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In the blue heavens
Scattered from dust - an ancient blow

Uninvited flames of the altar
Run over the wings
Of the butterfly spool

Meter by meter, loose
Landed on the hands of tower

The sky limits no air
Illusions of ear and throat.

An eternal liminality amidst of the fading blaze - sunset speaks so much of  light. Adorned by the dust-covered sundial, a candle being blown out since the crack of dawn. First, the hour hand and the minute hand - chime rods clang without touch. To remember: the core of arousal. The body / as foliage / as traverses too ceaseless to bring up the rear.

‘Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers’ is the grandeur revival of early electronic era in the personal and subtle twists of a rethought perception of time. For the same reason, the matter simply drifts through it—not itself, but its own persistence. Copenhagen based artist - øjeRum maintained the reminiscence of rending impulses and rhythmic formations at the turn of provoking co-existing worlds, laid bare in the sempiternal totality.

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øjeRum - Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers

The 16th Amulet is a plot full of twists and turns, a mystery unraveling; brief flashes of digital artefacts seems to appear in the landscape that it leads through. Is it real at all? The story is best experienced unspoiled. Concrete Fantasies is a producer from Madrid; his album 'Which Angel Gave Us Their Wings' was released on @audiovisualsatmosphere in June of 2021. The project explores 'elemental electronics', poetic impressions, and visions of the future, unafraid of wandering into unexplored territory.

Amulet of Tears 016: Concrete Fantasies

Music: @concretefantasies

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 016: Concrete Fantasies

Bright sin of the ether
Blurry in the ambit, like a red shield
With a ray, opens up to the eye
Divided sky in two
Eastern, despicable poison
Gathered in an instant

There are fields ready yet unrecognized sky
Like a felon in broad daylight
Bitterness, hurries down - burns behind the marshes
This fleeing distance of the corners - It throws a weak beam.

Over all these years, going through the motions in busy streets, courts and ballrooms, marching along with the parade, one will see an endless gallery of facades, masks, faux costumes, and contrived personas. Only a sensitive hand can tear down this adhered wallpaper of imitation. Standing under this gleaming sunrise is not an act of defiance, anger, or detachment; it is invitation, albeit a futile one, to see what lies beneath.

Copenhagen-based visual and musical artist øjeRum presents 'Lav Sol', an album of symbolistic landscapes seen through intuition. In his music, Paw Grabowski effortlessly combines traditional, classical themes and motives into contemporary poetic forms. The three long-take recordings of Lav Sol inspire to look for the truth under the surface.

*Vocals by @iunaniva

Lav Sol

øjeRum - Lav Sol

Fusion, re-situate, constraints of genre altogether - the mix from Giugno (Thomas Carney) is an oeuvre in progressive space of sonic possibilities. Morphing into a pastiche could be found between the low ebbs and oscillating din as an exemplary of repeating numerous mental arenas and defeat.  Giugno takes a contextural approach of pairing diverse rhythms of myriad functional movements. At the same instant, it allows the listener to let their imagination go bush through guardedly emotional airborne and quivering vistas.  Giving a bright tone throughout - Giugno’s most recent full-length album 'Every Morning, Again' was released on @eastern-nurseries label in March 12 of 2021.

Amulet of Tears 019: Giugno

Music: @thomas_carney

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 019: Giugno

Glancingly allured of dark lenses
With the whole bulk of gray
Desertness, gloomy alley
Feeling a monstrous blow

Languidly closed eyes
Violin willow and smoke
Carefully through the drifts
The last coals arose

In the dawn long hour
Smolder descend from the chimney-stack
Bleary
Lost in the vastness
Covers futile loupe.

Teatre - Cities & Eyes

Clement warmth in old portraits 
Grin in cold frames 
Grasp of no revival 
Overgrown with reeds  
The memory is still leafing through the days 

 Soundlessly they go
 On a distant ladder, passing by
 Left without pledge, a rotten log  

The endless ground under us 
All is given
 I shall wander— 
Out of the skull-cradle, in the bustle of the city 
Though moss may overgrow, the sunlight slants in my slip stream.

Teatre & Undveld - Cities & The Dead

Threadless balustrades
Awaited the sense of courtesy

Lifetime of longing
Noiselessly we rhymed

Under the light of a yellow lamp
Partial shade - semblance relevance

Smitten with one another, slow down
Let us breath a syllable
Alternatively - to time

Undertone to clamour
Sweaty smell of nearness

Heat of passion - portents persuaded
& Dimly-starred highway dispersed.

Dunya - Continuous Cities

Fortunes Brine is an alias deeply associated with the @VAAGNER record label. The moniker has until now mostly been used exclusively for projects related to Vaagner events and releases, also being featured on 2021's static motion compilation 'stasis II'. The unpremeditated, yet unfractured creative direction of Fortunes Brine flows further; the 21st Amulet of Tears invites to heal and breathe.

