WITCHKISS
2018. Emerging from upstate New York is Witchkiss, a band with a heavy, crushing sound built around raw emotion, sonic poetry and a sense of longing for a life lost. Fans of a.o. Yob, Windhand and Subrosa will be..
WITCHKISS
2018. Emerging from upstate New York is Witchkiss, a band with a heavy, crushing sound built around raw emotion, sonic poetry and a sense of longing for a life lost. Fans of a.o. Yob, Windhand and Subrosa will be in..
ATIVIN
2023. Post-rock band Ativin returns from a 19-year hiatus with 'Austere', the group's most expansive and cinematic work to date. Eschewing the explosive and aggressive playing that characterizes their earlier work, ..
MAGGOT SLAYER OVERDRIVE
2023. This compilation represents a trawl through the Maggot Slayer Overdrive archives. The majority of the recordings have not previously been released in any form, although several of the tracks have found their w..
SKYFOREST
2020. 'Aftermath' is the debut album of Skyforest, the Russian solo-project which rose from the ashes of Annorkoth. Originally released on CD in 2014 through an East European underground label and distributed mostly..
DOLORANGST
2020. The Russian solo-project Dolorangst, founded in 2019, plays truly outstanding atmospheric black metal with post rock influences, recommended for fans of earlier Tiamat or Katatonia albums, as well as Austere,..
VLADIMIR CENTRAL
2021. Austere and schizoid post-war electronic compositions under mental imprisonment. Vladimir Central's self-titled release is a journey into extreme anxiety and sonic violence across eight movements. This CD-reis..
MCKECHNIE DOUG
2022. 'San Francisco Moog: 1968-72' documents a missing link in the history of electronic music, as well as the little-known moment when psychedelic music went electronic. In 1968, Bay Area native Doug McKechnie got..
CTM
2022. 'Babygirl' is the 2022 full-length by Danish cellist, singer and composer Caecilie Trier. The musical landscape moves from nostalgic popballadry through the austere pomp of a deconstructed baroque menuet for s..
MAGGOT SLAYER OVERDRIVE
2023. This compilation represents a trawl through the Maggot Slayer Overdrive archives. The majority of the recordings have not previously been released in any form, although several of the tracks have found their w..
DJEBEL ROSE SOPHIA
2022. Dark gothic ethereal mesmerising folk from the Auvergne. Somewhere between Buffy Sainte Marie's 'Illuminations,' Nico's 'Desertshore' and Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes' work, Sophia Djebel Rose gives us a first a..
FOSTER JOSEPHINE
2023. For her austere solo-album 'Domestic Sphere', Josephine Foster performs solely with her electric guitar and then subverts the usual range of her voice to embody other frequencies and sounds beyond the surfa..
BRIGHT EYES
2022. From warm folk-rock to austere electro, plaintive, earnest ballads to glacially cool guitar noise, Bright Eyes has tried on pretty much every sound that's ever inspired them, just to see if they could. Along t..
BRIGHT EYES
2022. From warm folk-rock to austere electro, plaintive, earnest ballads to glacially cool guitar noise, Bright Eyes has tried on pretty much every sound that's ever inspired them, just to see if they could. Along t..
MCKECHNIE DOUG
2023. Compared to the first volume, 'San Francisco Moog: 1968-72, Vol. 2' captures a wider range of sounds and moods, encompassing austere sonic experiments, early sequenced pulses, and melodic etudes. This second v..
MCKECHNIE DOUG
2023. Collected on one CD are both vinyl volumes of never-before-released recordings from early-era SF-based Moog explorer Doug Mckechnie. Between 1968-1972 he was hauling his finicky instrument around to perform im..
HERETOIR
2023. 'Nightsphere' is a concept album dealing with the struggle between the forces of nature and a world of machines. Humanity is in the midst of this confrontation, and the dichotomy between living as an animal am..
VLADIMIR CENTRAL
2023. Austere and schizoid post-war electronic compositions under mental imprisonment. Vladimir Central's self-titled release is a journey into extreme anxiety and sonic violence across eight movements. This CD-reis..
FOSTER JOSEPHINE
2023. For her austere solo-album 'Domestic Sphere', Josephine Foster performs solely with her electric guitar and then subverts the usual range of her voice to embody other frequencies and sounds beyond the surface ..
COSTA-MONTEIRO ALFREDO
2018. 'Endlessness' is the long-awaited, last instalment of a trilogy of pieces for electric organ by Alfredo Costa Monteiro. A follow-up to 'Umbralia' (2011) and 'Insula' (2014), this third piece comprises two part..
CONSTANTS
1978. - sunrise,hourglass,passenger,mourning,beautiful,pressure,sunset,austere,1985,crosses
WESTERLUND JANNE
2017. After 'Marshland', the darkest blues album ever released in Finland, Westerlund is trying to find some light with this 2017 solo effort. By deploying means ranging from the choral exploration of 'So Messed Up'..
WOODS OF DESOLATION
2015. 2009 was spent writing for what would become the 2nd full-length album. Desolate could no longer participate further in Woods of Desolation due to other commitments, but was soon replaced by Tim/Sorrow of Aust..
