First up it's Austrian’s  Allerseelen whom have been prying their own very strange mix of industrial, neo Folk and the avant-gard since the late  1980’s. Their set of tracks opens with Ó Coração Meu  which is wonderful weird ‘n’ groovy mix of  Residents like sampled horn stabs, accordion,  violin to  make a strange bouncing mix of world music and industrial edged sounds. Next is the equally impressive Zauberblut, which mixes an edgy and slighty  playful new wave feel, with chopping industrial air and folky sawing volin undertones. The other two  Allerseelen tracks are both good too, through the last track In vino veritas  does slip somewhat into repetitive and a little clichéd European industrial waters.

Next we get four tracks from Northern-Portuguese group Sangre Cavallum, whom  though follow on with the atmosphere from  the Allerseelen tracks  manage to carve out their own very distinctive sound which mixes together; neo folk, prog rock, a surreal almost Eurovision vibe , magic mushroom fairground tinged air and soundtrack elements. Often  some of the musically moments/ themes here could easily have  come from  an 80’s  a horror or Gallio  prog/ synth soundtrack by the likes of Goblin , with of course more than a little leaning towards odd folk mixed in and the often very strange Germanic vocals.

Really an excellent collaboration where the pair complement and enhance each others sounds to make a bizarre and fascinating concept album, which  can been brought in either standard Digipak  form or in a carved winebox version?!. To find out more and download samples go to this vineyard of sound.