 

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About Release:

Enigma is an ambient album, with drones and dark ambient elements. Eight imaginary landscapes wavering between the earth and the cosmos, sometimes returning on the dark atmosphere of the first album, but with a few acoustic elements more clear.The album begins with some obscure and enigmatic atmospheres transitioning into more open/light tracks: looped sounds of the played cords of the zither, tubes,treated field recordings and small sounds of shells and bells add layers to the electronic magma. An intimate / introspective CD.

Labelpress / Projekt

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Sola Translatio - 2001 - Mother Sunrise

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Ambient 

Country: Italy 

Label:   Hypnos

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 171 mb 

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About Release:

"Two of Italy's most respected artists in electronic sound, Alio Die (Stefano Musso)and Opium (Matteo Zini), have combined their abilities on the album MOTHER SUNRISE. The duo, working under the name Sola Translatio, uses a sonic vocabulary that seeks to reach the human in us by speaking to our memory. Each of the eight individual tracks incorporates familiar environmental sounds with beautiful and unique electronic textures to produce an album of introspective and sensual ambient music. Each piece slowly develops its sense of place and mood and gradually colonizes the mind with an aural landscape only as varied as the intellects and experiences used to interpret this music."

ChuckVanZyl, host of Star's End radio

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Saturday 2 October 2010

Sola Translatio - 2001 - Ad Infinitum

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Ambient 

Country: Italy 

Label:      Eibon Records, Hic Sunt Leones

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 144 mb 

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About Release:

Sola Translatio is a collaborative work between the italian ambient sound master Alio Die (best known for his previous collaborations with ambient & experimental artists like Robert Rich & Vidna Obmana), and younger Italian newcomer Opium(Matteo Zini). The music moves on abstract drones, minimal rhythms, and "found sounds," rather than being spooky or boring, spreads a calming layer of gentle sound over the listener. It has a nocturnal but serene quality, and feels like the soundtrack for long quiet hours in an elegant Oriental country retreat. It evokes a place one would like to return to, rather than a nightmare from which one struggles to wake. Its a tapestry of mesmerizing low-rumbling melodies/frequencies for a deep listening, where the sounds of nature are always present.

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Thursday 30 September 2010

Five Thousand Spirits - 2007 - Synapse-Shaihulud

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Ambient 

Country: Italy 

Label:  Faria Records

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 142 mb 

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What we will have if we should mix the best works of "Bad Sector" and "Klaus Schulze", with the hypnotic-trance analogue electronic from "Runes Order" adding to this mix a deep ambient's quality? We will obtain the delightful pearl which was collected from the different and best styles of intellectual electronic music! The meeting of synthesist Raffaele Serra and Alio Die (supported this time by Zeit) create here an excellent quality of sound, in "Synapse - Shaihulud". you will find different amazing moods and a lot of aesthetic pleasure. This is the 5000 Spirits's treasure box, recomanded to all music lovers. As always, each track is accompanied with a wonderful artwork by Sara Luciani,which develop the concept of the album in the art area. Limited edition of 750 pieces

(Labelpress - Faria Records)

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Five Thousand Spirits - 2006 - Schwarzschild Radius

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Ambient 

Country: Italy 

Label:  Sempiterna Mutatio

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 126 mb 

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About Release:

The return by FIVE THOUSAND SPIRITS Schwarzschild Radius CD,second part of a series, it is an unbroken journey of great intensity that Raffaele Serra ed Alio Die have characterized with an electronic refine touch and a flood vitality, always at the threshold of a mystery's whirlpool, an electronic mantra that in these lands have already given some kind of dependance. Great second chapter after the great 'Quantum Consciousness'.

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Five Thousand Spirits - 2006 - Quantum Consciousness

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Ambient 

Country: Italy 

Label:  Sempiterna Mutatio

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 136 mb 

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After seven years of silence they are heard again. Raffaele Serra and Alio Die's Quantum Consciousness is an mysterious electronic journey (5 tracks without interruption) that, though still ambient music, comes close to '70s-era electronic cosmic music. An unbroken journey of great intensity characterized with an electronic refined touch and a flood- like vitality, always at the threshold of mystery's whirlpool. Powerful electronic mantras that in these lands have already given some kind of earthly utterance. Great artwork in gold print on dark green.

