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06/09/2019 Ed Pinsent

Gods of War

Truly horrible black industrial death music from MZ.412 on their Svartmyrkr (COLD SPRING RECORDS CSR257) album…I had a surfeit of

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06/09/2019 nausika

Concealing a Trace of Exile: a lush ambient soundtrack for the decline and fall of Western civilisation

Lilac Pavilion, Concealing a Trace of Exile, Australia, Vienna Press, Keys to the Field 032, cassette (2019) Here is a

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04/09/2019 nausika

Hendes Bregneøjne: an inner world of nostalgia within repetitive looping piano minimalism

øjeRum, Hendes Bregneøjne, Russia, Perfect Aesthetics, AEST-040 limited edition cassette (2019) Yes, on one level this is mournful minimalist piano-loop

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02/09/2019 nausika

Seven Movements for M.R.M.: an unassuming and quiet work of brooding ambience, liquid beauty and charm

Fountains for Assisi, Seven Movements for M.R.M., Australia, Vienna Press, Keys to the Field 034, cassette (2019) Not often do

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31/08/2019 Ed Pinsent

Pleasure of Confusion

I don’t think I ever heard any records by Gallhammer, a trio of Japanese women who played their unique brand

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29/08/2019 nausika

Health and Safety (self-titled): a debut of surprisingly dark and powerful ambient melancholy

Health & Safety, self-titled, Denmark, Posh Isolation, PI-181 limited edition cassette (2017) Awww – such a woeful expression on that

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19/08/2019 Ed Pinsent

Descent into Danger

Dark and brutal electronic / voice thing from Descendeur on his Shoker Necklace (WARM #017) ten-incher…this is the French performer

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11/08/2019 nausika

Phantoms: strange yet familiar messages from an otherworldly parallel universe

Sonologyst, Phantoms, Italy, Unexplained Sounds Group, CD digipak (2019) Sonologyst is Raffaele Pezzella who runs the Unexplained Sounds Group label

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04/08/2019 Ed Pinsent

Inside The Apple

Top marks to Alina Kalancea and her album The 5th Apple (STÖRUNG str013). Spoken word recits combined with low-key, creepy

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29/07/2019 nausika

Panama Canal Left-Hand Path: serene rainforest ambient dub noise hides a dark historical secret

Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, Panama Canal Left-Hand Path, US, Hospital Productions, cassette set (2019) One of many projects of the highly

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