People may be getting better at predicting the future and what skills we need to adapt to societal-level changes, but the speed at which things are changing is outpacing our predictions about what will be useful for us to know. These are some songs about examples of things people thought would be useful to know about some decades ago. The photograph was taken during the recent (April 8, 2024) eclipse.

Sod's Law

3 veteran producers in the genre, Apocryphos, Kammarheit & Atrium Carceri, collaborate on this behemoth of an album. Each utilizing each others strengths to bring forth a dark and emotional ride through distant memories. 

Onyx is a soundscape journey related to the reflection of dispirited memories and obscure sorrows felt by mankind. With the multitude of techniques used by each artist, it also reflects the rich history of the dark ambient genre and how it has progressed through the decades. 

The signature analogue darkness of gargantuan caves of Kammarheit is combined with the sacral and emotional layering of Apocryphos and the rhytmical bass throbbing and isolated pianos of Atrium Carceri. 

This album was created by cross linking 3 studios in Oregon (US), Pennsylvania (US) and Umeå(Sweden). It took over 3800 lines of studio notes to finalize the album. 

Full Album

Apocryphos, Kammarheit, Atrium Carceri - Night So Close To The Tongue

Revealing The Depth

From the Album "Mercy Within" on @Stereoscenic

hilyard.bandcamp.com/album/mercy-within

This album was created in a solar powered forest cabin during the desolate winter months. Comfort for dark nights, cold isolation and fuel for gazing pensively into the fire. Another chapter in my ongoing musical journey to find some peace of mind in this world. Layers of my own grief and regret slowly peel away with this music to reveal the mercy and self forgiveness that lies within. I hope you will find the same warmth in this album that I did while creating it.


released December 21, 2018

on Stereoscenic Records [SCENE-26]

Music & Artwork by Bryan Hilyard 
Mastered by Andrew J Klimek


On Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Eys8fI3z5ifobsUtZqbo0?si=5vFdqFIXSoWCjOh28RyP3g

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End Of Disdain

Alive with Scars

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We Are Like We Never Were

Beyond The Ghost debut album on Cryo Chamber serves a piano heavy album of atmospheric ambience that pulls you into the city of fog.

The world as you know it has fallen apart, it is but here in the afterlife you might find comfort, if you can find her, you have to. The city mourns with you as the fog rolls in over rusted docks. Shadows crawl across boarded up windows and dilapidated store fronts. Empty streets and frozen winds echo in the void and in your orphaned soul. You were loved once but now walk alone, drifting slowly with a heartache that shatters worlds.

Using synths, drones, live instruments and field recordings, the album takes us on a journey that's both dreamy and harrowing. Recommended for fans of emotional piano movements and the foggy atmospheres of Silent Hill.

You Disappeared

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Smoke and Mirrors

3 years has passed since ProtoUs Cryo Chamber Debut album Lost Here. Sasha once again visits the realms beyond reality in this dream heavy sequel.

All this seems familiar. The gentle wind sets everything into slow motion once again. Distant tones of fractured memories pop in and out. Emotions flow. You barely feel the ground beneath. At least it feels like a surface. Not the one your feet are used to. Visions return. Cascading you with abstractions yet somehow you find sense in all of this. The return was inevitable. But first you need to escape

Recommended for fans of dreamy dark drones and ethereal atmospheres

Anomalies

Pellucid Waters (feat. Hilyard)

Lesa Listvy is back with their Second album on Cryo Chamber. An analogue heavy album with beautiful textures on warm subs.

Behold, the sacred coding of the lapsed Planeteers. They have committed their knowledge to musical intonations, to semblances of intellect in aural constructs, to the language of drones. The Saviour god-ship surface-to-air vessel has been encoded with several encrypted editions of the Preservation Directive. The divine loops of the source materials undergo their perpetual gyrations on the reel-to-reel of their venerable sound bursts. The Covenant of Analogues propels its drone-scripts, the hieroglyphs of the perished few, from the proto-dwellers of the Maxime Cataclysmus. They are the principal invocations of the forgotten, the diagnostic prophecies of the regeneration of the civilised world. The proto-dwellers have projected their immaculate permutations of the sacred message through rifts in time. But it cannot exist without being received by a conscious entity. The Saviour is a voice in the darkness that says: "Absorb our codices. We are the remnants of a lost species. Until you receive us, we are nothing."

Recommended for fans of Steam, Grit and Ghostly Ships flying through polluted skies

Unheard Of

Machine's Waltz

It has been ten years since the last communications were received from the Deep Space Mission for Colonial Expansion led by Executive Director Professor Yannis Tarknassus. The outcome of the mission remains a mystery, its status unknown. A follow up mission of search and recovery is now underway, led by Dr Phoenix Macrae, son of the Chief Science Officer of the previous mission, Dr Hector Macrae.

Interplanetary chronicles the search and recovery mission as it travels through space to its intended destination of Proxima Centauri b in the Alpha Centauri star system.

Deep space travel requires extreme technologies and the specialised deployment of unique scientific principles in order to secure time-bending relative motions though the spacetime continuum. The effects of this on the human cerebrum, as experienced by the space flight crews and their passengers, are both strange and compelling. As part of the scientific remit of the search and recovery mission, a team of scientists are conducting ground-breaking telekinetic thought-rendering experiments, using Phoenix Macrae as their principal subject matter, in an attempt to catalogue the collateral impact of deep space travel on the human psyche.

Interplanetary also documents several radical spacetime shifts where the phantasmagoria of Ruptured World is infiltrated by the explosive cyberpunk energy fusions of In Quantum.

For fans of space ambient, cosmic horror, cyberpunk and spoken word.

CD Comes in a beautiful reverse board print Digipak with a 20 page booklet. Digital booklet included in download.

Interplanetary

Zone of X

Dronny Darko & ProtoU join forces for a spiritual successor to their celebrated album Earth Songs. Deep earthy drones, airy overlays, warm textures & wet reverbs are brought to an album rich with the elements of our world.

Recommended for fans of deep ambient, micro sounds and field recording

Metta

Astral Winds

Beyond the Ghost presents his first album in the Europa Series, a futuristic, bleak and moving sound voyage that merges electronics and acoustics.

BERLIN, the year is 2060. The whole of Europe is fraught with sickness and poverty and tensions are arising between the remaining populations.  Resources are low, war is imminent. The streets are cold and lonely.  The shining sun has become a notion of the distant past. Every day feels darker than the next. The people who are left stay locked inside, fearing for their lives. There is nothing left to do but wait out the inevitable doom. An old club called 'The Last Resort' is one of the only places that’s still open. There, a few brave and lonely souls gather together to drink the night away to the woeful tunes of the house band. Between sets, a broken alert system in the streets can still be heard, blasting out remnants of news that don't make sense anymore, like echoes of foreign voices lost in transmission. Against all odds, a few letters of the club's neon light still flicker on and off, illuminating the patrons' faces, their expressions hanging heavy with loss and pain. Few words are exchanged, and yet their devout presence during such times makes us wonder:  will they accept their defeat or will they fight for a better future? But for now, they are only focused on making it safely home after the last call, their heads hung low, their feet shuffling through the darkness, humming to the sounds they just heard, to mourn the loss of one more day during these sorrowful and suspended times.

Recommended for fans of noir, melancholy and molotov cocktails. 


Written, performed, produced, mastered – Pierre Laplace
Trumpet – Christophe « Pher » Motury
Artwork – Simon Heath

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Cryo Chamber is a 24 Bit dark ambient label run by Atrium Carceri focusing on deep high quality dark ambient with a cinematic edge.

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