Various Artists - Walking With Ghosts (2006)

Interesting compilation concept album from Paradigms.

"Presented in dvd box packaging with beautiful photography from Alexandre Rito...featuring an eclectic yet balanced collection of nocturnal music...an epic collection of mist frosted ambient, through spectral modern classical and haunting vocal composition to sorrowful slo-core and heavy atmospheric astral prog." - Label

Label: Paradigms Recordings

Tracklist:

1 And Machine Said...Behold - The Contortionist
2 Catonium - Speaking With The Dead
3 Selaxon Lutberg - Remember Or Forget (Dissolti I)
4 Escape The Day - Hallways
5 Throne Of Galaktus - Bloodcloud
6 Paul Mercer - Ghosts
7 Monarkh - Devore Par L'hiver
8 Le'Rue Delashay - Death & Rebirth
9 The Victim's Shudder - Silent When You Scream
10 The Waking Cold - Independence
11 Catonium - Marching Into Metropolis
12 Vulf Sentient - Suffer In Ignorance
13 Annastatsea - Welcome Butterfly
14 Throne Of Galaktus - Sirens
15 Visions - Vortex

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Various - Cynfeirdd Magazine: Issue 18th - Le Neuvième Printemps [2004]

1- Omne Datum Optimum :Antioche Et Autres Antépénultièmes Anti
2- The Blizzard Sow :We Are Eclipses
3- Iconae :De Ferro Et Cruore
4-Kinovia :Znemania
5- Albireon :Learning To Breathe
6- Regard Extrême :Mélodie Des Spectres
7- Irrelevant :No Sin For Lovers
8- Baroque Bordello :Voyageur
9- Neutral : Russian Saga

Limited edition of 555 hand numbered copies on card bord. Summer 2004.

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Love Is Colder Than Death - Mental Traveller [1992]

1 Fiorina (2:58)
2 Nostromo (3:36)
3 Eclogue The Third (2:42)
4 Veronensis (3:28)
5 Helvellyn (2:35)
6 Taliesin And Melanghel (3:59)
7 An Invite To Eternity (2:07)
8 The Cenobites (5:20)
9 A Chain (3:35)
10 Dear (2:09)
11 Down And Out (3:11)
12 The Bronx Of Life (5:20)

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Tearwave - A Different Shade of Beauty [2008]

1 Shattered Fairytale (4:46)
2 Holding On (5:25)
3 Nothing's Wrong (4:55)
4 Reflection (4:19)
5 The Message (5:04)
6 Falling From Grace (4:55)
7 Can't Go Home (3:54)
8 Claiming Life (4:28)
9 Under The Milky Way (4:39)
10 Read Me (5:01)
11 Love Only Makes Me Weak (4:43)
12 Ripped Apart (3:27)
13 Comfort In Angels' Wings (5:01)
14 First Time (4:52)
15 Forgettable Name (3:43)
16 Question (4:20)
17 72 BPM (3:53)
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A year after their debut, Tearwave returns with this monumental 17 song, 77 minute CD. Overflowing with passion and motion, Jennifer's soaring vocals float over guitar glaciers, letting her words flow from a very authentic place, tapping into the darkest sides of her self.


Different Shade of Beauty's huge washes of shoegazer / indie-rock / dream-pop is driven by Doug's sweeping, gauzy guitars creating a dense musical interplay with Joe's surging bass-lines and John's insistent drum rhythms. And yet, even with the beautiful layers of musical melody, it's the ghostly ethereal soprano and dark lyrics which beckons through the tracks, like a woman lost in a wintry, foggy forest.

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Various - Cynfeirdd Magazine: Issue 17th - Friendship into Decadence [2003]

1- HIDE & SEEK "The Real Taste of Honey"

2- DECADENCE "Precisely"

3- WHILE ANGELS WATCH "Medusa (ice fre mix)"

4- WEIHAN "Balders Hellevart"

5- OTHILA "Yula (instrumental mix)"

6- DE PROFVNDIS CLAMAVI "La Caja"

7- RADIO EICHENLAUB "Deln Licht ist uns Voran"

8- 47 ASHES " Abracadabraxas"

Limited edition of 555 hand numbered copies
on card bord. Summer 2003.

p.s. I will post two more compilations of Cynfeirdd

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Martyn Bates & Troum - To A Child Dancing In The Wind [2006]

1 Mad As The Mist And Snow #2 (12:59)
2 The Arrow (3:49)
3 The Magi (4:55)
4 I Made My Song (2:44)
5 To A Child Dancing In The Wind (4:18)
6 Mad Reprise (9:38)

For this release, the German ‘transcendental-drone’-duo TROUM teams up with the legendary British singer / songwriter and EYELESS IN GAZA-member MARTYN BATES. More than 2 years in the making, MARTYN BATES has sung & played (mouth organ & melodica) over basic material TROUM provided – consisting of harmonic minimal loops & basic song structures derived from accordeon, e-bass & guitar, percussion), who were then also responsible for the final subsequent additions mastering (adding more guitar-work, voices & balalaika).

MARTYN BATES has chosen to sing four poems of the famous Irish poet W.B.YEATS, and he did this with a most impressive sensitivity for TROUM'S very sublime & rather hidden harmonic structures. There are also two instrumentals in a more experimental style on this disc, one being a dark drone reprise of the main piece “MAD AS THE MIST AND SNOW #2”. MARTYN’s voice is surely not something for everyone – it’s of an extreme emotional & yearnful quality that might be not easy to stand – a yearning which is like a deep “cry out to the horizon”, to something that is unreachable per se, feeling a passion that tears you apart inside. This is pure emotional poetry transformed into yearnful audible spherics !

