Memories; under the table.
Hidden object games; at work.
The dialect of a dialect.
Here comes the debut of OMBRA OBSCVRA, a musician from Valencian region in Europe. The artist plays with light detuning, portamento, piano, as if the world was in constant uncertainty. A relaxed base makes it possible to have an overview position, while distant bells of the night offer attention.
King Elizabeth – The Awakening (VULP-0162)
Picking up from where King Elizabeth left off in 2012 with Miami, The Awakening contains all of the mesmerizing synth hooks and passionate vocal lines you’d hope for. The sultry “Mother” and churning title track “The Awakening” are among my favorites in this dark gleam of brilliance — 7 years in the making! — that Vulpiano Records is delighted to present.
Words from the artist:
It’s been a long journey to get to this point with many songs being written and recorded but never feeling right for the time. A lot of songs were scrapped and others placed on the back burner to come back to with fresh ears. Maybe it was a quest for perfection when perfection doesn’t exist, or just falling out of love with the songs at the time! It’s all contributed to the 7 years it’s taken to complete this record.
I had a new experience with writing and recording songs for this album. I usually have a vision for the album with the songs interconnected in some way. This time, I was just writing one song at a time—the ideas were for the individual songs, I had no greater vision. I had the lyrics and the music in my mind for that song and that song only at the time, then I’d move onto the next.
Over time I realised that the songs that stood out for me fitted together as well as any other album I’ve ever made—if not better. The beauty of this is that each song can really hold its own and doesn’t need a ‘before’ song or an ‘after’ song. The process was lengthy, but then when they all did come together it was an awakening. I hope this album awakens something inside everyone who kindly takes the time to listen to it.
Cult of the Skull is an ultra aggressive, venom fueled ride straight into the blackest heart of darkness. This release is the perfect mixture of industrial mayhem combined with an all out thrash metal assault on the senses. The album’s theme revolves around the shadow government’s highly classified black project designed to dehumanize soldiers and turn them into heartless killing machines without a soul.
All tracks produced and mastered by Justin Lefebvre, in association with the Global Extreme Metal Network.
Featuring the following artists: Cyborg Kommando, Blackslider, Scorpion Frequency, Slave Unit, Electric Breathing, Brom-35, NoizeFloor, Dead Beat Project.
RELEASE DATE: March 13, 2020
GENRE: Industrial Metal, Thrash Metal
Before we revive Insectorama with the “Restart Compilation”, we decided to look back on over 15 years of published music. We listened through 81 releases, selected the best 31 tracks and put them together to a retrospektive compilation. It should present the timeless sound of dubtechno in all its facets.
This release is free as always, but you are welcome to pay what it is worth to you. All proceeds will be donated to the Ernesto`s Sanctuary for Cats in Syria aid project, which has set itself to save the animals there and give them a safe place in a country destroyed by senseless war.
ernestosanctuary.org
the story of the AleppoCatMen:
What started as feeding a couple of dozen cats in the streets soon escalated when word spread amongst the feline population of Aleppo that there were regular deliveries of food on certain street corners. Alaas dream started there. His first plan was to have a cat refuge for stray cats where he could feed and care for the many strays.
Aleppo was of course full of the media and press… more
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released February 27, 2020
all tracks released in the last 15 years on www.insectorama.de
Penultimate Anniversary Compilation that will end with the 10th volume in 2021? Who knows… difficult to say, difficult to plan. Nostress Netlabel, like many other netlabels, follows the difficult path of survival, remaining active mainly for releasing digital albums and for the “bootleg” recordings of the NN Performing catalog and maybe some special event to organize or to attend.
WE DON’T GIVE UP! WE DON’T CLOSE!
In full respect for all the artists who have chosen to take advantage of an additional channel of visibility, Nostress Netlabel, at the cost of appearing as an anomaly and / or an obsolescence, holds on. Maximum gratitude for those who follow us and who believe in small and independent reality like this.
Track Listing:
01. I
02. II
03. III
04. IV
05. V
06. VI
07. VII
08. VIII
09. Untitled 1
10. Untitled 2
11. Untitled 3
All tracks taken from EP II except for 9-11, which are from EP I and unfinished EP III.
Originally released around March-April 2019.
Track #10 added 2/25/2020.
Fabrizio Bozzi Fenu: guitar
recorded by Nicolò Terrasi
at Peintre de Lettres, Marseille
november 2019
mix and master by FBF
cover by Marta Anatra
Dedicated to everyone working to protect the Earth’s ecosystems. All proceeds we receive from this album will be donated to Earthjustice.
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released February 13, 2020
Compiled by Herbert Quain
Mastered by Colin Bennun at Stooodio Mastering
Art by Cult of Sharon
Dave & Suzan Vega Combo hit the minds,
bleak winds in the back,
rolling words of wisdom, techno style.
Out of the cold depths new art forms appear.
This year Phonocake presents sinistra,
first digitally, later on tape.
sinistra is a blend of dark ambient, techno and poetry made by
composer Daniel Williams and author Anne Seidel.
“Our aim is to head for the ritual and the hidden, and to open
everything up into a warm sonic and literary darkness. We do
not write or prepare the music for any of the tracks or material.
