 |  | | Teiji Ito - The Shamanic Principles | Teiji Ito was a Japanese composer and performer who moved to New York at an early age in 1952. Mostly know for his film scores for the avant grade films of Maya Deren, as well as his mixing of rhythmic and instrumental world music elements with-in his often improvised sound. This forth volume of his work from Tzadik deals with two pieces base around the native American Indians music, Shamanism and legends.
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 |  | | EVP - The Postmortem Canticles of Necromancy | This projects name, the albums artwork (which includes a fold out Ouija board) and title suggests this is going to be either dark ambience or ritual base dark industrial grim with EVP elements. Instead this is an often quite a memorable mix of sampled symphonic elements, cinematic electroncia and beat-bound horror scapes.
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 |  | | Schimpfluch Commune Int. - Self Titled | Schimpfluch Commune Int. brings together the demented sonic minds of Dave Phillips, Joke Lanz(Sudden Infant) and Rudolf Eb.Er( Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck). To give one of the most deranged, Strange and freakish collection of sound worlds ever committed to audio, this been a reissue of the cdr album that came with their 20th anniversary box set, which is now out of print.
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 |  | | Septicflesh - Communion | Strings/ classical elements and metal have always been difficult bed-fellows with often the strings been used as a gimmick with little sonic understanding of how or where to use them, or the metal elements are too underplayed losing their power. Communion is one of the better more consistent and well rounded mix of these two dramatic and sonic powers.
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 |  | | Z'ev - Outwaard | Outwaard finds z’ev submerging the listening in brooding, sinister and dense musique concrete.The three tracks with-in are built from recordings made at a petting Zoo in Kleve Germany,though the way they’ve been manipulated has more in common with horror films than a child friendly atmosphere.
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 |  | | Robert Rich - Michael Somoroff's Illumination | The seven deep, vast and haunting ambient tracks with-in where composed for a video installation that was original performed and built around Rothko Chapel in Texas, which is also the location which modern classical composer Morton Feldman based one of his celebrated pieces around.
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|  | | KK Null - The Audio Movie-maker | For many experimental & noise fans KK Null’s sound is an instantly recognizable and distinctive mix of noise, electroncia, cinematics, improvising a...
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