Amulet of Tears 021: Fortunes Brine

Music: Fortunes Brine

Artwork: @anasisana & @mariatodorovatodorova

Amulet 021: Fortunes Brine

Burning Pyre ripples outward a new aural 'alloy' for Amulet of Tears  — all filtered through the vapor murmurings of a synthesiser and emerging phonography.  The flux as the respective halves float in the immersive aspect of synth drift & cultivates a new modality as an emblem of modernity by syncretic belief.  The mix remains largely fertile in impressive arrangement of electronic ingenuity.  More broadly, Christopher Macarthur has crafted a graceful approach to contemporary ambient and minimalist works across a number of releases for Opal Tapes, Perfect Aesthetics, Vaagner, Eastern Nurseries and Vienna Press under the moniker Burning Pyre.

Amulet of Tears 024: Burning Pyre

Music: @burningpyre

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 024: Burning Pyre

Parlous creaks of the oarlocks 
Ancient ark of eternal land 
Angels blow trumpets with sealing lips
Tearing down the throne of the spirit
Glint over the abyss 
The shadow falls in a stellar ash 
The boat is carried out by a sleepy scaur
Shadows of shadows moving volubly.

Acknowledging is like blooming outside the windows, constantly stretching beyond what can be perceived. Gravitational pull of the conformity between ear and eye to hand out a state of plainness. A sudden downpour on solid ground where ports of novelty leaves the humble abode.

'mntngr' is a strongly rousing album by Alethe, that portrays his reflection on the trip to Montenegro throughout of being able to take the redolent imagery of his traverses - while the very self-contained work is joined by the amicably composed track with False Moniker. The sharp allusion and shifting blur to translate it into vigorous, and florid opus.

mntngr

Alethe - Out of Focus and in the Distance

Here the dewdrop clanged like steel on the cold leaves
Descended on the ledge like a cloud
By the stream of a silver harp
Fragrant like air
Inscribed in the brumous sky
Humbled by a stern appearance
Either you sigh or
Our breath settled in a couplet of cold air.

An indelible trance cracked on the obsidian to unfold at the touch of skin. Adamantine, numberless rocks, locked up with both arms wholeheartedly in one shatter of a moment you can open a rift into. Blowing through the shades where the intensity of presence and absence heats up equally, knurling the points where they meet.

KAGAMI Smile comes forth with the album 'Fading in Your Unretainable Grasp' fused with life forms - built on low rumbles, passionate strings and chords which signifies undivided thread of sobs and beams as a whole promise of happenstance.

Fading in Your Unretainble Grasp

KAGAMI Smile - Fading in a Dream

Fading in Your Unretainable Grasp

KAGAMI Smile - Cradle of Your Secrets

A Candy-floss islet
At one glance poisonous
Nestle in the curve of the roots
Sylph is hiding sharp tooth

In the narrow cave
Hollow river gobbles the ruins

Air marches in servitude
Blown curves of early clouds
& the sight of the candy-floss
Remains as a white ribbon.

In the time we strive to forget unattainable voice, all splendor and great temptations are almost always the result of being conscious. Even a small shudder will break the sea, while the silenced rapture of aliveness can be construed in a world where the wind can be a guest and the trees are full nests. We stand argus-eyed, close by the horizon behind us, moving forward to the wave that will repeat itself endlessly.

'Ephemerides' reveals the duality of humming drones and natural sounds as mellifluous curl grinds in noise by the hands of Samuele Larese under his moniker - Lessons in Hate - within reposeful atmosphere of the mountains, which remains the basis for the record as it is orchestral-like, carried out by the forest.

Ephemerides

Lessons in Hate - Unquiet

Lessons in Hate - Outer Space

Lessons in Hate - Beyond the Mirror

Recumbence, placidity and all the graceful gradations of the form of appearances - the new Teatre mix for Amulet of Tears is an inherently charged musical theme of its potent coherence. Stealthy blasts - dynamic shin up and back again to the endearment of ponderous notes, the assemblage as remnants of plethora - looking at the entire world and feeling the tremendous correlation between you and everything, until the thrill of tremor conquers the tight rooms. Teatre irradiates in the last compilation ‘Invisible Cities’ on Amulet of Tears as well as in the perception of the label Lux Rec and among others through the absolute form of his own.

Amulet of Tears 026: Teatre

Music: @musicateatre

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 026: Teatre

øjeRum - Et Pust I Sivet

øjeRum - Over Slægternes Grav

øjeRum - Nattens Øre Lytter

Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers

øjeRum - Recurring Dream of Coiled Organisms in the Sky

The trudges through the crepuscule lanes, where cedar branches release the drops and the forest is manumitted from the quietness. Zhe Pechorin gathered the wind-filled assembly for Amulet of Tears.

Guidance and close approach to tenebrous force. Lambently textured mix of meandering piano, long-wave static and clamorous nigrescence draws out the new palette of drones ahead in the raptures of dim, deliberately intoxicating the silence.

Zhe Pechorin is a moniker of Belgrade-based artist Andjelina Micic, who takes the melding influx through the smoke swirling tension.