All performances in the combination of words and music are
improvised.” (Daniel Williams)
Track list:
01 abwesenheiten VII / stern um stern 1:51
02 ocean facile4:13
03 (is the genuine unintentional?) 4:40
04 nada te turbe 4:26
15:12 min
BONUS
05 erwartung der tiere 5:22
06 une autre presence 2:03
Written, produced and mastered by Marco Rockstroh
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released February 2, 2020
Release date: January 15, 2020.
Luis Conde (clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone)
Luis Ianes (acoustic guitars)
Carlos Vega (double bass)
Recorded by Sam Nacht on March 3, 2019 at Leandra & Vega (Villa Pueyrredón, Buenos Aires)
Mixed y mastered by Sam Nacht in April of 2019 at Estudio Libres (Buenos Aires)
Art and design by Cecilia Ivanchevich
“…los sonidos intentan recuperar una narrativa de paisajes escuchados en la arqueología de otras músicas y otros discursos. No hay fusión. En todo caso, hay una épica. Los roles de voz principal y acompañamiento se disuelven y reconstruyen, jugando entre lo idiomatico y lo diferente en busca del extrañamiento…” – L. Conde
For me, it is wonderfully bittersweet to release “Scenes from Suburbia (waag_rel136)” by Cousin Silas & Candy L so close to Candy’s birthday … I’m not sure how old she would have been if she had not lost her battle against cancer and, to be honest, it doesn’t matter … what matters is that the world and our wee community of DIY ambient musicians is considerably poorer for her not being with us.
“Scenes from Suburbia (waag_rel136)” was created in collaboration between the adorably prolific Cousin Silas and Candy, who somehow managed to fit in recording her parts to their album while running a netlabel that I, for one, was equally proud and envious of. Candy’s work ethic was unparalleled, as was her creative expression. The atmospheric expressions contained within this album are truly extraordinary, they are varied and engaging … and serve to remind us how much poorer we are for not having Candy in our midst.
This album was earmarked for release on Candy’s label – Studio 4632 – but wasn’t released due to Candy’s untimely passing. I don’t think I am alone in thinking that Candy would not have wanted it to languish on the digital equivalent of a dusty shelf, Cousin Silas certainly didn’t think so when he offered it to waag. I am proud to give this album a home and hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
A 320kbps version of this release is available here for free with a lossless version available over on Bandcamp for ‘pay what you want’.
– Thomas
All music produced, performed, recorded & mixed by Weldroid & Room of Wires.
Mastering by Weldroid.
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released February 10, 2020
“Milestones Remastered” is kind of a “Greatest Hits” compilation (total time about 80 minutes) of 15 fixed and remastered tracks (originally released 2002-2019). Album available on BONImedia and Bandcamp (https://fryvolic.bandcamp.com/album/milestones-remastered).
Fryvolic Art became quite popular using polish vintage DEFIL instruments made in Lubin (1947-2001: Dolnośląska Fabryka Instrumentów Lutniczych w Lubinie) and joining some DEFIL events, like “DEFIL – Memories Factory” exhibition in Lubin or “The Feel of DEFIL” guitar project by BONImedia (4 editions so far).
“Milestones” album is farewell release of Fryvolic Art transforming into new project: Mordor Bistro.
We are very pleased and grateful to share Huesos Secos (Dry Bones), by Mariano Rodríguez through Carbono Proyecto Records. The idea has been brewing for a long time now, but as we know, in our sound, musical and self-managed projects, if we have anything, it is the freedom to let the processes flow until the ideas and personal planets align.
It’s been already four years since we last published a disc by this guitar artist-craftsman-monk based in Bariloche for a couple of decades. It was Praise the Road, first edited by the American label Grass-Tops Recordings and currently available through his own bandcamp. Anyway, he frequently participates in various compilations that range from the experimental to specific tributes such as the recent one to Jack Rose, another of Mariano’s acoustic guitarists of reference.
In many ways inspired by the logic of the “American primitive guitar” (a term that designates a “transitional” genre according to Wikipedia, to which a legion of guitarists from pioneer John Fahey in the 50-60s, through Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho and the aforementioned Jack Rose until today), Mariano Rodríguez’s music does not focus on the technical deployment of the guitarist, but on the more spiritual or meditative dimension of it. And in connection with all this, although not as conditioning, of course, his deep Christian faith intervenes since his adherence to the theology of Third World liberation. Listen for example to Liberation Theology for beginners, described by him as a Christmas album.
Somehow the tracks that make up Huesos Secos synthesize the mental and sound journey that Mariano started with his family in southern Argentina. This experience was also rooted in half of his life living in Buenos Aires, forming part of different rock and punk bands, and projects with the excellent singer-songwriter Adrián Paoletti among others. But without a doubt his current music is an inseparable part of a Patagonia that he has made his own, resignifying a whole set of influences, which finally act as tools to establish a back and forth movement with his perception of those places of the Argentine interior and its story.
All tracks mixed, programmed by Sábila Orbe.
Insectoid Girl is a project created by Sábila Orbe. From Rancagua, Chile.
Other projects of this artist are: Filmy Ghost, Yaka-anima & Humanfobia.