SCRATCHES
2017. 'Before Beyond', the sophomore album by this Swiss four-piece, comes across as a melancholic soundtrack reminding of Ennio Morricone. It's music to accompany an inner movie about raptures, scars, blank spaces,..
SOUNDTRACK
2015. 'The Wrong Man' was a unique project for the legendary Alfred Hitchcock. Undertaken as a flamboyant experiment with neo-realism, it differs significantly from his most famous films in both style and substance...
TREES
2010. The mysterious Portland ensemble Trees returns with their second offering on Crucial Blast, Freed of This Flesh--two fetid death rituals scraped from the crypt. Both tracks average around fourteen minutes; ex..
MALJEAN JEAN-FRANCOIS
1990. Belgian pianist Jean-Francois Maljean has been a successful solo artist for over a decade. His work combines New Age and Jazz qualities with a pop sensibility, influenced by his Belgian upbringing and full of ..
KOROBA DJELI MAH DAMBA
2013. The roots of the Malian griot, an intense dialogue with his mother for a stunning effect! Baba et sa maman (Baba and his Mother) is more than just an album of traditional Malian music. It is a tribute to both ..
PARNES LARRY
2011. As the austere years of the 1950s gave way to the Swinging 60s, Larry Parnes was transforming the pop music scene. His package tours of carefully groomed young men criss-crossed the nation in rickety coaches, ..
MAMIFFER & CIRCLE
2013. Forget what you know about the Seattle-area sound-art project Mamiffer and the Finnish hypno-rock institution Circle. Enharmonic Intervals (for Paschen Organ), the first in a proposed series of joint efforts i..
MARIE / LEPANTO
2018. Marie/Lepanto was named after the two towns, situated roughly between Southeast Missouri and Western Arkansas, where singer-songwriters Will Johnson and Justin Peter-Kinkel-Schuster grew up. The duo's full-len..
AUGER BRIAN
2018. Surprisingly, this is Brian's very first jazz piano album of his illustrious and award winning career, and marks a return to the instrument and the music that first entranced and enthralled him as a young boy...
HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER
2018. Reissue of 2010 album. M.C. Taylor recorded this spiritually devastating, austere antecedent to the widely celebrated Hiss Golden Messenger albums 'Haw' (2013) and 'Poor Moon' (2011) direct to a portable casse..
LITHICS
2020. After introducing themselves to the world with 2016's 'Borrowed Floors' (Water Wing) and throwing down the gauntlet with 2018's 'Mating Surfaces' on Kill Rock Stars, Lithics make the jump to Trouble In Mind..
IHSAHN
2017. - the barren lands,a grave inversed,after,frozen lakes on mars,undercurrent,austere,heavens black sea
CARRION MOTHER
2019. True to it's title, Nothing Remains is a crushing elegy resonating from the crypt which explodes with an eerie, prophetic warning of the coming end. In the past four years, CARRION MOTHER have come a far way i..
CARRION MOTHER
2019. True to it's title, Nothing Remains is a crushing elegy resonating from the crypt which explodes with an eerie, prophetic warning of the coming end. In the past four years, CARRION MOTHER have come a far way i..
CARRION MOTHER
2019. True to it's title, Nothing Remains is a crushing elegy resonating from the crypt which explodes with an eerie, prophetic warning of the coming end. In the past four years, CARRION MOTHER have come a far way i..
HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER
2018. Reissue of 2010 album. M.C. Taylor recorded this spiritually devastating, austere antecedent to the widely celebrated Hiss Golden Messenger albums 'Haw' (2013) and 'Poor Moon' (2011) direct to a portable casse..
O.S.T.
2016. Russian occultists Old Komm collaborate with the south Californian dons of austere electronics German Army, bringing to life the made up soundtrack to a film that never was. 'Disquiet' tells the story of a chi..
MOUNTAIN
2016. Lush sonic patterns, bold basslines and austere beats are spun into musical threads, which are woven into sonic landscapes and shape narrative arcs. Mountain a four-piece instrumental rock outfit from Villach ..
AMHARCHI OREN MARK FELL
2019. Experimental guitarist Oren Ambarchi, electronic musician Mark Fell, drummer Will Guthrie and oud-player Sam Shalabi joined forces to record this inspired meeting of the acoustic and the electronic, the compos..
THIS KIND OF PUNISHMENT
2018. On their self-titled debut, the Jefferies brothers and Chris Matthews eschew the punk-informed modes of their contemporaries for a sound that is decidedly more deliberate/intimate. Rooted in a marriage between..
SLOGUN
2020. On DOUBLE-LP, here's a reissue of Slogun's 'The Pleasures Of Death'. Featuring the austere and frightening cover with the name of forgotten killers and monolithic washes of analog synthesized grit and dust clo..
I-LP-O IN DUB
2015. 'Communist Dub' is Pan Sonic member Ilpo Väisänen's second solo album for Editions Mego. This striking release is a statement against technocracy and the erosion of human community. Whilst Jamaican d..
LITHICS
2020. After introducing themselves to the world with 2016's 'Borrowed Floors' (Water Wing) and throwing down the gauntlet with 2018's 'Mating Surfaces' on Kill Rock Stars, Lithics make the jump to Trouble In Mind..