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The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud - Amara Tanta Tyri… [1994]

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“ Skeletons dance trough the marching sound of the pagan warriors. Two faces, Albin and Alzbeth. An austrian scream by the night. Few words…the mystery persist. Names don’t exist and aren’t foreboding. Denominations don’t exist too, only to not capture the imagination and limit the evasion.The laceration emotions only stay. Despite the unknown sound, something is familiar, like it always exist in us studded on our chest.”

Words translated from the interview to TMLHBAC ,on the defunct Portuguese Azorean zine “Crepusculi Aurora” issue #1, 1998

Second Album of TMLHBAC, the one with more Medieval influences. This is the re-issue which came in a jewel case with A.R.T., World Serpent and WKN contact information.

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Hexperos - The Garden Of The Hesperides [2007]

1 Walking Roots (1:26)
2 Hesperos (5:12)
3 The Garden Of The Hesperides (2:53)
4 The Magnificence Of The Night (3:03)
5 Rime Glitters In The Sun (2:51)
6 The Warm Whisper Of The Wind (4:28)
7 Artemisia (2:58)
8 The Call Of The Ibis (3:34)
9 Ritual (3:46)
10 Loto Nero (3:59)
11 Nana (1:36)
12 Winter Rhymes (2:15)
13 Ave Maria (2:51)
14 Walking Roots II (1:50)
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Upsland - War [1994]

1- Awake
2- Iron Will
3- Mission
4- Dream
5- Solitude
6- Love
7- The Cross
8- Fall Out
9- Purple Wave

Upsland was a great French Project of the defunct Chtuluhu Records,Their sound was a Fusion with Dark-Folk, Martial Industrial and DarkWave... Gold-embossed black digipak with booklet.

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Tor Lundvall - Last Light [2004]

1 Rust (2:28)
2 The Pond (4:35)
3 It's Over Now (5:44)
4 Silver Wash (2:22)
5 Last Light (3:40)
6 Storm (3:28)
7 Soft Bipolarity (3:57)
8 Blue Room (3:55)
9 Sunday Evening (3:54)
10 Cold (3:58)
11 Still (4:25)
12 Lost At Sea (4:14)

First edition of 955 is hand numbered, and the first 100 ordered at www.strangefortune.com are also signed by the artist.

Very interesting, mellow dark ambient with vocals throughout.
Amazing album, highly recommended!

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Corde Oblique - Volontà D'Arte [2007]

1 Cantastorie (4:18)
2 Amphitheatrum Puteolanum (4:32)
3 Casa Hirta (5:16)
4 Before Utrecht (5:47)
5 Atheistic Woman (4:56)
6 Kaiowas (3:33)
7 My Harbour (4:37)
8 Kunstwollen (4:56)
9 Panneggio (2:45)
10 Cuma (5:31)
11 La Pioggia Sui Tasti (3:06)
12 Olhos Cinzentos (7:04)
13 Piazza Armerina (5:16)

Riccardo Prencipe himself describes the music as 'Neo-gothic-ethereal-folk'.
Whatever you want to call it, it's an amazing, beautiful album, highly recommended!

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Lycia - A Day In The Stark Corner [1993]

1 And Through The Smoke And Nails (6:51)
2 Pygmallion (5:58)
3 The Body Electric (5:20)
4 Wide Open Spaces (6:47)
5 The Morning Breaks So Cold And Gray (7:37)
6 The Remnants And The Ruins (6:53)
7 Goddess Of The Green Fields (2:34)
8 Everything Is Cold (3:25)
9 Sorrow Is Her Name (5:40)
10 Daphne (6:03)

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Narsilion - Nerbeleth [2004]

1 Prelude (1:49)
2 A Night In Fairyland (6:54)
3 Lost Horizons (6:23)
4 Dreams About The Eternity (3:44)
5 My Falling Darkness (7:17)
6 El Llanto De Las Sirenas (7:14)
7 The Voice Of Sin (3:30)
8 Mirror Of Nature (7:41)
9 Existencia Encantada (3:52)
10 My Pagan Land (6:04)
11 Nerbeleth (5:14)

Medieval compositions and neoclassical, orchestrated with violins, magical flutes, ethereal guitars, percussions and sweet elfin voices that will carry you far away, where time lays dead and wonderful memories write again in the pages of our lost innocence...

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Harvest Rain - Songs From Evening [2005]

1 Blessed Frost (4:09)
2 Soil (2:50)
3 The Sleepy Old Man (2:49)
4 Storm Watch (3:29)
5 Evening And Devotion (2:39)
6 Gown (7:27)
7 1736 (Byrd) (5:02)
8 Scattering (1:29)
9 Memory And Conflict (2:53)
10 Failure's Rose (2:03)
11 The Invisible (5:19)
12 Love In War (3:07)
13 Awake And Arise (2:24)
14 Hidden Track (1:07)

"Songs from Evening" was originally recorded and released by Haunted Showers Music in 1998 as "Evening and Devotion". Excellent soundtrack for rainy days, cold and windy, as the leaves fly away through the fog. As dark as luminous, a must have for dark-folk lovers !
Comes in 2-panel cardboard sleeve. Handnumbered to 200 copies.

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