Very very dark track...and the lead sound OMG!

One track from the second release in the new SYM CD-series!
ILLUSION OF SAFETY - New Rules, Same Game, Less Instruction

buy: https://www.dronerecords.de/album.view.html?album=20793

info: Chicago's post- / ambient industrial legend is back with a work that combines electronic sounds and field recordings: microscopic audio events, loops, heavily processed material of all kinds form seven multi-layered collages that seem to be full of electro-magnetic static, morphing and transforming like a hallucinogenic object in every second and in all possible directions...in all it's subtleness this is far away from the shock treatment noises of the early IOS times. 
'New Rules, Same Game, Less Instruction' is the first release of new IOS compositions since 'Surrender' in 2015. Featuring extensive synthesizer source material as well as other now familiar electro-acoustic techniques, it is conceived as a follow up to the 1995 3” CD release of 'Rules Of The Game', alluding to the social, political, and psychological games humans engage in for validation, survival, or dominance. New Rules, same game, less instruction, harsher penalty. Illusion Of Safety now more than ever.

Mastering: THOMAS DIMUZIO / Artwork: DAN BURKE

Editions of 250 copies / 6 panel digipak with special b/w reverse board printing for the IOS

ILLUSION OF SAFETY - Malicious Intent

One track from the new RLW CD "Satanic Inventions", distributed by Drone Records: This album is the result of Ralf Wehowsky’s (aka rlw) critical examination of COVID-19 as a cultural phenomenon and a comparison to the black plague of the Middle Ages: "Denial of reality, conspiracy theories, searching for scapegoats, etc." = a true festival or irrationalism, telling us more about the human mental state than about the pandemic. Condensed by rlw into 15 tracks, a challenging journey of heavy de-constructions, trans-morphed drones, and treated source sounds = surrealistic musique concrete! 
Lim. 200 copies, order a single copy:
https://www.dronerecords.de/album.view.html?album=21254

RLW-Normality Lost #3

The central track of CONTRASTATE's brilliant new album "Life without Agriculture", CD out on Drone Records 02.2024 in the SYM series (SYM_05)

An album "re-imagining" some of the dadaist, futurist, and surrealist clubs of the 20th century, from Moscow 1918 over Tehran 1966 to Münster 1997; a wonderfully surprising and experimental work by the British post-industrial and ambient performance trio.
CONTRASTATE have created an amazing new work that is inspired by some historical, but also newer places (cafes, clubs, cabarets - including fantasised venues that could / should have existed), relating to the glorious times of the 'true' avantgarde.
"The arc that links them all is the experimentation, the exchange of ideas, and the platform to perform free from the “social norms” of the time." [Stephen Meixner of Contrastate]
The dreamy first half of the album establishes a very sombre and melancholic mood, but when the central pieces "London 1912" and "Zurich 1916" enter it leads to more collagenous and experimental areas, using guitar and bass harmonics, pulsing analogue electronics, spoken words, and all kinds of samples and weird processed sounds. The versatility especially of the second half allows for a fully immersive listening experience, with a vast array of details and twists.  "Imagination is subversive, because it puts the possible against the real. "That's why you should always use your wildest imagination. Imagination is the biggest gift humanity has received. Imagination makes people human, not work..." [Jan Švankmajer, "Decalogue", Touch Movements, 2017].
CONTRASTATE, formed in 1987, are a trio from London that have operated on the edge of experimental ambient, dark post-industrial, and performative art areas, often using spoken word lyrics with a strong political, anti-imperialistic approach/agitation. Their early 7" for Drone Records "English Embers" (DR-05) became one of the highlights in the series.

watch promo video trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACZmOWEB8Eo


Order : https://www.dronerecords.de/album.view.html?album=22013

CONTRASTATE - Zurich 1916

Very loosely based on bell ringing: ringing the changes.

Patterns For Piano, II

Live improvisation recorded at Soundscapism vol 36
March 31 2024, The Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh.

Soundscapism 36

Spiral 3

Taken from 'A Most Accursed - Imaginal'

Thee first release from A Most Accursed, a side-projekt from our good friends at Druhá Smrt. 

From thee Artist: 
“The main inspirations behind this Project are the ‘Sufi Psychocosmology’ of Henry Corbin and the ‘Archetypal post-Jungian Psychology’ of James Hillman. Magickaly there is a similarity to the Invocation of HGA, not in a classical way, but by using our own Mystical approach. These ideas of ‘re-humanizing humanity’ have accompanied us for years and we realized that it is the right time to create this Magickal/Mystical act.

Imaginal

A Most Accursed - Himma

Taken from 'Akoustik Timbre Frekuency - Shamanik Sessions Vol. I'

Sombre Soniks is happy to kollaborate with ATF Produktions to bring you a new release from Akoustik Timbre Frekuency, featuring five kompositions rekorded earlier this year! 

These were all kreated during one rekording session using akoustik Ritual Instruments from a variety of Kultures such as Singing Bowls, Seed Shakers, Flutes, Ocarina, Horns and Shamanik Rattles as well as Vokals and Rhythmik Klapping. These were all rekorded in one take, using a loop pedal with no post-editing, to remain faithful to thee Shamanik Ritual feeling! 

This release dokuments thee kulmination of 3 years of experimentation, praktice and work since thee release of thee bonus Akoustik disk with thee 'Ritualistik Kuttings' CD from 2012 as ATF kontinues to explore thee Magikal properties of Ritual Muziks and Instrumentation from around thee world. Over one and a half hours of Elektro-Akoustik works to augment thee Trance-States of thee Listener/Praktitioner!

Shamanik Sessions Vol. I

Akoustik Timbre Frekuency - Greeting To Thee Night Spirits

Taken from 'Coma Centauri - Wayward Pharos'

Sombre Soniks is pleased to announce our first full release from thee excellent Coma Centauri! 

This Dark Ambient projekt is based in Japan and thee release is thee audio kompanion to a short story that Coma Centauri will be releasing in thee near future, with a strong oceanik theme and Lovecraftian influences. Thee audio release is very Trance-like with a nice 'Eastern' feel.

Wayward Pharos

Coma Centauri - His Faithful Specter

Taken from 'Seesar - Flight Of Raphtontis'

I am very excited to announce thee highly anticipated debut full length release from Ethnomusikologist Dr. Will Connor and his solo Elektroakoustik Dark Ambient projekt 'Seesar' on thee Sombre Soniks label. 

Thee release, entitled Flight of Raphtontis, features performances on household items, such as "shelf brackets, pot lids, and a bicycle to enhance the extended techniques used with traditional percussion". Many of thee drums that appear on thee album were built by Connor himself as part of his Ethnomusikology research during his Masters and Ph.D. studies. Connor states that thee sounds generated using these instruments emulates both textures promoted by Futurism and thee dark nightmarish kreatures and situations found within thee works of Lovecraft. 

From thee Artist: 
“The music on the album was created using musical approaches put forth by Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo to honor H. P. Lovecraft, the literary figure regularly cited as being the father of modern horror. 
“Both figures have been an extremely important figure in the development of experimental music and literature, both to me personally, and countless other musicians, artists, and writers working today.” 

Flight Of Raphtontis

Seesar - Worshipping R'taq

Various ‎– Suiyase
Kalpamantra ‎– KM240
UK
21 Dec 2017
Electronic
Dark Ambient, Experimental

Malediction Mirror(2017)

I'm Angel.
I make post-industrial ambient music.
Crepuscular it's the name of my project.
Hailing from Argentina, active from 2006.
Releases on physical & digital labels, some ocassional live gigs.
Music for subjectivity & introspection.

Malediction Mirror(2017)

crepuscular

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