Amulet of Tears 028: Zhe Pechorin

Music: @zhe-pechorin

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 028: Zhe Pechorin

Deluded way in woodlands
Thousands of oaks - grow hushed
Dangling
Fog gobbles stubborn barricades
Empty caves rumble through gaps

Breathing flesh
Burnt banyan

Remember again, who's dreaming?
Who served the night with closed eyes?

Where the waters seethe, traced the echoes running along the ridge. Grown into mounds - speck of dust, above and beneath, bent in their tensile way.

'Perspective' resembles graying daze for the tense lows, that holds subdued gentleness. Belfast based musician - Verge has brought his exalted grandeur to aural fluency in the vein of gauzy, filmy rumbles.

Perspective

Verge - Acceptance of Fate

Verge - Standing Water

Verge - Navigate the River

Antiquated frames
Of night pool
Shining on steady shore
A mirror for seeing tumultuous sky
Tiles graven as sabulous coast

Ladders rolled into forlorn sheaves
Like bootlegged boose In dark doldrums
Wind between ground and lid
Arcane hovels pervade in dawn.

Accumulation of vulnerability, collective world of avalanches, this ancient land - ascendance, that so often takes on the countenance of
being in more than one place.

The patterns repeat themselves, adorned in anguish, with a feeling, compelled to vaunt - lustrous arrival in overwhelming lines.

'The Lost Columns' is a deluge of unbroken slashes in Arcadia between Arkhad and KAOSMOS. Arriving at the same place, in the presence of mutual accord.

The Lost Columns

KAOSMOS - Hyperspace

KAOSMOS - Dizzying Dream

Arkhad - That Has Gray Skies

Arkhad - I Know a Place

Ethereally abounding tunes with silken chords held together. Bouquet of melodiousness assembled by Anasisana for Amulet of Tears.

White heat slowly lifting the curtain to greet the scenery of the mix - elegantly escorted and carried by delicate hands that shapes, rather than grounds - interferes into the porous air. All shades of drizzle from every branch drips and swells skyward.

Anasisana comes into the view with his thick glaze of cordial, soul-stirring music pieces which amass over each other - ardently, solidly, fervently.

Amulet of Tears 029: Anasisana

Music: @anasisana

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 029: Anasisana

Polychrome and insomnolent stains render into serpentine contours - mixed by Drottning Omma for Amulet of Tears.

Monumental heights charmed by coldness, moving into vertiginous mass of emotional resonance. Maelstrom continues in a highly textured collation through ploughed fields, fostering the magnetism of pavers covered with verglas - hear the ashes rise.

Part of the Swedish label - offworldcolonies.ltd - Drottning Omma coalesces an immense stream of palpable grounds.

Amulet of Tears 030: Drottning Omma

Music: Drottning Omma

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 030: Drottning Omma

Undveld composed sounds of vital noise, shored against the wondrous ruins for Amulet of Tears.  

Inner visions brought into sharper focus on mysterious efflorescence.  The gate opens dizzyingly like a sheaf of wolts, beam of torch - a nonbeing can hold. Roaming shift of perspectives comes obscurely like thundering ale, whereas cryptical plateau meets untamed colloquy between phantoms.

  Among the inexhaustible striking releases, Undveld is co-running the Lithuanian label static motion and is a part of the Swedish label offworldcolonies.ltd.

Amulet of Tears 031: Undveld

Music: @undveld

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 031: Undveld

In 2023 Bulgarian DIY booking crew and label Amek Collective celebrate their 15th anniversary. On this occasion, theyʼve prepared 60 minutes of unreleased music by artists and friends. This Amulet of Tears exclusive mix features new studio tracks by some of the label mainstays alongside various live recordings, sketches, and untitled bits from deep within the Amek vaults.

Amulet of Tears 032: Amek Collective

Music: @amekcollective

Artwork: @anasisana

Amulet 032: Amek Collective

Where does fantasy end and reality begin? The dichotomy of the Apollonian and Dionysian nature of man represents our greatest inner duel - the dance of chaos and order, the struggle of mind versus heart, the battle of immaculate harmony and intoxicated euphoria; a lifetime of chasing one's wildest dreams and divine muses, raised to the heavens by sheer imagination, only to be washed ashore by the unrelenting waters of Earth, crashing against the jagged rocks of existence, faced only by one's own truthful reflection staring back from the indifference of the sea. That is our ultimate, inevitable fate: the futility of our desires, the certain tragedy of living torn between two tides. 

The Birth of Tragedy is a compilation in two halves reflecting the mythological symbolism of Apollo and Dionysus, descendants of Zeus. The first half presents the Apollonian form - order, harmony, clarity. The second half is Dionysian - a state of chaotic liberation without boundaries, driven by instinct, blinded bliss and disarray. The collision between these worlds unveils the drama that we find ourselves in.

TEARS001 
Various Artists
The Birth of Tragedy
Limited edition vinyl/cassette 

https://amuletoftears.bandcamp.com/album/the-birth-of-tragedy

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