ritualistic – The Sound Projector

05/01/2020 Ed Pinsent

Collective Group Mind

On Égrégore (COLD SPRING RECORDS CSR271CD), we have a very convincing set of acoustic murmuring drone dredged up from the

29/11/2019 Stuart Marshall

To The Power of Three

The Empty Mirror Christian Meaas Svendsen with Nakama New Rituals NORWAY NAKAMA RECORDS NKM016 3 x CD (2019) Norwegian bass

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

30/12/2018 Ed Pinsent

Dead Can Dance

Last noted Hybryds with their compilation set The Ritual Of The Rave, which I (as a non-initiate to the dark

17/06/2018 Ed Pinsent

Love Is The Law

Three items from the Polish Zoharum label which, for a change, don’t feature Polish artistes; instead, one Swede, two French,

09/06/2018 Ed Pinsent

Dark Matters (1 of 2)

Intense ritualistic cold gloom from Common Eider, King Eider on their album Shrines for the Unwanted, Respite for the Cast

19/05/2018 Paul Khimasia Morgan

Transmogrify

Phurpa Rituals Of Bön I POLAND ZOHARUM ZOHAR 126-1 12” (2016) Led by Alexei Tegin, Phurpa are a group of

03/04/2018 Ed Pinsent

Written in pain, written in awe

Calligraphy (ANTAHKARANA RECORDS) is a fine piece of sound art assemblage from Tibetan Red, last heard in these pages with

06/01/2018 Paul Khimasia Morgan

Possession Rites

Yannick Dauby Magicien Rouch BELGIUM TANUKI RECORDS #22 Cassette (2016) The last piece I reviewed here by French-field-recordist-resident-in-Taiwan Yannick Dauby,

29/12/2017 Ed Pinsent

Ancient Harvest

Harvestman is Steve Von Till from Neurosis, the American avant-rock band who I sense have been quite successful peddling their