Labelpress / Projekt

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Wednesday 29 September 2010

Five Thousand Spirits - 1999 - Mesmeric Revelation

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Ambient 

Country: Italy 

Label: Crowd Control Activities

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 120 mb 

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5000Spirits is drone manipulator Alio Die's collaboration with Raffaele Serra.Together they craft a subtle, melodic study of mesmeric proportions, with are sounding delicacy not usually heard in the dark reality of Alio Die. Synth augmented silence made palpable: Five untitled tracks, no guidelines for perception (no tracks entitled, say, "Into The Mystical Valley Of Petrified Dreams", or some such concoction, which could possibly influence one's perception of the sounds incorporated therein, as opposed to the bungee drop approach of untitled tracks) except in the ears of each individual listener.Raffaele Serra and Stefano Musso (Alio Die) specialize in rich, full-bodied sonicscapes that swirl and surround, tethered to crevices in the void, whether via chips of plastic crumbling off of the drone-chiseled facing of a radiant sonic plateau (track three), or sailing on obsidian waters, the horns of nigh text inguished by wooden mallet on steel thunder strikes (track five), or simply capturing within the layered synth net, the cadences of resolute, comforting solitude (track four). A subtly powerful journey that opens the ears to the vast unexplored landscape within the mind... JC Smith

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Five Thousand Spirits - 1995 - A Tapestry For Sourcerers

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Ambient 

Country: Italy 

Label:  Sempiterna Mutatio

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 148 mb 

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This is a collaboration project with Alio Die, Runes Order and Raffaele Serra. Lowdrones beneath evocative motivic figures, with wisps of mystical synth sweeps that seem to come out of the deeper parts of the universe, bone-chilling natural sounds and summoning primitive drums, beckon us to follow on a long transcendental journey. From this point onwards, we find ourselves continually drawn into the spacious atmosphere of the music. As we float over the vast cosmic seas, unearthly sonorous monuments rise above us, piercing the dark celestial blanket, forcing an opening for the spiritual light to shine through.All is shed in a bright, while light now. All is peaceful and quiet. We have entered the world of inexistence. A wonderful out-of-body experience! TDR(Belgium)

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Alio Die & Zeit - 2007 - Raag Drone Theory

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Ambient 

Country: Italy 

Label:  Hic Sunt Leones

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 184 mb 

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Zeit is Tommaso Cimò, who teams up with Alio Die for a single, fragile,meditative track glittering with notes dripping off their respective zithers,gradually shape shifting for three seconds shy of the maximum capacity of a compact disc. Alio Die also plays psaltery and manipulates his trademark drones and loops, while Zeit commands a bowed psaltery, shruti box, and provides a slew of samples to the mix. Particularly effective are the sounds of dampened human commotion and interactio in appearing after about half an hour. Pristinely recorded(at one sitting?) in August 2006. More of that remarkably serene work of Alio Die which captures some gentle moment forever.

Stephen Fruitman (sonomu.net)

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Alio Die & Luciano Daini - 2007 - End Of An Era

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Ambient 

Country: Italy 

Label:  Hic Sunt Leones

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 177 mb 

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A project started slowly into reciprocal esteem from musical researches and alchemical and introspective approach to sounds. Quite a dark atmospheric album, where the obscurities give the proper preparation to some clear and intense moments.

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Alio Die & James Johnson - 2007 - Cube 7 - Sospensione d'Estate

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Ambient 

Country: Italy 

Label:  Hic Sunt Leones

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 153 mb 

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As a project, "Cube Music" has been produced with a utilitarian purpose, in the grand tradition of the first self-proclaimed (andliterally) ambient music, Brian Eno´s "music for airports". Alio Die and Johnson´s intent is to have an effect on the architectural spaces inhabited by humanity during its waking - and working - hours; theoffice cubical is mentioned specifically. And not unlike Eno´s initial instructions for the proper way to listen, this music is intended to be played just loud enough to beheard above the natural sounds of the space in question, unfortunately effectively ruling out most of the working class in its clattering factories and on its thunderous construction sites.Regardless of the unintended class division, Suspensione D´Estate is gorgeously performed, showcasing long, languid strokes of the viola by James Johnson. The viola is supremely well-suited to ambient, as its somewhat richer tone penetrates deeper than its spoiled celebrity cousin, the violin, and acts as both lead and resonant bottom at once.As usual, Alio Die mans an arsenal of acoustic toys and quiet noisemakers giving the landscape features, sometimes quite literally with environmental field recordings. Still, the most beautiful momentsof them all are when viola and zither meet for a moment, entwine, and then drift apart. Nothing surprising, just a single, sixty-six minute waft of awesome, ephemeral symmetry.Stephen Fruitman/Sonomu.net

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Alio Die & Saffron Wood - 2006 - Corteggiando Le Mezzi

Release type: Full-length 

Style: Ambient 

Country: Italy 

Label:  Hic Sunt Leones

Format: MP3@CBR, 320 kbps

Size: 160 mb 

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Italian soundscapist Alio Die loves to collaborate, and before getting to one of his finest solo records to date, let us pause to reflect on a couple of his finerco-piloting gigs from the past couple of years.Composedand recorded in 2004-05, with Saffron Wood playing psaltery and zither while Alio Die provides all other sound via flute, loops and field recordings (plus a piano sample borrowed from another collaborator, Festina Lente), ‘Corteggiando le Messi’ is stunning. It actually sounds like the ambient sounds have been recorded out of the ether without human interference, all very delicate and fragile. An unobtrusive and meditative suite sweetly soothing without even beingin the neigh bourhood of cloying.

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